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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 201 125
Rank change year-on-year +5 -76 +27
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 815 474 736
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.44% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 3.80% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 311 429
10th Percentile £354 £325 £373
25th Percentile £419 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 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 19,034 12,488 13,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.84% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,629 8,337 8,771
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 299 187
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.33 £64.61
90th Percentile £81.13 £67.05 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -2 699 £500 -1.96% 660
UK excluding London +14 384 £475 -5.00% 434
London +4 353 £525 +2.19% 312
Work from Home -43 181 £509 -0.92% 350
North of England -15 96 £475 - 106
Midlands -8 87 £425 -15.00% 73
South East -30 82 £500 -2.44% 107
West Midlands -14 61 £425 -15.00% 44
North West -27 48 £475 - 55
Yorkshire -24 35 £478 -1.55% 42
Scotland -9 33 £525 +16.67% 46
South West -16 31 £475 -7.32% 26
East of England -23 29 £500 -13.04% 24
East Midlands +4 25 £455 +17.42% 29
Wales -2 17 £500 +2.51% 18
North East -35 13 £513 +17.14% 9
Channel Islands 0 7 £513 -18.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 36

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 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.10%) 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 (30.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (2.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 16 (1.96%) 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
1 354 (43.44%) Power Platform
2 302 (37.06%) Azure
3 200 (24.54%) Power Automate
4 160 (19.63%) PowerApps
5 146 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.61%) Serverless
7 61 (7.48%) Azure Functions
7 61 (7.48%) Azure Logic Apps
8 55 (6.75%) Microsoft Copilot
9 53 (6.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 51 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (4.66%) Copilot Studio
12 22 (2.70%) Entra ID
13 21 (2.58%) SaaS
14 19 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.60%) Azure API Management
16 11 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (1.10%) 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
2 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (13.99%) Power BI
2 48 (5.89%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.10%) Star Schema
6 7 (0.86%) Data Vault
7 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.74%) Power Query
7 6 (0.74%) Spark SQL
8 5 (0.61%) Metadata
9 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.49%) GIS
10 2 (0.25%) 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%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.12%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 29 (3.56%) 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 (32.27%) Finance
2 236 (28.96%) Social Skills
3 85 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 67 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.66%) Marketing
7 37 (4.54%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.44%) Retail
9 27 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.33%) Billing
10 19 (2.33%) Law
11 18 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.09%) General Ledger
13 13 (1.60%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.47%) Local Government
15 8 (0.98%) Banking
15 8 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.61%) Automotive
18 4 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 213 (26.13%) Developer
2 146 (17.91%) Consultant
3 137 (16.81%) Architect
4 121 (14.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 109 (13.37%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 98 (12.02%) Analyst
7 82 (10.06%) Solutions Architect
8 81 (9.94%) Lead
9 80 (9.82%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 71 (8.71%) Senior
11 69 (8.47%) Functional Consultant
12 57 (6.99%) Business Analyst
13 53 (6.50%) Microsoft Developer
14 52 (6.38%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
15 35 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
16 32 (3.93%) Project Manager
17 25 (3.07%) Microsoft Consultant
18 24 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
19 23 (2.82%) Senior Developer
20 21 (2.58%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (11.17%) .NET
2 33 (4.05%) JSON
3 30 (3.68%) REST
4 29 (3.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 25 (3.07%) Middleware
6 19 (2.33%) XML
7 16 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
7 16 (1.96%) HTML
8 15 (1.84%) Terraform
9 13 (1.60%) XSLT
10 12 (1.47%) OAuth
11 11 (1.35%) Gherkin
11 11 (1.35%) Web Services
12 10 (1.23%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.23%) RESTful
13 9 (1.10%) CSS
13 9 (1.10%) WCF
14 8 (0.98%) PySpark
15 7 (0.86%) ADO
15 7 (0.86%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.99%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.35%) Taxonomies
9 10 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.61%) FMCG
13 5 (0.61%) Life Science
14 4 (0.49%) IVR
14 4 (0.49%) Security Posture
15 3 (0.37%) Housing Association
15 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (31.41%) CRM
2 215 (26.38%) Agile
3 185 (22.70%) DevOps
4 181 (22.21%) ERP
5 171 (20.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 159 (19.51%) Migration
7 132 (16.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 128 (15.71%) Data Migration
9 119 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
10 114 (13.99%) CI/CD
11 110 (13.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 103 (12.64%) Customer Service
13 95 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (10.67%) Data Modelling
15 82 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 78 (9.57%) AI
16 78 (9.57%) Translating Business Requirements
17 72 (8.83%) Requirements Gathering
18 67 (8.22%) Scrum
19 64 (7.85%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 137 (16.81%) JavaScript
2 133 (16.32%) C#
3 74 (9.08%) SQL
4 30 (3.68%) X++
5 19 (2.33%) TypeScript
6 17 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.84%) Python
8 9 (1.10%) Bicep
8 9 (1.10%) 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 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 71 (8.71%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.73%) Degree
3 63 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.47%) ISTQB
5 12 (1.47%) PMI Certification
5 12 (1.47%) PMP
6 11 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.61%) IIBA
9 5 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.25%) ACCA
12 2 (0.25%) CIMA
12 2 (0.25%) CIPD
12 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.52%) GDPR
3 40 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 39 (4.79%) QA
5 22 (2.70%) WCAG
6 12 (1.47%) PMO
7 7 (0.86%) NIST
8 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.61%) SLA
9 4 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.49%) GRC
9 4 (0.49%) P3O
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
11 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
1 604 (74.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.68%) Oracle
3 27 (3.31%) SAP
4 22 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.47%) Databricks
5 12 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.98%) Workday
7 5 (0.61%) NEC
8 4 (0.49%) Ariba
8 4 (0.49%) Brio
8 4 (0.49%) IFS
8 4 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.49%) Sage
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe
9 3 (0.37%) Aprimo
9 3 (0.37%) Foundry
9 3 (0.37%) Genesys
9 3 (0.37%) OneTrust
9 3 (0.37%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.37%) Splunk