Microsoft Office Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 54 64
Rank change year-on-year -47 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 29 68 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.26% 3.89% 2.89%
As % of the Applications category 23.97% 37.36% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 35 48
10th Percentile £152 £233 £148
25th Percentile £231 £266 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £425 £363
Median % change year-on-year +12.88% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £565 £594 £619
90th Percentile £628 £665 £658
Central London median daily rate £436 £413 £388
% change year-on-year +5.64% +6.45% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £13.50
75th Percentile £41.75 - £20.63
90th Percentile - - £24.45
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 - £13.50

All Software Application Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 121 182 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.25% 10.42% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 107 91
10th Percentile £207 £225 £175
25th Percentile £378 £305 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -7.32% +6.77%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £622
90th Percentile £648 £757 £681
Central London median daily rate £500 £475 £486
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.26% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £28.84 -
25th Percentile £39.25 £31.01 £12.75
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +103.20% -1.14%
75th Percentile £41.75 £41.71 £22.72
90th Percentile - £45.94 £25.29
Central London median hourly rate £33.25 £31.86 £17.05
% change year-on-year +4.36% +86.83% -1.14%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (31.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (27.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) IPsec
2 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.90%) SQLPlus
3 1 (3.45%) QlikView
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Toad
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (44.83%) Finance
3 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (31.03%) Banking
5 6 (20.69%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (13.79%) Legal
7 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
8 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (6.90%) Front Office
8 2 (6.90%) International Banking
8 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
9 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) IT Support
4 3 (10.34%) IT Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) MiFID Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Payments Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix Support
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Vendor Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) PMI
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
2 2 (6.90%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Business Analysis
1 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
3 4 (13.79%) Agile
3 4 (13.79%) ITIL
3 4 (13.79%) Project Management
3 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.34%) AI
4 3 (10.34%) Change Management
4 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
4 3 (10.34%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2
4 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
5 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Perl
2 2 (6.90%) PHP
2 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) CCA
3 1 (3.45%) CCNP
3 1 (3.45%) CCSE
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMP
3 1 (3.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (3.45%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) PMO
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.90%) MiFID
3 1 (3.45%) COBIT
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) P3O
3 1 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.45%) XenApp
1 1 (3.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.45%) SCCM
1 1 (3.45%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (79.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Planview
4 1 (3.45%) 3PAR
4 1 (3.45%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.45%) Charles River
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) HP
4 1 (3.45%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.45%) Juniper
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Trend Micro