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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 187 122
Rank change year-on-year -11 -65 +60
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 713 477 817
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 1.47% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 3.93% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 320 536
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £613
90th Percentile £645 £653 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 0
10th Percentile £17.75 £28.70 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.17 -
Median hourly rate £25.38 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.74% - -
75th Percentile £35.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £36.39 - -
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 18,581 12,147 14,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.39% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,328 8,132 9,923
10th Percentile £328 £313 £310
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £726 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 315 350
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.31 £48.11
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -7 611 £500 -4.76% 259
London +2 333 £500 -2.20% 109
UK excluding London -5 315 £475 -5.00% 200
Work from Home -80 156 £500 -4.76% 136
North of England -35 95 £480 +1.05% 38
Midlands -31 64 £425 -20.00% 45
South East -37 56 £475 -5.00% 70
North West -22 55 £475 -5.00% 19
West Midlands -32 47 £425 -19.05% 25
Scotland +2 31 £500 +11.11% 7
Yorkshire -42 27 £500 +5.26% 18
East of England -7 25 £475 -24.00% 12
South West -24 24 £525 - 19
East Midlands -5 16 £435 -20.00% 20
North East -30 13 £513 +17.14% 1
Wales -3 11 £500 +2.51% 4
Channel Islands - 6 £500 -
Northern Ireland +4 4 £450 - 7

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 46 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.98%) CMS
3 6 (0.84%) Confluence
4 3 (0.42%) Appian
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.42%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 227 (31.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.96%) Dynamics AX
2 14 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.84%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.84%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.70%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.42%) BusinessWorks
6 3 (0.42%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.28%) Maximo
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 303 (42.50%) Power Platform
2 248 (34.78%) Azure
3 155 (21.74%) Power Automate
4 134 (18.79%) PowerApps
5 116 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (7.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 48 (6.73%) Microsoft Copilot
9 43 (6.03%) Azure Service Bus
10 31 (4.35%) Azure Functions
10 31 (4.35%) Serverless
11 28 (3.93%) Copilot Studio
12 18 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.96%) SaaS
14 9 (1.26%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.12%) GitHub
16 7 (0.98%) AWS
16 7 (0.98%) OneDrive
17 6 (0.84%) Azure AI
17 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) SMS
2 1 (0.14%) DKIM
2 1 (0.14%) DMARC
2 1 (0.14%) Intranet
2 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (16.83%) Power BI
2 32 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (0.98%) Star Schema
6 6 (0.84%) Data Vault
6 6 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.84%) Power Query
7 4 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.56%) Metadata
8 3 (0.42%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) MS Access
10 1 (0.14%) MySQL
10 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (2.81%) JIRA
2 14 (1.96%) Visual Studio
3 9 (1.26%) Postman
4 8 (1.12%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.12%) Git
4 8 (1.12%) Selenium
5 6 (0.84%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.42%) Protractor
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.14%) TestRail
8 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 228 (31.98%) Finance
2 189 (26.51%) Social Skills
3 80 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 60 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (5.47%) Law
6 32 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 31 (4.35%) Marketing
8 25 (3.51%) Retail
9 21 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.10%) Local Government
12 13 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.68%) Billing
14 10 (1.40%) Banking
14 10 (1.40%) General Ledger
15 9 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.98%) Games
17 6 (0.84%) Legal
17 6 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 180 (25.25%) Developer
2 128 (17.95%) Consultant
3 119 (16.69%) Architect
4 98 (13.74%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 86 (12.06%) Lead
6 83 (11.64%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 69 (9.68%) Analyst
8 62 (8.70%) Functional Consultant
8 62 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
9 57 (7.99%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 50 (7.01%) Microsoft Developer
11 46 (6.45%) Senior
12 40 (5.61%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
13 37 (5.19%) Lead Architect
14 36 (5.05%) Business Analyst
14 36 (5.05%) Project Manager
15 32 (4.49%) Functional Architect
16 28 (3.93%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
17 24 (3.37%) Power Platform Developer
18 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.10%) .NET
2 23 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
3 20 (2.81%) Middleware
4 15 (2.10%) JSON
4 15 (2.10%) REST
5 10 (1.40%) XML
6 8 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web API
6 8 (1.12%) HTML
7 7 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (0.98%) RESTful
7 7 (0.98%) Web Services
8 6 (0.84%) Gherkin
9 5 (0.70%) ADO
9 5 (0.70%) CSS
9 5 (0.70%) WCF
9 5 (0.70%) XSLT
10 4 (0.56%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.56%) Playwright
10 4 (0.56%) PySpark
11 3 (0.42%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 27 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.66%) Onboarding
4 14 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.54%) Low-Code
7 10 (1.40%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.98%) IoT
9 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.84%) FMCG
9 6 (0.84%) Housing Association
10 5 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.70%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.56%) IVR
11 4 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.42%) NHS
12 3 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (34.36%) CRM
2 176 (24.68%) ERP
3 159 (22.30%) DevOps
4 152 (21.32%) Migration
5 146 (20.48%) Agile
6 126 (17.67%) Data Migration
7 125 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
8 115 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 105 (14.73%) User Acceptance Testing
10 94 (13.18%) Customer Service
11 92 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 84 (11.78%) Translating Business Requirements
13 83 (11.64%) Data Modelling
14 82 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 77 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
16 73 (10.24%) CI/CD
17 52 (7.29%) Requirements Gathering
18 47 (6.59%) AI
19 44 (6.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 44 (6.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (13.32%) JavaScript
2 85 (11.92%) C#
3 60 (8.42%) SQL
4 21 (2.95%) X++
5 15 (2.10%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.40%) Python
7 6 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (0.84%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.70%) Java
9 4 (0.56%) Korn
10 2 (0.28%) C
10 2 (0.28%) C++
11 1 (0.14%) Bicep
11 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (10.80%) Security Cleared
2 54 (7.57%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.47%) Degree
4 29 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.12%) CIMA
6 8 (1.12%) ISTQB
7 7 (0.98%) PMP
8 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.28%) IIBA
12 2 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.14%) APMG
13 1 (0.14%) ISEB
13 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.35%) GDPR
3 30 (4.21%) QA
4 19 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.40%) PMO
6 8 (1.12%) WCAG
7 6 (0.84%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.42%) GMP
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.42%) NIST
9 3 (0.42%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.28%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.28%) Terraform
2 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 492 (69.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.51%) Oracle
2 25 (3.51%) SAP
3 19 (2.66%) Salesforce
4 10 (1.40%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.26%) Workday
6 8 (1.12%) Databricks
7 7 (0.98%) IFS
8 6 (0.84%) NEC
8 6 (0.84%) Sage
9 4 (0.56%) Adobe
9 4 (0.56%) Ariba
9 4 (0.56%) Brio
9 4 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.42%) Adaptive Insights
10 3 (0.42%) Anaplan
10 3 (0.42%) Epicor
10 3 (0.42%) Infor
10 3 (0.42%) Splunk
10 3 (0.42%) Zuora