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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 180 149
Rank change year-on-year +4 -31 +41
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 727 436 726
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.49% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 3.95% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 314 493
10th Percentile £334 £405 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.37%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 0
10th Percentile £17.98 £46.50 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £65.63 -
Median hourly rate £25.38 £78.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.77% - -
75th Percentile - £87.50 -
90th Percentile £37.28 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -62.40% - -

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 16,969 11,037 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.87% 37.63% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,518 7,652 9,987
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £701 £737 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 249 348
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.67 £48.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.71
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.21% -28.09%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +15 618 £500 -4.76% 295
London +31 378 £500 -4.76% 117
UK excluding London +5 281 £500 - 228
Work from Home -39 180 £500 -4.03% 170
North of England -15 79 £500 -9.09% 47
Midlands -48 53 £435 -17.14% 36
South East -41 43 £550 +22.22% 74
North West -25 40 £500 -4.76% 22
West Midlands -50 38 £450 -14.29% 26
South West -19 34 £425 -15.00% 29
Yorkshire -24 31 £575 -3.36% 17
Scotland +11 29 £500 +11.11% 11
East of England -11 24 £450 -30.77% 21
East Midlands -25 14 £435 -20.00% 10
Wales -2 10 £475 -5.09% 7
North East - 8 £550 - 8
Channel Islands - 6 £500 -
Northern Ireland +7 4 £450 - 7

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 53 (7.29%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.41%) CMS
3 3 (0.41%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) Appian
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) Moodle
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 223 (30.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (1.79%) Shopify
4 10 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (1.24%) NEC Housing
5 9 (1.24%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.55%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.41%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.14%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 284 (39.06%) Power Platform
2 265 (36.45%) Azure
3 150 (20.63%) Power Automate
4 111 (15.27%) PowerApps
5 103 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (6.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 44 (6.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 35 (4.81%) Azure Functions
9 35 (4.81%) Serverless
10 31 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.93%) AWS
12 14 (1.93%) Copilot Studio
12 14 (1.93%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.93%) PaaS
13 13 (1.79%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.51%) GitHub
14 11 (1.51%) SaaS
15 8 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.20%) SMS
2 9 (1.24%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DHCP
4 1 (0.14%) DKIM
4 1 (0.14%) DMARC
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) Intranet
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (16.09%) Power BI
2 24 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.38%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.96%) Power Query
4 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.55%) Metadata
5 4 (0.55%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.28%) GIS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.14%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.14%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.93%) JIRA
2 8 (1.10%) Visual Studio
3 7 (0.96%) Git
4 6 (0.83%) Postman
5 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.41%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.28%) git-flow
7 2 (0.28%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) GitLab
8 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 238 (32.74%) Finance
2 202 (27.79%) Social Skills
3 84 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 58 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.64%) Marketing
6 35 (4.81%) Law
7 26 (3.58%) Retail
8 25 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.44%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.48%) Banking
10 15 (2.06%) Local Government
11 11 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.24%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.10%) Legal
14 7 (0.96%) Games
14 7 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.69%) Billing
16 4 (0.55%) Back Office
16 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 175 (24.07%) Developer
2 145 (19.94%) Consultant
3 104 (14.31%) Architect
4 103 (14.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 82 (11.28%) Lead
6 77 (10.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 61 (8.39%) Analyst
8 60 (8.25%) Functional Consultant
9 46 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
10 44 (6.05%) Senior
11 41 (5.64%) Microsoft Developer
12 40 (5.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 37 (5.09%) Business Analyst
14 34 (4.68%) Project Manager
15 33 (4.54%) Lead Architect
16 31 (4.26%) Functional Architect
17 27 (3.71%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
18 22 (3.03%) Microsoft Consultant
19 20 (2.75%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
19 20 (2.75%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.12%) .NET
2 24 (3.30%) REST
3 23 (3.16%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (2.61%) HTML
5 17 (2.34%) JSON
5 17 (2.34%) Middleware
6 12 (1.65%) RESTful
7 9 (1.24%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (1.10%) CSS
8 8 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.10%) XML
9 7 (0.96%) Kafka
9 7 (0.96%) OAuth
10 6 (0.83%) EDI
10 6 (0.83%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.69%) ADO
11 5 (0.69%) Ajax
12 4 (0.55%) React
12 4 (0.55%) SOAP
12 4 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 15 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (1.93%) Low-Code
4 13 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 13 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.10%) IoT
6 7 (0.96%) Cloud Native
6 7 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.55%) Housing Association
10 3 (0.41%) FMCG
10 3 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.41%) IVR
11 2 (0.28%) Life Science
11 2 (0.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (33.56%) CRM
2 195 (26.82%) ERP
3 153 (21.05%) DevOps
4 143 (19.67%) Migration
5 134 (18.43%) Agile
6 122 (16.78%) Business Intelligence
7 106 (14.58%) Data Migration
8 103 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 101 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
10 87 (11.97%) Customer Service
11 76 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 63 (8.67%) Translating Business Requirements
14 61 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (7.98%) Data Modelling
16 52 (7.15%) Customer Engagement
17 49 (6.74%) CI/CD
18 47 (6.46%) Roadmaps
19 45 (6.19%) Workshop Facilitation
20 44 (6.05%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 100 (13.76%) C#
2 89 (12.24%) JavaScript
3 54 (7.43%) SQL
4 28 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.06%) Python
7 13 (1.79%) X++
8 8 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.96%) Java
10 6 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.41%) C++
11 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.28%) C
12 2 (0.28%) Ruby
13 1 (0.14%) Bash
13 1 (0.14%) Bicep
13 1 (0.14%) Korn
13 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.14%) VBA
13 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 79 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.33%) Degree
4 21 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (1.79%) PMP
6 12 (1.65%) CIMA
7 8 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.28%) IIBA
10 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.28%) MBA
10 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.14%) APMG
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.81%) QA
2 20 (2.75%) GDPR
3 17 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.38%) PMO
6 4 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.28%) GMP
7 2 (0.28%) GxP
7 2 (0.28%) SLA
7 2 (0.28%) WCAG
8 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 9 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 465 (63.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.81%) Oracle
3 30 (4.13%) SAP
4 15 (2.06%) Databricks
5 13 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.38%) Workday
7 9 (1.24%) NEC
8 8 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.83%) IFS
9 6 (0.83%) Sage
10 5 (0.69%) Adobe
10 5 (0.69%) Infor
10 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.55%) Brio
11 4 (0.55%) Google
12 3 (0.41%) Adaptive Insights
12 3 (0.41%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.41%) Epicor
12 3 (0.41%) QAD
12 3 (0.41%) Zuora