Microsoft 365 Jobs

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 36 73
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,446 6,386 8,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.07% 6.74% 5.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.61% 15.63% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,315 5,269 6,900
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,000 £24,898
25th Percentile £28,290 £31,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,659 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -1.98% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,200 £37,000 £35,612
% change year-on-year -2.16% +3.90% -6.29%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36,127 40,865 82,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 43.11% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,017 27,416 41,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,553 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +11 6,805 £38,500 -6.10% 1,386
UK excluding London +7 5,678 £36,200 -2.16% 1,131
Work from Home +19 2,412 £45,250 -5.97% 555
London +9 1,542 £52,500 +2.44% 294
South East +10 1,461 £37,500 -6.25% 266
North of England +17 1,402 £37,500 -3.85% 311
Midlands +15 1,049 £35,000 -4.11% 228
South West +17 678 £37,500 +7.14% 156
North West +9 661 £40,000 -5.88% 163
West Midlands +14 638 £36,500 -7.92% 133
East of England +12 621 £32,500 -7.14% 112
Yorkshire +35 563 £35,000 - 117
East Midlands +26 405 £33,500 +3.08% 95
Scotland -39 272 £36,500 -2.67% 64
North East +19 178 £37,500 +5.63% 36
Wales +13 117 £28,290 -16.79% 22
Northern Ireland +21 56 £35,000 -17.65% 11
Isle of Man +3 20 £37,000 -48.97% 1
Channel Islands +1 4 £85,000 -5.56%

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,665 (22.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,626 (21.84%) SharePoint
3 74 (0.99%) IIS
4 67 (0.90%) Confluence
5 43 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
5 43 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
6 39 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 34 (0.46%) WordPress
8 26 (0.35%) CMS
9 20 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
10 17 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
11 15 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
12 8 (0.11%) SAS
12 8 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
13 6 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2000
14 5 (0.067%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.054%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.054%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.054%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.040%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1,095 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
2 295 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 118 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 36 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.094%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.081%) InVision
10 6 (0.081%) LightWave 3D
10 6 (0.081%) Sketch
11 4 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.054%) InDesign
12 3 (0.040%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.040%) SPSS
13 2 (0.027%) 1Password
13 2 (0.027%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 95 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
5 8 (0.11%) Magento
6 7 (0.094%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.094%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.094%) Sage 200
7 6 (0.081%) Shopify
8 5 (0.067%) Sage X3
9 4 (0.054%) Maximo
9 4 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.054%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.054%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
10 3 (0.040%) Eikon
10 3 (0.040%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.040%) SAP CX
11 2 (0.027%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3,782 (50.79%) Azure
2 1,281 (17.20%) Entra ID
3 687 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 546 (7.33%) AWS
5 511 (6.86%) OneDrive
6 356 (4.78%) PowerApps
7 321 (4.31%) Power Automate
8 308 (4.14%) SaaS
9 238 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
10 206 (2.77%) GCP
11 193 (2.59%) IaaS
12 174 (2.34%) PaaS
13 151 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
14 130 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
15 122 (1.64%) Mimecast
16 116 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
17 115 (1.54%) Google Workspace
18 89 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
19 82 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
20 75 (1.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,376 (18.48%) Firewall
2 962 (12.92%) DNS
3 756 (10.15%) WAN
4 708 (9.51%) DHCP
5 663 (8.90%) LAN
6 519 (6.97%) VPN
7 501 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
8 437 (5.87%) TCP/IP
9 385 (5.17%) Wireless
10 334 (4.49%) VLAN
11 315 (4.23%) SAN
12 278 (3.73%) VoIP
13 190 (2.55%) SD-WAN
14 185 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
15 184 (2.47%) Internet
16 159 (2.14%) Network Security
17 123 (1.65%) NAS
18 112 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
19 94 (1.26%) Intranet
20 84 (1.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 385 (5.17%) Power BI
3 94 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (0.77%) MySQL
5 53 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 52 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.24%) Metadata
12 17 (0.23%) Data Lake
13 15 (0.20%) GIS
14 14 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
15 13 (0.17%) MariaDB
16 11 (0.15%) EDMS
16 11 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 9 (0.12%) Power Query
18 7 (0.094%) Big Data
18 7 (0.094%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 123 (1.65%) JIRA
2 49 (0.66%) Git
3 19 (0.26%) Visual Studio
4 18 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 6 (0.081%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.067%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.054%) Hudson
8 4 (0.054%) MSI
8 4 (0.054%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.027%) GitLab
9 2 (0.027%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.027%) Subversion
10 1 (0.013%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.013%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.013%) Postman
10 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,443 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 947 (12.72%) Finance
3 569 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 367 (4.93%) Law
5 283 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 272 (3.65%) Legal
7 261 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 255 (3.42%) Retail
9 254 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 219 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 214 (2.87%) Telecoms
12 171 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 142 (1.91%) Marketing
14 140 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
15 76 (1.02%) Games
16 73 (0.98%) Automotive
17 72 (0.97%) Local Government
18 69 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 65 (0.87%) Banking
20 58 (0.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,528 (20.52%) IT Support
2 1,166 (15.66%) Support Engineer
3 1,051 (14.11%) Analyst
4 961 (12.91%) IT Engineer
5 695 (9.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 694 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 624 (8.38%) Senior
8 548 (7.36%) IT Technician
9 481 (6.46%) 2nd Line Support
10 415 (5.57%) IT Analyst
11 400 (5.37%) Support Technician
12 392 (5.26%) Lead
13 383 (5.14%) IT Manager
14 380 (5.10%) Support Analyst
15 345 (4.63%) Architect
16 329 (4.42%) IT Support Technician
17 316 (4.24%) Developer
18 308 (4.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 308 (4.14%) Service Analyst
19 291 (3.91%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (2.39%) .NET
2 71 (0.95%) HTML
3 69 (0.93%) SPFx
4 51 (0.68%) CSS
5 46 (0.62%) ARM Templates
6 31 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
7 28 (0.38%) JSON
8 27 (0.36%) React
9 23 (0.31%) HTML5 Canvas
10 20 (0.27%) EDI
10 20 (0.27%) RESTful
10 20 (0.27%) Web Services
11 19 (0.26%) ASP.NET
12 17 (0.23%) SAML
13 16 (0.21%) OLE
14 15 (0.20%) OAuth
14 15 (0.20%) REST
15 14 (0.19%) .NET Core
15 14 (0.19%) .NET Framework
16 13 (0.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 388 (5.21%) Driving Licence
2 341 (4.58%) Data Centre
3 304 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 252 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 221 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 172 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 169 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
8 138 (1.85%) PKI
9 132 (1.77%) Replication
10 84 (1.13%) Smartphone
11 80 (1.07%) Clustering
12 71 (0.95%) iPad
13 70 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
14 69 (0.93%) Wiki
15 68 (0.91%) CCTV
16 66 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
17 62 (0.83%) Product Ownership
18 61 (0.82%) iPhone
19 56 (0.75%) Cyberattack
20 54 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,962 (53.21%) Windows
2 1,957 (26.28%) Windows Server
3 1,281 (17.20%) Windows 10
4 376 (5.05%) Linux
5 355 (4.77%) Android
6 342 (4.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 325 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 255 (3.42%) Apple iOS
9 246 (3.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 231 (3.10%) Mac OS
11 186 (2.50%) Windows 7
12 99 (1.33%) Windows 8
13 83 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 60 (0.81%) Mac OS X
15 57 (0.77%) Ubuntu
16 42 (0.56%) CentOS
17 41 (0.55%) VMS
18 29 (0.39%) Unix
19 24 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
20 20 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,485 (19.94%) Customer Service
2 1,461 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
3 1,323 (17.77%) ITIL
4 944 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 838 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
6 551 (7.40%) Project Management
7 487 (6.54%) Migration
8 478 (6.42%) Service Delivery
9 473 (6.35%) Agile
10 391 (5.25%) Business Intelligence
11 389 (5.22%) Mentoring
12 383 (5.14%) Service Management
13 356 (4.78%) ITSM
14 350 (4.70%) Project Delivery
15 348 (4.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 333 (4.47%) DevOps
17 318 (4.27%) Information Security
18 316 (4.24%) Roadmaps
19 302 (4.06%) Disaster Recovery
20 295 (3.96%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 766 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 640 (8.60%) SQL
3 150 (2.01%) C#
4 104 (1.40%) Python
5 90 (1.21%) Bash
6 81 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 41 (0.55%) T-SQL
8 36 (0.48%) Java
9 33 (0.44%) VB
10 32 (0.43%) Bicep
11 31 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 21 (0.28%) R
12 21 (0.28%) VBScript
13 11 (0.15%) PHP
14 10 (0.13%) Perl
15 9 (0.12%) VBA
16 7 (0.094%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.067%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.067%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.067%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,121 (15.06%) Degree
2 539 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 282 (3.79%) Security Cleared
4 212 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
5 207 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 198 (2.66%) SC Cleared
7 195 (2.62%) DBS Check
8 181 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 163 (2.19%) CCNA
10 141 (1.89%) MCSE
11 138 (1.85%) CISSP
12 137 (1.84%) MCP
13 120 (1.61%) A+ Certification
14 114 (1.53%) Master's Degree
15 107 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
16 95 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 77 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
18 76 (1.02%) MCSA
19 70 (0.94%) PMI Certification
20 53 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (6.76%) SLA
2 284 (3.81%) GDPR
3 253 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 240 (3.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 89 (1.20%) NIST
6 68 (0.91%) QA
7 46 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 46 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 35 (0.47%) GRC
10 33 (0.44%) PMO
11 32 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 28 (0.38%) Data Quality
13 19 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 19 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.24%) COBIT
14 18 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.17%) NCSC
16 6 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.081%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,608 (48.46%) Active Directory
2 984 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 878 (11.79%) Hyper-V
4 238 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
5 179 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 172 (2.31%) vSphere
7 161 (2.16%) XenApp
8 144 (1.93%) XenDesktop
9 123 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
10 64 (0.86%) Microsoft App-V
11 59 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 52 (0.70%) Terminal Services
13 42 (0.56%) VirtualBox
14 31 (0.42%) Docker
15 20 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 18 (0.24%) Firmware
17 16 (0.21%) VMware Server
18 11 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
19 9 (0.12%) vCloud
20 7 (0.094%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,290 (17.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 485 (6.51%) SCCM
3 103 (1.38%) Terraform
4 100 (1.34%) vCenter Server
5 90 (1.21%) WSUS
6 81 (1.09%) AirWatch
7 80 (1.07%) Kubernetes
8 79 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 78 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
10 69 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
11 49 (0.66%) SCOM
12 42 (0.56%) Ansible
13 40 (0.54%) CASB
14 39 (0.52%) FortiGate
15 38 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
16 28 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
17 27 (0.36%) Autotask
17 27 (0.36%) Nagios
18 22 (0.30%) Backup Exec
18 22 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5,308 (71.29%) Microsoft
2 1,545 (20.75%) VMware
3 635 (8.53%) Cisco
4 547 (7.35%) Citrix
5 376 (5.05%) Veeam
6 323 (4.34%) Apple
7 298 (4.00%) Google
8 210 (2.82%) ServiceNow
9 196 (2.63%) HP
10 193 (2.59%) Meraki
11 181 (2.43%) Dell
12 154 (2.07%) Sophos
13 125 (1.68%) Fortinet
14 103 (1.38%) Aruba
15 91 (1.22%) iManage
16 87 (1.17%) Adobe
17 78 (1.05%) SAP
18 58 (0.78%) Palo Alto
19 57 (0.77%) SolarWinds
20 53 (0.71%) WatchGuard