Microsoft 365 Contracts

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 35 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 2,335 4,146 4,421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.20% 5.40% 4.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.04% 14.39% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,922 3,162
10th Percentile £150 £160 £145
25th Percentile £200 £205 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £500 £538 £513
90th Percentile £650 £630 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £270 £300 £285
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 227 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.81 £15.19 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.53 £17.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +6.06% -8.33%
75th Percentile £21.69 £22.04 £22.29
90th Percentile £53.88 £25.00 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £16.94 £16.00
% change year-on-year +4.64% +5.84% -8.57%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,521 28,806 34,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.58% 37.52% 38.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,184 20,583 25,292
10th Percentile £300 £338 £345
25th Percentile £419 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £737 £744 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 409 496
10th Percentile £14.31 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.56 £15.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.16 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +5.52% -10.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £43.63 £46.50
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £19.21 £18.17
% change year-on-year +9.35% +5.73% -9.18%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 18 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +9 2,036 £325 -8.45% 1,901
UK excluding London -8 1,184 £270 -10.00% 1,573
London +20 972 £375 -9.09% 433
Work from Home +9 756 £450 - 713
North of England 0 297 £300 -4.00% 427
South East -18 284 £225 -25.00% 408
Midlands +4 226 £325 -7.14% 300
West Midlands +11 163 £340 -15.00% 196
North West -6 157 £325 -7.14% 207
South West -12 148 £225 -40.00% 177
Yorkshire 0 123 £300 +9.09% 155
Scotland +5 104 £336 +31.76% 95
East of England -28 77 £200 -27.27% 153
East Midlands 0 58 £225 +12.50% 104
Wales +1 38 £225 -30.77% 28
North East +26 18 £175 -22.22% 69
Northern Ireland +4 18 £230 +4.55% 19
Channel Islands - 1 £200 -

Microsoft 365
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
1 513 (21.97%) SharePoint
2 128 (5.48%) MS Exchange
3 37 (1.58%) Skype for Business
4 19 (0.81%) Confluence
5 14 (0.60%) IIS
6 10 (0.43%) CMS
6 10 (0.43%) IBM Notes
7 8 (0.34%) Content Management Server
8 7 (0.30%) IBM Domino
8 7 (0.30%) nginx
9 6 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.13%) Apache
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.086%) Moodle
12 2 (0.086%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.086%) TPMS
Applications
1 405 (17.34%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.26%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.043%) InDesign
9 1 (0.043%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.043%) InVision
9 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.043%) Sketch
9 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 13 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.17%) assyst
6 4 (0.17%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.13%) Eikon
8 2 (0.086%) GoldMine
8 2 (0.086%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.086%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.086%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.043%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.043%) iTrent
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.043%) Relativity
9 1 (0.043%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.043%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 951 (40.73%) Azure
2 342 (14.65%) Entra ID
3 212 (9.08%) Power Platform
4 209 (8.95%) OneDrive
5 121 (5.18%) AWS
6 110 (4.71%) PowerApps
7 107 (4.58%) Power Automate
8 67 (2.87%) IaaS
9 66 (2.83%) SaaS
10 53 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.97%) Google Workspace
13 35 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
13 35 (1.50%) Mimecast
14 33 (1.41%) PaaS
15 32 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
16 28 (1.20%) GCP
17 26 (1.11%) WhatsApp
18 22 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
18 22 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 242 (10.36%) DNS
2 220 (9.42%) Firewall
3 161 (6.90%) DHCP
4 138 (5.91%) VPN
5 110 (4.71%) WAN
6 104 (4.45%) LAN
7 94 (4.03%) TCP/IP
8 79 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
9 67 (2.87%) Wireless
10 63 (2.70%) Network Security
11 55 (2.36%) SAN
12 48 (2.06%) Skype
13 44 (1.88%) Internet
14 43 (1.84%) Remote Desktop
15 39 (1.67%) VoIP
16 31 (1.33%) VLAN
17 28 (1.20%) Unified Communications
18 26 (1.11%) Intranet
19 24 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
19 24 (1.03%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (5.91%) Power BI
2 95 (4.07%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.43%) Metadata
6 9 (0.39%) MySQL
7 7 (0.30%) Tableau
8 6 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.26%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.17%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.13%) Power Query
11 3 (0.13%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.086%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.086%) Big Data
12 2 (0.086%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.086%) EDMS
12 2 (0.086%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 49 (2.10%) JIRA
2 13 (0.56%) Hudson
3 6 (0.26%) GitLab
4 5 (0.21%) Git
5 2 (0.086%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.086%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.043%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.043%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.043%) MSI
6 1 (0.043%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.043%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.043%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 625 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 331 (14.18%) Finance
3 261 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 148 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (3.77%) Legal
6 78 (3.34%) Banking
7 63 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (2.61%) Law
9 54 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 44 (1.88%) Marketing
11 43 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.63%) Retail
13 37 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 37 (1.58%) Front Office
14 32 (1.37%) Local Government
15 29 (1.24%) Investment Banking
15 29 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.16%) Electronics
16 27 (1.16%) French Language
17 24 (1.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 418 (17.90%) Support Engineer
2 394 (16.87%) Analyst
3 223 (9.55%) IT Support
4 169 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 165 (7.07%) 2nd Line Support
6 161 (6.90%) Service Analyst
7 158 (6.77%) Senior
8 157 (6.72%) Service Desk Analyst
9 146 (6.25%) IT Engineer
10 136 (5.82%) Desktop Support
11 130 (5.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 130 (5.57%) Architect
12 114 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
13 112 (4.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 107 (4.58%) Desktop Engineer
15 105 (4.50%) Consultant
16 103 (4.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 94 (4.03%) Support Analyst
18 89 (3.81%) 1st Line Support
19 79 (3.38%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.06%) HTML
2 45 (1.93%) CSS
3 36 (1.54%) REST
4 29 (1.24%) .NET
5 26 (1.11%) JSON
5 26 (1.11%) LDAP
5 26 (1.11%) XML
6 19 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (0.69%) Web Services
8 15 (0.64%) SPFx
9 10 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (0.39%) .NET Framework
10 9 (0.39%) Node.js
10 9 (0.39%) OAuth
10 9 (0.39%) SailPoint
10 9 (0.39%) SAML
10 9 (0.39%) SOAP
10 9 (0.39%) YAML
11 8 (0.34%) jQuery
11 8 (0.34%) Velocity
Miscellaneous
1 104 (4.45%) Management Information System
2 66 (2.83%) Data Centre
3 56 (2.40%) Onboarding
4 52 (2.23%) PKI
5 44 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (1.63%) NHS
6 38 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
7 34 (1.46%) Digital Signage
8 29 (1.24%) iPhone
9 28 (1.20%) Smartphone
10 25 (1.07%) iPad
10 25 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 21 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
11 21 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (0.90%) Public Cloud
12 17 (0.73%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
14 15 (0.64%) CMDB
14 15 (0.64%) Hedge funds
14 15 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,276 (54.65%) Windows
2 544 (23.30%) Windows 10
3 364 (15.59%) Windows Server
4 131 (5.61%) Apple iOS
5 119 (5.10%) Android
6 100 (4.28%) Windows 7
7 93 (3.98%) Linux
8 85 (3.64%) Mac OS
9 79 (3.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 57 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 56 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 31 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 26 (1.11%) Mac OS X
14 19 (0.81%) Unix
15 17 (0.73%) Windows 8
16 16 (0.69%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.26%) VMS
18 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
19 4 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (15.67%) Customer Service
2 335 (14.35%) ITIL
3 270 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
4 248 (10.62%) Migration
5 226 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 182 (7.79%) Agile
7 147 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (5.78%) Service Management
9 122 (5.22%) Cybersecurity
10 115 (4.93%) Change Management
11 114 (4.88%) Information Security
12 112 (4.80%) ITSM
13 108 (4.63%) Project Management
14 105 (4.50%) DevOps
15 102 (4.37%) Incident Management
16 99 (4.24%) Roadmaps
17 88 (3.77%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (3.55%) Service Delivery
19 81 (3.47%) Data Loss Prevention
20 76 (3.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 319 (13.66%) PowerShell
2 107 (4.58%) SQL
3 60 (2.57%) Python
4 53 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.63%) C#
6 26 (1.11%) Bash
7 22 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 17 (0.73%) Java
9 11 (0.47%) VBA
9 11 (0.47%) VBScript
10 7 (0.30%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.26%) PHP
12 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.13%) Ruby
13 3 (0.13%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.086%) C
14 2 (0.086%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.086%) R
14 2 (0.086%) VB
Qualifications
1 268 (11.48%) Degree
2 231 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 173 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 57 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
6 56 (2.40%) DBS Check
7 48 (2.06%) CISSP
8 43 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 41 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 35 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (1.28%) MCSE
13 26 (1.11%) MCP
14 24 (1.03%) CCNA
15 21 (0.90%) A+ Certification
16 16 (0.69%) CISM
17 13 (0.56%) MCSA
18 10 (0.43%) AWS Certification
18 10 (0.43%) CCNP
18 10 (0.43%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.61%) SLA
2 37 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (1.28%) NIST
4 19 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 18 (0.77%) GDPR
6 13 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 12 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.47%) NCSC
8 11 (0.47%) PMO
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.34%) QA
10 7 (0.30%) GRC
10 7 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
11 5 (0.21%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.086%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1,129 (48.35%) Active Directory
2 146 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (5.18%) Hyper-V
4 91 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 35 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.24%) BitLocker
6 29 (1.24%) vSphere
7 19 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.73%) XenApp
9 9 (0.39%) Docker
9 9 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.39%) XenDesktop
10 7 (0.30%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.17%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.17%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.086%) NFS
12 2 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 418 (17.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 312 (13.36%) SCCM
3 41 (1.76%) Ansible
4 40 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
5 38 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 36 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (1.54%) Terraform
7 17 (0.73%) WSUS
8 13 (0.56%) Kubernetes
8 13 (0.56%) SCOrch
9 12 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 11 (0.47%) Packer
11 9 (0.39%) AirWatch
12 8 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (0.30%) PaperCut
13 7 (0.30%) QRadar
13 7 (0.30%) SCOM
13 7 (0.30%) VxRail
14 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,474 (63.13%) Microsoft
2 272 (11.65%) VMware
3 191 (8.18%) Citrix
4 186 (7.97%) ServiceNow
5 139 (5.95%) Cisco
6 127 (5.44%) Apple
7 57 (2.44%) SAP
8 55 (2.36%) Google
9 45 (1.93%) HP
10 34 (1.46%) Adobe
11 31 (1.33%) Meraki
12 30 (1.28%) Remedy
13 29 (1.24%) iManage
14 28 (1.20%) Oracle
14 28 (1.20%) Palo Alto
15 27 (1.16%) Veeam
16 25 (1.07%) Dell
16 25 (1.07%) Splunk
16 25 (1.07%) Zscaler
17 24 (1.03%) Bloomberg