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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 196 125
Rank change year-on-year 0 -71 +27
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 814 471 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.44% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.33% 3.78% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 307 432
10th Percentile £350 £325 £364
25th Percentile £416 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 1
10th Percentile £17.75 £30.23 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £34.48 £45.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £67.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +35.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £38.25 £73.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £82.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% +40.00% -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 18,804 12,465 13,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 37.99% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,482 8,332 8,711
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 292 185
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.90 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +29.67%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +8 701 £500 - 588
UK excluding London +18 381 £475 -5.00% 382
London +17 351 £525 +2.44% 268
Work from Home -40 181 £510 -0.83% 308
North of England -20 97 £475 +2.70% 104
Midlands -7 88 £425 -15.00% 65
South East -20 83 £500 -2.44% 88
West Midlands -23 62 £425 -15.00% 39
North West -28 50 £475 - 53
Yorkshire -27 34 £475 -1.04% 38
Scotland -8 33 £525 +16.67% 38
South West -16 31 £475 -7.32% 21
East of England -13 27 £425 -26.09% 17
East Midlands 0 25 £455 +17.42% 26
Wales -4 16 £500 +2.51% 13
North East -30 13 £513 +17.14% 13
Channel Islands -1 4 £525 -16.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 38

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 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.11%) CMS
3 4 (0.49%) Confluence
4 3 (0.37%) Appian
4 3 (0.37%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 36 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 246 (30.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (2.83%) Dynamics NAV
3 16 (1.97%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.61%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.37%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
9 2 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.25%) Maximo
9 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 348 (42.75%) Power Platform
2 299 (36.73%) Azure
3 202 (24.82%) Power Automate
4 162 (19.90%) PowerApps
5 146 (17.94%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (7.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 61 (7.49%) Serverless
7 60 (7.37%) Azure Functions
8 57 (7.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 54 (6.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 52 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (4.67%) Copilot Studio
12 22 (2.70%) Entra ID
13 21 (2.58%) SaaS
14 17 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.60%) Azure API Management
16 11 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
17 10 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 8 (0.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.49%) SMS
2 1 (0.12%) DKIM
2 1 (0.12%) DMARC
2 1 (0.12%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) Internet
2 1 (0.12%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (13.39%) Power BI
2 47 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.11%) Star Schema
6 7 (0.86%) Data Vault
7 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.74%) Metadata
7 6 (0.74%) Power Query
7 6 (0.74%) Spark SQL
8 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.49%) GIS
9 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.12%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.12%) SSDT
11 1 (0.12%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 30 (3.69%) Git
2 26 (3.19%) Visual Studio
3 21 (2.58%) JIRA
4 14 (1.72%) Selenium
5 12 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 12 (1.47%) Postman
6 11 (1.35%) WebDriver
7 10 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.37%) MSTest
9 3 (0.37%) NUnit
9 3 (0.37%) Protractor
10 2 (0.25%) JDeveloper
10 2 (0.25%) MLflow
10 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.12%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) JUnit
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 263 (32.31%) Finance
2 236 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 85 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 69 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (5.04%) Marketing
7 38 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.44%) Retail
9 27 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.46%) Billing
11 18 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.21%) General Ledger
12 14 (1.72%) Law
13 12 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.47%) Local Government
14 9 (1.11%) Banking
14 9 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.61%) Automotive
17 4 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 215 (26.41%) Developer
2 147 (18.06%) Consultant
3 134 (16.46%) Architect
4 125 (15.36%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 110 (13.51%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 98 (12.04%) Analyst
7 85 (10.44%) Solutions Architect
8 81 (9.95%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 75 (9.21%) Lead
10 73 (8.97%) Senior
11 70 (8.60%) Functional Consultant
12 57 (7.00%) Business Analyst
13 54 (6.63%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
14 52 (6.39%) Microsoft Developer
15 35 (4.30%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
16 32 (3.93%) Project Manager
17 25 (3.07%) Microsoft Consultant
18 24 (2.95%) Power Platform Developer
19 23 (2.83%) Senior Developer
20 22 (2.70%) Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (11.43%) .NET
2 33 (4.05%) JSON
3 32 (3.93%) REST
4 29 (3.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 24 (2.95%) Middleware
6 21 (2.58%) XML
7 18 (2.21%) HTML
8 16 (1.97%) ASP.NET Web API
9 15 (1.84%) Terraform
10 13 (1.60%) XSLT
11 11 (1.35%) .NET Framework
11 11 (1.35%) Gherkin
11 11 (1.35%) OAuth
11 11 (1.35%) Web Services
12 10 (1.23%) RESTful
13 9 (1.11%) ASP.NET
13 9 (1.11%) CSS
13 9 (1.11%) PySpark
13 9 (1.11%) WCF
14 7 (0.86%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.88%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.35%) Taxonomies
9 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.61%) FMCG
11 5 (0.61%) Life Science
12 4 (0.49%) IVR
12 4 (0.49%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.37%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (31.45%) CRM
2 217 (26.66%) Agile
3 188 (23.10%) DevOps
4 179 (21.99%) ERP
5 170 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 155 (19.04%) Migration
7 129 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 123 (15.11%) Data Migration
9 117 (14.37%) CI/CD
10 114 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
11 107 (13.14%) User Acceptance Testing
12 103 (12.65%) Customer Service
13 97 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (10.32%) Data Modelling
15 80 (9.83%) AI
16 79 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 73 (8.97%) Translating Business Requirements
18 72 (8.85%) Requirements Gathering
19 66 (8.11%) Scrum
19 66 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 137 (16.83%) JavaScript
2 134 (16.46%) C#
3 73 (8.97%) SQL
4 29 (3.56%) X++
5 19 (2.33%) TypeScript
6 16 (1.97%) Python
7 14 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.11%) Bicep
8 9 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.61%) Bash
11 4 (0.49%) Java
11 4 (0.49%) Korn
12 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 71 (8.72%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.74%) Degree
4 62 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.47%) ISTQB
6 12 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 12 (1.47%) PMP
7 11 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.61%) IIBA
10 5 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.25%) ACCA
13 2 (0.25%) CIMA
13 2 (0.25%) CIPD
13 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.53%) GDPR
3 40 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 40 (4.91%) QA
4 22 (2.70%) WCAG
5 12 (1.47%) PMO
6 7 (0.86%) NIST
7 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.61%) SLA
8 4 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.49%) GRC
8 4 (0.49%) P3O
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) GMP
System Software
1 12 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 602 (73.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.69%) Oracle
3 27 (3.32%) SAP
4 23 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.11%) Databricks
7 8 (0.98%) Workday
8 5 (0.61%) NEC
9 4 (0.49%) Ariba
9 4 (0.49%) IFS
9 4 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.49%) Sage
10 3 (0.37%) Adobe
10 3 (0.37%) Aprimo
10 3 (0.37%) Brio
10 3 (0.37%) Foundry
10 3 (0.37%) Genesys
10 3 (0.37%) OneTrust
10 3 (0.37%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.37%) TIBCO