Microsoft Office Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Office
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 49 44
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 90 215 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.96% 3.71% 4.94%
As % of the Applications category 38.14% 51.07% 49.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 89 178
10th Percentile £151 £114 £158
25th Percentile £176 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £215 £300
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -28.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £425 £438 £443
90th Percentile £585 £525 £550
England median daily rate £325 £281 £375
% change year-on-year +15.76% -25.13% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 45 17
10th Percentile £13.39 £11.45 £13.60
25th Percentile - £13.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £17.60 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% -2.22% +24.14%
75th Percentile £16.36 £31.24 £21.22
90th Percentile £29.09 £45.00 £36.75
England median hourly rate £18.21 £16.00 £21.22
% change year-on-year +13.78% -24.60% +27.75%

All Software Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 236 421 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.77% 7.26% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 202 342
10th Percentile £150 £148 £180
25th Percentile £185 £205 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £365 £389
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -6.11% -2.81%
75th Percentile £492 £485 £500
90th Percentile £588 £588 £636
England median daily rate £413 £400 £439
% change year-on-year +3.13% -8.88% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 87 54
10th Percentile £13.85 £11.71 £15.21
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.81 £16.40
Median hourly rate £15.50 £17.60 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% -29.60% +29.87%
75th Percentile £32.68 £26.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £47.50 £48.20 £51.06
England median hourly rate £25.08 £16.23 £26.48
% change year-on-year +54.53% -38.71% +17.69%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 June 2025. 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
Thames Valley -25 47 £178 -17.21% 443
Hampshire +28 22 £425 -2.86% 193
Berkshire -40 20 £313 +45.35% 242
Buckinghamshire +6 16 £190 -55.29% 121
Oxfordshire +9 11 £160 +10.34% 87
Surrey +7 10 £215 -15.69% 142
West Sussex +9 4 £350 +211.11% 73
Kent -4 4 £135 -43.75% 91
East Sussex -1 3 £163 -56.67% 40
Home Counties - 1 - -
Microsoft Office
England

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.89%) Confluence
3 6 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2013
3 6 (6.67%) Office Communications Server
3 6 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (6.67%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 35 (38.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (14.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (5.56%) Azure
3 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.22%) AWS
4 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.11%) GCP
5 1 (1.11%) IaaS
5 1 (1.11%) PaaS
5 1 (1.11%) SaaS
5 1 (1.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Internet
1 7 (7.78%) VPN
1 7 (7.78%) Wireless
2 6 (6.67%) DDNS
2 6 (6.67%) DHCP
2 6 (6.67%) DNS
2 6 (6.67%) Firewall
2 6 (6.67%) SAN
3 3 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.22%) 2G
4 2 (2.22%) 3G
4 2 (2.22%) 4G
4 2 (2.22%) 5G
4 2 (2.22%) FTP
4 2 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) Metadata
1 2 (2.22%) Power BI
2 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) JIRA
2 6 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.11%) Git
General
1 50 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Finance
3 14 (15.56%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.89%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.33%) Automotive
9 2 (2.22%) Aviation
9 2 (2.22%) Banking
9 2 (2.22%) Electronics
9 2 (2.22%) Marketing
10 1 (1.11%) Billing
10 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.11%) Front Office
10 1 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (1.11%) Legal
10 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Support Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Analyst
3 11 (12.22%) Desktop Support
3 11 (12.22%) Help Desk Support
4 8 (8.89%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Developer
6 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Coordinator
6 6 (6.67%) Delphi Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Exchange Support
6 6 (6.67%) Help Desk Agent
7 5 (5.56%) Administrator
7 5 (5.56%) Project Coordinator
8 4 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Replication
2 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
5 2 (2.22%) NHS
5 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.11%) CMDB
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.22%) Android
5 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.11%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.11%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (22.22%) Time Management
3 19 (21.11%) Customer Service
4 18 (20.00%) ITIL
5 14 (15.56%) Project Management
6 8 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (8.89%) Content Management
6 8 (8.89%) Functional Testing
6 8 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (8.89%) Service Management
7 7 (7.78%) Change Management
8 6 (6.67%) Agile
8 6 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (6.67%) Enterprise Content Management
8 6 (6.67%) Enterprise Search
8 6 (6.67%) High Availability
8 6 (6.67%) Migration
8 6 (6.67%) Patch Management
8 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.89%) SQL
2 7 (7.78%) PL/SQL
3 6 (6.67%) C#
3 6 (6.67%) Delphi
4 1 (1.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) Degree
2 16 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.11%) HNC
4 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) PMO
2 2 (2.22%) SLA
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) GRC
3 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.67%) Brightmail
2 6 (6.67%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.11%) Docker
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.11%) XenApp
3 1 (1.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (4.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.11%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.11%) NSN NetAct
3 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (84.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle
3 3 (3.33%) Apple
4 2 (2.22%) Autodesk
4 2 (2.22%) HP
4 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco
5 1 (1.11%) Citrix
5 1 (1.11%) Cramer
5 1 (1.11%) Dell
5 1 (1.11%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.11%) Huawei
5 1 (1.11%) Informatica
5 1 (1.11%) McAfee
5 1 (1.11%) Niku
5 1 (1.11%) Nokia
5 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
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