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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 198 128
Rank change year-on-year +4 -70 +39
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 777 467 739
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.42% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 3.83% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 312 467
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £647 £674 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 0
10th Percentile £18.95 £28.33 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.56 -
Median hourly rate £25.38 £50.99 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.23% - -
75th Percentile £37.22 £73.13 -
90th Percentile £42.10 £80.63 -
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 18,789 12,188 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,436 8,138 9,107
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £714 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 316 250
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £53.56
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -17.81%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +10 676 £500 -1.96% 405
London +14 364 £515 +3.00% 203
UK excluding London +25 353 £475 -5.00% 258
Work from Home -58 178 £513 -2.38% 238
North of England -27 97 £475 - 65
Midlands -9 72 £425 -15.00% 53
South East -33 70 £500 - 73
North West -19 55 £450 -5.26% 35
West Midlands -33 48 £425 -15.00% 28
Scotland +6 36 £525 +13.51% 11
South West -29 30 £488 -7.14% 29
Yorkshire -33 29 £480 +1.05% 21
East of England -13 26 £450 -28.00% 13
East Midlands -4 23 £475 +2.70% 25
Wales -10 13 £500 +2.51% 4
North East -30 13 £513 +17.14% 9
Channel Islands +4 6 £500 -20.00%
Northern Ireland +10 4 £450 - 12

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 56 (7.21%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.03%) CMS
3 4 (0.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.39%) Appian
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.39%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
5 1 (0.13%) Drupal
5 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 231 (29.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (2.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 16 (2.06%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.51%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.26%) Dynamics SL
8 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.26%) Maximo
8 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.26%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 338 (43.50%) Power Platform
2 261 (33.59%) Azure
3 187 (24.07%) Power Automate
4 155 (19.95%) PowerApps
5 128 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
7 58 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 57 (7.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 45 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 40 (5.15%) Azure Functions
10 40 (5.15%) Serverless
11 38 (4.89%) Copilot Studio
12 20 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (2.06%) Entra ID
13 16 (2.06%) SaaS
14 8 (1.03%) Azure API Management
14 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.90%) GitHub
15 7 (0.90%) OneDrive
16 6 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) 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
1 132 (16.99%) Power BI
2 34 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (0.90%) Data Vault
5 7 (0.90%) Star Schema
6 5 (0.64%) Metadata
7 4 (0.51%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.39%) GIS
8 3 (0.39%) Power Query
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) MS Access
9 1 (0.13%) MySQL
9 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (3.09%) Visual Studio
2 20 (2.57%) JIRA
3 10 (1.29%) Cypress.io
3 10 (1.29%) Git
3 10 (1.29%) Selenium
4 9 (1.16%) Postman
4 9 (1.16%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.39%) Protractor
8 2 (0.26%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) MLflow
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
9 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 258 (33.20%) Finance
2 211 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 81 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 61 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.89%) Law
6 34 (4.38%) Marketing
7 33 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (3.99%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.22%) Retail
10 23 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (2.19%) Local Government
12 16 (2.06%) Billing
13 13 (1.67%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.67%) General Ledger
14 9 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Banking
16 6 (0.77%) Legal
17 5 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 195 (25.10%) Developer
2 134 (17.25%) Architect
3 131 (16.86%) Consultant
4 99 (12.74%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 96 (12.36%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 96 (12.36%) Lead
6 88 (11.33%) Analyst
7 67 (8.62%) Functional Consultant
8 66 (8.49%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 66 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
9 57 (7.34%) Senior
10 49 (6.31%) Business Analyst
10 49 (6.31%) Microsoft Developer
11 42 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
12 37 (4.76%) Lead Architect
13 35 (4.50%) Project Manager
14 32 (4.12%) Functional Architect
15 30 (3.86%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
16 22 (2.83%) Power Platform Developer
17 19 (2.45%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (11.07%) .NET
2 26 (3.35%) HTML5 Canvas
3 24 (3.09%) REST
4 23 (2.96%) Middleware
5 21 (2.70%) JSON
6 10 (1.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 10 (1.29%) HTML
6 10 (1.29%) RESTful
7 9 (1.16%) Gherkin
8 8 (1.03%) Web Services
8 8 (1.03%) XML
9 6 (0.77%) .NET Framework
9 6 (0.77%) OAuth
9 6 (0.77%) WCF
10 5 (0.64%) CSS
10 5 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.64%) PySpark
10 5 (0.64%) XSLT
11 4 (0.51%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.51%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 31 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.16%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.77%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.77%) FMCG
11 6 (0.77%) Housing Association
12 5 (0.64%) IoT
12 5 (0.64%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.51%) IVR
13 4 (0.51%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.39%) Life Science
14 3 (0.39%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (31.53%) CRM
2 196 (25.23%) ERP
3 180 (23.17%) Agile
4 165 (21.24%) DevOps
5 161 (20.72%) Migration
6 151 (19.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 139 (17.89%) Business Intelligence
8 137 (17.63%) Data Migration
9 124 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 122 (15.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 98 (12.61%) Customer Service
12 96 (12.36%) Translating Business Requirements
13 93 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 90 (11.58%) CI/CD
15 82 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
16 77 (9.91%) Data Modelling
17 65 (8.37%) Requirements Gathering
18 64 (8.24%) AI
19 56 (7.21%) Scrum
20 54 (6.95%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (15.19%) JavaScript
2 111 (14.29%) C#
3 63 (8.11%) SQL
4 28 (3.60%) X++
5 14 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.16%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.90%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.77%) Python
9 5 (0.64%) Korn
10 4 (0.51%) Java
11 1 (0.13%) Bicep
11 1 (0.13%) C
11 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.69%) Degree
4 47 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (1.42%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.29%) ISTQB
6 10 (1.29%) PMP
7 7 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.51%) IIBA
10 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.39%) CIMA
10 3 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.26%) APMG
11 2 (0.26%) CIPD
12 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.63%) GDPR
2 36 (4.63%) QA
3 27 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.93%) PMO
5 11 (1.42%) WCAG
6 7 (0.90%) NIST
7 6 (0.77%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.51%) GRC
9 4 (0.51%) P3O
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) GMP
12 1 (0.13%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (1.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (0.77%) Terraform
2 2 (0.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 569 (73.23%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.47%) SAP
3 24 (3.09%) Oracle
4 22 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.42%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.03%) Databricks
7 7 (0.90%) Workday
8 5 (0.64%) IFS
9 4 (0.51%) Adobe
9 4 (0.51%) Ariba
9 4 (0.51%) NEC
9 4 (0.51%) Sage
10 3 (0.39%) Brio
10 3 (0.39%) Foundry
10 3 (0.39%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.39%) Splunk
10 3 (0.39%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.26%) Adaptive Insights
11 2 (0.26%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.26%) HubSpot