Dynamics 365 Contracts

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Dynamics 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dynamics 365 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 197 221
Rank change year-on-year +50 +24 +19
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 718 818 1,190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 1.37% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.13% 3.71% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 610 864
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +1.77% +11.98%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £549 £525
% change year-on-year -8.93% +4.57% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.00 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Dynamics 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 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Dynamics 365
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Dynamics 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamics 365 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamics 365 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +66 565 £525 - 367
Work from Home +68 360 £525 -2.78% 221
London +93 302 £550 +4.76% 130
UK excluding London +35 278 £500 -8.93% 235
North of England +47 91 £500 - 60
North West +29 52 £500 - 37
South West -5 49 £550 - 34
Midlands +12 46 £506 +6.58% 43
South East +3 44 £500 -16.67% 56
Yorkshire +24 38 £500 -3.61% 18
Scotland +61 36 £550 +12.82% 17
West Midlands +17 29 £475 - 36
East Midlands +20 16 £625 +31.58% 7
Wales +8 11 £500 -14.68% 12
East of England +9 4 £406 -17.72% 13
North East +20 1 - - 5

Dynamics 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 38 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.11%) Drupal
3 8 (1.11%) WordPress
4 5 (0.70%) CMS
5 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.28%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.28%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 192 (26.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 64 (8.91%) Dynamics AX
3 10 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.70%) Magento
5 4 (0.56%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.28%) Shopify
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 290 (40.39%) Azure
2 242 (33.70%) Power Platform
3 113 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
4 104 (14.48%) PowerApps
5 102 (14.21%) Power Automate
6 73 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 36 (5.01%) Entra ID
9 24 (3.34%) AWS
10 20 (2.79%) Serverless
11 19 (2.65%) PaaS
12 18 (2.51%) Azure Functions
13 17 (2.37%) Azure API Management
13 17 (2.37%) GitHub
14 12 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (1.67%) SaaS
15 10 (1.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.81%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.14%) DHCP
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) Extranet
3 1 (0.14%) Intranet
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.14%) VLAN
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (15.60%) Power BI
2 52 (7.24%) Data Lake
3 27 (3.76%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.11%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.42%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.42%) Power Query
10 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.14%) Big Data
11 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.14%) GIS
11 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (2.79%) JIRA
2 8 (1.11%) Git
3 6 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.70%) Selenium
5 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
6 3 (0.42%) TestComplete
6 3 (0.42%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.28%) ERwin
7 2 (0.28%) GitLab
7 2 (0.28%) JMeter
7 2 (0.28%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.14%) NUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 266 (37.05%) Finance
2 189 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 77 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.36%) Marketing
5 51 (7.10%) Retail
6 48 (6.69%) Public Sector
7 39 (5.43%) Manufacturing
8 36 (5.01%) General Ledger
9 13 (1.81%) Legal
10 11 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.39%) Banking
12 8 (1.11%) Local Government
12 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.84%) Law
15 5 (0.70%) French Language
16 4 (0.56%) Back Office
16 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (25.49%) Consultant
2 142 (19.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 121 (16.85%) Architect
4 115 (16.02%) Developer
5 89 (12.40%) Lead
6 72 (10.03%) Functional Consultant
7 58 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
8 57 (7.94%) Analyst
9 56 (7.80%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 46 (6.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 46 (6.41%) Project Manager
11 34 (4.74%) Microsoft Consultant
12 28 (3.90%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
13 26 (3.62%) Business Analyst
13 26 (3.62%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
14 24 (3.34%) CRM Consultant
15 23 (3.20%) Senior
16 22 (3.06%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
17 19 (2.65%) Technical Architect
18 17 (2.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.08%) .NET
2 27 (3.76%) XML
3 17 (2.37%) .NET Framework
3 17 (2.37%) CSS
4 16 (2.23%) Web Services
5 15 (2.09%) HTML
6 13 (1.81%) React
7 10 (1.39%) Entity Framework
7 10 (1.39%) JSON
7 10 (1.39%) REST
8 8 (1.11%) ADO
9 7 (0.97%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 7 (0.97%) WCF
10 6 (0.84%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.84%) J2EE
11 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.70%) OAuth
11 5 (0.70%) OpenID
11 5 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.18%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 12 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (0.70%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.56%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.56%) N-Tier
9 3 (0.42%) BYOD
9 3 (0.42%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.42%) Housing Association
9 3 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.42%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.53%) VMS
1 11 (1.53%) Windows
2 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.28%) Unix
3 2 (0.28%) Windows 2000
3 2 (0.28%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (27.44%) CRM
2 143 (19.92%) DevOps
2 143 (19.92%) Migration
3 125 (17.41%) Business Intelligence
4 117 (16.30%) ERP
5 97 (13.51%) Data Migration
6 96 (13.37%) Agile
7 88 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (8.91%) Customer Service
9 61 (8.50%) Requirements Gathering
10 54 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 53 (7.38%) User Acceptance Testing
12 52 (7.24%) Data Modelling
13 44 (6.13%) User Stories
14 41 (5.71%) Mentoring
15 40 (5.57%) Project Management
16 38 (5.29%) GAP Analysis
17 37 (5.15%) Accounts Payable
18 36 (5.01%) Accounts Receivable
Programming Languages
1 89 (12.40%) C#
2 69 (9.61%) SQL
3 60 (8.36%) JavaScript
4 21 (2.92%) Python
5 17 (2.37%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.53%) Java
7 10 (1.39%) X++
8 9 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.84%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.42%) C
11 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.14%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (10.17%) Degree
2 53 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.56%) PMP
10 3 (0.42%) CIMA
10 3 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ACCA
11 2 (0.28%) APMG
11 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (9.19%) QA
2 9 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.84%) GDPR
3 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.70%) SLA
5 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.42%) PMO
6 3 (0.42%) WCAG
7 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 35 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (1.53%) Terraform
3 4 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.28%) SCCM
5 1 (0.14%) Kibana
5 1 (0.14%) logstash
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 414 (57.66%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.32%) SAP
3 28 (3.90%) Oracle
4 17 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.23%) MuleSoft
6 12 (1.67%) CA
7 11 (1.53%) Google
8 9 (1.25%) Databricks
9 8 (1.11%) Informatica
10 5 (0.70%) Adobe
11 4 (0.56%) VMware
12 2 (0.28%) Ceridian
12 2 (0.28%) Concur
12 2 (0.28%) DocuSign
12 2 (0.28%) Facebook
12 2 (0.28%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.28%) IDERA
12 2 (0.28%) Juniper
12 2 (0.28%) Twitter
13 1 (0.14%) Virgin Media