Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 27 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.52% 4.79% 4.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.36% 15.69% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 15
10th Percentile £453 £362 £168
25th Percentile £463 £493 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £591 £225
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +162.78% -39.19%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £429
90th Percentile £643 £621 £476
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £566 £225
% change year-on-year -16.11% +151.67% -29.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 188 51 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.51% 30.54% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 36 83
10th Percentile £392 £303 £215
25th Percentile £456 £334 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £441 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% -1.94% -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £522
90th Percentile £638 £621 £613
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £514 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +2.80% +8.11% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate - £15.50 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year - -20.65% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.13
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £13.50 £19.53
% change year-on-year - -30.88% +7.03%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Milton Keynes

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Entra ID
3 5 (18.52%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) IaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) VSAN
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.70%) IPsec
3 1 (3.70%) IPv6
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) Multicast
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) OSPF
3 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.70%) SNMP
3 1 (3.70%) VoIP
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) VXLAN
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) PMO Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Content Designer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) PKI
3 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) VMS
3 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Migration
2 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (18.52%) Project Management
4 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) Cost Management
4 4 (14.81%) Requirements Management
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 3 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (11.11%) Microservices
5 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Resource Management
5 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Bicep
2 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (40.74%) DV Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) CCDA
5 1 (3.70%) CCDP
5 1 (3.70%) CCIE
5 1 (3.70%) CCIP
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) CCNP
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (18.52%) NCSC
2 4 (14.81%) NIST
3 3 (11.11%) PMO
4 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
4 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) CASB
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco
3 5 (18.52%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.11%) Citrix
5 2 (7.41%) HP
6 1 (3.70%) Arista
6 1 (3.70%) Aruba
6 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.70%) Dell
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) Juniper
6 1 (3.70%) Meraki
6 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.70%) Zscaler