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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 38 39
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,425 2,025 3,224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.87% 4.65% 5.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.96% 14.37% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,411 2,360
10th Percentile £175 £150 £160
25th Percentile £213 £200 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £393
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.83% +4.67%
75th Percentile £520 £500 £540
90th Percentile £618 £638 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £261 £325
% change year-on-year +14.83% -19.62% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 143 157
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.75 £17.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £31.47 £20.00 £25.75
90th Percentile £56.00 £22.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.51 £16.30 £17.50
% change year-on-year +13.56% -6.86% +6.06%

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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 -2 1,212 £375 +7.14% 1,318
UK excluding London +5 809 £300 +14.83% 989
London -12 516 £414 +3.44% 398
Work from Home -10 372 £450 - 546
North of England +11 245 £320 +23.08% 282
North West +5 151 £350 +23.67% 153
South East -3 147 £423 +53.74% 260
Midlands -2 130 £250 -16.67% 168
West Midlands +4 106 £210 -40.00% 85
Scotland -5 97 £338 -3.57% 51
South West +2 93 £375 +84.05% 117
East of England +13 77 £208 -17.00% 110
Yorkshire +8 73 £264 -0.47% 105
Wales +1 26 £225 +35.54% 19
North East +12 25 £470 +147.37% 30
East Midlands -12 23 £250 +28.21% 82
Northern Ireland -4 11 £148 -66.17% 10
Channel Islands - 2 £298 -

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
1 462 (32.42%) SharePoint
2 293 (20.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.91%) Confluence
4 9 (0.63%) IIS
5 7 (0.49%) CMS
6 4 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.28%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.14%) Drupal
7 2 (0.14%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.070%) JBoss
8 1 (0.070%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.070%) nginx
8 1 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.070%) TPMS
Applications
1 205 (14.39%) Microsoft Office
2 105 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.70%) InfoPath
6 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.35%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.14%) 1Password
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.070%) Notion
9 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.14%) Alphatax
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.070%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 609 (42.74%) Azure
2 343 (24.07%) Entra ID
3 218 (15.30%) Power Platform
4 185 (12.98%) OneDrive
5 111 (7.79%) PowerApps
6 98 (6.88%) Power Automate
7 77 (5.40%) AWS
8 69 (4.84%) SaaS
9 66 (4.63%) IaaS
10 47 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
11 46 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
12 41 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
12 41 (2.88%) PaaS
13 33 (2.32%) Google Workspace
14 25 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
15 24 (1.68%) Yammer
16 20 (1.40%) Serverless
17 19 (1.33%) Mimecast
18 17 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
19 16 (1.12%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 127 (8.91%) Firewall
2 124 (8.70%) VPN
3 99 (6.95%) Wi-Fi
4 87 (6.11%) DNS
5 61 (4.28%) DHCP
6 49 (3.44%) WAN
7 44 (3.09%) Network Security
8 41 (2.88%) LAN
9 37 (2.60%) Skype
10 35 (2.46%) TCP/IP
11 32 (2.25%) VLAN
12 21 (1.47%) WebEx
13 20 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
13 20 (1.40%) VoIP
14 19 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
15 18 (1.26%) MPLS
15 18 (1.26%) Wireless
16 17 (1.19%) Internet
17 13 (0.91%) SAN
18 12 (0.84%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (6.60%) Power BI
2 63 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.70%) Tableau
5 8 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.35%) Big Data
8 5 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.28%) MS Access
9 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.21%) Dremio
10 3 (0.21%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (3.09%) JIRA
2 8 (0.56%) MSI
3 6 (0.42%) Hudson
3 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.21%) GitLab
4 3 (0.21%) Postman
4 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.14%) Git
6 1 (0.070%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.070%) Mercurial
General
1 520 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 204 (14.32%) Finance
3 147 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 141 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (4.42%) Banking
5 63 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (4.28%) Legal
7 40 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (2.18%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.11%) Marketing
10 22 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.47%) Retail
12 20 (1.40%) Law
13 18 (1.26%) Local Government
14 16 (1.12%) Military
14 16 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.91%) Electronics
16 7 (0.49%) Billing
16 7 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 232 (16.28%) Support Engineer
2 215 (15.09%) Analyst
3 131 (9.19%) IT Support
4 130 (9.12%) Architect
5 116 (8.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 104 (7.30%) IT Engineer
7 92 (6.46%) Senior
8 91 (6.39%) Service Analyst
9 90 (6.32%) Service Desk Analyst
10 85 (5.96%) Desktop Support
11 84 (5.89%) Desktop Engineer
12 83 (5.82%) 2nd Line Support
12 83 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 77 (5.40%) Developer
14 65 (4.56%) IT Support Engineer
15 62 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 56 (3.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 54 (3.79%) Consultant
17 54 (3.79%) Support Analyst
18 50 (3.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.82%) CSS
1 26 (1.82%) HTML
2 21 (1.47%) SPFx
3 18 (1.26%) React
3 18 (1.26%) SailPoint
4 17 (1.19%) .NET
5 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.63%) ASP.NET
7 8 (0.56%) YAML
8 7 (0.49%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.49%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.35%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (0.35%) Entity Framework
9 5 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (0.35%) REST
9 5 (0.35%) Software Packaging
10 4 (0.28%) ADO
10 4 (0.28%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.28%) Kafka
11 3 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.21%) Onboarding
2 50 (3.51%) Video Conferencing
3 41 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 32 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (1.96%) Driving Licence
7 27 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.82%) Smartphone
9 24 (1.68%) iPhone
9 24 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 22 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.12%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.12%) PKI
12 15 (1.05%) BYOD
12 15 (1.05%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.05%) Private Cloud
13 13 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (0.91%) NHS
13 13 (0.91%) Product Ownership
14 11 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 638 (44.77%) Windows
2 267 (18.74%) Windows 10
3 146 (10.25%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.21%) Mac OS
5 50 (3.51%) Android
6 48 (3.37%) Apple iOS
7 46 (3.23%) Linux
8 39 (2.74%) Windows 7
9 36 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (1.12%) VMS
13 11 (0.77%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.49%) CentOS
15 5 (0.35%) Unix
16 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.21%) Mac OS X
18 1 (0.070%) Amazon Linux
18 1 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
2 265 (18.60%) ITIL
3 244 (17.12%) Customer Service
4 206 (14.46%) Migration
5 161 (11.30%) Agile
6 131 (9.19%) ITSM
7 126 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 100 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
9 94 (6.60%) Incident Management
10 92 (6.46%) Change Management
11 87 (6.11%) Project Management
12 84 (5.89%) Service Delivery
13 81 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
14 79 (5.54%) Data Loss Prevention
14 79 (5.54%) Roadmaps
15 78 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 77 (5.40%) Service Management
17 67 (4.70%) Cloud Security
17 67 (4.70%) Collaborative Working
18 60 (4.21%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 234 (16.42%) PowerShell
2 57 (4.00%) SQL
3 36 (2.53%) Python
4 34 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 17 (1.19%) TypeScript
6 15 (1.05%) C#
7 13 (0.91%) Bicep
8 7 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.49%) VBA
9 5 (0.35%) VB
10 4 (0.28%) Bash
10 4 (0.28%) Java
10 4 (0.28%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.21%) VBScript
12 2 (0.14%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.14%) Groovy
12 2 (0.14%) PHP
12 2 (0.14%) R
12 2 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 208 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.65%) Degree
3 159 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 124 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 49 (3.44%) A+ Certification
6 42 (2.95%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.39%) MCSA
8 32 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.54%) DBS Check
10 17 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 17 (1.19%) MCSE
11 12 (0.84%) PMP
12 11 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.77%) MCP
13 10 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.49%) CCNA
16 6 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.00%) SLA
2 25 (1.75%) GDPR
2 25 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.26%) QA
4 17 (1.19%) NIST
5 15 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.70%) PMO
8 9 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.56%) NCSC
10 5 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.28%) GRC
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.070%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 621 (43.58%) Active Directory
2 102 (7.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 29 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.04%) vSphere
5 22 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.19%) BitLocker
7 12 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.42%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.28%) Docker
11 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.21%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.14%) Firmware
13 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.14%) XenApp
14 1 (0.070%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.070%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 308 (21.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 150 (10.53%) SCCM
3 31 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (2.11%) Terraform
4 30 (2.11%) WSUS
5 19 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (1.19%) Kubernetes
7 14 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.91%) AppManager
9 11 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.70%) PingFederate
11 7 (0.49%) Ansible
11 7 (0.49%) Nessus
12 5 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (0.28%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.21%) CASB
14 3 (0.21%) Forefront Identity Manager
14 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.21%) VxRail
Vendors
1 981 (68.84%) Microsoft
2 169 (11.86%) ServiceNow
3 135 (9.47%) VMware
4 94 (6.60%) Citrix
5 84 (5.89%) Cisco
6 59 (4.14%) Apple
7 38 (2.67%) Google
8 29 (2.04%) HP
9 25 (1.75%) SAP
10 22 (1.54%) Dell
11 19 (1.33%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.19%) Ivanti
12 17 (1.19%) Polycom
13 15 (1.05%) Proofpoint
13 15 (1.05%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.98%) Meraki
14 14 (0.98%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.91%) Adobe
16 12 (0.84%) Oracle
17 11 (0.77%) Remedy