Microsoft Office Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Office skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 52 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 849 925 1,442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.98% 4.08% 4.74%
As % of the Applications category 42.88% 45.57% 49.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 608 944
10th Percentile £129 £150 £130
25th Percentile £185 £190 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £325 £235
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +38.30% -9.62%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £438
90th Percentile £538 £600 £525
UK median daily rate £275 £375 £320
% change year-on-year -26.67% +17.19% -11.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 64 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.00 £10.75
25th Percentile £12.00 £14.48 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.75 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +18.22% -0.88%
75th Percentile £21.14 £28.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £43.50 £53.24 £34.44
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year -29.30% +35.10% +6.11%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,980 2,030 2,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.28% 8.95% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,264 1,931
10th Percentile £156 £163 £145
25th Percentile £205 £227 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.70%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £488
90th Percentile £613 £600 £571
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £445
% change year-on-year -5.88% -4.49% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 177 303
10th Percentile £11.13 £13.96 £10.77
25th Percentile £13.85 £16.70 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.25 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +32.27% +9.09%
75th Percentile £35.00 £47.50 £33.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £16.65 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -39.45% +27.91% +21.13%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Office within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +29 243 £325 -10.34% 388
South East -2 221 £215 -21.17% 371
North West +40 177 £396 -6.82% 199
Midlands +21 119 £255 -17.07% 331
South West +6 113 £238 -52.50% 214
Scotland +31 79 £213 -37.04% 121
East Midlands +32 68 £255 +14.35% 139
Yorkshire +3 59 £208 -38.52% 138
West Midlands -11 51 £300 -11.11% 192
East of England -22 51 £400 +60.00% 157
Wales +13 17 £503 +164.47% 38
Northern Ireland -20 8 £109 -45.63% 20
North East +2 7 £195 -25.00% 59
Microsoft Office
UK

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.59%) Confluence
4 14 (1.65%) CMS
5 10 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (1.06%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.47%) WordPress
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.24%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.24%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 261 (30.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (14.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (6.36%) Spreadsheet
4 53 (6.24%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (3.30%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.18%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.59%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.35%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.12%) Blender
11 1 (0.12%) CATIA
11 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.12%) Revit
11 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.18%) Primavera
2 6 (0.71%) Magento
3 5 (0.59%) SmartPlant
4 3 (0.35%) iTrent
4 3 (0.35%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.24%) Maximo
5 2 (0.24%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) assyst
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 122 (14.37%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (5.89%) Azure
3 30 (3.53%) Power Platform
4 20 (2.36%) Taleo
5 19 (2.24%) OneDrive
6 15 (1.77%) Entra ID
7 13 (1.53%) SaaS
8 12 (1.41%) PowerApps
9 11 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.06%) Google Workspace
10 9 (1.06%) IaaS
10 9 (1.06%) PaaS
10 9 (1.06%) Power Automate
11 8 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (0.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (0.71%) GitHub
13 6 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.59%) Smartsheet
15 4 (0.47%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.83%) VPN
2 42 (4.95%) DNS
3 40 (4.71%) LAN
4 36 (4.24%) DHCP
5 26 (3.06%) Firewall
6 24 (2.83%) WAN
7 23 (2.71%) Wireless
8 19 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
10 14 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
11 13 (1.53%) DMZ
11 13 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
11 13 (1.53%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.53%) Skype
12 11 (1.30%) VLAN
12 11 (1.30%) VoIP
13 10 (1.18%) Internet
13 10 (1.18%) TCP/IP
14 7 (0.82%) PSTN
15 6 (0.71%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.06%) Power BI
2 8 (0.94%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.71%) MySQL
4 4 (0.47%) SAP HANA
4 4 (0.47%) Spatial Data
5 3 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.35%) GIS
5 3 (0.35%) Metadata
5 3 (0.35%) QGIS
6 2 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (6.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.24%) ChangeMan
3 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 412 (48.53%) Social Skills
2 164 (19.32%) Finance
3 117 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.25%) Organisational Skills
5 85 (10.01%) Public Sector
6 61 (7.18%) Telecoms
7 49 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
8 44 (5.18%) Manufacturing
9 35 (4.12%) Legal
10 33 (3.89%) Mandarin Language
11 30 (3.53%) Marketing
12 23 (2.71%) Banking
13 18 (2.12%) Retail
14 14 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.65%) Local Government
15 13 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.41%) Multimedia
17 11 (1.30%) Military
18 10 (1.18%) Electronics
19 9 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 130 (15.31%) Analyst
2 66 (7.77%) Administrator
3 62 (7.30%) Lead
4 59 (6.95%) IT Support
5 50 (5.89%) Support Engineer
6 49 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.95%) Desktop Engineer
7 42 (4.95%) Service Analyst
8 41 (4.83%) 2nd Line Support
8 41 (4.83%) Service Desk Analyst
9 40 (4.71%) Desktop Support
10 39 (4.59%) Support Analyst
11 33 (3.89%) Coordinator
12 28 (3.30%) IT Engineer
13 26 (3.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 25 (2.94%) Project Leader
15 23 (2.71%) IT Analyst
15 23 (2.71%) Network Engineer
16 21 (2.47%) Architect
17 20 (2.36%) Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.00%) XML
2 9 (1.06%) .NET
3 6 (0.71%) Flash
4 5 (0.59%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.47%) HTML
5 4 (0.47%) ISPF
6 3 (0.35%) JSON
6 3 (0.35%) REST
6 3 (0.35%) XMPP
7 1 (0.12%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.12%) ADO
7 1 (0.12%) CSS
7 1 (0.12%) Google Maps API
7 1 (0.12%) React
7 1 (0.12%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.12%) Vue
7 1 (0.12%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (4.12%) Driving Licence
3 33 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.12%) NHS
5 18 (2.12%) Virtual Team
6 16 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.65%) iPhone
8 11 (1.30%) Clustering
9 10 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (0.94%) CMDB
10 8 (0.94%) Product Ownership
10 8 (0.94%) Smartphone
11 6 (0.71%) PKI
12 5 (0.59%) Animation
12 5 (0.59%) CCTV
12 5 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.47%) iPad
13 4 (0.47%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.47%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 259 (30.51%) Windows
2 177 (20.85%) Windows 10
3 62 (7.30%) Windows 7
4 45 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 26 (3.06%) Apple iOS
6 22 (2.59%) Mac OS
7 21 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (2.24%) Android
10 15 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.82%) Linux
12 6 (0.71%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.47%) zOS
15 3 (0.35%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.24%) CentOS
16 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
2 181 (21.32%) Customer Service
3 120 (14.13%) Project Management
4 105 (12.37%) Time Management
5 102 (12.01%) ITIL
6 93 (10.95%) Agile
7 83 (9.78%) Decision-Making
8 75 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 61 (7.18%) Project Delivery
10 54 (6.36%) Service Delivery
11 53 (6.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (5.06%) Project Planning
13 41 (4.83%) Data Protection
14 40 (4.71%) PRINCE2
15 39 (4.59%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (4.24%) Customer Requirements
16 36 (4.24%) Workshop Facilitation
17 35 (4.12%) Change Management
17 35 (4.12%) Data Management
18 33 (3.89%) Conflict Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (2.36%) PowerShell
2 12 (1.41%) SQL
3 10 (1.18%) Python
4 8 (0.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (0.82%) C#
6 6 (0.71%) PHP
7 4 (0.47%) JCL
8 3 (0.35%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
8 3 (0.35%) VBA
9 2 (0.24%) Java
9 2 (0.24%) REXX
9 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.24%) VB
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) Perl
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 258 (30.39%) Degree
2 213 (25.09%) Security Cleared
3 113 (13.31%) SC Cleared
4 61 (7.18%) DV Cleared
5 42 (4.95%) APMP
6 39 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (3.30%) NVQ Level 3
8 22 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.47%) A+ Certification
10 19 (2.24%) PMI Certification
11 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (2.12%) PMP
12 13 (1.53%) DBS Check
13 11 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.06%) HNC
16 8 (0.94%) CCNA
17 7 (0.82%) CISSP
17 7 (0.82%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.01%) SLA
2 64 (7.54%) PMO
3 30 (3.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 16 (1.88%) QA
5 13 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.41%) GDPR
7 4 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.35%) NIST
9 2 (0.24%) GRC
9 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.12%) GMP
10 1 (0.12%) GxP
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.12%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 148 (17.43%) Active Directory
2 35 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.77%) Firmware
5 8 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.47%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.24%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 86 (10.13%) SCCM
2 28 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (1.06%) AirWatch
5 6 (0.71%) Argo
5 6 (0.71%) Autotask
5 6 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (0.71%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.47%) Control-M
6 4 (0.47%) SCOM
6 4 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (0.47%) Terraform
6 4 (0.47%) WhatsUp Gold
7 3 (0.35%) AppManager
7 3 (0.35%) WSUS
8 2 (0.24%) Ansible
8 2 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.24%) Netcool
8 2 (0.24%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 604 (71.14%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.48%) Cisco
3 53 (6.24%) ServiceNow
4 50 (5.89%) SAP
5 40 (4.71%) Apple
6 37 (4.36%) VMware
7 31 (3.65%) HP
8 27 (3.18%) Atlassian
9 23 (2.71%) Citrix
10 17 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.77%) F5
11 15 (1.77%) Oracle
12 14 (1.65%) Adobe
13 13 (1.53%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.41%) Google
15 10 (1.18%) Sitecore
16 8 (0.94%) Samsung
17 7 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
18 6 (0.71%) CA
18 6 (0.71%) Empirix