Microsoft 365 Contracts in England

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 39 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,734 2,748 3,770
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.69% 5.44% 5.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.73% 14.85% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 2,029 2,699
10th Percentile £150 £160 £150
25th Percentile £197 £210 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £355
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £515 £540 £513
90th Percentile £638 £675 £613
UK median daily rate £350 £388 £375
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 141 206
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.27 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% +5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £21.00 £24.50 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £56.50 £28.25
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
London +7 782 £400 -5.88% 338
North of England 0 244 £260 -14.61% 297
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% 165
West Midlands -1 118 £350 -17.65% 124
East of England -15 95 £250 -16.67% 137
Yorkshire 0 78 £265 +0.95% 101
East Midlands -6 50 £200 -20.00% 71
North East +19 12 £190 -10.59% 37
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 394 (22.72%) SharePoint
2 376 (21.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.85%) Skype for Business
4 21 (1.21%) Confluence
5 15 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (0.81%) IIS
7 13 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2007
8 12 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
9 10 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2003
10 8 (0.46%) CMS
11 7 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 7 (0.40%) IBM Notes
12 5 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.23%) IBM Domino
14 3 (0.17%) nginx
14 3 (0.17%) WordPress
15 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
16 1 (0.058%) Apache
16 1 (0.058%) BizTalk Server
16 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 297 (17.13%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Camtasia
7 3 (0.17%) SPSS
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Eikon
4 2 (0.12%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.058%) assyst
5 1 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.058%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.058%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.058%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.058%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.058%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.058%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.058%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.058%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.058%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 649 (37.43%) Azure
2 247 (14.24%) Entra ID
3 160 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 147 (8.48%) OneDrive
5 99 (5.71%) PowerApps
6 87 (5.02%) Power Automate
7 78 (4.50%) AWS
8 42 (2.42%) IaaS
9 40 (2.31%) Mimecast
10 38 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
11 37 (2.13%) SaaS
12 34 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.67%) WhatsApp
14 26 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (1.50%) PaaS
15 23 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
16 22 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (1.27%) Azure Storage
17 19 (1.10%) Google Workspace
18 17 (0.98%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 156 (9.00%) DNS
2 154 (8.88%) Firewall
3 99 (5.71%) DHCP
4 97 (5.59%) VPN
5 93 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
6 75 (4.33%) LAN
7 68 (3.92%) WAN
8 67 (3.86%) Wireless
9 49 (2.83%) VoIP
10 46 (2.65%) TCP/IP
11 39 (2.25%) Skype
12 30 (1.73%) Cisco IOS
13 29 (1.67%) Network Security
13 29 (1.67%) SAN
14 19 (1.10%) Intranet
14 19 (1.10%) VLAN
15 15 (0.87%) MPLS
16 14 (0.81%) Internet
16 14 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
17 13 (0.75%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.02%) SQL Server
2 76 (4.38%) Power BI
3 11 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 10 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.29%) Metadata
8 5 (0.29%) MySQL
8 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.23%) Power Query
10 3 (0.17%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (0.17%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.12%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.12%) Tableau
12 1 (0.058%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.058%) MS Access
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (2.94%) JIRA
2 14 (0.81%) GitLab
3 13 (0.75%) Hudson
4 6 (0.35%) Git
4 6 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.058%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.058%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.058%) MSI
8 1 (0.058%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.058%) Subversion
8 1 (0.058%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 560 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 251 (14.48%) Finance
3 181 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 135 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (4.61%) Legal
6 59 (3.40%) Retail
7 56 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.83%) Banking
10 48 (2.77%) Marketing
11 42 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 36 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.79%) Law
15 28 (1.61%) Electronics
16 24 (1.38%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.21%) French Language
18 18 (1.04%) Local Government
19 17 (0.98%) German Language
19 17 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 269 (15.51%) Analyst
2 256 (14.76%) Support Engineer
3 187 (10.78%) IT Support
4 137 (7.90%) Architect
5 133 (7.67%) Service Analyst
6 131 (7.55%) Service Desk Analyst
7 124 (7.15%) IT Engineer
8 113 (6.52%) Desktop Support
9 110 (6.34%) 2nd Line Support
10 109 (6.29%) Senior
11 102 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 88 (5.07%) IT Support Engineer
13 77 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
14 76 (4.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 72 (4.15%) Developer
15 72 (4.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 69 (3.98%) Consultant
17 68 (3.92%) Support Analyst
18 65 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 58 (3.34%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.44%) .NET
2 24 (1.38%) REST
3 19 (1.10%) CSS
4 17 (0.98%) XML
5 15 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 15 (0.87%) JSON
6 13 (0.75%) HTML
6 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
8 11 (0.63%) SPFx
9 8 (0.46%) OAuth
10 7 (0.40%) SAML
11 6 (0.35%) jQuery
11 6 (0.35%) SOAP
12 5 (0.29%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.29%) LDAP
12 5 (0.29%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.29%) OpenID
13 4 (0.23%) React
13 4 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 51 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
2 51 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
3 47 (2.71%) PKI
4 44 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 31 (1.79%) Driving Licence
7 26 (1.50%) iPad
7 26 (1.50%) NHS
8 24 (1.38%) iPhone
9 21 (1.21%) Smartphone
10 20 (1.15%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.15%) Video Editing
11 18 (1.04%) CMDB
11 18 (1.04%) Digital Signage
12 17 (0.98%) EPoS
13 16 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.87%) Low-Code
15 14 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 917 (52.88%) Windows
2 436 (25.14%) Windows 10
3 281 (16.21%) Windows Server
4 114 (6.57%) Apple iOS
5 104 (6.00%) Android
6 78 (4.50%) Mac OS
7 73 (4.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 72 (4.15%) Linux
9 69 (3.98%) Windows 7
10 62 (3.58%) Windows Server 2019
11 58 (3.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 30 (1.73%) Windows Server 2008
13 19 (1.10%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.87%) VMS
15 12 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
16 9 (0.52%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.29%) Unix
18 3 (0.17%) Debian
18 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (18.74%) Customer Service
2 293 (16.90%) ITIL
3 253 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
4 204 (11.76%) Migration
5 155 (8.94%) Agile
6 138 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 109 (6.29%) Change Management
8 99 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (5.36%) Project Management
10 90 (5.19%) DevOps
11 87 (5.02%) Service Delivery
11 87 (5.02%) Service Management
12 81 (4.67%) Mobile Device Management
13 80 (4.61%) ITSM
14 72 (4.15%) Incident Management
15 67 (3.86%) Cybersecurity
16 65 (3.75%) Information Security
17 63 (3.63%) Asset Management
17 63 (3.63%) Stakeholder Management
18 61 (3.52%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 244 (14.07%) PowerShell
2 67 (3.86%) SQL
3 52 (3.00%) C#
4 28 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 23 (1.33%) Python
6 17 (0.98%) VBScript
7 16 (0.92%) Bicep
7 16 (0.92%) VB
8 10 (0.58%) C
9 8 (0.46%) Swift
9 8 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.35%) Java
11 5 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.23%) Bash
13 3 (0.17%) PHP
13 3 (0.17%) Ruby
14 2 (0.12%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.12%) R
14 2 (0.12%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (12.51%) Security Cleared
2 200 (11.53%) Degree
3 179 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 124 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 52 (3.00%) A+ Certification
5 52 (3.00%) MCSA
6 44 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 36 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
9 31 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.44%) DBS Check
11 23 (1.33%) CCNA
12 22 (1.27%) CISSP
12 22 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 21 (1.21%) MCP
13 21 (1.21%) MCSE
14 13 (0.75%) CISM
15 8 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.98%) SLA
2 22 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (1.15%) NIST
4 16 (0.92%) QA
5 15 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.69%) GDPR
8 9 (0.52%) GRC
8 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.40%) NCSC
10 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.17%) PMO
12 2 (0.12%) COBIT
System Software
1 849 (48.96%) Active Directory
2 100 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (3.63%) Hyper-V
4 42 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 38 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.21%) vSphere
7 15 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.69%) XenApp
9 9 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.46%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 8 (0.46%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.17%) Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 304 (17.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 248 (14.30%) SCCM
3 46 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
4 42 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 34 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (1.61%) SCOM
7 26 (1.50%) WSUS
8 21 (1.21%) Kubernetes
9 14 (0.81%) Terraform
10 11 (0.63%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.58%) Ansible
11 10 (0.58%) Autotask
11 10 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
12 9 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 8 (0.46%) PingFederate
14 5 (0.29%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.23%) Packer
15 4 (0.23%) PaperCut
16 3 (0.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,088 (62.75%) Microsoft
2 193 (11.13%) VMware
3 174 (10.03%) Citrix
4 162 (9.34%) ServiceNow
5 128 (7.38%) Apple
6 85 (4.90%) Cisco
7 45 (2.60%) Veeam
8 41 (2.36%) SAP
9 33 (1.90%) HP
10 30 (1.73%) Google
11 29 (1.67%) Adobe
12 26 (1.50%) NetApp
13 25 (1.44%) Dell
14 23 (1.33%) Oracle
15 20 (1.15%) Bloomberg
16 19 (1.10%) MobileIron
17 18 (1.04%) Sophos
18 17 (0.98%) Aruba
19 16 (0.92%) iManage
19 16 (0.92%) Palo Alto