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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 197 122
Rank change year-on-year +3 -75 +29
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 817 471 761
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.43% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.33% 3.80% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 309 453
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £420 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
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 32 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 £55.58 £82.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -63.74% +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 18,878 12,389 13,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 37.60% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,523 8,260 8,900
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 617 293 195
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +63.47% -35.77% +15.38%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +12 699 £500 -1.96% 634
UK excluding London +15 376 £475 -5.00% 394
London +12 363 £520 +1.46% 313
Work from Home -54 179 £513 - 324
North of England -19 94 £475 +2.70% 96
Midlands -12 85 £425 -15.00% 62
South East -24 79 £500 - 101
West Midlands -21 59 £425 -15.00% 37
North West -22 49 £465 -2.11% 48
Scotland -3 34 £525 +16.67% 39
Yorkshire -26 32 £475 -2.56% 38
South West -14 29 £525 +5.00% 30
East of England -14 28 £475 -20.83% 33
East Midlands -2 25 £455 -15.35% 24
Wales -2 17 £500 -0.10% 11
North East -38 13 £513 +17.14% 10
Channel Islands 0 7 £513 -18.00%
Northern Ireland +6 4 £450 - 26

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 60 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.22%) CMS
3 4 (0.49%) Confluence
4 3 (0.37%) Appian
4 3 (0.37%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 36 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 248 (30.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (2.69%) 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 (0.73%) 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 (0.24%) Dynamics SL
9 2 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.24%) Maximo
9 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.24%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.12%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 361 (44.19%) Power Platform
2 300 (36.72%) Azure
3 200 (24.48%) Power Automate
4 158 (19.34%) PowerApps
5 148 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (7.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 63 (7.71%) Serverless
7 62 (7.59%) Azure Functions
8 56 (6.85%) Microsoft Copilot
9 55 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 55 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (4.65%) Copilot Studio
11 23 (2.82%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (2.33%) SaaS
13 13 (1.59%) Azure API Management
14 12 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (1.22%) GitHub
17 9 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
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
1 124 (15.18%) Power BI
2 47 (5.75%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.59%) 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 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.73%) Power Query
7 6 (0.73%) Spark SQL
8 5 (0.61%) Metadata
9 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.49%) GIS
10 2 (0.24%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.24%) 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 (3.55%) Git
2 26 (3.18%) Visual Studio
3 21 (2.57%) JIRA
4 13 (1.59%) Selenium
5 11 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.35%) Postman
6 10 (1.22%) WebDriver
7 9 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.37%) Protractor
10 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
10 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 2 (0.24%) MSTest
10 2 (0.24%) NUnit
10 2 (0.24%) 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
1 269 (32.93%) Finance
2 235 (28.76%) Social Skills
3 88 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 64 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.65%) Marketing
7 35 (4.28%) Manufacturing
8 27 (3.30%) Retail
9 26 (3.18%) Law
9 26 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.96%) Billing
12 14 (1.71%) General Ledger
13 13 (1.59%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.47%) Local Government
15 8 (0.98%) Banking
16 7 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.61%) Automotive
19 4 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 209 (25.58%) Developer
2 147 (17.99%) Architect
3 142 (17.38%) Consultant
4 115 (14.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 104 (12.73%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 96 (11.75%) Analyst
7 85 (10.40%) Lead
8 80 (9.79%) Solutions Architect
9 79 (9.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 69 (8.45%) Functional Consultant
10 69 (8.45%) Senior
11 54 (6.61%) Business Analyst
12 52 (6.36%) Microsoft Developer
13 50 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
14 34 (4.16%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
15 32 (3.92%) Project Manager
16 26 (3.18%) Lead Architect
17 23 (2.82%) Administrator
17 23 (2.82%) Microsoft Consultant
17 23 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (11.26%) .NET
2 33 (4.04%) JSON
3 30 (3.67%) REST
4 27 (3.30%) HTML5 Canvas
5 25 (3.06%) Middleware
6 19 (2.33%) XML
7 16 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
8 15 (1.84%) Terraform
9 14 (1.71%) HTML
10 13 (1.59%) XSLT
11 11 (1.35%) OAuth
11 11 (1.35%) Web Services
12 10 (1.22%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.22%) Gherkin
12 10 (1.22%) 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 58 (7.10%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (3.79%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 11 (1.35%) Taxonomies
8 9 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.10%) Virtual Team
9 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.73%) FMCG
11 5 (0.61%) Life Science
11 5 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.49%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.49%) IVR
12 4 (0.49%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (31.70%) CRM
2 213 (26.07%) Agile
3 188 (23.01%) ERP
4 187 (22.89%) DevOps
5 166 (20.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 165 (20.20%) Migration
7 137 (16.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 134 (16.40%) Data Migration
9 129 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
10 116 (14.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 115 (14.08%) CI/CD
12 104 (12.73%) Customer Service
13 91 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (10.65%) Data Modelling
15 86 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (10.40%) Translating Business Requirements
17 76 (9.30%) AI
18 74 (9.06%) Requirements Gathering
19 66 (8.08%) Scrum
20 62 (7.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 136 (16.65%) JavaScript
2 132 (16.16%) C#
3 74 (9.06%) SQL
4 29 (3.55%) X++
5 18 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 17 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.84%) Python
8 9 (1.10%) Bicep
8 9 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.61%) Bash
11 4 (0.49%) Java
11 4 (0.49%) Korn
12 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 70 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.71%) Degree
4 60 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 12 (1.47%) PMP
7 11 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.35%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.22%) 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 (0.24%) CIPD
13 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.12%) ACCA
14 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.39%) GDPR
3 39 (4.77%) Accessibility
4 36 (4.41%) QA
5 21 (2.57%) 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%) GRC
9 4 (0.49%) P3O
10 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
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 13 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 607 (74.30%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.67%) Oracle
3 28 (3.43%) SAP
4 22 (2.69%) 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