Microsoft 365 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,016 1,534 2,325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.96% 6.70% 7.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.22% 20.36% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 1,116 1,673
10th Percentile £145 £155 £138
25th Percentile £177 £195 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £324 £293
Median % change year-on-year -22.78% +10.68% -10.00%
75th Percentile £436 £488 £438
90th Percentile £588 £625 £538
UK median daily rate £350 £388 £375
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 92 181
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.12
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +6.45%
75th Percentile £19.07 £21.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £21.46 £43.43 £23.00
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -14.21% +8.57% +13.20%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,286 7,534 9,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.83% 32.92% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,752 5,548 7,316
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.60 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +32.40% -
75th Percentile £32.69 £63.94 £32.38
90th Percentile £66.05 £75.00 £63.40
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year -41.45% +62.95% +1.82%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
North of England +2 229 £250 -16.67% 336
South East -9 229 £288 -17.86% 409
Midlands +2 161 £260 -25.71% 242
North West +2 147 £265 -25.87% 171
South West -9 139 £203 -42.14% 202
Scotland +4 137 £350 +28.44% 77
West Midlands -6 109 £350 -6.67% 139
East of England -10 92 £250 -16.67% 151
Yorkshire -11 72 £258 -1.90% 137
East Midlands +2 52 £200 -20.00% 102
Wales -1 24 £145 -39.58% 25
North East +17 10 £190 +8.57% 33
Northern Ireland -13 7 £363 +113.24% 15
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
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
1 228 (22.44%) SharePoint
2 212 (20.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.08%) Skype for Business
4 10 (0.98%) CMS
5 4 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.39%) Confluence
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.20%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.20%) WordPress
7 1 (0.098%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.098%) Drupal
7 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.098%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
Applications
1 124 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.98%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.30%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.20%) Maximo
3 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.098%) assyst
4 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.098%) Relativity
4 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.098%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 316 (31.10%) Azure
2 116 (11.42%) Entra ID
3 87 (8.56%) Power Platform
4 85 (8.37%) OneDrive
5 51 (5.02%) PowerApps
6 47 (4.63%) Power Automate
7 43 (4.23%) AWS
8 29 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (2.07%) SaaS
11 18 (1.77%) Azure Storage
12 17 (1.67%) Yammer
13 14 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (1.08%) Canva
14 11 (1.08%) Mimecast
14 11 (1.08%) Slack
15 9 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.69%) IaaS
17 7 (0.69%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 97 (9.55%) Firewall
2 82 (8.07%) Wi-Fi
3 78 (7.68%) DNS
4 49 (4.82%) DHCP
5 44 (4.33%) LAN
6 43 (4.23%) VPN
7 37 (3.64%) WAN
8 31 (3.05%) VoIP
9 29 (2.85%) TCP/IP
10 27 (2.66%) Wireless
11 23 (2.26%) Intranet
12 21 (2.07%) SAN
13 15 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
14 14 (1.38%) Network Security
14 14 (1.38%) Skype
14 14 (1.38%) VLAN
15 11 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
16 9 (0.89%) NAS
16 9 (0.89%) NetScaler
17 8 (0.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 30 (2.95%) Power BI
3 8 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.39%) GIS
4 4 (0.39%) QGIS
5 3 (0.30%) Metadata
6 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.20%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.098%) DTS
7 1 (0.098%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.098%) MySQL
7 1 (0.098%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.098%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.098%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (1.87%) JIRA
2 7 (0.69%) Hudson
3 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.20%) GitLab
4 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.098%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.098%) Git
5 1 (0.098%) MSI
5 1 (0.098%) Subversion
General
1 372 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 118 (11.61%) Public Sector
3 74 (7.28%) Finance
4 65 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (4.92%) Retail
7 33 (3.25%) Manufacturing
8 26 (2.56%) Marketing
9 23 (2.26%) Legal
10 21 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.28%) Electronics
14 12 (1.18%) Publishing
15 9 (0.89%) Law
16 8 (0.79%) Automotive
16 8 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.69%) Local Government
17 7 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 197 (19.39%) Analyst
2 157 (15.45%) Support Engineer
3 141 (13.88%) IT Support
4 103 (10.14%) Service Desk Analyst
5 102 (10.04%) Service Analyst
6 75 (7.38%) IT Engineer
7 68 (6.69%) 2nd Line Support
8 57 (5.61%) Desktop Support
9 56 (5.51%) Support Analyst
10 55 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
10 55 (5.41%) Senior
11 52 (5.12%) Architect
12 48 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (4.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 45 (4.43%) Desktop Engineer
13 45 (4.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 39 (3.84%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 37 (3.64%) IT Analyst
16 33 (3.25%) 1st Line Support
17 31 (3.05%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.77%) ARM Templates
2 17 (1.67%) .NET
3 14 (1.38%) CSS
4 10 (0.98%) REST
5 7 (0.69%) HTML
6 5 (0.49%) SPFx
7 4 (0.39%) React
7 4 (0.39%) XML
8 3 (0.30%) jQuery
8 3 (0.30%) XMPP
9 2 (0.20%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.20%) ADSI
9 2 (0.20%) HTML5
9 2 (0.20%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.20%) LAMP
9 2 (0.20%) RESTful
10 1 (0.098%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (0.098%) Node.js
10 1 (0.098%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.098%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 36 (3.54%) PKI
2 31 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (2.95%) Video Editing
4 25 (2.46%) Driving Licence
5 23 (2.26%) NHS
6 21 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
7 17 (1.67%) Digital Signage
7 17 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.48%) EPoS
10 13 (1.28%) CMDB
10 13 (1.28%) iPhone
11 12 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (0.98%) iPad
12 10 (0.98%) Smartphone
12 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.79%) Clustering
14 8 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 544 (53.54%) Windows
2 272 (26.77%) Windows 10
3 177 (17.42%) Windows Server
4 90 (8.86%) Apple iOS
5 62 (6.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 61 (6.00%) Linux
7 54 (5.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 43 (4.23%) Android
8 43 (4.23%) Mac OS
9 42 (4.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 32 (3.15%) Windows 7
11 10 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.79%) VMS
13 6 (0.59%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.30%) Debian
15 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.098%) AIX
16 1 (0.098%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (21.06%) Customer Service
2 186 (18.31%) ITIL
3 149 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (7.87%) Agile
5 77 (7.58%) Migration
6 71 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 64 (6.30%) Change Management
7 64 (6.30%) Incident Management
8 63 (6.20%) Service Management
9 56 (5.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (5.22%) Service Delivery
11 47 (4.63%) Mobile Device Management
11 47 (4.63%) Project Management
12 43 (4.23%) ITSM
13 40 (3.94%) DevOps
14 35 (3.44%) Identity Management
15 34 (3.35%) Business Intelligence
16 32 (3.15%) Information Security
17 30 (2.95%) Analytics
18 29 (2.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 122 (12.01%) PowerShell
2 32 (3.15%) C#
3 31 (3.05%) SQL
4 20 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.77%) Bicep
5 18 (1.77%) VB
5 18 (1.77%) VBScript
6 11 (1.08%) C
7 8 (0.79%) Swift
8 6 (0.59%) Python
9 3 (0.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.098%) Bash
10 1 (0.098%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 141 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.73%) Degree
3 104 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 87 (8.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 53 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 45 (4.43%) A+ Certification
6 45 (4.43%) MCSA
7 23 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 19 (1.87%) MCSE
10 17 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.67%) DBS Check
10 17 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (1.57%) CCNA
12 14 (1.38%) MCP
13 6 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.69%) SLA
2 16 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 11 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.59%) PMO
6 5 (0.49%) GDPR
7 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.20%) GRC
8 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.098%) COBIT
9 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.098%) GxP
9 1 (0.098%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.098%) NIST
9 1 (0.098%) QA
9 1 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 506 (49.80%) Active Directory
2 59 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (4.33%) Hyper-V
4 40 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 27 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.98%) BitLocker
8 9 (0.89%) vSphere
8 9 (0.89%) XenApp
9 8 (0.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 8 (0.79%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.79%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.30%) Firmware
11 3 (0.30%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.098%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 1 (0.098%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.098%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 184 (18.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 146 (14.37%) SCCM
3 27 (2.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 25 (2.46%) WSUS
5 22 (2.17%) SCOM
6 21 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.87%) Kubernetes
8 16 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (0.98%) Autotask
10 9 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 9 (0.89%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.39%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.30%) AppManager
13 3 (0.30%) Terraform
14 2 (0.20%) OPNET
14 2 (0.20%) SCDPM
14 2 (0.20%) SCVMM
15 1 (0.098%) Ansible
15 1 (0.098%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 601 (59.15%) Microsoft
2 113 (11.12%) VMware
3 105 (10.33%) Citrix
4 96 (9.45%) ServiceNow
5 82 (8.07%) Apple
6 57 (5.61%) Cisco
7 28 (2.76%) Veeam
8 23 (2.26%) HP
9 19 (1.87%) SAP
10 16 (1.57%) Adobe
10 16 (1.57%) Oracle
11 14 (1.38%) Sophos
12 13 (1.28%) Dell
13 12 (1.18%) MobileIron
14 11 (1.08%) Aruba
14 11 (1.08%) NetApp
15 10 (0.98%) Polycom
16 9 (0.89%) Google
16 9 (0.89%) Okta
16 9 (0.89%) Palo Alto