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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 38 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,943 3,123 4,372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 5.40% 5.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.95% 14.69% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,354 2,274 3,149
10th Percentile £150 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £514 £549 £513
90th Percentile £638 £675 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £325 £286
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.54% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 145 223
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £14.63
Median hourly rate £16.47 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +5.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £21.28 £26.48 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £65.40 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -6.86% +9.00% +3.58%

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 13,933 21,254 33,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.77% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,370 24,584
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% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 348 423
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.63
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.18% +25.00% -

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -4 1,672 £350 -9.68% 1,435
UK excluding London -6 1,024 £250 -23.08% 1,195
London +6 772 £400 -5.88% 329
Work from Home -7 558 £450 -5.26% 546
North of England -2 234 £260 -16.13% 301
South East -10 225 £281 -19.64% 278
Midlands -1 165 £265 -29.33% 216
North West 0 148 £283 -29.25% 154
South West -13 138 £195 -48.00% 168
Scotland +5 134 £350 +29.63% 71
West Midlands -5 112 £350 -16.67% 128
East of England -9 97 £250 -16.67% 145
Yorkshire -2 77 £250 -11.11% 112
East Midlands -2 52 £195 -22.00% 88
Wales +5 27 £145 -36.26% 30
North East +15 9 £190 -5.00% 39
Northern Ireland -12 6 £525 +208.82% 18

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 (24.09%) SharePoint
2 407 (20.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (1.90%) Skype for Business
4 23 (1.18%) Confluence
5 16 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.77%) CMS
7 14 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2007
8 13 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
8 13 (0.67%) IIS
8 13 (0.67%) WordPress
9 11 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2003
10 10 (0.51%) Drupal
11 7 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 7 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.31%) IBM Notes
13 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.15%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.15%) nginx
16 2 (0.10%) Apache
Applications
1 288 (14.82%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.51%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.15%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.15%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.15%) SPSS
9 2 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.051%) InVision
10 1 (0.051%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.10%) Eikon
5 2 (0.10%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.10%) Maximo
6 1 (0.051%) assyst
6 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.051%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.051%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.051%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.051%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.051%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.051%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.051%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 727 (37.42%) Azure
2 267 (13.74%) Entra ID
3 205 (10.55%) Power Platform
4 168 (8.65%) OneDrive
5 114 (5.87%) PowerApps
6 103 (5.30%) AWS
7 95 (4.89%) Power Automate
8 77 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.26%) SaaS
10 42 (2.16%) IaaS
11 41 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (2.06%) Mimecast
13 32 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 30 (1.54%) GitHub
15 29 (1.49%) Slack
16 28 (1.44%) PaaS
17 27 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
17 27 (1.39%) WhatsApp
18 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
19 22 (1.13%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 167 (8.59%) Firewall
2 151 (7.77%) DNS
3 97 (4.99%) Wi-Fi
4 96 (4.94%) DHCP
5 88 (4.53%) VPN
6 73 (3.76%) LAN
7 65 (3.35%) WAN
8 56 (2.88%) Wireless
9 50 (2.57%) VoIP
10 49 (2.52%) TCP/IP
11 42 (2.16%) Skype
12 37 (1.90%) Intranet
13 32 (1.65%) SAN
14 30 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
15 26 (1.34%) Network Security
16 19 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
17 16 (0.82%) MPLS
17 16 (0.82%) VLAN
18 14 (0.72%) Internet
19 13 (0.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.89%) Power BI
2 85 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.36%) Metadata
8 7 (0.36%) Power Query
9 5 (0.26%) MySQL
10 4 (0.21%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.15%) BusinessObjects XI
11 3 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.10%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.10%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (2.99%) JIRA
2 16 (0.82%) GitLab
3 12 (0.62%) Hudson
4 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.31%) Git
6 5 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.10%) Subversion
10 1 (0.051%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.051%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.051%) MSI
10 1 (0.051%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.051%) TestRail
General
1 633 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 261 (13.43%) Finance
3 221 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 150 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (3.86%) Legal
6 72 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.04%) Retail
8 54 (2.78%) Banking
9 53 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 50 (2.57%) Marketing
11 44 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.06%) Telecoms
13 38 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (1.54%) Electronics
15 28 (1.44%) Law
16 23 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (0.93%) French Language
18 18 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 311 (16.01%) Analyst
2 260 (13.38%) Support Engineer
3 211 (10.86%) IT Support
4 166 (8.54%) Architect
5 143 (7.36%) Service Analyst
6 142 (7.31%) Service Desk Analyst
7 129 (6.64%) IT Engineer
8 117 (6.02%) Senior
9 108 (5.56%) Desktop Support
10 107 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (5.40%) 2nd Line Support
12 90 (4.63%) IT Support Engineer
13 87 (4.48%) Developer
14 85 (4.37%) Consultant
15 84 (4.32%) Support Analyst
16 75 (3.86%) Desktop Engineer
16 75 (3.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 69 (3.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 62 (3.19%) IT Analyst
19 60 (3.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.39%) .NET
2 21 (1.08%) REST
3 19 (0.98%) CSS
4 18 (0.93%) XML
5 16 (0.82%) ARM Templates
6 15 (0.77%) JSON
7 14 (0.72%) React
8 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.57%) HTML
9 11 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (0.57%) SPFx
10 7 (0.36%) jQuery
11 6 (0.31%) LDAP
11 6 (0.31%) OAuth
12 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.26%) SAML
13 4 (0.21%) EDI
13 4 (0.21%) RESTful
13 4 (0.21%) SOAP
13 4 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (2.83%) Management Information System
2 52 (2.68%) PKI
3 51 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
5 45 (2.32%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.60%) Driving Licence
7 31 (1.60%) Video Editing
8 30 (1.54%) NHS
9 28 (1.44%) iPhone
10 23 (1.18%) iPad
11 22 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.08%) Smartphone
13 20 (1.03%) CMDB
14 19 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.98%) Digital Signage
15 18 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.87%) EPoS
17 16 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 958 (49.31%) Windows
2 466 (23.98%) Windows 10
3 294 (15.13%) Windows Server
4 118 (6.07%) Apple iOS
5 96 (4.94%) Android
6 78 (4.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 77 (3.96%) Linux
7 77 (3.96%) Mac OS
8 76 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (3.55%) Windows 7
10 68 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 31 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (0.98%) Mac OS X
13 16 (0.82%) VMS
14 14 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.41%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.31%) Unix
18 3 (0.15%) Debian
18 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (17.19%) Customer Service
2 307 (15.80%) ITIL
3 288 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (11.84%) Migration
5 190 (9.78%) Agile
6 149 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 122 (6.28%) Project Management
8 119 (6.12%) Change Management
9 113 (5.82%) Business Intelligence
10 112 (5.76%) DevOps
11 92 (4.73%) Service Delivery
12 88 (4.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 84 (4.32%) Incident Management
14 82 (4.22%) Mobile Device Management
15 80 (4.12%) Cybersecurity
15 80 (4.12%) ITSM
16 79 (4.07%) Service Management
17 69 (3.55%) Information Security
18 65 (3.35%) Roadmaps
19 64 (3.29%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 264 (13.59%) PowerShell
2 73 (3.76%) SQL
3 51 (2.62%) C#
4 37 (1.90%) Python
5 33 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.93%) VBScript
7 17 (0.87%) Bicep
7 17 (0.87%) VB
8 10 (0.51%) C
9 8 (0.41%) Swift
9 8 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.36%) Bash
11 4 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.21%) Java
11 4 (0.21%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.10%) VBA
14 1 (0.051%) PHP
14 1 (0.051%) R
14 1 (0.051%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 258 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 236 (12.15%) Degree
3 213 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 132 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 50 (2.57%) MCSA
6 49 (2.52%) A+ Certification
6 49 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 37 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
9 34 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.39%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.24%) CCNA
12 24 (1.24%) MCSE
13 22 (1.13%) CISSP
13 22 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 18 (0.93%) MCP
15 13 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.62%) CISM
17 11 (0.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (6.48%) SLA
2 26 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (1.18%) NIST
4 22 (1.13%) QA
5 18 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (0.72%) GDPR
8 12 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 9 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.41%) GRC
11 7 (0.36%) PMO
12 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.26%) NCSC
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 901 (46.37%) Active Directory
2 100 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 48 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 42 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.08%) vSphere
7 15 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.72%) BitLocker
9 12 (0.62%) XenApp
10 10 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.46%) XenDesktop
12 8 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.41%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.26%) Firmware
14 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.10%) Docker
17 1 (0.051%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 325 (16.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 260 (13.38%) SCCM
3 46 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
4 44 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 39 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (1.49%) SCOM
7 27 (1.39%) WSUS
8 22 (1.13%) Kubernetes
9 17 (0.87%) Terraform
10 12 (0.62%) Ansible
11 11 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.51%) Autotask
13 9 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.41%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.31%) AirWatch
15 6 (0.31%) Packer
16 4 (0.21%) PaperCut
17 3 (0.15%) AppManager
Vendors
1 1,244 (64.02%) Microsoft
2 195 (10.04%) VMware
3 175 (9.01%) Citrix
4 162 (8.34%) ServiceNow
5 138 (7.10%) Apple
6 94 (4.84%) Cisco
7 46 (2.37%) Veeam
8 43 (2.21%) SAP
9 39 (2.01%) Google
10 38 (1.96%) HP
11 36 (1.85%) Adobe
12 33 (1.70%) Oracle
13 29 (1.49%) NetApp
14 28 (1.44%) Dell
15 19 (0.98%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.98%) Sophos
16 18 (0.93%) MobileIron
17 17 (0.87%) Aruba
18 16 (0.82%) Bloomberg
18 16 (0.82%) CA