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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,903 2,961 4,365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.43% 5.27% 4.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.66% 14.49% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 2,163 3,177
10th Percentile £152 £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 £515 £550 £517
90th Percentile £638 £684 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £320 £286
% change year-on-year -21.88% +11.79% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 127 218
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 13,931 20,440 33,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.46% 36.40% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,905 14,783 24,556
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 399
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.61 £15.44
Median hourly rate £21.37 £37.25 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -42.63% +66.29% +0.67%
75th Percentile £40.63 £68.75 £53.88
90th Percentile £69.13 £78.83 £67.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £27.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.21% +36.75% -

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 1,635 £350 -9.68% 1,453
UK excluding London -7 1,032 £250 -21.88% 1,178
London 0 731 £416 -4.86% 334
Work from Home -5 556 £451 -5.00% 576
South East -9 234 £288 -17.86% 268
North of England +1 233 £249 -17.08% 329
Midlands 0 170 £273 -22.14% 222
North West -3 149 £260 -25.71% 173
South West -12 140 £203 -42.14% 176
Scotland +3 138 £350 +28.44% 61
West Midlands 0 114 £350 -6.67% 129
East of England -13 92 £250 -15.25% 120
Yorkshire -8 74 £228 -13.33% 128
East Midlands 0 56 £200 -21.95% 93
Wales +1 24 £145 -36.96% 23
North East +14 10 £190 +8.57% 34
Northern Ireland -12 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
1 468 (24.59%) SharePoint
2 377 (19.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.73%) Skype for Business
4 21 (1.10%) 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%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 6 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
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
1 261 (13.72%) Microsoft Office
2 98 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.26%) Trello
7 3 (0.16%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.16%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 21 (1.10%) 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 Hybris
6 1 (0.053%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 703 (36.94%) Azure
2 263 (13.82%) Entra ID
3 218 (11.46%) Power Platform
4 166 (8.72%) OneDrive
5 120 (6.31%) PowerApps
6 103 (5.41%) AWS
7 96 (5.04%) Power Automate
8 81 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
9 45 (2.36%) SaaS
10 41 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (2.00%) IaaS
12 36 (1.89%) Mimecast
13 33 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
13 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
14 30 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
15 29 (1.52%) Slack
16 28 (1.47%) GitHub
16 28 (1.47%) PaaS
17 27 (1.42%) Azure Storage
18 22 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 161 (8.46%) Firewall
2 147 (7.72%) DNS
3 96 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
4 93 (4.89%) DHCP
5 81 (4.26%) VPN
6 67 (3.52%) LAN
7 56 (2.94%) WAN
8 51 (2.68%) VoIP
9 50 (2.63%) Wireless
10 44 (2.31%) TCP/IP
11 39 (2.05%) Intranet
11 39 (2.05%) Skype
12 29 (1.52%) SAN
13 26 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
14 23 (1.21%) Network Security
15 18 (0.95%) VLAN
16 17 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
17 16 (0.84%) Internet
18 13 (0.68%) MPLS
18 13 (0.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.31%) Power BI
2 86 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (0.68%) 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 (0.47%) 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 (2.89%) 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
1 632 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 252 (13.24%) Finance
3 214 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 150 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (3.68%) Legal
6 66 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.10%) Retail
8 57 (3.00%) Banking
9 47 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.47%) Marketing
10 41 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (1.37%) Electronics
13 26 (1.37%) Law
14 21 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (0.84%) Advertising
16 16 (0.84%) French Language
Job Titles
1 306 (16.08%) Analyst
2 254 (13.35%) Support Engineer
3 205 (10.77%) IT Support
4 167 (8.78%) Architect
5 137 (7.20%) Service Analyst
6 134 (7.04%) Service Desk Analyst
7 124 (6.52%) IT Engineer
8 113 (5.94%) Senior
9 105 (5.52%) Desktop Support
10 101 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
11 98 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 92 (4.83%) Developer
13 87 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
13 87 (4.57%) Support Analyst
14 84 (4.41%) Consultant
15 74 (3.89%) Desktop Engineer
16 69 (3.63%) IT Analyst
17 68 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 61 (3.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 55 (2.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.68%) .NET
2 20 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 19 (1.00%) REST
4 17 (0.89%) React
5 16 (0.84%) CSS
5 16 (0.84%) XML
6 13 (0.68%) JSON
6 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
7 11 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (0.47%) HTML
8 9 (0.47%) SPFx
9 7 (0.37%) RESTful
10 6 (0.32%) OAuth
11 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.26%) jQuery
11 5 (0.26%) LDAP
11 5 (0.26%) SAML
12 4 (0.21%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.21%) SOAP
13 3 (0.16%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 59 (3.10%) PKI
2 53 (2.79%) Management Information System
3 50 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
5 40 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.63%) Video Editing
8 30 (1.58%) iPhone
9 28 (1.47%) Driving Licence
9 28 (1.47%) NHS
10 24 (1.26%) iPad
11 21 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.00%) CMDB
13 19 (1.00%) Digital Signage
13 19 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.00%) Smartphone
13 19 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 17 (0.89%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 923 (48.50%) Windows
2 448 (23.54%) Windows 10
3 291 (15.29%) Windows Server
4 115 (6.04%) Apple iOS
5 84 (4.41%) Android
6 77 (4.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 75 (3.94%) Linux
8 73 (3.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 72 (3.78%) Mac OS
10 67 (3.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 63 (3.31%) Windows 7
12 26 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
13 17 (0.89%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.79%) VMS
15 14 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.37%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.32%) Unix
18 3 (0.16%) Debian
19 1 (0.053%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (16.50%) Customer Service
2 307 (16.13%) ITIL
3 286 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (12.09%) Migration
5 188 (9.88%) Agile
6 138 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 125 (6.57%) Change Management
8 120 (6.31%) Project Management
9 117 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
10 114 (5.99%) DevOps
11 92 (4.83%) Service Delivery
12 89 (4.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 84 (4.41%) Service Management
14 83 (4.36%) Incident Management
15 81 (4.26%) Cybersecurity
16 78 (4.10%) Mobile Device Management
17 75 (3.94%) ITSM
18 74 (3.89%) Roadmaps
19 69 (3.63%) Information Security
20 65 (3.42%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 267 (14.03%) PowerShell
2 75 (3.94%) SQL
3 56 (2.94%) C#
4 34 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.79%) Python
5 21 (1.10%) Bicep
5 21 (1.10%) VB
5 21 (1.10%) VBScript
6 11 (0.58%) C
7 10 (0.53%) T-SQL
8 8 (0.42%) Swift
9 6 (0.32%) Bash
10 5 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.16%) Java
11 3 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 271 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 220 (11.56%) Degree
3 217 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 136 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 60 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 53 (2.79%) MCSA
7 47 (2.47%) A+ Certification
7 47 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 36 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
9 34 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (1.58%) DBS Check
11 27 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (1.16%) CCNA
12 22 (1.16%) MCSE
13 18 (0.95%) CISSP
14 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.74%) MCP
15 13 (0.68%) CISM
16 11 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (6.15%) SLA
2 23 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.16%) QA
4 18 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (0.89%) NIST
6 15 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 15 (0.79%) GDPR
7 9 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.37%) PMO
9 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.32%) GRC
10 4 (0.21%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.11%) COBIT
12 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.053%) GxP
13 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 862 (45.30%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 58 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 48 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.21%) vSphere
7 15 (0.79%) BitLocker
8 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.58%) XenApp
10 9 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.47%) 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
1 311 (16.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 248 (13.03%) SCCM
3 44 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 41 (2.15%) Jamf Pro
5 36 (1.89%) SCOM
6 32 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.68%) WSUS
7 25 (1.31%) Kubernetes
8 16 (0.84%) Terraform
9 11 (0.58%) Ansible
10 10 (0.53%) Autotask
10 10 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (0.53%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 8 (0.42%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.42%) PingFederate
13 6 (0.32%) AirWatch
14 5 (0.26%) Packer
15 4 (0.21%) SCVMM
16 3 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1,227 (64.48%) Microsoft
2 186 (9.77%) VMware
3 166 (8.72%) Citrix
4 161 (8.46%) ServiceNow
5 136 (7.15%) Apple
6 84 (4.41%) Cisco
7 41 (2.15%) Google
7 41 (2.15%) Veeam
8 38 (2.00%) SAP
9 35 (1.84%) Adobe
10 34 (1.79%) NetApp
11 33 (1.73%) Oracle
12 32 (1.68%) HP
13 27 (1.42%) Dell
14 17 (0.89%) 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