Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 42 58
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,517 6,556 8,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.58% 6.46% 5.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.22% 15.09% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 5,406 6,982
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,298 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -0.55% +4.29% -7.89%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +19 6,875 £39,500 -2.47% 1,474
UK excluding London +15 5,669 £36,298 -0.55% 1,214
Work from Home +20 2,406 £45,000 -5.26% 566
London +12 1,622 £53,500 +1.90% 359
South East +13 1,488 £36,750 +2.08% 273
North of England +26 1,396 £37,500 -2.60% 301
Midlands +24 1,027 £35,000 -4.11% 218
South West +16 682 £37,500 +7.14% 168
North West +15 648 £40,000 -3.61% 158
West Midlands +24 631 £37,250 -6.88% 135
East of England +16 609 £32,500 -7.14% 150
Yorkshire +41 567 £35,000 - 110
East Midlands +36 389 £33,500 +3.98% 83
Scotland -33 280 £37,750 +0.67% 79
North East +27 181 £37,500 +7.14% 38
Wales +16 110 £28,290 -24.56% 33
Northern Ireland +26 55 £35,000 -16.67% 22
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 3
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%

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 1,752 (23.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,637 (21.78%) SharePoint
3 73 (0.97%) IIS
4 68 (0.90%) Confluence
5 44 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
5 44 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2013
6 41 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 34 (0.45%) WordPress
8 26 (0.35%) CMS
9 20 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 10 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
12 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.11%) SAS
14 6 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2000
14 6 (0.080%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.053%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.053%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.053%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.040%) Documentum
Applications
1 1,133 (15.07%) Microsoft Office
2 289 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.080%) InVision
10 6 (0.080%) LightWave 3D
10 6 (0.080%) Sketch
11 4 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.053%) InDesign
12 3 (0.040%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.040%) SPSS
13 2 (0.027%) 1Password
13 2 (0.027%) CATIA
13 2 (0.027%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 93 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 13 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
4 13 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.11%) Magento
6 8 (0.11%) Maximo
7 7 (0.093%) Elite 3E
7 7 (0.093%) Sage 200
7 7 (0.093%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.080%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.080%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.080%) Shopify
9 5 (0.067%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.067%) SAP CX
10 4 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.040%) Eikon
11 3 (0.040%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 3,816 (50.76%) Azure
2 1,264 (16.82%) Entra ID
3 718 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 562 (7.48%) AWS
5 506 (6.73%) OneDrive
6 358 (4.76%) PowerApps
7 321 (4.27%) Power Automate
8 307 (4.08%) SaaS
9 231 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
10 203 (2.70%) IaaS
11 202 (2.69%) GCP
12 185 (2.46%) PaaS
13 183 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
14 127 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
15 126 (1.68%) Mimecast
16 120 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
17 114 (1.52%) Google Workspace
18 84 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
19 82 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
20 81 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,383 (18.40%) Firewall
2 990 (13.17%) DNS
3 791 (10.52%) WAN
4 733 (9.75%) DHCP
5 673 (8.95%) LAN
6 554 (7.37%) VPN
7 492 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
8 438 (5.83%) TCP/IP
9 427 (5.68%) Wireless
10 351 (4.67%) VLAN
11 321 (4.27%) SAN
12 293 (3.90%) VoIP
13 218 (2.90%) SD-WAN
14 187 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
15 171 (2.27%) Internet
16 160 (2.13%) Network Security
17 147 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
18 119 (1.58%) NAS
19 105 (1.40%) WebEx
20 95 (1.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 396 (5.27%) Power BI
3 97 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (0.76%) MySQL
6 38 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (0.28%) Relational Database
10 19 (0.25%) GIS
10 19 (0.25%) Metadata
11 17 (0.23%) Data Lake
12 14 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
12 14 (0.19%) MariaDB
13 12 (0.16%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 11 (0.15%) EDMS
15 10 (0.13%) Power Query
16 7 (0.093%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 130 (1.73%) JIRA
2 49 (0.65%) Git
3 21 (0.28%) Visual Studio
4 18 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 8 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.067%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.053%) Hudson
8 4 (0.053%) MSI
8 4 (0.053%) Subversion
9 2 (0.027%) GitLab
9 2 (0.027%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.013%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.013%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.013%) Postman
10 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,485 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 982 (13.06%) Finance
3 570 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 383 (5.10%) Law
5 288 (3.83%) Legal
6 277 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 261 (3.47%) Retail
8 255 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 249 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 219 (2.91%) Public Sector
11 214 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 175 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
13 150 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 148 (1.97%) Marketing
15 82 (1.09%) Banking
16 74 (0.98%) Local Government
17 73 (0.97%) Games
18 69 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 68 (0.90%) Automotive
20 60 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,560 (20.75%) IT Support
2 1,171 (15.58%) Support Engineer
3 1,087 (14.46%) Analyst
4 979 (13.02%) IT Engineer
5 701 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 701 (9.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 656 (8.73%) Senior
7 531 (7.06%) IT Technician
8 485 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
9 421 (5.60%) IT Analyst
10 400 (5.32%) Lead
11 397 (5.28%) IT Manager
12 393 (5.23%) Support Analyst
13 385 (5.12%) Support Technician
14 359 (4.78%) Architect
15 318 (4.23%) IT Support Technician
16 314 (4.18%) Service Analyst
17 310 (4.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 299 (3.98%) 1st Line Support
19 295 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (2.66%) .NET
2 70 (0.93%) HTML
3 69 (0.92%) SPFx
4 54 (0.72%) ARM Templates
5 53 (0.71%) CSS
6 42 (0.56%) JSON
7 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 27 (0.36%) ASP.NET
8 27 (0.36%) React
9 22 (0.29%) EDI
10 21 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
11 19 (0.25%) REST
11 19 (0.25%) RESTful
12 18 (0.24%) .NET Framework
12 18 (0.24%) Web Services
13 17 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
14 16 (0.21%) OLE
15 15 (0.20%) SAML
16 14 (0.19%) YAML
17 13 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 396 (5.27%) Driving Licence
2 347 (4.62%) Data Centre
3 299 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 260 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 225 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 211 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
7 176 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 136 (1.81%) PKI
9 133 (1.77%) Replication
10 100 (1.33%) Wiki
11 84 (1.12%) Smartphone
12 79 (1.05%) Clustering
13 76 (1.01%) iPad
14 75 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 72 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
16 70 (0.93%) CCTV
17 63 (0.84%) Product Ownership
18 61 (0.81%) iPhone
19 57 (0.76%) Private Cloud
20 55 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4,067 (54.10%) Windows
2 2,010 (26.74%) Windows Server
3 1,351 (17.97%) Windows 10
4 375 (4.99%) Android
5 368 (4.90%) Linux
6 347 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 316 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 264 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 253 (3.37%) Apple iOS
10 240 (3.19%) Mac OS
11 195 (2.59%) Windows 7
12 112 (1.49%) Windows 8
13 87 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 63 (0.84%) Mac OS X
15 62 (0.82%) Ubuntu
16 42 (0.56%) CentOS
16 42 (0.56%) VMS
17 30 (0.40%) Unix
18 27 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
19 22 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,470 (19.56%) Customer Service
2 1,463 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
3 1,347 (17.92%) ITIL
4 952 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 846 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
6 561 (7.46%) Project Management
7 501 (6.66%) Agile
8 499 (6.64%) Migration
9 471 (6.27%) Service Delivery
10 403 (5.36%) Mentoring
11 397 (5.28%) Business Intelligence
12 385 (5.12%) Service Management
13 375 (4.99%) ITSM
14 365 (4.86%) DevOps
14 365 (4.86%) Project Delivery
15 350 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 333 (4.43%) Information Security
17 331 (4.40%) Roadmaps
18 309 (4.11%) Disaster Recovery
19 302 (4.02%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 801 (10.66%) PowerShell
2 664 (8.83%) SQL
3 152 (2.02%) C#
4 99 (1.32%) Python
5 91 (1.21%) Bash
6 85 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 43 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 40 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.49%) Java
10 30 (0.40%) VB
11 29 (0.39%) Bicep
12 21 (0.28%) R
13 18 (0.24%) VBScript
14 10 (0.13%) PHP
15 9 (0.12%) Perl
15 9 (0.12%) VBA
16 7 (0.093%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.067%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.067%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.067%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,156 (15.38%) Degree
2 534 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 272 (3.62%) Security Cleared
4 220 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
5 205 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 201 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 195 (2.59%) SC Cleared
8 183 (2.43%) DBS Check
9 167 (2.22%) CCNA
10 148 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 142 (1.89%) CISSP
12 137 (1.82%) MCSE
13 133 (1.77%) MCP
14 123 (1.64%) A+ Certification
15 113 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
16 95 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 87 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
18 79 (1.05%) MCSA
19 70 (0.93%) PMI Certification
20 57 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (6.90%) SLA
2 284 (3.78%) GDPR
3 248 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 241 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 98 (1.30%) NIST
6 71 (0.94%) QA
7 47 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 36 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 35 (0.47%) GRC
11 33 (0.44%) PMO
12 32 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 30 (0.40%) Data Quality
14 21 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 18 (0.24%) COBIT
17 17 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.20%) NCSC
19 6 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
19 6 (0.080%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,684 (49.01%) Active Directory
2 1,017 (13.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 889 (11.83%) Hyper-V
4 274 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
5 187 (2.49%) XenApp
6 185 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 174 (2.31%) vSphere
8 169 (2.25%) XenDesktop
9 125 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
10 98 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 58 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
12 49 (0.65%) Terminal Services
13 45 (0.60%) VirtualBox
14 30 (0.40%) Docker
15 22 (0.29%) Firmware
16 17 (0.23%) VMware Server
17 16 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 12 (0.16%) vCloud
19 10 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
20 8 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,294 (17.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 526 (7.00%) SCCM
3 114 (1.52%) AirWatch
4 111 (1.48%) Terraform
5 96 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 86 (1.14%) WSUS
7 78 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 75 (1.00%) Kubernetes
10 71 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
11 47 (0.63%) FortiGate
11 47 (0.63%) SCOM
12 41 (0.55%) Ansible
13 40 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
14 39 (0.52%) CASB
15 28 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
16 26 (0.35%) Autotask
16 26 (0.35%) Nagios
17 22 (0.29%) SmoothWall
18 21 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5,353 (71.21%) Microsoft
2 1,583 (21.06%) VMware
3 678 (9.02%) Cisco
4 582 (7.74%) Citrix
5 373 (4.96%) Veeam
6 337 (4.48%) Apple
7 301 (4.00%) Google
8 215 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 202 (2.69%) Meraki
10 199 (2.65%) HP
11 172 (2.29%) Dell
12 155 (2.06%) Sophos
13 127 (1.69%) Fortinet
14 107 (1.42%) Aruba
15 99 (1.32%) iManage
16 84 (1.12%) Adobe
17 79 (1.05%) SAP
18 66 (0.88%) SolarWinds
19 63 (0.84%) Salesforce
20 62 (0.82%) Palo Alto