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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 135 142
Rank change year-on-year -45 +7 +58
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 595 613 766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.93% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.22% 5.28% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 388 541
10th Percentile £325 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £731 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £17.50 - -
25th Percentile £27.00 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% - -
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 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 14,116 11,615 14,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 36.59% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,715 7,724 10,493
10th Percentile £305 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 176 271
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £66.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +10.06%

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 18 January 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 18 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Top 16 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 18 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
England -45 500 £513 -2.38% 365
London -12 286 £513 -5.96% 65
UK excluding London -45 234 £525 +5.00% 350
Work from Home -32 203 £500 -4.76% 139
Midlands -41 62 £500 -10.95% 64
West Midlands -39 50 £500 -10.95% 28
North of England -82 45 £485 -7.62% 63
South East -18 43 £550 +22.22% 102
East of England +6 23 £450 -2.70% 51
Scotland +5 23 £550 +10.00% 10
North West -53 23 £450 -9.09% 24
South West -4 22 £430 -14.00% 45
Yorkshire -55 22 £595 +5.97% 32
Wales +14 14 £550 - 18
East Midlands -14 12 £550 - 34
Channel Islands - 2 £625 -

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 39 (6.55%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.51%) Confluence
3 4 (0.67%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.50%) CMS
4 3 (0.50%) Moodle
5 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 198 (33.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.18%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (2.18%) Shopify
3 12 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.68%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (1.18%) NEC Housing
5 7 (1.18%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.17%) Maximo
8 1 (0.17%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.17%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 282 (47.39%) Azure
2 265 (44.54%) Power Platform
3 157 (26.39%) Power Automate
4 130 (21.85%) PowerApps
5 103 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (8.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 42 (7.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 42 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (6.55%) Serverless
9 38 (6.39%) Azure Functions
10 35 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (4.20%) PaaS
12 24 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (3.70%) SaaS
14 21 (3.53%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (3.03%) AWS
16 16 (2.69%) GitHub
17 13 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (2.18%) Copilot Studio
18 11 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.02%) SMS
2 11 (1.85%) HTTP
3 2 (0.34%) Firewall
3 2 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.17%) DHCP
4 1 (0.17%) DKIM
4 1 (0.17%) DMARC
4 1 (0.17%) DNS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (21.01%) Power BI
2 21 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.68%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.84%) Data Mining
6 5 (0.84%) GIS
7 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 3 (0.50%) Metadata
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.34%) Power Query
10 1 (0.17%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.17%) DataStage
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (2.86%) Git
1 17 (2.86%) JIRA
2 15 (2.52%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.02%) Selenium
4 9 (1.51%) JMeter
5 8 (1.34%) MSTest
6 7 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.01%) Postman
8 3 (0.50%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.34%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.34%) git-flow
9 2 (0.34%) GitLab
9 2 (0.34%) JDeveloper
9 2 (0.34%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.34%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 208 (34.96%) Finance
2 203 (34.12%) Social Skills
3 80 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (8.07%) Marketing
6 28 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.20%) Manufacturing
8 23 (3.87%) Banking
8 23 (3.87%) Retail
9 18 (3.03%) Billing
10 11 (1.85%) Legal
11 10 (1.68%) General Ledger
11 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.34%) Aviation
13 7 (1.18%) Back Office
13 7 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.50%) Local Government
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (23.19%) Developer
2 123 (20.67%) Consultant
3 86 (14.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 76 (12.77%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 75 (12.61%) Architect
6 55 (9.24%) Senior
7 52 (8.74%) Functional Consultant
8 49 (8.24%) Analyst
9 47 (7.90%) Lead
10 39 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (6.05%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 29 (4.87%) Business Analyst
13 27 (4.54%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
14 21 (3.53%) Project Manager
15 20 (3.36%) Power Platform Developer
16 18 (3.03%) Microsoft Consultant
17 17 (2.86%) Senior Developer
18 16 (2.69%) Azure Architect
18 16 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
19 15 (2.52%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.94%) .NET
2 33 (5.55%) REST
3 27 (4.54%) HTML
4 25 (4.20%) JSON
5 21 (3.53%) HTML5 Canvas
6 14 (2.35%) Web Services
7 13 (2.18%) RESTful
8 12 (2.02%) XML
9 11 (1.85%) CSS
9 11 (1.85%) OAuth
10 10 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (1.68%) Middleware
11 8 (1.34%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.34%) OpenID
11 8 (1.34%) SAML
12 7 (1.18%) React
13 6 (1.01%) Ajax
13 6 (1.01%) Kafka
14 5 (0.84%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.84%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.53%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (2.35%) Low-Code
4 11 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.67%) FMCG
10 4 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.67%) IoT
11 3 (0.50%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.50%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.50%) IVR
11 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.01%) Windows
2 2 (0.34%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (35.13%) CRM
2 165 (27.73%) DevOps
3 146 (24.54%) Agile
4 142 (23.87%) ERP
5 123 (20.67%) Business Intelligence
6 107 (17.98%) Migration
7 80 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 69 (11.60%) Data Migration
10 65 (10.92%) CI/CD
11 58 (9.75%) Data Modelling
12 55 (9.24%) Analytics
13 52 (8.74%) Customer Engagement
13 52 (8.74%) Workshop Facilitation
14 51 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
15 50 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
16 48 (8.07%) Customer Service
17 44 (7.39%) Roadmaps
18 41 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
19 38 (6.39%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 120 (20.17%) C#
2 105 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 70 (11.76%) SQL
4 29 (4.87%) PowerShell
5 28 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 24 (4.03%) Python
7 16 (2.69%) X++
8 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.84%) Java
10 4 (0.67%) Bicep
11 2 (0.34%) Bash
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 83 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 54 (9.08%) Degree
2 54 (9.08%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.68%) PMP
7 9 (1.51%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.01%) CIMA
9 6 (1.01%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.84%) ACCA
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.50%) MBA
12 2 (0.34%) MCT
12 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.22%) QA
2 17 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 17 (2.86%) GDPR
3 10 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 6 (1.01%) PMO
5 6 (1.01%) WCAG
6 3 (0.50%) GAAP
6 3 (0.50%) IFRS
7 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.17%) PERC
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.34%) Active Directory
1 8 (1.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.69%) Terraform
2 3 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 377 (63.36%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.89%) SAP
3 23 (3.87%) Oracle
4 10 (1.68%) Databricks
5 9 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.34%) Workday
7 7 (1.18%) NEC
8 6 (1.01%) DocuSign
8 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.67%) Google
10 3 (0.50%) Adobe
10 3 (0.50%) Brio
10 3 (0.50%) Infor
10 3 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.50%) Sage
11 2 (0.34%) Ariba
11 2 (0.34%) ESRI
11 2 (0.34%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.34%) IBM
11 2 (0.34%) Sitecore