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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 202 127
Rank change year-on-year +13 -75 +32
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 808 469 729
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.44% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.31% 3.87% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 309 446
10th Percentile £363 £325 £378
25th Percentile £425 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £635
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 6 1
10th Percentile £18.35 £28.33 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.56 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.38 £50.99 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.23% +1.98% -33.33%
75th Percentile £38.25 £73.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £49.80 £80.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £67.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.40% +35.00% -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 18,752 12,112 13,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.97% 37.26% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,464 8,065 8,932
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 601 312 222
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.81 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +10 691 £500 -1.72% 488
London +17 374 £515 +0.49% 258
UK excluding London +19 363 £475 -4.52% 309
Work from Home -35 181 £514 -1.20% 293
North of England -12 92 £475 +2.70% 72
Midlands -16 80 £425 -15.00% 61
South East -34 75 £500 +0.76% 69
West Midlands -26 54 £425 -15.00% 44
North West -15 51 £475 - 46
Scotland -3 36 £525 +13.51% 32
South West -19 30 £488 -4.88% 27
Yorkshire -32 28 £478 -2.05% 20
East Midlands -5 25 £455 -1.62% 16
East of England -8 24 £475 -24.00% 22
Wales -7 16 £500 +2.51% 4
North East -34 13 £513 +17.14% 6
Channel Islands +3 7 £513 -18.00%
Northern Ireland +6 4 £450 - 25

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 59 (7.30%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.24%) CMS
3 4 (0.50%) 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 35 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 242 (29.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (2.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (1.86%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.62%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.37%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
8 2 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.25%) Maximo
8 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 361 (44.68%) Power Platform
2 282 (34.90%) Azure
3 194 (24.01%) Power Automate
4 159 (19.68%) PowerApps
5 139 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (8.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 58 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
8 57 (7.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 53 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 52 (6.44%) Azure Functions
10 52 (6.44%) Serverless
11 38 (4.70%) Copilot Studio
12 20 (2.48%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (2.23%) SaaS
15 12 (1.49%) Azure API Management
15 12 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (1.11%) Azure Event Grid
18 8 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.50%) SMS
2 1 (0.12%) DKIM
2 1 (0.12%) DMARC
2 1 (0.12%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) Intranet
2 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (16.83%) Power BI
2 39 (4.83%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.99%) Star Schema
7 7 (0.87%) Data Vault
8 6 (0.74%) Spark SQL
9 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.62%) Metadata
9 5 (0.62%) Power Query
10 3 (0.37%) GIS
11 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.12%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.12%) MySQL
11 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.12%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 25 (3.09%) Visual Studio
2 23 (2.85%) Git
3 20 (2.48%) JIRA
4 11 (1.36%) Selenium
5 10 (1.24%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.11%) Postman
6 9 (1.11%) WebDriver
7 6 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.37%) Protractor
10 2 (0.25%) JDeveloper
10 2 (0.25%) MLflow
11 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.12%) TestRail
11 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 277 (34.28%) Finance
2 224 (27.72%) Social Skills
3 82 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 62 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.70%) Law
7 35 (4.33%) Marketing
8 33 (4.08%) Manufacturing
9 27 (3.34%) Retail
10 26 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.10%) Billing
12 16 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.86%) Local Government
14 14 (1.73%) General Ledger
15 13 (1.61%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.99%) Banking
16 8 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.50%) Automotive
17 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 204 (25.25%) Developer
2 147 (18.19%) Architect
3 137 (16.96%) Consultant
4 106 (13.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 98 (12.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 95 (11.76%) Lead
7 93 (11.51%) Analyst
8 74 (9.16%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 72 (8.91%) Solutions Architect
10 70 (8.66%) Functional Consultant
11 61 (7.55%) Senior
12 52 (6.44%) Business Analyst
13 48 (5.94%) Microsoft Developer
14 46 (5.69%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
15 37 (4.58%) Lead Architect
16 32 (3.96%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
16 32 (3.96%) Project Manager
17 31 (3.84%) Functional Architect
18 25 (3.09%) Power Platform Developer
19 21 (2.60%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (11.63%) .NET
2 29 (3.59%) JSON
3 28 (3.47%) REST
4 27 (3.34%) HTML5 Canvas
5 25 (3.09%) Middleware
6 15 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
6 15 (1.86%) Terraform
6 15 (1.86%) XML
7 14 (1.73%) HTML
8 10 (1.24%) .NET Framework
8 10 (1.24%) RESTful
8 10 (1.24%) Web Services
9 9 (1.11%) CSS
9 9 (1.11%) Gherkin
9 9 (1.11%) WCF
9 9 (1.11%) XSLT
10 8 (0.99%) OAuth
10 8 (0.99%) PySpark
11 7 (0.87%) ADO
11 7 (0.87%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.86%) Data Structures
5 15 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.36%) Low-Code
7 10 (1.24%) AI Agents
8 8 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 7 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (0.87%) Taxonomies
9 7 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.74%) FMCG
11 5 (0.62%) Housing Association
11 5 (0.62%) IoT
11 5 (0.62%) Life Science
11 5 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.50%) IVR
12 4 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (31.31%) CRM
2 203 (25.12%) ERP
3 198 (24.50%) Agile
4 178 (22.03%) DevOps
5 169 (20.92%) Migration
6 154 (19.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 146 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 145 (17.95%) Data Migration
9 141 (17.45%) Business Intelligence
10 129 (15.97%) User Acceptance Testing
11 109 (13.49%) CI/CD
12 104 (12.87%) Customer Service
13 98 (12.13%) Translating Business Requirements
14 95 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 85 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
16 84 (10.40%) Data Modelling
17 72 (8.91%) Requirements Gathering
18 70 (8.66%) AI
19 65 (8.04%) Scrum
20 56 (6.93%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 128 (15.84%) JavaScript
2 125 (15.47%) C#
3 71 (8.79%) SQL
4 29 (3.59%) X++
5 17 (2.10%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.86%) TypeScript
7 14 (1.73%) Python
8 9 (1.11%) Bicep
9 8 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.62%) Bash
11 5 (0.62%) Java
11 5 (0.62%) Korn
12 1 (0.12%) C
12 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 100 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 70 (8.66%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.18%) Degree
4 54 (6.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.49%) PMI Certification
5 12 (1.49%) PMP
6 11 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.24%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.24%) ISTQB
8 8 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.62%) IIBA
9 5 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.25%) CIPD
12 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.12%) ACCA
13 1 (0.12%) APMG
13 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.83%) GDPR
3 34 (4.21%) QA
4 32 (3.96%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.98%) PMO
5 16 (1.98%) WCAG
6 7 (0.87%) NIST
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.50%) GRC
9 4 (0.50%) 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 11 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 604 (74.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.47%) SAP
3 27 (3.34%) Oracle
4 24 (2.97%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.24%) Databricks
7 7 (0.87%) Workday
8 5 (0.62%) NEC
9 4 (0.50%) Ariba
9 4 (0.50%) Brio
9 4 (0.50%) IFS
9 4 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.50%) Sage
10 3 (0.37%) Adobe
10 3 (0.37%) Aprimo
10 3 (0.37%) Foundry
10 3 (0.37%) Genesys
10 3 (0.37%) OneTrust
10 3 (0.37%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.37%) Splunk