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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 182 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 -42 +55
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 723 437 724
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 1.49% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 3.97% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 314 493
10th Percentile £329 £405 £376
25th Percentile £431 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £649 £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 16,967 11,008 14,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 37.62% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,527 7,641 9,994
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 £632
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 250 346
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.58 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.72
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.11% -28.03%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +1 616 £500 -4.76% 294
London +37 377 £500 -4.76% 118
UK excluding London +2 279 £500 - 229
Work from Home -35 180 £500 -4.40% 173
North of England -23 79 £500 -9.09% 44
Midlands -54 54 £435 -17.14% 37
South East -43 42 £550 +22.22% 75
North West -30 40 £500 -9.09% 21
West Midlands -50 39 £450 -14.29% 26
South West -18 34 £425 -15.00% 29
Yorkshire -28 31 £575 -3.36% 16
Scotland +7 29 £500 +5.26% 13
East of England -7 23 £450 -30.77% 22
East Midlands -20 14 £435 -20.00% 11
Wales -4 9 £475 -5.09% 7
North East - 8 £550 - 7
Channel Islands - 6 £500 -
Northern Ireland +7 4 £450 - 6

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 (7.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.97%) 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 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.97%) 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
1 220 (30.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (1.80%) Shopify
4 9 (1.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (1.24%) NEC Housing
4 9 (1.24%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.55%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.41%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.14%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 285 (39.42%) Power Platform
2 265 (36.65%) Azure
3 152 (21.02%) Power Automate
4 113 (15.63%) PowerApps
5 103 (14.25%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 44 (6.09%) Azure Service Bus
9 36 (4.98%) Azure Functions
9 36 (4.98%) Serverless
10 31 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (4.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.94%) AWS
12 14 (1.94%) Copilot Studio
12 14 (1.94%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.94%) PaaS
13 13 (1.80%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.52%) GitHub
14 11 (1.52%) SaaS
15 8 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.21%) 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
1 118 (16.32%) Power BI
2 24 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.38%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.97%) Power Query
4 7 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (0.97%) 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 (1.94%) JIRA
2 8 (1.11%) Visual Studio
3 7 (0.97%) 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 (32.92%) Finance
2 199 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 85 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 56 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.67%) Marketing
6 35 (4.84%) Law
7 26 (3.60%) Retail
8 25 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.32%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.49%) Banking
11 15 (2.07%) Local Government
12 11 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.24%) General Ledger
14 8 (1.11%) Legal
15 7 (0.97%) Games
15 7 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.69%) Billing
17 4 (0.55%) Back Office
17 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 3 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 174 (24.07%) Developer
2 144 (19.92%) Consultant
3 104 (14.38%) Architect
4 102 (14.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 82 (11.34%) Lead
6 76 (10.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 59 (8.16%) Analyst
7 59 (8.16%) Functional Consultant
8 46 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
9 43 (5.95%) Senior
10 41 (5.67%) Microsoft Developer
11 40 (5.53%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 37 (5.12%) Business Analyst
13 34 (4.70%) Project Manager
14 33 (4.56%) Lead Architect
15 31 (4.29%) Functional Architect
16 27 (3.73%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
17 22 (3.04%) Microsoft Consultant
18 20 (2.77%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
18 20 (2.77%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.16%) .NET
2 24 (3.32%) REST
3 23 (3.18%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (2.63%) HTML
5 17 (2.35%) JSON
5 17 (2.35%) Middleware
6 12 (1.66%) RESTful
7 9 (1.24%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (1.11%) CSS
8 8 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.11%) XML
9 7 (0.97%) Kafka
9 7 (0.97%) 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 31 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 15 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (1.94%) Low-Code
4 13 (1.80%) Data Structures
4 13 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.11%) IoT
6 7 (0.97%) Cloud Native
6 7 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (0.97%) 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%) Mobile App
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
1 241 (33.33%) CRM
2 193 (26.69%) ERP
3 153 (21.16%) DevOps
4 141 (19.50%) Migration
5 134 (18.53%) Agile
6 123 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
7 104 (14.38%) Data Migration
8 102 (14.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 100 (13.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 86 (11.89%) Customer Service
11 76 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (8.58%) Translating Business Requirements
14 61 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (8.02%) Data Modelling
16 52 (7.19%) Customer Engagement
17 50 (6.92%) CI/CD
18 45 (6.22%) Roadmaps
18 45 (6.22%) Workshop Facilitation
19 44 (6.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 101 (13.97%) C#
2 89 (12.31%) JavaScript
3 54 (7.47%) SQL
4 28 (3.87%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.21%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.07%) Python
7 13 (1.80%) X++
8 8 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.97%) 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 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.92%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.36%) Degree
4 21 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (1.80%) PMP
6 12 (1.66%) CIMA
7 8 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.11%) 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%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.84%) QA
2 20 (2.77%) GDPR
3 16 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.66%) 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 (1.11%) 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
1 462 (63.90%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.84%) Oracle
3 30 (4.15%) SAP
4 15 (2.07%) Databricks
5 13 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.38%) Workday
7 9 (1.24%) NEC
8 8 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.83%) IFS
9 6 (0.83%) Sage
10 5 (0.69%) Adobe
10 5 (0.69%) Brio
10 5 (0.69%) Infor
10 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
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