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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 42 69
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 -26
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,380 6,419 8,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.31% 6.52% 5.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.75% 15.15% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,318 5,271 6,878
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,260 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,875 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,512
% change year-on-year -1.37% +2.78% -6.55%

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 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 23 May 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 6,754 £38,500 -4.94% 1,628
UK excluding London +12 5,602 £36,000 -1.37% 1,376
Work from Home +20 2,357 £45,000 -5.26% 642
London +11 1,554 £52,500 - 453
South East +12 1,459 £37,500 - 410
North of England +22 1,381 £37,500 -3.73% 320
Midlands +24 1,022 £35,000 -2.78% 233
South West +16 680 £37,500 +7.14% 183
North West +14 643 £40,000 -5.88% 161
West Midlands +22 623 £36,500 -8.05% 127
East of England +15 607 £32,500 -7.14% 154
Yorkshire +37 560 £35,000 - 133
East Midlands +33 392 £33,500 +3.28% 104
Scotland -33 269 £36,500 +1.39% 81
North East +26 178 £37,500 +7.14% 31
Wales +17 108 £28,290 -20.31% 22
Northern Ireland +24 54 £35,000 -17.65% 13
Isle of Man +4 20 £37,000 -48.97% 2
Channel Islands 0 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 1,685 (22.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,621 (21.96%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.98%) IIS
4 67 (0.91%) Confluence
5 44 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
6 43 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
7 39 (0.53%) Skype for Business
8 32 (0.43%) WordPress
9 26 (0.35%) CMS
10 20 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
11 16 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
12 14 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
13 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.11%) SAS
15 6 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.068%) OpenStack
17 4 (0.054%) ArcGIS
17 4 (0.054%) IBM Notes
17 4 (0.054%) Jupyter
18 3 (0.041%) Apache
Applications
1 1,095 (14.84%) Microsoft Office
2 289 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.12%) Trello
7 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.095%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.081%) InVision
9 6 (0.081%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.081%) Sketch
10 4 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.054%) InDesign
11 3 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.041%) SPSS
12 2 (0.027%) 1Password
12 2 (0.027%) CATIA
12 2 (0.027%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 93 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 15 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
5 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 8 (0.11%) Magento
7 7 (0.095%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.095%) Sage 200
8 6 (0.081%) Shopify
9 5 (0.068%) Sage X3
9 5 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.054%) Maximo
10 4 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.054%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.054%) SAP CX
11 3 (0.041%) Eikon
11 3 (0.041%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 3,745 (50.75%) Azure
2 1,260 (17.07%) Entra ID
3 694 (9.40%) Power Platform
4 551 (7.47%) AWS
5 507 (6.87%) OneDrive
6 352 (4.77%) PowerApps
7 316 (4.28%) Power Automate
8 309 (4.19%) SaaS
9 228 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
10 202 (2.74%) GCP
11 194 (2.63%) IaaS
12 176 (2.38%) PaaS
13 160 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
14 128 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
15 120 (1.63%) Mimecast
16 117 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
17 110 (1.49%) Google Workspace
18 85 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
19 83 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
20 74 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,362 (18.46%) Firewall
2 964 (13.06%) DNS
3 773 (10.47%) WAN
4 703 (9.53%) DHCP
5 659 (8.93%) LAN
6 528 (7.15%) VPN
7 498 (6.75%) Wi-Fi
8 430 (5.83%) TCP/IP
9 403 (5.46%) Wireless
10 335 (4.54%) VLAN
11 310 (4.20%) SAN
12 276 (3.74%) VoIP
13 211 (2.86%) SD-WAN
14 186 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
15 178 (2.41%) Internet
16 157 (2.13%) Network Security
17 134 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
18 120 (1.63%) NAS
19 93 (1.26%) Intranet
19 93 (1.26%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 386 (5.23%) Power BI
3 95 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (0.75%) MySQL
5 54 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 50 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 19 (0.26%) Metadata
11 17 (0.23%) Data Lake
12 15 (0.20%) GIS
13 14 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
14 13 (0.18%) MariaDB
15 11 (0.15%) EDMS
15 11 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 9 (0.12%) Power Query
17 7 (0.095%) Big Data
17 7 (0.095%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 125 (1.69%) JIRA
2 48 (0.65%) Git
3 20 (0.27%) Visual Studio
4 18 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.14%) gulp
5 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
6 7 (0.095%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.068%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.068%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.054%) Hudson
8 4 (0.054%) MSI
8 4 (0.054%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.041%) Subversion
10 2 (0.027%) GitLab
11 1 (0.014%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.014%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.014%) Postman
11 1 (0.014%) Sourcetree
11 1 (0.014%) Vagrant
General
1 2,451 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 960 (13.01%) Finance
3 568 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
4 365 (4.95%) Law
5 278 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 269 (3.64%) Legal
7 261 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 256 (3.47%) Retail
9 245 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 214 (2.90%) Public Sector
11 210 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 176 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 141 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 140 (1.90%) Marketing
15 78 (1.06%) Banking
16 72 (0.98%) Automotive
16 72 (0.98%) Games
16 72 (0.98%) Local Government
17 69 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 59 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,541 (20.88%) IT Support
2 1,158 (15.69%) Support Engineer
3 1,050 (14.23%) Analyst
4 964 (13.06%) IT Engineer
5 697 (9.44%) IT Support Engineer
6 689 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 630 (8.54%) Senior
8 538 (7.29%) IT Technician
9 478 (6.48%) 2nd Line Support
10 416 (5.64%) IT Analyst
11 393 (5.33%) Support Technician
12 392 (5.31%) Lead
13 384 (5.20%) IT Manager
14 381 (5.16%) Support Analyst
15 348 (4.72%) Architect
16 324 (4.39%) IT Support Technician
17 305 (4.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 305 (4.13%) Service Analyst
18 290 (3.93%) 1st Line Support
19 288 (3.90%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (2.48%) .NET
2 69 (0.93%) HTML
2 69 (0.93%) SPFx
3 50 (0.68%) CSS
4 47 (0.64%) ARM Templates
5 33 (0.45%) JSON
6 31 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
7 26 (0.35%) React
8 22 (0.30%) ASP.NET
8 22 (0.30%) HTML5 Canvas
9 20 (0.27%) EDI
10 19 (0.26%) RESTful
11 18 (0.24%) Web Services
12 17 (0.23%) SAML
13 16 (0.22%) .NET Framework
13 16 (0.22%) OLE
14 15 (0.20%) ASP.NET MVC
14 15 (0.20%) OAuth
15 14 (0.19%) REST
16 13 (0.18%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 391 (5.30%) Driving Licence
2 338 (4.58%) Data Centre
3 296 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 250 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 218 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 199 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
7 169 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 136 (1.84%) PKI
9 130 (1.76%) Replication
10 89 (1.21%) Wiki
11 85 (1.15%) Smartphone
12 79 (1.07%) Clustering
13 73 (0.99%) iPad
14 70 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
15 69 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
16 68 (0.92%) CCTV
17 64 (0.87%) Product Ownership
18 60 (0.81%) iPhone
19 55 (0.75%) Cyberattack
20 54 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,966 (53.74%) Windows
2 1,945 (26.36%) Windows Server
3 1,305 (17.68%) Windows 10
4 366 (4.96%) Android
4 366 (4.96%) Linux
5 335 (4.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 317 (4.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 251 (3.40%) Apple iOS
8 247 (3.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 232 (3.14%) Mac OS
10 187 (2.53%) Windows 7
11 101 (1.37%) Windows 8
12 82 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 62 (0.84%) Mac OS X
14 56 (0.76%) Ubuntu
15 41 (0.56%) CentOS
15 41 (0.56%) VMS
16 30 (0.41%) Unix
17 27 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
18 20 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,458 (19.76%) Customer Service
2 1,455 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
3 1,316 (17.83%) ITIL
4 938 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 827 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
6 562 (7.62%) Project Management
7 487 (6.60%) Agile
8 483 (6.54%) Migration
9 470 (6.37%) Service Delivery
10 395 (5.35%) Mentoring
11 389 (5.27%) Business Intelligence
12 379 (5.14%) Service Management
13 357 (4.84%) ITSM
14 354 (4.80%) Project Delivery
15 343 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 340 (4.61%) DevOps
17 324 (4.39%) Roadmaps
18 313 (4.24%) Information Security
19 299 (4.05%) Disaster Recovery
20 294 (3.98%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 767 (10.39%) PowerShell
2 642 (8.70%) SQL
3 148 (2.01%) C#
4 102 (1.38%) Python
5 90 (1.22%) Bash
6 78 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 41 (0.56%) T-SQL
8 35 (0.47%) Java
9 33 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 31 (0.42%) VB
11 29 (0.39%) Bicep
12 21 (0.28%) R
13 19 (0.26%) VBScript
14 10 (0.14%) PHP
14 10 (0.14%) VBA
15 9 (0.12%) Perl
16 7 (0.095%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.068%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.068%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.068%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,136 (15.39%) Degree
2 523 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 272 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 213 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
5 202 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 196 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 192 (2.60%) SC Cleared
8 191 (2.59%) DBS Check
9 161 (2.18%) CCNA
10 141 (1.91%) CISSP
11 140 (1.90%) MCSE
12 136 (1.84%) MCP
13 133 (1.80%) Master's Degree
14 119 (1.61%) A+ Certification
15 105 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
16 93 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 76 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
18 75 (1.02%) MCSA
19 72 (0.98%) PMI Certification
20 52 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (6.80%) SLA
2 276 (3.74%) GDPR
3 247 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 234 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 94 (1.27%) NIST
6 68 (0.92%) QA
7 46 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 43 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (0.47%) GRC
10 34 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 33 (0.45%) PMO
12 32 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 28 (0.38%) Data Quality
14 19 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.24%) COBIT
15 18 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 18 (0.24%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.20%) NCSC
17 6 (0.081%) ISO 14001
17 6 (0.081%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 3,603 (48.82%) Active Directory
2 972 (13.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 870 (11.79%) Hyper-V
4 258 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
5 181 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 178 (2.41%) XenApp
7 168 (2.28%) vSphere
8 161 (2.18%) XenDesktop
9 124 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
10 87 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 56 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
12 50 (0.68%) Terminal Services
13 42 (0.57%) VirtualBox
14 29 (0.39%) Docker
15 18 (0.24%) Firmware
16 17 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.22%) VMware Server
18 10 (0.14%) vCloud
18 10 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
19 7 (0.095%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1,280 (17.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 499 (6.76%) SCCM
3 104 (1.41%) Terraform
4 101 (1.37%) AirWatch
5 97 (1.31%) vCenter Server
6 88 (1.19%) WSUS
7 78 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 77 (1.04%) Kubernetes
9 75 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 69 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
11 48 (0.65%) SCOM
12 41 (0.56%) Ansible
12 41 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 40 (0.54%) CASB
14 38 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
15 29 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
16 26 (0.35%) Autotask
16 26 (0.35%) Nagios
17 22 (0.30%) ZABBIX
18 21 (0.28%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5,282 (71.57%) Microsoft
2 1,530 (20.73%) VMware
3 663 (8.98%) Cisco
4 559 (7.57%) Citrix
5 372 (5.04%) Veeam
6 325 (4.40%) Apple
7 299 (4.05%) Google
8 212 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 194 (2.63%) HP
10 193 (2.62%) Meraki
11 177 (2.40%) Dell
12 152 (2.06%) Sophos
13 127 (1.72%) Fortinet
14 100 (1.36%) Aruba
15 94 (1.27%) iManage
16 85 (1.15%) Adobe
17 76 (1.03%) SAP
18 61 (0.83%) Salesforce
19 60 (0.81%) SolarWinds
20 57 (0.77%) Palo Alto