OneDrive Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OneDrive skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 262 296
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 +6
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 120 78 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 1.78% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 60 60
10th Percentile £185 £174 £160
25th Percentile £244 £209 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £243 £244
Median % change year-on-year +85.05% -0.51% -42.14%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £482
90th Percentile £601 £556 £669
UK median daily rate £456 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +7.35% +6.25% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 11
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.63 £16.54
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.69 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +25.82% +34.65%
75th Percentile £25.04 £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £64.72 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £22.30 £17.72
% change year-on-year -3.75% +25.82% +34.65%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

OneDrive 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,776 4,375 5,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.06% 31.50% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 2,884 4,206
10th Percentile £240 £243 £214
25th Percentile £375 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 107 178
10th Percentile £13.18 £15.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.64
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +17.18% +7.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.33 £64.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year - +20.88% +1.11%

OneDrive
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OneDrive relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OneDrive job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OneDrive
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OneDrive.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OneDrive

OneDrive
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OneDrive in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OneDrive in the UK excluding London

OneDrive
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OneDrive.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OneDrive

OneDrive
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OneDrive in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OneDrive in the UK excluding London

OneDrive
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 OneDrive within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England -5 53 £304 +24.08% 22
South East +10 25 £275 +10.00% 23
North West -14 23 £388 -8.82% 7
Yorkshire -30 23 £304 +26.67% 13
Midlands -36 13 £525 +150.00% 12
East of England -17 10 £190 -28.30% 13
South West -25 10 £450 +20.00% 4
West Midlands -26 10 £550 +161.90% 4
North East - 7 £475 - 2
Wales +5 6 - - 2
Scotland -3 3 £450 +148.28% 4
East Midlands -22 3 £450 +136.84% 8
OneDrive
UK

OneDrive
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 81 (67.50%) SharePoint
2 59 (49.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.83%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (5.83%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (5.83%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.83%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Workday HCM
2 4 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 103 (85.83%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (39.17%) Azure
3 35 (29.17%) Entra ID
4 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (7.50%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.67%) ShareGate
8 7 (5.83%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (4.17%) Rubrik
10 4 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.67%) SaaS
11 2 (1.67%) Slack
12 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (7.50%) 4G
3 7 (5.83%) Skype
4 5 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.33%) VPN
6 3 (2.50%) WebEx
7 2 (1.67%) DHCP
7 2 (1.67%) DNS
7 2 (1.67%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.83%) LAN
8 1 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.83%) SSL
8 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Appium
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.83%) MSI
2 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 69 (57.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.33%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Legal
5 4 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Electronics
7 1 (0.83%) Games
7 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.83%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.83%) Law
7 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing
7 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.83%) Polish Language
7 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (17.50%) Architect
2 18 (15.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 17 (14.17%) Support Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) IT Support
5 11 (9.17%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) 1st Line Support
7 9 (7.50%) Analyst
7 9 (7.50%) Support Analyst
7 9 (7.50%) Windows Support Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Consultant
8 8 (6.67%) Desktop Support
8 8 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) IT Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Operational Support Analyst
9 7 (5.83%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (5.83%) Operations Support Analyst
10 6 (5.00%) Desktop Support Specialist
10 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (0.83%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.83%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.83%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) PKI
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (49.17%) Windows
2 39 (32.50%) Windows 10
3 9 (7.50%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (30.83%) Migration
2 28 (23.33%) ITIL
3 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (13.33%) Service Management
5 15 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (10.83%) Validation
8 12 (10.00%) Problem Management
8 12 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (9.17%) ITSM
10 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (7.50%) Inventory Management
11 9 (7.50%) Project Management
12 8 (6.67%) Change Management
12 8 (6.67%) Incident Response
13 7 (5.83%) Agile
13 7 (5.83%) Identity Management
13 7 (5.83%) Patch Management
13 7 (5.83%) Six Sigma
13 7 (5.83%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (3.33%) SQL
3 1 (0.83%) Java
3 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.83%) MCSE
6 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.67%) GDPR
2 8 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.33%) FINRA
3 4 (3.33%) MiFID
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) PMO
4 1 (0.83%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 28 (23.33%) SCCM
2 7 (5.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 95 (79.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.50%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.00%) Apple
3 6 (5.00%) Workday
4 4 (3.33%) Cisco
4 4 (3.33%) Remedy
5 2 (1.67%) VMware
6 1 (0.83%) Citrix
6 1 (0.83%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.83%) HP
6 1 (0.83%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.83%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) UiPath
6 1 (0.83%) Zscaler