Dynamics 365 Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Dynamics 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 169 136
Rank change year-on-year -13 -33 +61
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 673 477 757
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.63% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.11% 4.27% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 348 517
10th Percentile £343 £397 £395
25th Percentile £448 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £585 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £690 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 0
10th Percentile £19.03 £39.90 -
25th Percentile £22.28 £55.88 -
Median hourly rate £25.38 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.14% - -
75th Percentile £35.03 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £29.25 -
% change year-on-year -13.23% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Dynamics 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,388 11,168 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.91% 38.13% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,162 7,838 10,213
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £490
% change year-on-year -0.11% -2.96% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 222 352
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -21.47%
75th Percentile £67.19 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.10% +36.46% -19.45%

Dynamics 365
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dynamics 365 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Dynamics 365 job vacancy trend in the UK

Dynamics 365
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynamics 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamics 365 over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynamics 365.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dynamics 365 over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dynamics 365 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 March 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
England -23 556 £500 -4.76% 311
London +30 350 £500 -8.17% 115
UK excluding London -29 250 £500 -4.31% 245
Work from Home -35 196 £500 -4.76% 199
North of England -57 61 £500 -9.09% 33
Midlands -58 50 £469 -11.76% 55
West Midlands -49 42 £469 -10.71% 36
South East -43 40 £550 +16.71% 74
North West -47 36 £450 -19.64% 19
Scotland +18 31 £545 +9.00% 19
South West -23 27 £450 -12.20% 27
Yorkshire -44 25 £595 +8.18% 12
East of England -12 21 £450 -30.77% 26
Wales 0 14 £550 +54.93% 5
East Midlands -32 8 £535 -1.61% 18
Channel Islands - 4 £500 - 1
Northern Ireland 0 2 £450 - 6

Dynamics 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 44 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.59%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.45%) CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Moodle
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 212 (31.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.93%) Shopify
4 10 (1.49%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (1.34%) NEC Housing
5 9 (1.34%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.30%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.15%) Dynamics SL
9 1 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.15%) Maximo
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 288 (42.79%) Azure
2 284 (42.20%) Power Platform
3 150 (22.29%) Power Automate
4 117 (17.38%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (17.09%) PowerApps
6 52 (7.73%) Azure Logic Apps
6 52 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 39 (5.79%) Azure Functions
8 39 (5.79%) Serverless
9 36 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (2.82%) GitHub
11 19 (2.82%) SaaS
12 17 (2.53%) AWS
13 16 (2.38%) PaaS
14 15 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (1.93%) Copilot Studio
15 13 (1.93%) OneDrive
16 12 (1.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.78%) SMS
2 10 (1.49%) HTTP
3 2 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.30%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) DHCP
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Network Security
4 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (20.06%) Power BI
2 25 (3.71%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.74%) GIS
7 5 (0.74%) Power Query
8 3 (0.45%) Metadata
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.15%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.15%) MS Access
10 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (1.93%) JIRA
1 13 (1.93%) Visual Studio
2 12 (1.78%) Git
2 12 (1.78%) Selenium
3 9 (1.34%) JMeter
4 8 (1.19%) MSTest
5 6 (0.89%) Postman
6 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.30%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.30%) git-flow
7 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 2 (0.30%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.30%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.15%) Maven
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 247 (36.70%) Finance
2 195 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 87 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.98%) Marketing
6 34 (5.05%) Law
7 32 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.42%) Banking
8 23 (3.42%) Retail
9 22 (3.27%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.78%) Legal
11 11 (1.63%) Local Government
12 10 (1.49%) Billing
13 9 (1.34%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.04%) Back Office
14 7 (1.04%) Games
14 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.59%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 159 (23.63%) Developer
2 131 (19.47%) Consultant
3 95 (14.12%) Architect
4 93 (13.82%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 80 (11.89%) Lead
6 69 (10.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 55 (8.17%) Senior
8 52 (7.73%) Functional Consultant
9 48 (7.13%) Analyst
10 37 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
11 31 (4.61%) Business Analyst
11 31 (4.61%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 31 (4.61%) Functional Architect
12 30 (4.46%) Lead Architect
13 28 (4.16%) Project Manager
14 25 (3.71%) Power Platform Developer
15 24 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
16 23 (3.42%) Tester
17 20 (2.97%) Microsoft Consultant
18 19 (2.82%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.06%) .NET
2 28 (4.16%) REST
3 23 (3.42%) HTML
3 23 (3.42%) HTML5 Canvas
4 17 (2.53%) JSON
4 17 (2.53%) Middleware
5 11 (1.63%) CSS
6 10 (1.49%) Web Services
6 10 (1.49%) XML
7 9 (1.34%) ASP.NET Web API
7 9 (1.34%) RESTful
8 8 (1.19%) OAuth
9 7 (1.04%) EDI
9 7 (1.04%) Kafka
9 7 (1.04%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.89%) Ajax
10 6 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.74%) React
11 5 (0.74%) SOAP
12 4 (0.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (3.86%) Product Ownership
2 16 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.63%) Low-Code
5 10 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.19%) IoT
8 7 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.89%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.59%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.45%) FMCG
11 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Licensing
12 2 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.30%) Life Science
12 2 (0.30%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (34.32%) CRM
2 186 (27.64%) ERP
3 170 (25.26%) DevOps
4 146 (21.69%) Migration
5 143 (21.25%) Agile
6 139 (20.65%) Business Intelligence
7 105 (15.60%) Data Migration
8 95 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 91 (13.52%) User Acceptance Testing
10 74 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (9.36%) Data Modelling
13 61 (9.06%) Customer Service
14 60 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 57 (8.47%) CI/CD
16 55 (8.17%) Translating Business Requirements
17 54 (8.02%) Customer Engagement
18 48 (7.13%) Analytics
18 48 (7.13%) Workshop Facilitation
19 43 (6.39%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 116 (17.24%) C#
2 100 (14.86%) JavaScript
3 65 (9.66%) SQL
4 31 (4.61%) PowerShell
5 25 (3.71%) Python
6 21 (3.12%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.63%) X++
8 9 (1.34%) Java
9 6 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.74%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.45%) Bicep
11 3 (0.45%) C
11 3 (0.45%) C++
12 2 (0.30%) Bash
12 2 (0.30%) Ruby
13 1 (0.15%) Korn
13 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.15%) VBA
13 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 80 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 52 (7.73%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.58%) Degree
4 23 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.78%) CIMA
5 12 (1.78%) PMP
6 10 (1.49%) ISTQB
7 8 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.45%) ACCA
11 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.30%) MBA
11 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.15%) APMG
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.15%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.50%) QA
2 19 (2.82%) GDPR
3 15 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.34%) PMO
6 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.45%) GAAP
8 3 (0.45%) IFRS
9 2 (0.30%) GMP
9 2 (0.30%) GxP
9 2 (0.30%) SLA
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 8 (1.19%) Active Directory
1 8 (1.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (1.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 452 (67.16%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.35%) SAP
3 29 (4.31%) Oracle
4 16 (2.38%) Databricks
5 12 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.34%) NEC
7 8 (1.19%) Workday
8 5 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.59%) Brio
9 4 (0.59%) IFS
9 4 (0.59%) Sage
10 3 (0.45%) Adobe
10 3 (0.45%) Infor
10 3 (0.45%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.30%) ESRI
11 2 (0.30%) Google
11 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.30%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.15%) Concur
12 1 (0.15%) Sitecore