Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in South London

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 31 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 21 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in South London 10.29% 3.06% 5.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.63% 8.54% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £163 £176 £167
25th Percentile £179 £190 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £195 £190
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% +2.63% -15.56%
75th Percentile £475 £200 £281
90th Percentile £528 £382 £623
London median daily rate £463 £409 £375
% change year-on-year +13.08% +9.07% -10.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 82 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 52.45% 35.81% 51.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 62 101
10th Percentile £298 £328 £188
25th Percentile £463 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -4.81% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £625
90th Percentile £637 £699 £673
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile £54.55 - £17.29
Median hourly rate £58.94 - £19.07
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £26.40 £30.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.70% -12.60% +32.46%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in South London

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in South London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in South London

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Croydon - 9 £475 - 2
Bromley -1 5 £550 - 4
Kingston Upon Thames -2 4 £175 -12.50% 3
Merton -2 2 £190 -64.98% 5
Microsoft 365
London

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 9 (42.86%) Confluence
1 9 (42.86%) nginx
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 9 (42.86%) AWS KMS
3 9 (42.86%) Route 53
3 9 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) DNS
1 9 (42.86%) Firewall
1 9 (42.86%) FTP
1 9 (42.86%) HTTP
1 9 (42.86%) IMAP
1 9 (42.86%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (42.86%) SMTP
1 9 (42.86%) SSH
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 9 (42.86%) JIRA
1 9 (42.86%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (76.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (47.62%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
4 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Advertising
5 1 (4.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Exchange Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Exchange Migration Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) IT Support Specialist
6 2 (9.52%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Replication
2 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 4 (19.05%) Clustering
4 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 9 (42.86%) VMS
3 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (9.52%) Android
4 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Change Management
1 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Security
1 9 (42.86%) Configuration Management
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
1 9 (42.86%) Patch Management
1 9 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 3 (14.29%) ITSM
5 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Inventory Management
6 2 (9.52%) Service Management
7 1 (4.76%) Agile
7 1 (4.76%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.76%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) PowerShell
2 9 (42.86%) Groovy
2 9 (42.86%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Degree
2 9 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 9 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) HNC
4 2 (9.52%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) DFS Replication
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
1 9 (42.86%) Dovecot
1 9 (42.86%) Postfix
1 9 (42.86%) Squid
2 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Grafana
1 9 (42.86%) Nessus
1 9 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 9 (42.86%) Proxmox
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) SCOM
3 3 (14.29%) SCCM
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) ServiceNow
2 9 (42.86%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (23.81%) Remedy
5 4 (19.05%) BMC
5 4 (19.05%) Splunk
5 4 (19.05%) Trend Micro
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco
7 1 (4.76%) Dell
7 1 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (4.76%) HP
7 1 (4.76%) Proofpoint