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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,984 3,196 4,458
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.60% 5.41% 5.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.24% 14.70% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 2,328 3,211
10th Percentile £150 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £549 £515
90th Percentile £638 £675 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £325 £275
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 153 231
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £16.78 £18.93 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +8.17% +9.38%
75th Percentile £20.75 £26.48 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £66.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +3.13%

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 13,936 21,745 34,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 15,710 24,937
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 351 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -3 1,715 £350 -11.95% 1,525
UK excluding London -6 1,052 £250 -23.08% 1,257
London +3 784 £400 -5.88% 388
Work from Home -5 564 £450 -5.26% 595
North of England +2 239 £258 -18.90% 304
South East -4 236 £275 -21.43% 286
Midlands 0 167 £283 -24.67% 211
North West +5 151 £284 -32.38% 163
South West -11 148 £194 -44.63% 190
Scotland +5 131 £350 +29.63% 83
West Midlands -2 114 £350 -17.65% 129
East of England -11 99 £250 -16.67% 153
Yorkshire -4 77 £240 -14.67% 112
East Midlands -3 52 £195 -22.00% 82
Wales +2 27 £145 -35.56% 36
North East +15 11 £190 -10.59% 35
Northern Ireland -10 7 £438 +157.35% 24

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
1 471 (23.74%) SharePoint
2 418 (21.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (1.86%) Skype for Business
4 23 (1.16%) Confluence
5 16 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.76%) CMS
7 14 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (0.71%) WordPress
8 13 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2013
8 13 (0.66%) IIS
9 11 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2003
10 10 (0.50%) Drupal
11 7 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 7 (0.35%) IBM Notes
11 7 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
12 5 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.20%) IBM Domino
14 3 (0.15%) nginx
15 2 (0.10%) Moodle
Applications
1 314 (15.83%) Microsoft Office
2 98 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.25%) Trello
8 3 (0.15%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.15%) SPSS
9 2 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.050%) InVision
10 1 (0.050%) Sketch
10 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.25%) Magento
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.10%) assyst
5 2 (0.10%) Eikon
5 2 (0.10%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.10%) Maximo
6 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.050%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.050%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.050%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.050%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.050%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.050%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.050%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 741 (37.35%) Azure
2 272 (13.71%) Entra ID
3 204 (10.28%) Power Platform
4 172 (8.67%) OneDrive
5 113 (5.70%) PowerApps
6 105 (5.29%) AWS
7 95 (4.79%) Power Automate
8 75 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
9 45 (2.27%) SaaS
10 44 (2.22%) IaaS
11 41 (2.07%) Mimecast
12 39 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
13 30 (1.51%) PaaS
13 30 (1.51%) Slack
13 30 (1.51%) WhatsApp
14 29 (1.46%) GitHub
15 27 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (1.21%) Azure Storage
16 24 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 170 (8.57%) Firewall
2 156 (7.86%) DNS
3 98 (4.94%) DHCP
4 96 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
5 93 (4.69%) VPN
6 73 (3.68%) LAN
7 65 (3.28%) WAN
8 60 (3.02%) Wireless
9 50 (2.52%) TCP/IP
9 50 (2.52%) VoIP
10 44 (2.22%) Skype
11 35 (1.76%) Intranet
12 33 (1.66%) SAN
13 30 (1.51%) Cisco IOS
14 29 (1.46%) Network Security
15 22 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.81%) Internet
16 16 (0.81%) MPLS
16 16 (0.81%) VLAN
17 15 (0.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.79%) Power BI
2 87 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.55%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.55%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.40%) Metadata
7 8 (0.40%) Power Query
7 8 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.25%) MySQL
9 4 (0.20%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.15%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.10%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.10%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.10%) Tableau
12 1 (0.050%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 57 (2.87%) JIRA
2 16 (0.81%) GitLab
3 12 (0.60%) Hudson
4 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.30%) Git
6 5 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.10%) Subversion
10 1 (0.050%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.050%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.050%) MSI
10 1 (0.050%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 646 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 267 (13.46%) Finance
3 226 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 154 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (3.93%) Legal
6 77 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (2.97%) Retail
8 58 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 53 (2.67%) Marketing
10 52 (2.62%) Banking
11 48 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 38 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 33 (1.66%) Electronics
15 30 (1.51%) Law
16 23 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.01%) French Language
18 18 (0.91%) German Language
18 18 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 318 (16.03%) Analyst
2 271 (13.66%) Support Engineer
3 214 (10.79%) IT Support
4 158 (7.96%) Architect
5 145 (7.31%) Service Analyst
6 142 (7.16%) Service Desk Analyst
7 133 (6.70%) IT Engineer
8 122 (6.15%) Senior
9 114 (5.75%) Desktop Support
10 111 (5.59%) 2nd Line Support
10 111 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 93 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
12 91 (4.59%) Developer
13 88 (4.44%) Consultant
13 88 (4.44%) Support Analyst
14 78 (3.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 77 (3.88%) Desktop Engineer
16 73 (3.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 63 (3.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 62 (3.13%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.36%) .NET
2 24 (1.21%) REST
3 22 (1.11%) CSS
4 19 (0.96%) XML
5 16 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 15 (0.76%) JSON
7 14 (0.71%) HTML
7 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 14 (0.71%) React
8 12 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (0.55%) SPFx
10 8 (0.40%) OAuth
11 7 (0.35%) jQuery
11 7 (0.35%) SAML
12 5 (0.25%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.25%) LDAP
12 5 (0.25%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.25%) OpenID
12 5 (0.25%) SOAP
13 4 (0.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (2.97%) Management Information System
2 54 (2.72%) PKI
3 53 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
5 47 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 33 (1.66%) Driving Licence
8 31 (1.56%) Video Editing
9 30 (1.51%) NHS
10 28 (1.41%) iPhone
11 25 (1.26%) iPad
12 22 (1.11%) Cloud Native
13 21 (1.06%) Smartphone
14 20 (1.01%) CMDB
15 18 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 18 (0.91%) Digital Signage
16 17 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (0.86%) EPoS
16 17 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 16 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 993 (50.05%) Windows
2 486 (24.50%) Windows 10
3 304 (15.32%) Windows Server
4 123 (6.20%) Apple iOS
5 101 (5.09%) Android
6 80 (4.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 79 (3.98%) Linux
8 77 (3.88%) Mac OS
8 77 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 70 (3.53%) Windows 7
10 67 (3.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 31 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (0.96%) Mac OS X
13 15 (0.76%) VMS
14 14 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.45%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.30%) Unix
17 3 (0.15%) Debian
17 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (17.04%) Customer Service
2 311 (15.68%) ITIL
3 300 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
4 228 (11.49%) Migration
5 190 (9.58%) Agile
6 153 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 122 (6.15%) Project Management
8 121 (6.10%) Change Management
9 116 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
10 111 (5.59%) DevOps
11 93 (4.69%) Service Delivery
12 86 (4.33%) Incident Management
12 86 (4.33%) Mobile Device Management
12 86 (4.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 85 (4.28%) ITSM
14 84 (4.23%) Service Management
15 83 (4.18%) Cybersecurity
16 69 (3.48%) Information Security
17 67 (3.38%) Data Loss Prevention
18 66 (3.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 273 (13.76%) PowerShell
2 75 (3.78%) SQL
3 54 (2.72%) C#
4 41 (2.07%) Python
5 34 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.91%) VBScript
7 17 (0.86%) Bicep
7 17 (0.86%) VB
8 10 (0.50%) C
9 8 (0.40%) Swift
9 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.35%) Bash
11 6 (0.30%) Java
12 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.25%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.15%) PHP
13 3 (0.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.10%) R
14 2 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 257 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.20%) Degree
3 214 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 138 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 53 (2.67%) A+ Certification
6 51 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.52%) MCSA
8 48 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 38 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
10 33 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 30 (1.51%) DBS Check
13 24 (1.21%) CCNA
13 24 (1.21%) MCSE
14 23 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 21 (1.06%) CISSP
16 19 (0.96%) MCP
17 13 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.60%) AWS Certification
18 12 (0.60%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (6.25%) SLA
2 23 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.11%) QA
4 20 (1.01%) NIST
5 19 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.60%) GDPR
8 11 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
9 9 (0.45%) GRC
9 9 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.35%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.35%) PMO
11 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.30%) NCSC
12 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 929 (46.82%) Active Directory
2 105 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (3.53%) Hyper-V
4 47 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 41 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.16%) vSphere
7 16 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.66%) BitLocker
9 12 (0.60%) XenApp
10 10 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.45%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.45%) XenDesktop
12 8 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.25%) Firmware
14 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.10%) Docker
16 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 329 (16.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 268 (13.51%) SCCM
3 46 (2.32%) Jamf Pro
4 45 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 37 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (1.46%) SCOM
7 28 (1.41%) WSUS
8 22 (1.11%) Kubernetes
9 17 (0.86%) Terraform
10 12 (0.60%) Ansible
11 11 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
11 11 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.50%) Autotask
13 9 (0.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.40%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.30%) Packer
16 5 (0.25%) AirWatch
17 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
17 4 (0.20%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,273 (64.16%) Microsoft
2 200 (10.08%) VMware
3 180 (9.07%) Citrix
4 165 (8.32%) ServiceNow
5 141 (7.11%) Apple
6 93 (4.69%) Cisco
7 47 (2.37%) Veeam
8 46 (2.32%) SAP
9 40 (2.02%) Google
10 37 (1.86%) HP
11 36 (1.81%) Adobe
12 33 (1.66%) Oracle
13 28 (1.41%) Dell
13 28 (1.41%) NetApp
14 20 (1.01%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.96%) Bloomberg
15 19 (0.96%) Sophos
16 18 (0.91%) MobileIron
17 17 (0.86%) Aruba
18 16 (0.81%) CA