Microsoft 365 Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 361 435
Rank change year-on-year +18 +74 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 45 86 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.38% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 74 62
10th Percentile £158 £227 £156
25th Percentile £225 £325 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £331
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +28.30% +8.16%
75th Percentile £425 £500 £438
90th Percentile £518 £554 £488
UK median daily rate £375 £413 £350
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.49% +47.50% -27.06%
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £29.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +69.49% +47.50% -19.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +15 14 £225 -36.17% 3
Midlands +35 12 £363 -12.65% 2
West Midlands +29 12 £363 +11.54%
East of England +4 6 £213 -55.26% 2
South West +18 5 £425 +86.81% 5
North West +10 5 £375 -22.08% 1
North of England +7 5 £375 -21.05% 4
Scotland +35 2 £538 +79.17%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Microsoft 365 Engineer
UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Microsoft 365 Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (68.89%) Microsoft
3 29 (64.44%) Azure
4 25 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (46.67%) Windows
6 18 (40.00%) Active Directory
7 17 (37.78%) SharePoint
8 15 (33.33%) PowerShell
9 14 (31.11%) OneDrive
10 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (26.67%) Windows 10
11 11 (24.44%) Entra ID
11 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
11 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
12 10 (22.22%) Windows Server
12 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
13 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
13 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (20.00%) SCCM
14 8 (17.78%) PowerApps
15 7 (15.56%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (15.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 7 (15.56%) Customer Service
15 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
15 7 (15.56%) ITIL
16 6 (13.33%) Oracle
16 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
16 6 (13.33%) PKI
16 6 (13.33%) Power BI

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (37.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) InfoPath
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (64.44%) Azure
3 14 (31.11%) OneDrive
4 11 (24.44%) Entra ID
5 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 8 (17.78%) PowerApps
7 6 (13.33%) Power Automate
8 3 (6.67%) ShareGate
9 1 (2.22%) AWS
9 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.22%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.22%) IaaS
9 1 (2.22%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Unified Communications
2 5 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.22%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.22%) FTP
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Power BI
2 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.44%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Police
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) COM
1 1 (2.22%) HTML
1 1 (2.22%) HTML5
1 1 (2.22%) JSON
1 1 (2.22%) React
1 1 (2.22%) SPFx
1 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Digital Signage
1 6 (13.33%) PKI
2 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.22%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 21 (46.67%) Windows
2 12 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 10 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (11.11%) Windows 7
6 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (4.44%) Android
8 1 (2.22%) Linux
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Customer Service
1 7 (15.56%) ITIL
1 7 (15.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
3 5 (11.11%) Migration
4 4 (8.89%) Problem Management
5 3 (6.67%) DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (4.44%) Budget Responsibility
6 2 (4.44%) Change Management
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Security
6 2 (4.44%) Information Security
6 2 (4.44%) Information Security Management
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (4.44%) Records Management
6 2 (4.44%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (4.44%) Security Architecture
6 2 (4.44%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (20.00%) SCCM
3 7 (15.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.44%) Terraform
5 1 (2.22%) Autotask
Vendors
1 31 (68.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) Citrix
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Apple
4 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Polycom
4 1 (2.22%) Remedy
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow