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 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 38 39 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 2,017 3,249 4,442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.66% 5.43% 5.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.42% 14.73% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,376 3,168
10th Percentile £150 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £206 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £519
90th Percentile £638 £666 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £263 £325 £275
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 161 238
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £14.56
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £20.00 £25.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £66.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +3.13%

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 13,989 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%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 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 -2 1,734 £350 -6.67% 1,374
UK excluding London -6 1,081 £263 -19.23% 1,149
London +7 782 £400 -5.88% 338
Work from Home -3 582 £450 -5.26% 516
North of England 0 244 £260 -14.61% 292
South East -7 244 £275 -21.43% 259
Midlands -3 170 £325 -13.33% 195
South West -8 159 £204 -37.31% 159
North West +3 154 £284 -33.18% 162
Scotland +7 136 £350 +29.63% 78
West Midlands -1 118 £350 -17.65% 124
East of England -15 95 £250 -16.67% 136
Yorkshire 0 78 £265 +0.95% 99
East Midlands -6 50 £200 -20.00% 71
Wales +3 29 £166 -26.22% 38
North East +19 12 £190 -10.59% 37
Northern Ireland -10 7 £438 +157.35% 23

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
1 475 (23.55%) SharePoint
2 429 (21.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (1.93%) Skype for Business
4 25 (1.24%) Confluence
5 16 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (0.69%) CMS
6 14 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
6 14 (0.69%) IIS
7 13 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
7 13 (0.64%) WordPress
8 11 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2003
9 9 (0.45%) Drupal
10 7 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (0.35%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.20%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.15%) nginx
14 2 (0.099%) Moodle
Applications
1 323 (16.01%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 10 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.15%) Camtasia
9 3 (0.15%) SPSS
10 2 (0.099%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.099%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.099%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.050%) InVision
11 1 (0.050%) Sketch
11 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.20%) Magento
2 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.099%) assyst
4 2 (0.099%) Eikon
4 2 (0.099%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.099%) Maximo
5 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.050%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.050%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.050%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.050%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.050%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.050%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.050%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 760 (37.68%) Azure
2 282 (13.98%) Entra ID
3 208 (10.31%) Power Platform
4 174 (8.63%) OneDrive
5 117 (5.80%) PowerApps
6 105 (5.21%) AWS
7 100 (4.96%) Power Automate
8 73 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (2.38%) SaaS
10 47 (2.33%) IaaS
11 42 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (2.08%) Mimecast
12 34 (1.69%) PaaS
13 32 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
14 30 (1.49%) Slack
14 30 (1.49%) WhatsApp
15 28 (1.39%) GitHub
16 27 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
18 23 (1.14%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 175 (8.68%) Firewall
2 164 (8.13%) DNS
3 101 (5.01%) VPN
4 100 (4.96%) DHCP
5 95 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
6 80 (3.97%) LAN
7 71 (3.52%) WAN
8 68 (3.37%) Wireless
9 51 (2.53%) TCP/IP
10 50 (2.48%) VoIP
11 46 (2.28%) Skype
12 32 (1.59%) Intranet
12 32 (1.59%) Network Security
12 32 (1.59%) SAN
13 31 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
14 19 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
14 19 (0.94%) VLAN
15 15 (0.74%) Internet
15 15 (0.74%) MPLS
16 14 (0.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.86%) Power BI
2 90 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 18 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.50%) Metadata
8 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.40%) Power Query
9 8 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.25%) MySQL
11 4 (0.20%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.15%) BusinessObjects XI
12 3 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.099%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.099%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.099%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.099%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.099%) Tableau
14 1 (0.050%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 57 (2.83%) JIRA
2 15 (0.74%) GitLab
3 13 (0.64%) Hudson
4 7 (0.35%) Git
5 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.099%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.050%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.050%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.050%) MSI
10 1 (0.050%) Subversion
10 1 (0.050%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 644 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 277 (13.73%) Finance
3 232 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 154 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (4.16%) Legal
6 79 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.02%) Manufacturing
7 61 (3.02%) Retail
8 52 (2.58%) Marketing
9 50 (2.48%) Banking
10 48 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 40 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
13 33 (1.64%) Electronics
14 32 (1.59%) Law
15 24 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.04%) French Language
17 19 (0.94%) German Language
18 18 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 316 (15.67%) Analyst
2 286 (14.18%) Support Engineer
3 223 (11.06%) IT Support
4 158 (7.83%) Architect
5 145 (7.19%) IT Engineer
6 138 (6.84%) Service Analyst
7 136 (6.74%) Service Desk Analyst
8 131 (6.49%) Senior
9 119 (5.90%) 2nd Line Support
10 117 (5.80%) Desktop Support
11 116 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (5.11%) IT Support Engineer
13 90 (4.46%) Consultant
14 89 (4.41%) Developer
15 86 (4.26%) Support Analyst
16 81 (4.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 81 (4.02%) Desktop Engineer
17 79 (3.92%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 70 (3.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 60 (2.97%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.44%) .NET
2 24 (1.19%) REST
3 22 (1.09%) CSS
4 20 (0.99%) XML
5 15 (0.74%) ARM Templates
5 15 (0.74%) JSON
5 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
6 14 (0.69%) HTML
7 13 (0.64%) React
8 12 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
8 12 (0.59%) SPFx
9 8 (0.40%) OAuth
10 7 (0.35%) SAML
11 6 (0.30%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.30%) jQuery
11 6 (0.30%) SOAP
12 5 (0.25%) LDAP
12 5 (0.25%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.25%) OpenID
12 5 (0.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (3.07%) Management Information System
2 53 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (2.53%) PKI
3 51 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
4 44 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 44 (2.18%) Onboarding
5 33 (1.64%) Driving Licence
6 31 (1.54%) Video Editing
7 30 (1.49%) NHS
8 28 (1.39%) iPad
8 28 (1.39%) iPhone
9 25 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.24%) Smartphone
10 23 (1.14%) CMDB
11 19 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (0.89%) Data Structures
12 18 (0.89%) Digital Signage
13 17 (0.84%) EPoS
13 17 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 16 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,004 (49.78%) Windows
2 485 (24.05%) Windows 10
3 305 (15.12%) Windows Server
4 128 (6.35%) Apple iOS
5 109 (5.40%) Android
6 80 (3.97%) Mac OS
7 78 (3.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 77 (3.82%) Linux
9 73 (3.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 72 (3.57%) Windows 7
11 67 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 31 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
13 20 (0.99%) Mac OS X
14 16 (0.79%) VMS
15 14 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
16 9 (0.45%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.30%) Unix
18 3 (0.15%) Debian
18 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (17.01%) Customer Service
2 315 (15.62%) ITIL
3 302 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (11.40%) Migration
5 190 (9.42%) Agile
6 157 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 124 (6.15%) Change Management
8 123 (6.10%) Project Management
9 118 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
10 110 (5.45%) DevOps
11 93 (4.61%) Service Delivery
12 89 (4.41%) Mobile Device Management
12 89 (4.41%) Service Management
12 89 (4.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 87 (4.31%) ITSM
14 84 (4.16%) Incident Management
15 82 (4.07%) Cybersecurity
16 68 (3.37%) Information Security
17 67 (3.32%) Data Loss Prevention
18 66 (3.27%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 268 (13.29%) PowerShell
2 78 (3.87%) SQL
3 53 (2.63%) C#
4 42 (2.08%) Python
5 35 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.84%) VBScript
7 16 (0.79%) Bicep
7 16 (0.79%) VB
8 10 (0.50%) C
9 8 (0.40%) Swift
9 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.35%) Bash
11 6 (0.30%) Java
11 6 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.15%) PHP
13 3 (0.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.099%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.099%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 257 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 246 (12.20%) Degree
3 217 (10.76%) SC Cleared
4 135 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 52 (2.58%) A+ Certification
5 52 (2.58%) MCSA
6 49 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 39 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
9 35 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.54%) DBS Check
12 27 (1.34%) MCSE
13 24 (1.19%) CCNA
14 23 (1.14%) CISSP
15 22 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 21 (1.04%) MCP
17 14 (0.69%) CISM
18 13 (0.64%) AWS Certification
19 11 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (6.30%) SLA
2 22 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (1.04%) QA
4 20 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.99%) NIST
5 17 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
6 12 (0.59%) GDPR
7 9 (0.45%) GRC
7 9 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 7 (0.35%) NCSC
9 7 (0.35%) PMO
10 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 940 (46.60%) Active Directory
2 109 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 45 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 39 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.09%) vSphere
7 16 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.64%) XenApp
9 11 (0.55%) BitLocker
10 10 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.45%) XenDesktop
12 8 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.40%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.30%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.25%) Firmware
15 3 (0.15%) Docker
15 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.099%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 334 (16.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 271 (13.44%) SCCM
3 50 (2.48%) Jamf Pro
4 45 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 36 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (1.39%) SCOM
7 26 (1.29%) WSUS
8 22 (1.09%) Kubernetes
9 17 (0.84%) Terraform
10 12 (0.59%) Ansible
11 11 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.50%) Autotask
12 10 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (0.45%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (0.40%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.30%) Packer
16 5 (0.25%) AirWatch
17 4 (0.20%) PaperCut
18 3 (0.15%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,281 (63.51%) Microsoft
2 206 (10.21%) VMware
3 187 (9.27%) Citrix
4 173 (8.58%) ServiceNow
5 140 (6.94%) Apple
6 97 (4.81%) Cisco
7 47 (2.33%) Veeam
8 46 (2.28%) SAP
9 40 (1.98%) Google
10 36 (1.78%) Adobe
10 36 (1.78%) HP
11 33 (1.64%) Oracle
12 29 (1.44%) NetApp
13 28 (1.39%) Dell
14 21 (1.04%) Palo Alto
15 20 (0.99%) Bloomberg
16 19 (0.94%) MobileIron
17 18 (0.89%) Okta
17 18 (0.89%) Sophos
18 17 (0.84%) CA