Microsoft 365 Engineer Contracts in London

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
England > London

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 365 443
Rank change year-on-year +62 +78 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 50 26 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 15 43
10th Percentile £208 £163 £181
25th Percentile £233 £225 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £553
90th Percentile £626 £575 £581
England median daily rate £425 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in London

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer within the London 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
Central London +4 9 £575 +27.78% 1
Microsoft 365 Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Microsoft 365 Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the London region featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (76.00%) Microsoft
3 32 (64.00%) Azure
4 29 (58.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (56.00%) Entra ID
6 27 (54.00%) SharePoint
7 26 (52.00%) OneDrive
8 23 (46.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (46.00%) Active Directory
9 17 (34.00%) PowerShell
9 17 (34.00%) Power Platform
9 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
10 15 (30.00%) Windows
10 15 (30.00%) Finance
11 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
11 13 (26.00%) Cloud Security
12 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (20.00%) Task Automation
12 10 (20.00%) High Availability
13 9 (18.00%) Windows 10
13 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
13 9 (18.00%) DV Cleared
13 9 (18.00%) Migration
13 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Office
13 9 (18.00%) Service Delivery
13 9 (18.00%) Power Automate
13 9 (18.00%) Onboarding
14 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (16.00%) Application Security
14 8 (16.00%) Public Sector

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 29 (58.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (54.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (64.00%) Azure
3 28 (56.00%) Entra ID
4 26 (52.00%) OneDrive
5 17 (34.00%) Power Platform
6 9 (18.00%) Power Automate
7 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (14.00%) Google Workspace
9 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (4.00%) IaaS
10 2 (4.00%) Yammer
11 1 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (2.00%) AWS
11 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (2.00%) GCP
11 1 (2.00%) Mimecast
11 1 (2.00%) SaaS
11 1 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 7 (14.00%) Network Security
3 3 (6.00%) DNS
3 3 (6.00%) VPN
3 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.00%) MPLS
4 2 (4.00%) Skype
4 2 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) NonStop SQL
General
1 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.00%) Banking
5 5 (10.00%) Marketing
6 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Legal
7 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Electronics
7 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Military
7 2 (4.00%) Spanish Language
7 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.00%) French Language
8 1 (2.00%) German Language
8 1 (2.00%) Italian Language
8 1 (2.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.00%) BYOD
3 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Licensing
3 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) Smartphone
4 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.00%) Social Media
5 1 (2.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) iPhone
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.00%) Windows
2 9 (18.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.00%) Android
3 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (20.00%) High Availability
2 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (18.00%) Migration
3 9 (18.00%) Service Delivery
4 8 (16.00%) Application Security
5 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (14.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 5 (10.00%) RBAC
6 5 (10.00%) Resource Management
6 5 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 5 (10.00%) Time Management
7 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 23 (46.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (46.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (14.00%) SCCM
3 2 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (4.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (76.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Google
3 5 (10.00%) HP
4 3 (6.00%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.00%) Apple
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco
5 2 (4.00%) Dell
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Adobe
6 1 (2.00%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.00%) Citrix
6 1 (2.00%) Datto
6 1 (2.00%) Freshdesk
6 1 (2.00%) Netskope
6 1 (2.00%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.00%) VMware