Microsoft 365 Contracts

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 35 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,616 2,586 4,153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.26% 5.37% 5.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.33% 15.12% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,866 2,976
10th Percentile £163 £158 £156
25th Percentile £213 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £356
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £530
90th Percentile £638 £672 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £275 £275
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 113 185
10th Percentile £14.16 £14.05 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £23.15 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.84% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £24.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £54.88 £72.50 £25.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.05 £17.86 £16.43
% change year-on-year +23.43% +8.70% +3.95%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Microsoft 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 13,103 17,103 31,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.54% 35.54% 38.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 12,318 22,511
10th Percentile £313 £300 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 332 350
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.64 £13.41
25th Percentile £22.25 £18.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +46.67% +5.16%
75th Percentile £65.36 £65.00 £51.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.93 £23.00 £19.85
% change year-on-year +47.55% +15.84% +4.47%

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 9 October 2024.

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 9 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 17 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 9 October 2024. 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 -11 1,402 £400 +14.29% 1,143
UK excluding London -3 938 £350 +27.27% 1,003
London -27 575 £400 - 240
Work from Home -11 471 £475 +5.56% 455
South East +2 231 £406 +62.50% 255
North of England -13 183 £373 +16.41% 244
Midlands -15 156 £275 -15.38% 173
South West +14 152 £450 +96.72% 124
West Midlands -15 115 £268 -23.57% 113
Scotland +9 107 £350 +0.43% 67
North West -9 107 £349 +7.31% 137
East of England +6 78 £350 +60.92% 125
Yorkshire -15 62 £425 +41.67% 88
East Midlands -8 40 £400 +77.78% 61
Wales +1 31 £210 +3.70% 15
North East -8 14 £193 -8.33% 28
Northern Ireland -14 7 £225 -1.10% 45

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
1 413 (25.56%) SharePoint
2 320 (19.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.98%) Confluence
4 11 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
4 11 (0.68%) IIS
5 9 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
7 6 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.19%) CMS
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.12%) Apache
10 2 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.062%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 191 (11.82%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.43%) Acrobat
5 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.19%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 14 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.25%) assyst
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.19%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Relativity
5 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.062%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.062%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.062%) Magento
6 1 (0.062%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.062%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 659 (40.78%) Azure
2 263 (16.27%) Entra ID
3 223 (13.80%) Power Platform
4 137 (8.48%) OneDrive
5 109 (6.75%) PowerApps
6 103 (6.37%) Power Automate
7 90 (5.57%) AWS
8 73 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
9 40 (2.48%) SaaS
10 37 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 32 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
12 31 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (1.86%) IaaS
14 26 (1.61%) Mimecast
15 24 (1.49%) Google Workspace
16 23 (1.42%) Serverless
17 22 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
18 21 (1.30%) Azure Functions
18 21 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (1.30%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 122 (7.55%) DNS
2 108 (6.68%) Firewall
3 85 (5.26%) DHCP
4 82 (5.07%) VPN
5 63 (3.90%) LAN
6 60 (3.71%) TCP/IP
7 50 (3.09%) WAN
8 48 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (1.67%) SAN
10 26 (1.61%) Wireless
11 24 (1.49%) VoIP
12 23 (1.42%) Network Security
13 22 (1.36%) Internet
14 21 (1.30%) Intranet
15 19 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
15 19 (1.18%) Skype
16 15 (0.93%) VLAN
17 13 (0.80%) WLAN
18 12 (0.74%) NAS
19 9 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (6.50%) Power BI
2 71 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.05%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.43%) MySQL
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.31%) GIS
7 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (0.25%) QGIS
9 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.19%) Metadata
9 3 (0.19%) MS Access
9 3 (0.19%) Tableau
10 2 (0.12%) Big Data
10 2 (0.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (3.53%) JIRA
2 20 (1.24%) GitLab
3 9 (0.56%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.31%) MSI
5 4 (0.25%) Hudson
6 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.12%) Git
7 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.062%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.062%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.062%) Subversion
8 1 (0.062%) TestRail
General
1 546 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 235 (14.54%) Finance
3 234 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 133 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (4.46%) Banking
6 64 (3.96%) Telecoms
7 62 (3.84%) Marketing
8 61 (3.77%) Legal
9 60 (3.71%) Manufacturing
10 51 (3.16%) Electronics
11 37 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.17%) Italian Language
13 29 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.42%) Retail
15 21 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.24%) Law
16 20 (1.24%) Local Government
17 18 (1.11%) Military
18 15 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (0.87%) German Language
Job Titles
1 284 (17.57%) Analyst
2 214 (13.24%) Support Engineer
3 154 (9.53%) Architect
3 154 (9.53%) IT Support
4 120 (7.43%) Senior
5 110 (6.81%) Service Analyst
6 107 (6.62%) Service Desk Analyst
7 104 (6.44%) IT Engineer
8 84 (5.20%) Lead
9 80 (4.95%) Support Analyst
10 78 (4.83%) 2nd Line Support
11 77 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
12 75 (4.64%) Developer
13 71 (4.39%) IT Analyst
14 70 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 69 (4.27%) Desktop Support
16 68 (4.21%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 67 (4.15%) Consultant
18 54 (3.34%) Desktop Engineer
19 52 (3.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.55%) .NET
2 20 (1.24%) CSS
3 19 (1.18%) HTML
4 15 (0.93%) SPFx
5 14 (0.87%) ARM Templates
6 13 (0.80%) React
7 10 (0.62%) Software Packaging
7 10 (0.62%) Web Services
8 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (0.56%) OAuth
9 7 (0.43%) LDAP
9 7 (0.43%) REST
9 7 (0.43%) SAML
10 6 (0.37%) HTML5
11 5 (0.31%) jQuery
11 5 (0.31%) OpenID
12 4 (0.25%) XML
13 3 (0.19%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.19%) WF
13 3 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 52 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (3.16%) PKI
3 51 (3.16%) Video Conferencing
4 34 (2.10%) Onboarding
5 32 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.61%) iPad
7 25 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 25 (1.55%) iPhone
7 25 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.42%) Smartphone
9 17 (1.05%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (0.87%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.74%) BYOD
14 12 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 740 (45.79%) Windows
2 383 (23.70%) Windows 10
3 188 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 74 (4.58%) Linux
5 68 (4.21%) Apple iOS
6 59 (3.65%) Android
7 49 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (2.35%) Mac OS
9 34 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 31 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 28 (1.73%) Windows 7
12 16 (0.99%) Mac OS X
13 12 (0.74%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.62%) Unix
15 7 (0.43%) CentOS
16 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
18 3 (0.19%) Debian
19 2 (0.12%) VMS
19 2 (0.12%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
2 261 (16.15%) ITIL
3 242 (14.98%) Customer Service
4 182 (11.26%) Migration
5 174 (10.77%) Agile
6 150 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
7 111 (6.87%) Cybersecurity
8 106 (6.56%) Project Management
8 106 (6.56%) Roadmaps
9 104 (6.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 100 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 96 (5.94%) Service Management
12 90 (5.57%) ITSM
13 88 (5.45%) DevOps
14 75 (4.64%) Incident Management
14 75 (4.64%) Information Security
15 73 (4.52%) Change Management
16 65 (4.02%) Project Delivery
17 62 (3.84%) Data Protection
18 59 (3.65%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 203 (12.56%) PowerShell
2 90 (5.57%) SQL
3 30 (1.86%) C#
4 28 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.11%) VBScript
6 16 (0.99%) VB
7 13 (0.80%) Bicep
7 13 (0.80%) Python
8 6 (0.37%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.25%) C
9 4 (0.25%) Java
9 4 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.19%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.19%) VBA
11 2 (0.12%) AppleScript
11 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.062%) Bash
12 1 (0.062%) PHP
12 1 (0.062%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 277 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 187 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 177 (10.95%) Degree
4 93 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 92 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 25 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 25 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
8 25 (1.55%) MCSE
9 24 (1.49%) CISSP
10 22 (1.36%) A+ Certification
11 18 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.05%) MCSA
13 16 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.87%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.87%) PMP
15 11 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (0.62%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.89%) SLA
2 30 (1.86%) NIST
3 29 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.61%) GDPR
5 22 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (1.18%) QA
7 12 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 10 (0.62%) NCSC
9 7 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.43%) Data Quality
9 7 (0.43%) JSP 440
9 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.31%) PMO
11 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.062%) GRC
System Software
1 658 (40.72%) Active Directory
2 111 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (4.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 56 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 42 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.42%) vSphere
7 17 (1.05%) BitLocker
8 16 (0.99%) VMware NSX
9 14 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.37%) XenApp
12 5 (0.31%) Firmware
12 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.19%) Docker
14 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.19%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 2 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 295 (18.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 177 (10.95%) SCCM
3 29 (1.79%) SCOM
3 29 (1.79%) WSUS
4 26 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 23 (1.42%) Kubernetes
6 20 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (0.62%) Terraform
9 7 (0.43%) Ansible
9 7 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (0.37%) Nessus
10 6 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.31%) SCVMM
12 4 (0.25%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.19%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,080 (66.83%) Microsoft
2 152 (9.41%) VMware
3 121 (7.49%) ServiceNow
4 117 (7.24%) Citrix
5 93 (5.75%) Apple
6 81 (5.01%) Cisco
7 67 (4.15%) SAP
8 34 (2.10%) HP
9 33 (2.04%) Oracle
10 30 (1.86%) Dell
10 30 (1.86%) Google
11 16 (0.99%) Adobe
12 15 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.87%) Sophos
14 13 (0.80%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.80%) Meraki
14 13 (0.80%) Proofpoint
14 13 (0.80%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.74%) NetApp
15 12 (0.74%) Qualys