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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 114 144
Rank change year-on-year -80 +30 +51
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 520 740 848
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 2.03% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.89% 5.76% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 448 584
10th Percentile £358 £371 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £17.70 - -
25th Percentile £22.95 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.48 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.04% - -
75th Percentile £100.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.04 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -63.92% - -

All Cloud 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 13,382 12,847 16,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.65% 35.17% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 8,457 11,795
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 166 318
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.90 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.61%
75th Percentile £44.43 £64.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £70.00 £78.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.74 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.75% +49.93% +15.38%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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
England -68 439 £525 - 729
UK excluding London -73 224 £525 +5.00% 549
London -70 220 £525 -4.55% 305
Work from Home -41 180 £525 -4.55% 440
Midlands -49 60 £550 -1.03% 62
North of England -77 52 £450 -10.00% 106
South East 0 45 £538 +2.38% 255
West Midlands -54 42 £525 -6.50% 35
North West -50 26 £450 -10.00% 74
East of England -1 23 £575 +21.05% 34
Yorkshire -43 21 £480 -9.43% 24
Scotland -1 20 £525 +5.00% 24
East Midlands -12 16 £700 +40.00% 26
Wales +11 12 £725 +107.14% 5
South West -5 10 £525 +6.87% 39
North East -7 5 £438 -25.53% 8
Channel Islands - 2 £625 - 27

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 37 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.12%) Confluence
3 4 (0.77%) CMS
4 3 (0.58%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.38%) Moodle
5 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 179 (34.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (3.85%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.77%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.77%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.38%) Sage CRM
6 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.19%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 251 (48.27%) Power Platform
2 232 (44.62%) Azure
3 132 (25.38%) Power Automate
4 126 (24.23%) PowerApps
5 95 (18.27%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (7.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 33 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 27 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (4.81%) Serverless
11 23 (4.42%) Azure Functions
12 19 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (3.46%) SaaS
14 15 (2.88%) AWS
14 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (2.69%) PaaS
16 13 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (2.12%) Entra ID
17 11 (2.12%) GitHub
18 10 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.19%) DKIM
2 1 (0.19%) DMARC
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (23.65%) Power BI
2 26 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (0.96%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.96%) GIS
8 5 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.58%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 2 (0.38%) DataStage
10 2 (0.38%) Metadata
10 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.19%) Looker
11 1 (0.19%) Power Query
11 1 (0.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.04%) JIRA
2 13 (2.50%) Git
2 13 (2.50%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.31%) Selenium
4 9 (1.73%) JMeter
5 8 (1.54%) MSTest
6 7 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.77%) Postman
8 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.38%) GitLab
9 2 (0.38%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.38%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.19%) Appium
10 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.19%) Maven
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 179 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 171 (32.88%) Finance
3 59 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.46%) Marketing
5 43 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.77%) Retail
7 23 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (4.23%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.65%) Billing
10 18 (3.46%) Banking
11 9 (1.73%) General Ledger
11 9 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.73%) Legal
11 9 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.96%) Aviation
12 5 (0.96%) Local Government
12 5 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Back Office
14 3 (0.58%) Law
14 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (22.69%) Developer
2 96 (18.46%) Consultant
3 82 (15.77%) Architect
4 72 (13.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 70 (13.46%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 61 (11.73%) Analyst
7 47 (9.04%) Senior
8 41 (7.88%) Functional Consultant
9 39 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 39 (7.50%) Lead
10 35 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (5.58%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
12 24 (4.62%) Business Analyst
13 20 (3.85%) Power Platform Developer
14 18 (3.46%) CRM Developer
14 18 (3.46%) Integration Developer
15 16 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (2.88%) Azure Architect
16 15 (2.88%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
16 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.73%) .NET
2 23 (4.42%) HTML
3 22 (4.23%) REST
4 15 (2.88%) CSS
5 13 (2.50%) Web Services
6 10 (1.92%) HTML5 Canvas
6 10 (1.92%) JSON
7 9 (1.73%) Middleware
7 9 (1.73%) XML
8 7 (1.35%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (1.15%) OAuth
9 6 (1.15%) React
10 5 (0.96%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.96%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.96%) Node.js
10 5 (0.96%) OpenID
10 5 (0.96%) RESTful
10 5 (0.96%) SAML
11 4 (0.77%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.23%) Product Ownership
2 15 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 9 (1.73%) Data Structures
4 9 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (1.73%) Low-Code
5 7 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.15%) Data Fabric
6 6 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.77%) AI Agents
7 4 (0.77%) IoT
7 4 (0.77%) IVR
7 4 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.58%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.58%) FMCG
8 3 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.38%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.38%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.77%) Windows
2 3 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (35.77%) CRM
2 139 (26.73%) DevOps
3 135 (25.96%) Agile
4 120 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 110 (21.15%) Migration
6 99 (19.04%) ERP
7 87 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (14.62%) Data Migration
9 60 (11.54%) Data Modelling
9 60 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 56 (10.77%) CI/CD
11 53 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 51 (9.81%) Customer Engagement
13 47 (9.04%) Analytics
14 46 (8.85%) Customer Service
15 35 (6.73%) Roadmaps
16 34 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (5.77%) User Acceptance Testing
17 30 (5.77%) Workshop Facilitation
18 29 (5.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 86 (16.54%) JavaScript
2 83 (15.96%) SQL
3 82 (15.77%) C#
4 21 (4.04%) X++
5 20 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 20 (3.85%) Python
6 17 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.58%) Bicep
8 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.38%) Bash
9 2 (0.38%) C
9 2 (0.38%) Java
9 2 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 63 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 46 (8.85%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.50%) Degree
4 31 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.15%) PMP
9 5 (0.96%) ACCA
9 5 (0.96%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.58%) MCT
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) CIMA
11 2 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.19%) APMG
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.23%) QA
2 13 (2.50%) GDPR
3 12 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 5 (0.96%) WCAG
6 4 (0.77%) PMO
7 3 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.58%) GAAP
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.54%) Active Directory
1 8 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (1.92%) Terraform
2 3 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.19%) SCCM
3 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 352 (67.69%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.54%) SAP
3 16 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.88%) Oracle
5 8 (1.54%) DocuSign
6 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.15%) Databricks
8 5 (0.96%) Google
8 5 (0.96%) Sage
8 5 (0.96%) Workday
9 4 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.58%) Adobe
10 3 (0.58%) Brio
10 3 (0.58%) IBM
11 2 (0.38%) Ariba
11 2 (0.38%) ESRI
11 2 (0.38%) Infor
11 2 (0.38%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.19%) Dundas
12 1 (0.19%) Facebook