Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 48 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,743 1,240 1,616
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.87% 4.57% 4.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.05% 12.23% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 728 1,080
10th Percentile £163 £170 £158
25th Percentile £200 £207 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £331 £375
Median % change year-on-year +23.11% -11.73% -
75th Percentile £538 £500 £538
90th Percentile £639 £623 £650
UK median daily rate £408 £350 £374
% change year-on-year +16.43% -6.35% -0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 111 121
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.57 £14.48
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.27 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +8.93% -6.89%
75th Percentile £26.60 £25.15 £21.50
90th Percentile £60.79 £34.00 £27.00
UK median hourly rate £19.17 £23.00 £17.29
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.06% -13.58%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Microsoft 365 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,776 10,143 12,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.42% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,603 6,846 8,652
10th Percentile £325 £311 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 268 326
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £45.57
90th Percentile £83.88 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.63 £22.23
% change year-on-year +34.35% +24.32% -36.50%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 2026. 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 -3 756 £450 +12.50% 219
North of England -4 356 £325 +8.33% 204
South East -17 238 £325 +30.00% 254
North West +2 181 £225 -35.71% 102
Yorkshire -9 165 £450 +69.81% 68
Midlands -25 156 £275 +10.00% 125
South West -16 121 £363 +45.00% 92
West Midlands -41 111 £323 +17.27% 69
East of England -21 90 £203 -10.00% 75
East Midlands 0 43 £200 -20.00% 56
North East -35 13 £270 +38.46% 42
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 532 (30.52%) SharePoint
2 337 (19.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.15%) Confluence
4 4 (0.23%) CMS
4 4 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.11%) IIS
5 2 (0.11%) Mendix
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.11%) SAS
6 1 (0.057%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 127 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.11%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 16 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.11%) assyst
4 2 (0.11%) Exchequer
4 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.057%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.057%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.057%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.057%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.057%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 703 (40.33%) Azure
2 480 (27.54%) Entra ID
3 227 (13.02%) OneDrive
4 226 (12.97%) Power Platform
5 166 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 146 (8.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 125 (7.17%) Power Automate
8 111 (6.37%) PowerApps
9 102 (5.85%) AWS
10 82 (4.70%) SaaS
11 62 (3.56%) Google Workspace
12 57 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
13 44 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
14 40 (2.29%) PaaS
15 36 (2.07%) GitHub
16 34 (1.95%) Copilot Studio
17 33 (1.89%) GCP
18 32 (1.84%) IaaS
18 32 (1.84%) Mimecast
19 31 (1.78%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 138 (7.92%) VPN
2 132 (7.57%) DNS
3 106 (6.08%) Wi-Fi
4 96 (5.51%) Firewall
5 88 (5.05%) DHCP
6 84 (4.82%) LAN
6 84 (4.82%) TCP/IP
7 65 (3.73%) WAN
8 25 (1.43%) Network Security
9 24 (1.38%) VLAN
10 22 (1.26%) Unified Communications
11 21 (1.20%) SAN
12 19 (1.09%) DKIM
13 15 (0.86%) DMARC
13 15 (0.86%) Internet
13 15 (0.86%) Wireless
14 13 (0.75%) VoIP
15 12 (0.69%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.69%) WLAN
16 11 (0.63%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.48%) Power BI
2 31 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 16 (0.92%) Metadata
4 8 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.29%) EDRMS
6 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.17%) Power Query
8 2 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 2 (0.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (0.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.11%) Tableau
9 1 (0.057%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.057%) GIS
9 1 (0.057%) MySQL
9 1 (0.057%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.057%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 88 (5.05%) JIRA
2 8 (0.46%) Chocolatey
2 8 (0.46%) MSI
3 7 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (0.29%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.17%) Git
5 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.11%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.11%) GitLab
6 2 (0.11%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.11%) Postman
6 2 (0.11%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.057%) AppScan
7 1 (0.057%) JMeter
7 1 (0.057%) JUnit
7 1 (0.057%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.057%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.057%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.057%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 715 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 254 (14.57%) Finance
3 183 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 166 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (5.68%) Legal
6 80 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
7 79 (4.53%) Banking
8 50 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.66%) Military
11 28 (1.61%) Local Government
11 28 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.20%) Law
13 17 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 16 (0.92%) Front Office
15 15 (0.86%) Marketing
15 15 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 324 (18.59%) IT Support
2 267 (15.32%) Support Engineer
3 215 (12.34%) IT Engineer
4 204 (11.70%) Analyst
5 190 (10.90%) IT Support Engineer
6 117 (6.71%) Architect
7 100 (5.74%) Senior
8 95 (5.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 86 (4.93%) IT Analyst
10 84 (4.82%) 2nd Line Support
11 79 (4.53%) Consultant
12 77 (4.42%) Support Analyst
13 65 (3.73%) Lead
14 62 (3.56%) Developer
15 60 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 59 (3.38%) Desktop Support
16 59 (3.38%) Service Analyst
17 58 (3.33%) Service Desk Analyst
18 57 (3.27%) Administrator
19 55 (3.16%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (4.93%) Microsoft Graph
2 29 (1.66%) .NET
3 28 (1.61%) REST
4 23 (1.32%) OAuth
5 22 (1.26%) CSS
6 21 (1.20%) React
7 19 (1.09%) SPFx
8 18 (1.03%) HTML
9 17 (0.98%) SAML
10 16 (0.92%) JSON
11 12 (0.69%) Web Services
12 11 (0.63%) .NET Framework
12 11 (0.63%) SOAP
13 9 (0.52%) OpenID
14 7 (0.40%) ASP.NET
14 7 (0.40%) HTML5 Canvas
14 7 (0.40%) OAuth2
15 6 (0.34%) jQuery
16 5 (0.29%) HTML5
16 5 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 192 (11.02%) Onboarding
2 45 (2.58%) Security Posture
3 41 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (2.07%) Data Centre
4 36 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 30 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 28 (1.61%) Driving Licence
7 27 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
8 21 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.15%) Low-Code
10 18 (1.03%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
12 16 (0.92%) Product Ownership
13 15 (0.86%) BYOD
13 15 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 792 (45.44%) Windows
2 274 (15.72%) Windows 10
3 110 (6.31%) Windows Server
4 97 (5.57%) Mac OS
5 72 (4.13%) Apple iOS
6 54 (3.10%) Android
7 45 (2.58%) Linux
8 18 (1.03%) Windows 7
9 16 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.40%) Unix
12 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.17%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.11%) VMS
15 2 (0.11%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.057%) CentOS
16 1 (0.057%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
2 320 (18.36%) Customer Service
3 313 (17.96%) ITIL
4 236 (13.54%) Migration
5 181 (10.38%) AI
6 162 (9.29%) ITSM
7 150 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (8.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 143 (8.20%) Agile
10 142 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
11 138 (7.92%) Service Management
12 125 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 123 (7.06%) Data Loss Prevention
14 118 (6.77%) User Experience
15 110 (6.31%) DevOps
16 107 (6.14%) Roadmaps
16 107 (6.14%) Service Delivery
17 100 (5.74%) Data Protection
18 98 (5.62%) Business Intelligence
18 98 (5.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 229 (13.14%) PowerShell
2 50 (2.87%) Python
3 44 (2.52%) SQL
4 40 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 28 (1.61%) C#
6 24 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
7 16 (0.92%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.57%) Bicep
8 10 (0.57%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.40%) Bash
11 3 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (0.17%) VBA
11 3 (0.17%) VBScript
12 2 (0.11%) C++
12 2 (0.11%) Java
12 2 (0.11%) LotusScript
12 2 (0.11%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 262 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 202 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 197 (11.30%) Degree
4 98 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 49 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.49%) CISSP
9 25 (1.43%) A+ Certification
10 21 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 19 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (0.98%) PMP
13 16 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (0.80%) CISM
14 14 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 14 (0.80%) MCSE
14 14 (0.80%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 72 (4.13%) SLA
2 65 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 65 (3.73%) GDPR
3 38 (2.18%) NIST
4 27 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 20 (1.15%) NCSC
6 19 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.98%) QA
8 15 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.86%) PMO
9 12 (0.69%) GRC
9 12 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.52%) ISO 31000
11 8 (0.46%) FINRA
11 8 (0.46%) MiFID
12 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.34%) COBIT
13 6 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 719 (41.25%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.75%) Docker
5 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.63%) vSphere
7 8 (0.46%) Firmware
7 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.17%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.057%) NFS
12 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.057%) XenApp
12 1 (0.057%) zsh
Systems Management
1 371 (21.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 122 (7.00%) SCCM
3 54 (3.10%) Jamf Pro
4 47 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 31 (1.78%) Terraform
6 18 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (0.98%) Kubernetes
8 10 (0.57%) WSUS
9 8 (0.46%) AirWatch
10 5 (0.29%) Ansible
10 5 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.29%) SCOM
10 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.17%) Podman
11 3 (0.17%) QRadar
11 3 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.17%) VxRail
12 2 (0.11%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.11%) vMotion
12 2 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,379 (79.12%) Microsoft
2 188 (10.79%) ServiceNow
3 79 (4.53%) VMware
4 76 (4.36%) Google
5 65 (3.73%) Cisco
6 62 (3.56%) Citrix
7 50 (2.87%) Apple
8 29 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 28 (1.61%) Meraki
10 25 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.43%) Oracle
10 25 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.26%) iManage
12 21 (1.20%) Foundry
12 21 (1.20%) Remedy
13 18 (1.03%) Bloomberg
13 18 (1.03%) Bomgar
13 18 (1.03%) SAP
13 18 (1.03%) Zscaler
14 17 (0.98%) CrowdStrike