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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 182 140
Rank change year-on-year +9 -42 +55
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 711 467 728
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 1.58% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.23% 4.19% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 336 497
10th Percentile £343 £406 £375
25th Percentile £436 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £698 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 0
10th Percentile £18.65 £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 £53.65 - -
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 16,827 11,154 14,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.30% 37.86% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,458 7,763 9,961
10th Percentile £319 £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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 250 344
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.57 £16.05
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -38.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £75.05 £61.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -28.11%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -5 599 £500 -4.76% 260
London +35 380 £500 -8.17% 115
UK excluding London -17 263 £500 -2.44% 188
Work from Home -30 184 £500 -4.76% 164
North of England -46 70 £500 -12.28% 31
Midlands -49 53 £435 -17.14% 28
West Midlands -50 39 £456 -13.10% 23
South East -43 38 £550 +22.22% 65
North West -47 35 £450 -21.05% 18
Scotland +9 32 £500 +5.26% 9
South West -28 32 £425 -15.00% 24
Yorkshire -34 29 £595 +6.25% 9
East of England -14 20 £475 -26.92% 22
East Midlands -26 13 £435 -20.00% 5
Wales -2 9 £475 +33.80% 5
North East - 6 £550 - 4
Channel Islands - 6 £500 -
Northern Ireland +3 4 £450 - 8

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 50 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.42%) CMS
3 3 (0.42%) 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 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 226 (31.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.83%) Shopify
4 10 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (1.41%) NetSuite
5 9 (1.27%) NEC Housing
6 8 (1.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.56%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.42%) Dynamics SL
8 3 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.14%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 287 (40.37%) Power Platform
2 273 (38.40%) Azure
3 154 (21.66%) Power Automate
4 116 (16.32%) PowerApps
5 106 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (7.31%) Azure Logic Apps
8 43 (6.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 38 (5.34%) Azure Functions
9 38 (5.34%) Serverless
10 34 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (4.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
12 15 (2.11%) PaaS
13 14 (1.97%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.83%) AWS
14 13 (1.83%) Entra ID
15 12 (1.69%) GitHub
16 11 (1.55%) SaaS
17 10 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.25%) SMS
2 10 (1.41%) 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
1 127 (17.86%) Power BI
2 25 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.98%) Power Query
7 5 (0.70%) Star Schema
8 4 (0.56%) Metadata
9 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.28%) GIS
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.14%) MS Access
11 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.14%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.14%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.97%) JIRA
2 7 (0.98%) Git
2 7 (0.98%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.84%) Postman
4 4 (0.56%) Selenium
5 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.28%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.28%) git-flow
6 2 (0.28%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.28%) JMeter
6 2 (0.28%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.14%) MSTest
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 239 (33.61%) Finance
2 201 (28.27%) Social Skills
3 86 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 59 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.91%) Marketing
6 36 (5.06%) Law
7 29 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (3.80%) Retail
9 23 (3.23%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.95%) Banking
11 13 (1.83%) Local Government
12 10 (1.41%) General Ledger
12 10 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.13%) Legal
14 7 (0.98%) Games
14 7 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.70%) Back Office
16 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 164 (23.07%) Developer
2 139 (19.55%) Consultant
3 103 (14.49%) Architect
4 98 (13.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 82 (11.53%) Lead
6 72 (10.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 57 (8.02%) Analyst
8 56 (7.88%) Functional Consultant
9 45 (6.33%) Senior
9 45 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (5.06%) Business Analyst
10 36 (5.06%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 34 (4.78%) Microsoft Developer
11 34 (4.78%) Project Manager
12 32 (4.50%) Lead Architect
13 31 (4.36%) Functional Architect
14 26 (3.66%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
15 25 (3.52%) Power Platform Developer
16 22 (3.09%) Microsoft Consultant
17 18 (2.53%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.86%) .NET
2 24 (3.38%) REST
3 22 (3.09%) HTML5 Canvas
4 20 (2.81%) HTML
5 18 (2.53%) JSON
6 15 (2.11%) Middleware
7 11 (1.55%) XML
8 10 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (1.27%) RESTful
10 8 (1.13%) CSS
10 8 (1.13%) OAuth
10 8 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.98%) Kafka
11 7 (0.98%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.84%) Ajax
12 6 (0.84%) EDI
13 5 (0.70%) ADO
13 5 (0.70%) Web Services
14 4 (0.56%) PySpark
14 4 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.22%) Product Ownership
2 18 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (1.97%) Onboarding
4 13 (1.83%) Low-Code
5 11 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.27%) IoT
7 8 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (0.98%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.56%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.42%) FMCG
12 3 (0.42%) IVR
13 2 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Licensing
13 2 (0.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.84%) 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
1 246 (34.60%) CRM
2 190 (26.72%) ERP
3 155 (21.80%) DevOps
4 146 (20.53%) Migration
5 139 (19.55%) Agile
6 133 (18.71%) Business Intelligence
7 104 (14.63%) Data Migration
8 102 (14.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 99 (13.92%) User Acceptance Testing
10 78 (10.97%) Customer Service
11 77 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 61 (8.58%) Data Modelling
14 60 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 60 (8.44%) Translating Business Requirements
15 54 (7.59%) CI/CD
16 53 (7.45%) Customer Engagement
17 45 (6.33%) Workshop Facilitation
18 43 (6.05%) Requirements Gathering
19 41 (5.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 109 (15.33%) C#
2 92 (12.94%) JavaScript
3 56 (7.88%) SQL
4 30 (4.22%) PowerShell
5 17 (2.39%) TypeScript
6 16 (2.25%) Python
7 10 (1.41%) X++
8 8 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.98%) Java
10 6 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.42%) Bicep
12 3 (0.42%) C++
13 2 (0.28%) C
13 2 (0.28%) Ruby
14 1 (0.14%) Bash
14 1 (0.14%) Korn
14 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.14%) VBA
14 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 75 (10.55%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.89%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.75%) Degree
4 20 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.69%) CIMA
5 12 (1.69%) PMP
6 10 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.28%) IIBA
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
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.92%) QA
2 20 (2.81%) GDPR
3 15 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.27%) PMO
6 3 (0.42%) 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 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.41%) 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
1 465 (65.40%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.92%) Oracle
3 31 (4.36%) SAP
4 15 (2.11%) Databricks
5 12 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.41%) Workday
7 9 (1.27%) NEC
8 8 (1.13%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.84%) IFS
9 6 (0.84%) Sage
10 5 (0.70%) Adobe
10 5 (0.70%) Brio
10 5 (0.70%) Infor
10 5 (0.70%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.56%) Google
12 3 (0.42%) Adaptive Insights
12 3 (0.42%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.42%) Epicor
12 3 (0.42%) QAD
12 3 (0.42%) Zuora