Microsoft 365 Contracts

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,894 2,967 4,410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.42% 5.27% 5.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.60% 14.47% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 2,162 3,208
10th Percentile £151 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £206 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £515
90th Percentile £638 £683 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £320 £284
% change year-on-year -21.88% +12.78% -12.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 127 221
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.38 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.78 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +8.57% +12.90%
75th Percentile £21.37 £29.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £23.79 £66.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +6.45%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,929 20,504 33,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.52% 36.44% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,911 14,827 24,764
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 328 402
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% +64.41% -0.22%
75th Percentile £40.00 £67.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.05 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £19.63
% change year-on-year -33.08% +34.93% -1.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
England -3 1,626 £350 -9.68% 1,474
UK excluding London -7 1,021 £250 -21.88% 1,200
London +1 731 £415 -5.68% 335
Work from Home -6 554 £469 -1.32% 584
South East -6 233 £281 -19.64% 274
North of England +2 229 £250 -16.67% 335
Midlands 0 166 £265 -24.29% 227
North West +5 148 £265 -24.29% 174
South West -12 140 £203 -42.14% 179
Scotland +5 137 £350 +28.44% 64
West Midlands 0 113 £350 -6.67% 133
East of England -13 91 £250 -16.67% 119
Yorkshire -13 71 £250 -4.76% 133
East Midlands +3 53 £200 -21.95% 94
Wales -1 24 £145 -39.58% 23
North East +16 10 £190 +8.57% 34
Northern Ireland -11 5 £363 +113.24% 15

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
1 464 (24.50%) SharePoint
2 376 (19.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.74%) Skype for Business
4 21 (1.11%) Confluence
5 16 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.79%) CMS
6 15 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
7 14 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
8 11 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (0.58%) IIS
8 11 (0.58%) WordPress
9 10 (0.53%) Drupal
10 6 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
11 5 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) IBM Notes
14 1 (0.053%) Apache
14 1 (0.053%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 262 (13.83%) Microsoft Office
2 95 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.26%) Trello
7 3 (0.16%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 21 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.26%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Eikon
5 2 (0.11%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Relativity
5 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.053%) assyst
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.053%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.053%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.053%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.053%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.053%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 699 (36.91%) Azure
2 259 (13.67%) Entra ID
3 220 (11.62%) Power Platform
4 166 (8.76%) OneDrive
5 121 (6.39%) PowerApps
6 103 (5.44%) AWS
7 97 (5.12%) Power Automate
8 81 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
9 45 (2.38%) SaaS
10 41 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (2.01%) IaaS
12 37 (1.95%) Mimecast
13 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
14 32 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
15 30 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
16 29 (1.53%) Slack
17 28 (1.48%) GitHub
18 27 (1.43%) PaaS
19 26 (1.37%) Azure Storage
20 22 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 158 (8.34%) Firewall
2 143 (7.55%) DNS
3 96 (5.07%) Wi-Fi
4 90 (4.75%) DHCP
5 82 (4.33%) VPN
6 68 (3.59%) LAN
7 56 (2.96%) WAN
8 51 (2.69%) VoIP
8 51 (2.69%) Wireless
9 45 (2.38%) TCP/IP
10 39 (2.06%) Skype
11 38 (2.01%) Intranet
12 28 (1.48%) SAN
13 26 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
14 24 (1.27%) Network Security
15 18 (0.95%) VLAN
16 17 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
17 16 (0.84%) Internet
18 13 (0.69%) MPLS
18 13 (0.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.39%) Power BI
2 86 (4.54%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.48%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.32%) Power Query
9 4 (0.21%) GIS
9 4 (0.21%) Metadata
9 4 (0.21%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.21%) QGIS
10 3 (0.16%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.11%) DTS
11 2 (0.11%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (2.90%) JIRA
2 15 (0.79%) GitLab
3 11 (0.58%) Hudson
4 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.37%) Git
6 5 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.11%) Subversion
10 1 (0.053%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.053%) MSI
10 1 (0.053%) TestRail
General
1 625 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 254 (13.41%) Finance
3 216 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 147 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (3.59%) Legal
6 65 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.12%) Retail
8 55 (2.90%) Banking
9 47 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 46 (2.43%) Marketing
11 40 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (1.37%) Electronics
14 26 (1.37%) Law
15 21 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (0.84%) Advertising
17 16 (0.84%) French Language
Job Titles
1 303 (16.00%) Analyst
2 249 (13.15%) Support Engineer
3 204 (10.77%) IT Support
4 165 (8.71%) Architect
5 138 (7.29%) Service Analyst
6 135 (7.13%) Service Desk Analyst
7 122 (6.44%) IT Engineer
8 112 (5.91%) Senior
9 103 (5.44%) Desktop Support
10 101 (5.33%) 2nd Line Support
11 98 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 92 (4.86%) Developer
13 86 (4.54%) IT Support Engineer
14 84 (4.44%) Consultant
14 84 (4.44%) Support Analyst
15 73 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
16 70 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 68 (3.59%) IT Analyst
18 61 (3.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 55 (2.90%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.69%) .NET
2 19 (1.00%) ARM Templates
2 19 (1.00%) REST
3 17 (0.90%) React
4 16 (0.84%) CSS
4 16 (0.84%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) JSON
5 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
6 11 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
7 9 (0.48%) HTML
7 9 (0.48%) SPFx
8 7 (0.37%) RESTful
9 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.26%) jQuery
9 5 (0.26%) LDAP
9 5 (0.26%) OAuth
10 4 (0.21%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.21%) SAML
10 4 (0.21%) SOAP
11 3 (0.16%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (3.01%) PKI
2 53 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 49 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
5 40 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.64%) Video Editing
8 30 (1.58%) iPhone
9 28 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 28 (1.48%) NHS
10 23 (1.21%) iPad
11 21 (1.11%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.00%) CMDB
13 19 (1.00%) Digital Signage
13 19 (1.00%) Smartphone
13 19 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 17 (0.90%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 918 (48.47%) Windows
2 446 (23.55%) Windows 10
3 287 (15.15%) Windows Server
4 114 (6.02%) Apple iOS
5 83 (4.38%) Android
6 76 (4.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 75 (3.96%) Linux
8 73 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 72 (3.80%) Mac OS
10 66 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 63 (3.33%) Windows 7
12 26 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (0.84%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.79%) VMS
15 14 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
16 6 (0.32%) Unix
16 6 (0.32%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.16%) Debian
18 1 (0.053%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (16.53%) Customer Service
2 306 (16.16%) ITIL
3 283 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (12.14%) Migration
5 188 (9.93%) Agile
6 139 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 125 (6.60%) Change Management
8 119 (6.28%) Project Management
9 118 (6.23%) Business Intelligence
10 113 (5.97%) DevOps
11 92 (4.86%) Service Delivery
12 90 (4.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 84 (4.44%) Incident Management
14 83 (4.38%) Service Management
15 79 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
16 78 (4.12%) Mobile Device Management
17 76 (4.01%) ITSM
18 75 (3.96%) Roadmaps
19 69 (3.64%) Information Security
20 64 (3.38%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 265 (13.99%) PowerShell
2 75 (3.96%) SQL
3 55 (2.90%) C#
4 35 (1.85%) Python
5 34 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.06%) Bicep
6 20 (1.06%) VB
6 20 (1.06%) VBScript
7 11 (0.58%) C
8 10 (0.53%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.42%) Swift
10 6 (0.32%) Bash
11 5 (0.26%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.16%) Java
12 3 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 272 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 219 (11.56%) Degree
3 218 (11.51%) SC Cleared
4 134 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 60 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 53 (2.80%) MCSA
7 47 (2.48%) A+ Certification
7 47 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 35 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
9 32 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.53%) DBS Check
11 27 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 22 (1.16%) CCNA
13 22 (1.16%) MCSE
14 16 (0.84%) CISSP
15 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.74%) MCP
16 13 (0.69%) CISM
17 11 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (6.28%) SLA
2 22 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (1.16%) QA
3 18 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 17 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
6 15 (0.79%) NIST
7 14 (0.74%) GDPR
8 9 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.37%) PMO
10 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.32%) GRC
11 4 (0.21%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.11%) COBIT
13 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.053%) GxP
14 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 856 (45.20%) Active Directory
2 99 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (3.59%) Hyper-V
4 56 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 47 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.16%) vSphere
7 14 (0.74%) BitLocker
8 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.58%) XenApp
10 9 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.32%) Firmware
13 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.11%) Docker
17 1 (0.053%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 310 (16.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 247 (13.04%) SCCM
3 43 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 42 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
5 34 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.74%) SCOM
7 31 (1.64%) WSUS
8 24 (1.27%) Kubernetes
9 16 (0.84%) Terraform
10 11 (0.58%) Ansible
11 10 (0.53%) Autotask
11 10 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
11 10 (0.53%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 8 (0.42%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.42%) PingFederate
14 6 (0.32%) AirWatch
15 5 (0.26%) Packer
16 4 (0.21%) SCVMM
17 3 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1,221 (64.47%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.66%) VMware
3 165 (8.71%) Citrix
4 163 (8.61%) ServiceNow
5 134 (7.07%) Apple
6 84 (4.44%) Cisco
7 41 (2.16%) Veeam
8 40 (2.11%) Google
9 38 (2.01%) SAP
10 34 (1.80%) NetApp
11 33 (1.74%) Adobe
11 33 (1.74%) HP
12 32 (1.69%) Oracle
13 26 (1.37%) Dell
14 17 (0.90%) CA
15 16 (0.84%) MobileIron
15 16 (0.84%) Okta
15 16 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.84%) Sophos
16 14 (0.74%) Salesforce