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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 194 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 -69 +38
Contract jobs citing Dynamics 365 802 474 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.44% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 3.86% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 311 452
10th Percentile £363 £325 £380
25th Percentile £425 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 1
10th Percentile £18.95 £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 £37.22 £73.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £42.10 £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 18,745 12,275 13,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.88% 37.25% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,407 8,176 9,007
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
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 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 314 223
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.12 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.42 £57.75
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +65.79% -21.42% -10.77%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +5 688 £500 -1.96% 288
London +25 373 £515 +0.49% 139
UK excluding London +19 360 £475 -5.00% 199
Work from Home -36 183 £513 -2.38% 155
North of England -21 96 £475 - 41
Midlands -15 78 £425 -15.00% 42
South East -41 69 £500 +0.76% 59
North West -15 55 £475 - 27
West Midlands -22 52 £425 -15.00% 21
Scotland +1 36 £525 +13.51% 12
South West -25 30 £488 -7.14% 21
Yorkshire -36 28 £478 -2.05% 14
East Midlands 0 25 £455 -1.62% 19
East of England -2 25 £450 -28.00% 11
Wales -6 16 £500 +2.51% 5
North East -28 13 £513 +17.14%
Channel Islands +3 7 £513 -18.00%
Northern Ireland +6 4 £450 - 11

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 57 (7.11%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.25%) 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 34 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 242 (30.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (2.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 16 (2.00%) 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%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.62%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.37%) BusinessWorks
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
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%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 362 (45.14%) Power Platform
2 286 (35.66%) Azure
3 199 (24.81%) Power Automate
4 163 (20.32%) PowerApps
5 145 (18.08%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.73%) Azure Logic Apps
6 62 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (7.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 51 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
9 48 (5.99%) Azure Functions
9 48 (5.99%) Serverless
10 39 (4.86%) Copilot Studio
11 22 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (2.24%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.12%) SaaS
14 12 (1.50%) Azure API Management
14 12 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.12%) Azure Event Grid
16 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.87%) GitHub
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
1 135 (16.83%) Power BI
2 36 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.87%) Data Vault
6 7 (0.87%) Star Schema
7 5 (0.62%) Metadata
7 5 (0.62%) Spark SQL
8 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.50%) Power Query
9 3 (0.37%) GIS
10 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.12%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.12%) MS Access
10 1 (0.12%) MySQL
10 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (3.12%) Visual Studio
2 20 (2.49%) JIRA
3 19 (2.37%) Git
4 11 (1.37%) Selenium
5 10 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.12%) Postman
6 9 (1.12%) WebDriver
7 6 (0.75%) 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%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.12%) TestRail
11 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 266 (33.17%) Finance
2 224 (27.93%) Social Skills
3 87 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 62 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.74%) Law
6 37 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.36%) Marketing
8 31 (3.87%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.99%) Retail
11 18 (2.24%) Local Government
12 16 (2.00%) Billing
12 16 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.75%) General Ledger
14 13 (1.62%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.00%) Banking
15 8 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.62%) Legal
17 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 204 (25.44%) Developer
2 143 (17.83%) Architect
3 134 (16.71%) Consultant
4 104 (12.97%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 98 (12.22%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 96 (11.97%) Lead
7 92 (11.47%) Analyst
8 71 (8.85%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 71 (8.85%) Solutions Architect
9 68 (8.48%) Functional Consultant
10 60 (7.48%) Senior
11 51 (6.36%) Business Analyst
12 48 (5.99%) Microsoft Developer
13 45 (5.61%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
14 37 (4.61%) Lead Architect
15 32 (3.99%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
16 31 (3.87%) Functional Architect
16 31 (3.87%) Project Manager
17 26 (3.24%) Power Platform Developer
18 21 (2.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (11.72%) .NET
2 28 (3.49%) REST
3 27 (3.37%) HTML5 Canvas
4 25 (3.12%) JSON
5 24 (2.99%) Middleware
6 14 (1.75%) Terraform
7 13 (1.62%) ASP.NET Web API
8 12 (1.50%) HTML
9 11 (1.37%) XML
10 10 (1.25%) RESTful
11 9 (1.12%) Gherkin
11 9 (1.12%) Web Services
12 8 (1.00%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.00%) OAuth
13 7 (0.87%) ADO
13 7 (0.87%) ASP.NET
13 7 (0.87%) CSS
13 7 (0.87%) PySpark
13 7 (0.87%) WCF
13 7 (0.87%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 15 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.00%) Cloud Native
10 7 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.75%) FMCG
11 6 (0.75%) Housing Association
11 6 (0.75%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.62%) IoT
12 5 (0.62%) Life Science
12 5 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.62%) Taxonomies
13 4 (0.50%) IVR
13 4 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (31.80%) CRM
2 197 (24.56%) Agile
2 197 (24.56%) ERP
3 182 (22.69%) DevOps
4 165 (20.57%) Migration
5 154 (19.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 142 (17.71%) Data Migration
7 140 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
8 139 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 128 (15.96%) User Acceptance Testing
10 103 (12.84%) CI/CD
10 103 (12.84%) Customer Service
11 96 (11.97%) Translating Business Requirements
12 94 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 85 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
14 81 (10.10%) Data Modelling
15 69 (8.60%) Requirements Gathering
16 68 (8.48%) AI
17 65 (8.10%) Scrum
18 54 (6.73%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (15.71%) JavaScript
2 123 (15.34%) C#
3 70 (8.73%) SQL
4 29 (3.62%) X++
5 18 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.62%) Python
6 13 (1.62%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.00%) Bicep
8 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.62%) Bash
10 5 (0.62%) Java
10 5 (0.62%) Korn
11 1 (0.12%) C
11 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 109 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 79 (9.85%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.98%) Degree
4 53 (6.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.50%) PMI Certification
5 12 (1.50%) PMP
6 11 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.25%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.62%) IIBA
10 5 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.25%) CIPD
13 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.86%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.61%) GDPR
3 34 (4.24%) QA
4 31 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.00%) PMO
6 14 (1.75%) WCAG
7 7 (0.87%) NIST
8 6 (0.75%) SLA
9 5 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.50%) GRC
10 4 (0.50%) P3O
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.37%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.12%) GMP
System Software
1 11 (1.37%) 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
1 596 (74.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.49%) SAP
3 26 (3.24%) Oracle
4 23 (2.87%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.50%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.12%) Databricks
7 7 (0.87%) Workday
8 5 (0.62%) IFS
8 5 (0.62%) NEC
9 4 (0.50%) Ariba
9 4 (0.50%) Brio
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