Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 683 831 1042
Rank change year-on-year +148 +211 -363
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 214 139 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 193 129 167
10th Percentile £30,100 £30,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,500 - £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +183 198 £45,000 -21.74% 23
UK excluding London +99 143 £42,500 -2.86% 19
London +129 66 £65,000 - 5
Work from Home +86 45 £52,250 +7.18% 12
North of England +72 41 £43,500 +16.78% 4
South East +58 37 £45,000 -18.18% 3
North West +26 25 £43,500 +74.00% 2
South West +7 20 £37,500 -11.76% 8
Yorkshire +100 16 £42,137 +12.37% 2
Midlands +10 16 £42,500 -19.81%
East of England +25 15 £35,000 +25.00% 2
West Midlands +27 14 £42,500 -24.11%
Northern Ireland +39 9 £35,000 - 2
Scotland -61 5 £36,500 -16.57%
East Midlands -13 2 £40,750 -18.50%

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Microsoft 365 Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 213 (99.53%) Microsoft 365
2 179 (83.64%) Microsoft
3 149 (69.63%) Azure
4 106 (49.53%) Active Directory
5 99 (46.26%) Windows
6 87 (40.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 83 (38.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 76 (35.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 67 (31.31%) Windows Server
10 65 (30.37%) SharePoint
11 61 (28.50%) PowerShell
12 49 (22.90%) Entra ID
13 47 (21.96%) Social Skills
14 46 (21.50%) ITIL
15 44 (20.56%) Hyper-V
16 43 (20.09%) OneDrive
17 41 (19.16%) VMware
18 35 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (15.89%) DNS
19 34 (15.89%) Degree
20 32 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
21 30 (14.02%) Citrix
21 30 (14.02%) Migration
21 30 (14.02%) Power Platform
22 29 (13.55%) Microsoft Office
23 28 (13.08%) DHCP
24 27 (12.62%) Finance
24 27 (12.62%) VMware Infrastructure
25 25 (11.68%) Windows 10
26 23 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
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 87 (40.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (30.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.87%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (1.87%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 29 (13.55%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.27%) InfoPath
4 4 (1.87%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 213 (99.53%) Microsoft 365
2 149 (69.63%) Azure
3 49 (22.90%) Entra ID
4 43 (20.09%) OneDrive
5 30 (14.02%) Power Platform
6 22 (10.28%) AWS
7 16 (7.48%) Mimecast
8 12 (5.61%) Power Automate
8 12 (5.61%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.74%) WhatsApp
11 6 (2.80%) SaaS
11 6 (2.80%) Slack
12 4 (1.87%) GCP
12 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.40%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.40%) IaaS
13 3 (1.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (15.89%) DNS
2 28 (13.08%) DHCP
3 22 (10.28%) Firewall
4 14 (6.54%) VoIP
5 12 (5.61%) Unified Communications
5 12 (5.61%) WAN
6 10 (4.67%) VPN
7 8 (3.74%) LAN
7 8 (3.74%) VLAN
8 7 (3.27%) FTP
8 7 (3.27%) HTTP
9 5 (2.34%) SAN
10 4 (1.87%) Internet
10 4 (1.87%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.93%) IPv4
11 2 (0.93%) IPv6
11 2 (0.93%) NAS
11 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.40%) MySQL
3 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 47 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.62%) Finance
3 17 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (3.74%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.34%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.34%) Retail
7 4 (1.87%) Electronics
7 4 (1.87%) Law
7 4 (1.87%) Marketing
7 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.40%) Local Government
9 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.27%) COM
1 7 (3.27%) HTML
1 7 (3.27%) HTML5
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.93%) SPFx
3 1 (0.47%) ADSI
3 1 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.01%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.27%) BYOD
4 6 (2.80%) Blackberry
5 4 (1.87%) Mobile Computing
5 4 (1.87%) Replication
6 3 (1.40%) iPad
7 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.93%) EMC VNX
7 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.47%) iPhone
8 1 (0.47%) PKI
8 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 99 (46.26%) Windows
2 67 (31.31%) Windows Server
3 25 (11.68%) Windows 10
4 11 (5.14%) Apple iOS
5 9 (4.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (3.27%) Android
7 6 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.87%) Linux
9 3 (1.40%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.93%) CentOS
10 2 (0.93%) Rocky
10 2 (0.93%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.93%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (21.50%) ITIL
3 35 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (14.02%) Migration
6 23 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (10.75%) Incident Management
6 23 (10.75%) Roadmaps
7 20 (9.35%) Capacity Planning
8 19 (8.88%) Computer Science
8 19 (8.88%) Customer Service
9 17 (7.94%) Proactive Monitoring
10 15 (7.01%) Service Delivery
11 14 (6.54%) Mentoring
11 14 (6.54%) Server Management
11 14 (6.54%) Task Automation
12 12 (5.61%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (5.61%) Project Delivery
13 11 (5.14%) Coaching
13 11 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 61 (28.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.27%) JavaScript
2 7 (3.27%) SQL
3 4 (1.87%) R
4 2 (0.93%) Bash
5 1 (0.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (15.89%) Degree
2 19 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.80%) MCSE
5 6 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.80%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.87%) MCITP
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CCNA
8 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.01%) SLA
2 1 (0.47%) GDPR
2 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 106 (49.53%) Active Directory
2 44 (20.56%) Hyper-V
3 27 (12.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.34%) XenDesktop
6 4 (1.87%) vSphere
6 4 (1.87%) XenApp
7 2 (0.93%) Docker
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (38.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (8.41%) SCCM
3 10 (4.67%) Terraform
4 5 (2.34%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.87%) CASB
6 3 (1.40%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.40%) WSUS
7 2 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.93%) Nagios
8 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 179 (83.64%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.16%) VMware
3 30 (14.02%) Citrix
4 13 (6.07%) Cisco
5 11 (5.14%) Meraki
6 8 (3.74%) Dell
6 8 (3.74%) Veeam
7 7 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.80%) Google
9 5 (2.34%) HP
9 5 (2.34%) Sophos
10 4 (1.87%) Adobe
10 4 (1.87%) Apple
10 4 (1.87%) Aruba
10 4 (1.87%) SAP
10 4 (1.87%) SonicWALL
10 4 (1.87%) Symantec
11 3 (1.40%) EMC
11 3 (1.40%) Oracle
11 3 (1.40%) Palo Alto