Microsoft 365 Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 40 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,205 1,734 2,723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.95% 4.66% 5.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.30% 14.63% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 1,214 2,012
10th Percentile £175 £150 £160
25th Percentile £210 £196 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £383
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.50% +9.29%
75th Percentile £530 £515 £540
90th Percentile £626 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £375 £350 £393
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.83% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 132 137
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.10 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -7.55% +5.71%
75th Percentile £24.66 £21.09 £24.50
90th Percentile £33.33 £22.00 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £17.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +32.35% -10.53% +8.57%

All Cloud 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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -13 512 £415 +3.75% 531
North of England +9 245 £310 +19.23% 306
North West +7 151 £350 +23.67% 171
South East -3 147 £423 +53.74% 402
Midlands -1 130 £248 -17.50% 186
West Midlands +3 106 £210 -40.00% 93
South West 0 91 £375 +86.34% 139
East of England +9 77 £208 -17.00% 146
Yorkshire +5 73 £264 -0.47% 109
North East +12 25 £470 +147.37% 33
East Midlands -11 23 £250 +28.21% 83
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
1 389 (32.28%) SharePoint
2 266 (22.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.00%) Confluence
4 7 (0.58%) CMS
5 6 (0.50%) IIS
6 4 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (0.33%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.17%) Drupal
7 2 (0.17%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.17%) SAS
7 2 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.083%) JBoss
8 1 (0.083%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.083%) nginx
8 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 181 (15.02%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.83%) InfoPath
5 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.58%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.17%) 1Password
7 2 (0.17%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.083%) Notion
8 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.17%) Alphatax
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.083%) assyst
5 1 (0.083%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 512 (42.49%) Azure
2 311 (25.81%) Entra ID
3 187 (15.52%) Power Platform
4 162 (13.44%) OneDrive
5 100 (8.30%) PowerApps
6 93 (7.72%) Power Automate
7 69 (5.73%) SaaS
8 67 (5.56%) AWS
9 64 (5.31%) IaaS
10 39 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (3.15%) PaaS
12 37 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
13 36 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
14 33 (2.74%) Google Workspace
15 23 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (1.58%) Mimecast
16 19 (1.58%) Serverless
17 15 (1.24%) Asana
17 15 (1.24%) Azure Functions
18 14 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 108 (8.96%) Firewall
2 106 (8.80%) VPN
3 97 (8.05%) Wi-Fi
4 82 (6.80%) DNS
5 57 (4.73%) DHCP
6 45 (3.73%) WAN
7 41 (3.40%) Network Security
8 38 (3.15%) LAN
9 32 (2.66%) VLAN
10 31 (2.57%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.49%) MPLS
11 18 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
11 18 (1.49%) Skype
11 18 (1.49%) VoIP
12 17 (1.41%) Internet
12 17 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (1.33%) Wireless
14 13 (1.08%) SAN
15 12 (1.00%) SD-WAN
16 7 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.56%) Power BI
2 51 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.83%) Tableau
5 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.33%) MS Access
8 4 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.25%) Dremio
9 3 (0.25%) Metadata
9 3 (0.25%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.25%) Power Query
10 2 (0.17%) MySQL
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (3.07%) JIRA
2 6 (0.50%) Hudson
3 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.25%) GitLab
4 3 (0.25%) MSI
4 3 (0.25%) Postman
4 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.083%) Git
5 1 (0.083%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.083%) Mercurial
General
1 438 (36.35%) Social Skills
2 186 (15.44%) Finance
3 97 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.23%) Banking
6 61 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.98%) Legal
8 40 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.74%) Marketing
10 21 (1.74%) Retail
11 20 (1.66%) Law
12 18 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.41%) Local Government
13 17 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.33%) Military
15 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.58%) Electronics
16 7 (0.58%) Spanish Language
17 6 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 206 (17.10%) Support Engineer
2 167 (13.86%) Analyst
3 117 (9.71%) IT Support
4 112 (9.29%) Architect
5 108 (8.96%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 91 (7.55%) IT Engineer
7 85 (7.05%) Senior
7 85 (7.05%) Service Analyst
8 84 (6.97%) Service Desk Analyst
9 79 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 76 (6.31%) Desktop Support
11 74 (6.14%) Desktop Engineer
12 71 (5.89%) 2nd Line Support
13 69 (5.73%) Developer
14 60 (4.98%) IT Support Engineer
15 55 (4.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 50 (4.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 47 (3.90%) Support Analyst
18 44 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 42 (3.49%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.24%) HTML
2 26 (2.16%) CSS
3 18 (1.49%) React
3 18 (1.49%) SPFx
4 17 (1.41%) .NET
5 15 (1.24%) SailPoint
6 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
7 9 (0.75%) ASP.NET
8 7 (0.58%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.58%) ARM Templates
8 7 (0.58%) YAML
9 6 (0.50%) HTML5 Canvas
10 5 (0.41%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (0.41%) Entity Framework
10 5 (0.41%) Software Packaging
11 4 (0.33%) ADO
11 4 (0.33%) Azure Blueprints
12 3 (0.25%) REST
12 3 (0.25%) SAML
12 3 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 41 (3.40%) Video Conferencing
3 35 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.24%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.07%) Driving Licence
6 25 (2.07%) Smartphone
7 24 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (1.83%) iPhone
9 21 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.66%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.33%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.24%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.08%) NHS
14 11 (0.91%) PKI
15 10 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.75%) Cloud Native
17 8 (0.66%) BYOD
17 8 (0.66%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 560 (46.47%) Windows
2 238 (19.75%) Windows 10
3 126 (10.46%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 46 (3.82%) Android
6 42 (3.49%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.99%) Linux
8 29 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 26 (2.16%) Windows 7
10 15 (1.24%) VMS
11 12 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.58%) CentOS
13 7 (0.58%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.33%) Unix
15 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
2 237 (19.67%) ITIL
3 219 (18.17%) Customer Service
4 180 (14.94%) Migration
5 120 (9.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 118 (9.79%) Agile
6 118 (9.79%) ITSM
7 82 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
8 79 (6.56%) Incident Management
8 79 (6.56%) Service Delivery
9 70 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
10 69 (5.73%) Data Loss Prevention
11 67 (5.56%) Service Management
12 63 (5.23%) Cloud Security
13 61 (5.06%) Project Management
14 57 (4.73%) Project Delivery
14 57 (4.73%) Roadmaps
15 55 (4.56%) Collaborative Working
16 53 (4.40%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (17.76%) PowerShell
2 53 (4.40%) SQL
3 34 (2.82%) JavaScript
4 30 (2.49%) Python
5 17 (1.41%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.16%) C#
7 11 (0.91%) Bicep
8 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.58%) VBA
9 5 (0.41%) VB
10 4 (0.33%) Bash
10 4 (0.33%) Java
10 4 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.25%) VBScript
12 2 (0.17%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.17%) PHP
12 2 (0.17%) R
12 2 (0.17%) Ruby
13 1 (0.083%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 185 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 140 (11.62%) SC Cleared
3 117 (9.71%) Degree
4 112 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (3.49%) A+ Certification
6 37 (3.07%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.82%) MCSA
8 30 (2.49%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 16 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 16 (1.33%) MCSE
11 12 (1.00%) PMP
12 11 (0.91%) MCP
13 10 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.58%) CCNA
17 6 (0.50%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.73%) SLA
2 23 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.41%) GDPR
4 16 (1.33%) NIST
5 12 (1.00%) QA
6 11 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.83%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.66%) NCSC
9 8 (0.66%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.33%) GRC
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 567 (47.05%) Active Directory
2 94 (7.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (2.24%) vSphere
5 21 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.58%) Hyper-V
7 15 (1.24%) BitLocker
8 11 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.41%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.25%) Docker
13 3 (0.25%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.17%) Firmware
14 2 (0.17%) XenApp
15 1 (0.083%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.083%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.083%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 258 (21.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 122 (10.12%) SCCM
3 29 (2.41%) Terraform
4 27 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (2.07%) WSUS
6 16 (1.33%) Kubernetes
7 14 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.16%) vCenter Server
8 13 (1.08%) AppManager
9 11 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.58%) Ansible
10 7 (0.58%) Nessus
10 7 (0.58%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.41%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.25%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 3 (0.25%) Grafana
13 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.25%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
13 3 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 863 (71.62%) Microsoft
2 150 (12.45%) ServiceNow
3 123 (10.21%) VMware
4 83 (6.89%) Citrix
5 79 (6.56%) Cisco
6 55 (4.56%) Apple
7 37 (3.07%) Google
8 23 (1.91%) HP
9 21 (1.74%) Dell
10 20 (1.66%) SAP
11 19 (1.58%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.24%) Ivanti
12 15 (1.24%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.16%) Meraki
14 13 (1.08%) Salesforce
15 12 (1.00%) Proofpoint
16 11 (0.91%) iManage
16 11 (0.91%) Nexthink
17 10 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.83%) Veeam