Dynamics 365 Contracts

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Dynamics 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dynamics 365 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 148 190
Rank change year-on-year -34 +42 +27
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 441 722 824
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.66% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 5.12% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 493 612
10th Percentile £400 £376 £413
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year - -4.37% +2.14%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £605
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £549
% change year-on-year - -8.93% +4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £46.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £19.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £47.75
90th Percentile - - £64.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - £19.00

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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Dynamics 365
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Dynamics 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dynamics 365.

Daily rate trend for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dynamics 365 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Dynamics 365.

Hourly rate trend for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dynamics 365 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Dynamics 365 in the UK

Dynamics 365
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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 -26 358 £525 - 429
London -17 207 £525 -4.55% 151
Work from Home -39 193 £523 -0.38% 305
UK excluding London -32 149 £500 - 296
North of England -24 39 £550 +10.00% 89
Midlands +7 32 £525 +5.00% 61
North West -11 31 £550 +10.00% 63
South East +28 29 £450 -10.00% 75
West Midlands +12 27 £525 +10.53% 38
South West +17 22 £500 -9.09% 20
Scotland -9 18 £475 -13.64% 24
Yorkshire -15 8 £560 +12.00% 11
Wales -1 5 £501 +0.10% 13
East Midlands -2 4 £544 -13.00% 20
East of England +32 3 £650 +60.00% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

Dynamics 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (9.98%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (0.45%) CMS
3 2 (0.45%) IIS
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.23%) Camunda
4 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.13%) InfoPath
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 139 (31.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.95%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.23%) FastStats
6 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 211 (47.85%) Power Platform
2 205 (46.49%) Azure
3 130 (29.48%) PowerApps
4 119 (26.98%) Power Automate
5 89 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (12.24%) Azure Logic Apps
7 47 (10.66%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (7.48%) Serverless
9 29 (6.58%) Azure Functions
10 16 (3.63%) AWS
11 13 (2.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.27%) SaaS
13 9 (2.04%) PaaS
14 8 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (1.59%) Entra ID
16 6 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (1.13%) GitHub
17 5 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (0.91%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.13%) DNS
2 4 (0.91%) HTTP
3 3 (0.68%) FTP
3 3 (0.68%) SMTP
3 3 (0.68%) SSL
3 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.45%) DHCP
4 2 (0.45%) Firewall
4 2 (0.45%) IP Telephony
4 2 (0.45%) VLAN
4 2 (0.45%) VPN
4 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (18.82%) Power BI
2 34 (7.71%) SQL Server
3 27 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 22 (4.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.45%) Big Data
9 2 (0.45%) GIS
10 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.23%) Metadata
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 41 (9.30%) JIRA
2 28 (6.35%) Git
3 11 (2.49%) Postman
4 6 (1.36%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.13%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.91%) Selenium
7 3 (0.68%) JMeter
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.45%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.23%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 112 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 110 (24.94%) Finance
3 57 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 50 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (9.07%) Retail
6 32 (7.26%) Marketing
7 22 (4.99%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.40%) Banking
9 8 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.59%) Back Office
10 7 (1.59%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.13%) Local Government
11 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Billing
12 4 (0.91%) Legal
12 4 (0.91%) Military
12 4 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 121 (27.44%) Developer
2 78 (17.69%) Consultant
3 69 (15.65%) Architect
4 64 (14.51%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 55 (12.47%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 41 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (9.07%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 38 (8.62%) Analyst
9 36 (8.16%) Lead
10 26 (5.90%) Power Platform Developer
11 24 (5.44%) Functional Consultant
12 20 (4.54%) Business Analyst
13 17 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
14 16 (3.63%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
14 16 (3.63%) Project Manager
15 15 (3.40%) CRM Developer
15 15 (3.40%) Senior
16 13 (2.95%) Technical Leader
17 12 (2.72%) CRM Architect
17 12 (2.72%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (14.51%) .NET
2 46 (10.43%) REST
3 35 (7.94%) CSS
3 35 (7.94%) HTML
4 29 (6.58%) SOAP
5 22 (4.99%) .NET Framework
6 21 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
7 19 (4.31%) HTML5 Canvas
8 18 (4.08%) JSON
9 12 (2.72%) XML
10 11 (2.49%) WCF
10 11 (2.49%) Web Services
11 10 (2.27%) React
12 9 (2.04%) Node.js
13 8 (1.81%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.59%) Entity Framework
14 7 (1.59%) Middleware
15 6 (1.36%) ASP.NET
15 6 (1.36%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (1.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.17%) Low-Code
2 10 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 9 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.36%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.91%) FMCG
9 3 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.68%) IoT
9 3 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.45%) Life Science
10 2 (0.45%) NHS
10 2 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.68%) Windows
1 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.97%) CRM
2 120 (27.21%) Agile
3 117 (26.53%) DevOps
4 89 (20.18%) Migration
5 77 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
6 66 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (12.93%) Data Migration
8 55 (12.47%) ERP
9 39 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (7.71%) Customer Service
11 31 (7.03%) CI/CD
12 28 (6.35%) Project Management
13 27 (6.12%) Translating Business Requirements
14 25 (5.67%) Data Modelling
15 24 (5.44%) Test Automation
15 24 (5.44%) User Acceptance Testing
16 23 (5.22%) Data Management
16 23 (5.22%) Roadmaps
16 23 (5.22%) User Experience
16 23 (5.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 103 (23.36%) C#
2 86 (19.50%) JavaScript
3 80 (18.14%) SQL
4 26 (5.90%) TypeScript
5 14 (3.17%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.72%) Python
7 8 (1.81%) X++
8 3 (0.68%) Bicep
8 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.23%) C
10 1 (0.23%) Java
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.79%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.71%) Degree
4 11 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
5 4 (0.91%) PMP
6 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.45%) CCNA
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.45%) CSPO
7 2 (0.45%) HP APS
7 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) CIMA
8 1 (0.23%) CISSP
8 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.22%) QA
2 17 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.91%) WCAG
6 3 (0.68%) PMO
6 3 (0.68%) SLA
6 3 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.45%) GDPR
7 2 (0.45%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (3.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (2.49%) Terraform
2 3 (0.68%) Grafana
2 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.45%) SCCM
4 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 265 (60.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.81%) Oracle
3 7 (1.59%) SAP
4 6 (1.36%) Fujitsu
4 6 (1.36%) OutSystems
4 6 (1.36%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.36%) Workday
5 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.68%) Databricks
6 3 (0.68%) Splunk
7 2 (0.45%) Adobe
7 2 (0.45%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco
7 2 (0.45%) HP
7 2 (0.45%) Infoblox
7 2 (0.45%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.45%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.23%) Cognizant