Microsoft Intune Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Intune (formerly Windows Intune)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft Intune skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 163 227
Rank change year-on-year -57 +64 +39
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Intune 538 476 448
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.63% 1.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.30% 10.21% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 320 354
10th Percentile £163 £190 £185
25th Percentile £205 £249 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £361
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.88% -12.55%
75th Percentile £503 £531 £488
90th Percentile £575 £625 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £325 £325
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 23
10th Percentile £14.89 £20.51 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.50 £17.26
Median hourly rate £23.84 £23.90 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +34.88% -11.40%
75th Percentile £26.32 £28.19 £22.00
90th Percentile £32.06 £41.25 £38.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £24.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -23.20% +35.95% -11.40%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Microsoft Intune falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,480 4,661 5,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.13% 15.95% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,455 3,191 3,768
10th Percentile £319 £313 £261
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -9.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £734 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 51 134
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.09 £21.77 £17.76
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -13.98% -46.52%
75th Percentile £69.06 £47.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.05 £72.50 £69.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

Microsoft Intune
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Intune relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Intune job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Intune
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Intune.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Intune over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Intune in the UK

Microsoft Intune
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Intune.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Intune over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Intune in the UK

Microsoft Intune
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Intune within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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 -38 492 £375 -6.25% 177
UK excluding London -55 285 £300 -7.69% 157
London -30 222 £450 - 49
Work from Home -48 122 £450 -5.26% 63
North of England -62 80 £313 -21.75% 34
South East -31 76 £350 -5.91% 48
South West -15 46 £450 +12.50% 25
North West -39 43 £225 -43.79% 25
Midlands -57 43 £225 -19.64% 25
Yorkshire -30 37 £325 +18.18% 7
West Midlands -67 22 £485 +73.21% 12
East of England -22 21 £220 - 15
East Midlands -22 21 £220 -14.15% 13
Scotland -12 13 £225 +18.42% 8
Wales -17 6 £180 -20.00% 2

Microsoft Intune
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 98 (18.22%) SharePoint
2 91 (16.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.04%) Confluence
4 2 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.93%) Acrobat
5 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 371 (68.96%) Azure
2 336 (62.45%) Microsoft 365
3 258 (47.96%) Entra ID
4 53 (9.85%) OneDrive
5 37 (6.88%) AWS
6 33 (6.13%) SaaS
7 25 (4.65%) Power Platform
8 24 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (3.90%) IaaS
10 18 (3.35%) PaaS
11 16 (2.97%) Mimecast
12 14 (2.60%) PowerApps
13 11 (2.04%) GCP
13 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.86%) Datadog
15 9 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (1.67%) Nutanix
16 6 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 4 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 90 (16.73%) DNS
2 70 (13.01%) VPN
3 64 (11.90%) DHCP
4 61 (11.34%) Firewall
5 52 (9.67%) Wi-Fi
6 38 (7.06%) LAN
7 30 (5.58%) WAN
8 23 (4.28%) TCP/IP
9 15 (2.79%) Unified Communications
10 13 (2.42%) VLAN
11 12 (2.23%) Network Security
11 12 (2.23%) SAN
12 10 (1.86%) FTP
13 9 (1.67%) MPLS
14 8 (1.49%) DKIM
15 7 (1.30%) PSTN
15 7 (1.30%) Wireless
16 6 (1.12%) DMARC
17 5 (0.93%) SMTP
18 4 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.67%) Power BI
3 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 27 (5.02%) JIRA
2 12 (2.23%) MSI
3 9 (1.67%) Chocolatey
4 8 (1.49%) InstallShield
5 5 (0.93%) AdminStudio
6 3 (0.56%) Git
7 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.37%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) AppScan
8 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.19%) WiX
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 218 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 58 (10.78%) Finance
3 55 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.36%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (3.72%) Banking
7 16 (2.97%) Legal
8 15 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.30%) Law
10 7 (1.30%) Retail
11 5 (0.93%) Front Office
11 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.74%) French Language
12 4 (0.74%) International Banking
12 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.74%) Local Government
12 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.56%) Police
14 2 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (18.77%) Support Engineer
2 70 (13.01%) IT Support
3 58 (10.78%) IT Engineer
3 58 (10.78%) Senior
4 48 (8.92%) Analyst
5 46 (8.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 44 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (7.43%) Architect
8 37 (6.88%) Desktop Support
9 28 (5.20%) Desktop Engineer
10 27 (5.02%) Technical Support
11 24 (4.46%) 2nd Line Support
12 22 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (4.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 21 (3.90%) Consultant
13 21 (3.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 21 (3.90%) Support Specialist
14 20 (3.72%) IT Analyst
15 19 (3.53%) Technical Specialist
15 19 (3.53%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.53%) Microsoft Graph
2 10 (1.86%) Software Packaging
3 4 (0.74%) REST
4 2 (0.37%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.37%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.37%) BREW
4 2 (0.37%) JSON
4 2 (0.37%) OAuth
4 2 (0.37%) OpenID
4 2 (0.37%) SAML
4 2 (0.37%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.37%) Web Services
5 1 (0.19%) EDI
5 1 (0.19%) HTML
5 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.19%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.97%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (3.16%) Blackberry
3 17 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.79%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.79%) PKI
5 13 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.42%) Smartphone
6 12 (2.23%) BYOD
6 12 (2.23%) CMDB
7 10 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.86%) NHS
7 10 (1.86%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.49%) IoT
8 8 (1.49%) iPhone
9 7 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.12%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 375 (69.70%) Windows
2 119 (22.12%) Windows 10
3 79 (14.68%) Windows Server
4 52 (9.67%) Apple iOS
5 45 (8.36%) Mac OS
6 43 (7.99%) Android
7 12 (2.23%) Linux
7 12 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.12%) VMS
10 6 (1.12%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.93%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.19%) Unix
13 1 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (22.12%) Migration
3 114 (21.19%) ITIL
4 105 (19.52%) Customer Service
5 72 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 64 (11.90%) Mobile Device Management
7 52 (9.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (8.92%) Application Packaging
8 48 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (8.74%) ITSM
10 46 (8.55%) Roadmaps
11 43 (7.99%) Disaster Recovery
12 38 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
13 37 (6.88%) Analytics
13 37 (6.88%) User Experience
14 35 (6.51%) Change Management
15 30 (5.58%) Service Delivery
16 29 (5.39%) Data Protection
17 27 (5.02%) Root Cause Analysis
17 27 (5.02%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (29.18%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.72%) Python
3 15 (2.79%) Bash
4 7 (1.30%) SQL
5 6 (1.12%) VBScript
6 2 (0.37%) Bicep
6 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.37%) VB
7 1 (0.19%) AppleScript
7 1 (0.19%) Go
7 1 (0.19%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 68 (12.64%) Degree
2 64 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 52 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.23%) MCSE
8 8 (1.49%) MCSA
9 6 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.56%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (3.35%) SLA
4 17 (3.16%) GDPR
5 7 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.74%) NIST
7 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.37%) NCSC
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.19%) QA
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 1
System Software
1 336 (62.45%) Active Directory
2 55 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (6.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.30%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.30%) Docker
5 7 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.30%) vSphere
6 6 (1.12%) Firmware
7 4 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) NFS
9 2 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.19%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.19%) UAG
10 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 121 (22.49%) SCCM
2 36 (6.69%) Jamf Pro
3 22 (4.09%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (3.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (3.16%) Terraform
6 14 (2.60%) AirWatch
7 6 (1.12%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.12%) WSUS
8 5 (0.93%) Ansible
8 5 (0.93%) PaperCut
9 3 (0.56%) Nessus
9 3 (0.56%) QRadar
9 3 (0.56%) SCOM
9 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 440 (81.78%) Microsoft
2 86 (15.99%) VMware
3 61 (11.34%) Citrix
4 37 (6.88%) ServiceNow
5 27 (5.02%) Apple
6 20 (3.72%) Cisco
6 20 (3.72%) Veeam
7 17 (3.16%) MobileIron
8 16 (2.97%) Meraki
9 15 (2.79%) CrowdStrike
10 12 (2.23%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.23%) Google
10 12 (2.23%) Sophos
10 12 (2.23%) Tenable
11 10 (1.86%) Qualys
12 9 (1.67%) Starlink
13 8 (1.49%) Zscaler
14 7 (1.30%) AppDynamics
14 7 (1.30%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.30%) Netskope