Microsoft 365 Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Architect (M365 Architect)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft 365 Architect (M365 Architect) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £651, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 385 442
Rank change year-on-year +57 +57 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Architect 6 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.043% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.047% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £570 £472 £594
25th Percentile £600 £488 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -16.98% +3.92%
75th Percentile £701 £669 £697
90th Percentile £731 £720 £740
UK median daily rate £750 £625 £700
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Microsoft 365 Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West +30 2 £550 +11.68%
East of England +38 1 £751 +20.16%
Midlands +15 1 - - 1
North of England +11 1 - - 1
North West +10 1 - -
West Midlands +10 1 - - 1
South East - 1 - -
Microsoft 365 Architect
UK

Microsoft 365 Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Microsoft 365 Architect 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 UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft 365 Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (33.33%) BitLocker
5 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
5 2 (33.33%) Android
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Use Case

Microsoft 365 Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (16.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) IaaS
5 1 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (16.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (16.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) VB
2 2 (33.33%) VBScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) MCP
1 2 (33.33%) MCSA
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Symantec
2 2 (33.33%) VMware