Microsoft 365 Consultant Contracts

Microsoft 365 Consultant (M365 Consultant)
UK

The median Microsoft 365 Consultant (M365 Consultant) daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 553 657
Rank change year-on-year +46 +104 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Consultant 19 30 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.069% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.074% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 33
10th Percentile £373 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £525 £638
90th Percentile £585 £575 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £519
% change year-on-year -5.13% -6.02% +22.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,094 40,274 56,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,701 26,219 39,262
10th Percentile £300 £276 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,672 1,567
10th Percentile £14.15 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%

Microsoft 365 Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft 365 Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Consultant in the UK

Microsoft 365 Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 Consultant in the UK

Microsoft 365 Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Consultant over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Consultant in the UK

Microsoft 365 Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 Consultant in the UK

Microsoft 365 Consultant
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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 +56 14 £488 +8.33% 5
UK excluding London +56 8 £463 -5.13% 4
Work from Home +36 7 £496 +13.43%
London +37 6 £509 +13.06% 1
South East +34 2 £363 -26.77% 2
Midlands +16 2 - -
West Midlands +11 2 - -
North of England +10 2 £513 +5.13% 2
North West +9 1 £425 -15.00% 2
North East - 1 £600 -
East of England - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

Microsoft 365 Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Microsoft 365 Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Microsoft 365 Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (94.74%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (63.16%) SharePoint
2 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
3 11 (57.89%) Azure
4 10 (52.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
6 7 (36.84%) Migration
6 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
6 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
7 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (26.32%) Finance
8 5 (26.32%) OneDrive
8 5 (26.32%) Windows
8 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
9 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (21.05%) PowerApps
9 4 (21.05%) Power BI
10 3 (15.79%) Firewall
10 3 (15.79%) ITIL
10 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (15.79%) Mimecast
10 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
10 3 (15.79%) SCCM
10 3 (15.79%) AWS
10 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
10 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
10 3 (15.79%) Threat Management
10 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN

Microsoft 365 Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (63.16%) SharePoint
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (57.89%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
3 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
4 5 (26.32%) OneDrive
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (21.05%) PowerApps
6 3 (15.79%) AWS
6 3 (15.79%) Mimecast
6 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.26%) IaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.26%) PaaS
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
2 2 (10.53%) VLAN
2 2 (10.53%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) FMCG
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Migration
2 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.79%) Threat Management
2 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
3 2 (10.53%) Change Control
3 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
3 2 (10.53%) Data Security
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
3 2 (10.53%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (10.53%) User Experience
4 1 (5.26%) Agile
4 1 (5.26%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (5.26%) Data Extraction
4 1 (5.26%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (5.26%) Document Management
4 1 (5.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce