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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 201 125
Rank change year-on-year +7 -76 +43
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 800 458 732
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.40% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 3.77% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 300 455
10th Percentile £363 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £417 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £628
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 1
10th Percentile £18.95 £28.33 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.56 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.38 £50.99 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.23% +1.98% -33.33%
75th Percentile £37.22 £73.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £42.10 £80.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £67.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.40% +35.00% -33.33%

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 18,758 12,160 13,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 37.17% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,425 8,096 9,068
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 315 229
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.63 £18.69 £18.16
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.25
% change year-on-year +72.23% -15.19% -17.59%

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 28 August 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 28 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Top 18 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 28 August 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 +9 689 £500 -0.99% 452
London +9 371 £515 +0.98% 247
UK excluding London +24 362 £475 -4.52% 271
Work from Home -39 181 £513 -2.38% 258
North of England -18 97 £475 - 60
Midlands -11 78 £425 -14.57% 59
South East -24 70 £500 +0.76% 69
North West -12 55 £475 - 39
West Midlands -29 52 £425 -14.57% 35
Scotland +9 36 £525 +13.51% 19
South West -14 30 £488 -7.14% 29
Yorkshire -35 29 £480 -1.54% 16
East of England -4 26 £450 -28.00% 9
East Midlands -4 25 £455 -1.62% 23
Wales -11 15 £500 +2.51% 6
North East -31 13 £513 +17.14% 5
Channel Islands +4 7 £513 -18.00%
Northern Ireland +7 4 £450 - 21

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 58 (7.25%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.13%) CMS
3 4 (0.50%) Confluence
4 3 (0.38%) Appian
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.38%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
5 1 (0.13%) Drupal
5 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 238 (29.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (2.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 16 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.63%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
8 2 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.25%) Maximo
8 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.13%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 360 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 283 (35.38%) Azure
3 199 (24.88%) Power Automate
4 163 (20.38%) PowerApps
5 143 (17.88%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (7.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 59 (7.38%) Microsoft Copilot
9 49 (6.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 47 (5.88%) Azure Functions
10 47 (5.88%) Serverless
11 39 (4.88%) Copilot Studio
12 22 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (2.25%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.13%) SaaS
15 11 (1.38%) Azure API Management
15 11 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (1.00%) Azure Event Grid
16 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.50%) SMS
2 1 (0.13%) DKIM
2 1 (0.13%) DMARC
2 1 (0.13%) HTTP
2 1 (0.13%) Intranet
2 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (16.75%) Power BI
2 36 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.88%) Data Vault
6 7 (0.88%) Star Schema
7 5 (0.63%) Metadata
7 5 (0.63%) Spark SQL
8 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.50%) Power Query
9 3 (0.38%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) MS Access
10 1 (0.13%) MySQL
10 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (3.13%) Visual Studio
2 20 (2.50%) JIRA
3 19 (2.38%) Git
4 10 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 10 (1.25%) Selenium
5 9 (1.13%) Postman
5 9 (1.13%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.38%) Protractor
9 2 (0.25%) JDeveloper
9 2 (0.25%) MLflow
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 264 (33.00%) Finance
2 223 (27.88%) Social Skills
3 87 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 62 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.88%) Law
6 37 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.38%) Marketing
8 31 (3.88%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.13%) Retail
10 24 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.25%) Local Government
12 16 (2.00%) Billing
12 16 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.63%) General Ledger
14 8 (1.00%) Banking
14 8 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.63%) Legal
16 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 203 (25.38%) Developer
2 143 (17.88%) Architect
3 133 (16.63%) Consultant
4 104 (13.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 97 (12.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 97 (12.13%) Lead
6 89 (11.13%) Analyst
7 71 (8.88%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 71 (8.88%) Solutions Architect
8 67 (8.38%) Functional Consultant
9 60 (7.50%) Senior
10 50 (6.25%) Business Analyst
11 48 (6.00%) Microsoft Developer
12 45 (5.63%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
13 38 (4.75%) Lead Architect
14 32 (4.00%) Functional Architect
15 31 (3.88%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
15 31 (3.88%) Project Manager
16 26 (3.25%) Power Platform Developer
17 21 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (11.63%) .NET
2 27 (3.38%) HTML5 Canvas
2 27 (3.38%) REST
3 25 (3.13%) JSON
4 23 (2.88%) Middleware
5 14 (1.75%) Terraform
6 13 (1.63%) ASP.NET Web API
7 12 (1.50%) HTML
8 11 (1.38%) XML
9 10 (1.25%) RESTful
10 9 (1.13%) Gherkin
10 9 (1.13%) Web Services
11 8 (1.00%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.00%) OAuth
12 7 (0.88%) ADO
12 7 (0.88%) CSS
12 7 (0.88%) WCF
12 7 (0.88%) XSLT
13 6 (0.75%) ASP.NET
13 6 (0.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 14 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.88%) Cloud Native
9 7 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.75%) FMCG
10 6 (0.75%) Housing Association
10 6 (0.75%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.63%) IoT
11 5 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.63%) Taxonomies
12 4 (0.50%) IVR
12 4 (0.50%) Life Science
12 4 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (31.38%) CRM
2 198 (24.75%) ERP
3 195 (24.38%) Agile
4 179 (22.38%) DevOps
5 167 (20.88%) Migration
6 155 (19.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 143 (17.88%) Data Migration
8 139 (17.38%) Business Intelligence
9 137 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 129 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
11 103 (12.88%) Customer Service
12 101 (12.63%) CI/CD
13 97 (12.13%) Translating Business Requirements
14 95 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 84 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (10.00%) Data Modelling
17 69 (8.63%) Requirements Gathering
18 68 (8.50%) AI
19 65 (8.13%) Scrum
20 54 (6.75%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (15.63%) JavaScript
2 121 (15.13%) C#
3 70 (8.75%) SQL
4 29 (3.63%) X++
5 19 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.50%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.38%) Python
8 8 (1.00%) Bicep
9 7 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.63%) Bash
11 5 (0.63%) Korn
12 4 (0.50%) Java
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 109 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 79 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.00%) Degree
4 53 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.38%) PMI Certification
5 11 (1.38%) PMP
6 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.25%) ISTQB
7 9 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.63%) IIBA
9 5 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.25%) CIMA
12 2 (0.25%) CIPD
12 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CCAB
13 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.63%) GDPR
3 34 (4.25%) QA
4 31 (3.88%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.88%) PMO
6 14 (1.75%) WCAG
7 7 (0.88%) NIST
8 6 (0.75%) SLA
9 5 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.50%) GRC
10 4 (0.50%) P3O
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.13%) GMP
System Software
1 11 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 594 (74.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.50%) SAP
3 26 (3.25%) Oracle
4 22 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.38%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.00%) Databricks
7 7 (0.88%) Workday
8 5 (0.63%) IFS
8 5 (0.63%) NEC
9 4 (0.50%) Ariba
9 4 (0.50%) Brio
9 4 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.50%) Sage
10 3 (0.38%) Adobe
10 3 (0.38%) Foundry
10 3 (0.38%) Splunk
10 3 (0.38%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.25%) Epicor
11 2 (0.25%) Genesys
11 2 (0.25%) QAD