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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,947 3,124 4,410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 5.38% 5.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.98% 14.61% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,356 2,274 3,179
10th Percentile £150 £160 £150
25th Percentile £199 £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 £280
% change year-on-year -23.08% +16.07% -13.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 145 227
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £12.82
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £14.63
Median hourly rate £16.47 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +5.71% +11.11%
75th Percentile £21.00 £26.48 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £65.40 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +4.76%

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 13,925 21,380 33,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.80% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,896 15,449 24,739
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 £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 343 416
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £62.40 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 1,675 £350 -9.68% 1,461
UK excluding London -5 1,035 £250 -23.08% 1,204
London +3 764 £400 -5.88% 354
Work from Home -5 559 £450 -5.26% 558
North of England +2 233 £255 -17.07% 302
South East -9 231 £288 -17.86% 266
Midlands -5 166 £270 -28.00% 218
North West +7 147 £280 -30.00% 161
South West -11 141 £195 -44.29% 166
Scotland +8 133 £350 +29.63% 77
West Midlands -1 113 £350 -17.65% 135
East of England -10 99 £250 -16.67% 150
Yorkshire +3 76 £230 -16.36% 108
East Midlands -2 52 £195 -22.00% 83
Wales +6 27 £145 -35.56% 33
North East +16 10 £190 -5.00% 39
Northern Ireland -11 7 £438 +157.35% 22

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
1 468 (24.04%) SharePoint
2 414 (21.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (1.90%) Skype for Business
4 23 (1.18%) Confluence
5 16 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.77%) CMS
7 14 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2007
8 13 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
8 13 (0.67%) IIS
8 13 (0.67%) WordPress
9 11 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2003
10 10 (0.51%) Drupal
11 7 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 7 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.31%) IBM Notes
13 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.15%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.15%) nginx
16 1 (0.051%) Apache
Applications
1 295 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.51%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.15%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.15%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.15%) SPSS
9 2 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.051%) InVision
10 1 (0.051%) Sketch
10 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.10%) Eikon
5 2 (0.10%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.10%) Maximo
6 1 (0.051%) assyst
6 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.051%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.051%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.051%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.051%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.051%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.051%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.051%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 724 (37.19%) Azure
2 266 (13.66%) Entra ID
3 203 (10.43%) Power Platform
4 167 (8.58%) OneDrive
5 112 (5.75%) PowerApps
6 103 (5.29%) AWS
7 92 (4.73%) Power Automate
8 75 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.26%) SaaS
10 43 (2.21%) IaaS
11 41 (2.11%) Mimecast
12 39 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
13 29 (1.49%) GitHub
13 29 (1.49%) PaaS
13 29 (1.49%) Slack
14 27 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (1.39%) WhatsApp
15 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 22 (1.13%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 168 (8.63%) Firewall
2 152 (7.81%) DNS
3 96 (4.93%) DHCP
3 96 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
4 90 (4.62%) VPN
5 74 (3.80%) LAN
6 66 (3.39%) WAN
7 57 (2.93%) Wireless
8 50 (2.57%) VoIP
9 49 (2.52%) TCP/IP
10 42 (2.16%) Skype
11 37 (1.90%) Intranet
12 32 (1.64%) SAN
13 30 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
14 28 (1.44%) Network Security
15 19 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (0.82%) MPLS
16 16 (0.82%) VLAN
17 15 (0.77%) Internet
18 13 (0.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (4.83%) Power BI
2 85 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.41%) Power Query
6 8 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.36%) Metadata
8 5 (0.26%) MySQL
9 4 (0.21%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.15%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
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
Development Applications
1 56 (2.88%) JIRA
2 16 (0.82%) GitLab
3 12 (0.62%) Hudson
4 6 (0.31%) Git
4 6 (0.31%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.10%) Subversion
9 1 (0.051%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.051%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.051%) MSI
9 1 (0.051%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.051%) TestRail
General
1 637 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 261 (13.41%) Finance
3 225 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 148 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 75 (3.85%) Legal
7 58 (2.98%) Retail
8 56 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 53 (2.72%) Marketing
10 52 (2.67%) Banking
11 44 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 38 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
13 33 (1.69%) Electronics
14 30 (1.54%) Law
15 23 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 19 (0.98%) French Language
16 19 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 309 (15.87%) Analyst
2 265 (13.61%) Support Engineer
3 210 (10.79%) IT Support
4 158 (8.12%) Architect
5 142 (7.29%) Service Analyst
6 141 (7.24%) Service Desk Analyst
7 131 (6.73%) IT Engineer
8 118 (6.06%) Senior
9 111 (5.70%) Desktop Support
10 109 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 107 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support
12 91 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
13 88 (4.52%) Developer
14 86 (4.42%) Consultant
15 84 (4.31%) Support Analyst
16 78 (4.01%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 77 (3.95%) Desktop Engineer
18 71 (3.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 62 (3.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
20 60 (3.08%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.34%) .NET
2 21 (1.08%) REST
3 19 (0.98%) CSS
4 18 (0.92%) XML
5 16 (0.82%) ARM Templates
6 15 (0.77%) JSON
7 14 (0.72%) React
8 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.56%) HTML
9 11 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (0.56%) SPFx
10 7 (0.36%) jQuery
11 6 (0.31%) LDAP
11 6 (0.31%) OAuth
12 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.26%) SAML
13 4 (0.21%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.21%) EDI
13 4 (0.21%) RESTful
13 4 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (2.82%) Management Information System
2 52 (2.67%) PKI
2 52 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
4 45 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 31 (1.59%) Video Editing
7 30 (1.54%) NHS
8 28 (1.44%) iPhone
9 22 (1.13%) iPad
10 21 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.08%) Smartphone
11 20 (1.03%) CMDB
12 18 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 18 (0.92%) Digital Signage
13 17 (0.87%) EPoS
13 17 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 16 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 970 (49.82%) Windows
2 475 (24.40%) Windows 10
3 296 (15.20%) Windows Server
4 122 (6.27%) Apple iOS
5 98 (5.03%) Android
6 78 (4.01%) Linux
6 78 (4.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 77 (3.95%) Mac OS
8 76 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 68 (3.49%) Windows 7
9 68 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 31 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
11 19 (0.98%) Mac OS X
12 16 (0.82%) VMS
13 14 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.46%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.31%) Unix
17 3 (0.15%) Debian
17 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (16.95%) Customer Service
2 306 (15.72%) ITIL
3 291 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (11.66%) Migration
5 187 (9.60%) Agile
6 151 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 121 (6.21%) Project Management
8 117 (6.01%) Change Management
9 115 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
10 110 (5.65%) DevOps
11 91 (4.67%) Service Delivery
12 87 (4.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 84 (4.31%) Mobile Device Management
14 82 (4.21%) Incident Management
15 81 (4.16%) Cybersecurity
15 81 (4.16%) Service Management
16 80 (4.11%) ITSM
17 69 (3.54%) Information Security
18 65 (3.34%) Data Loss Prevention
19 64 (3.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 265 (13.61%) PowerShell
2 72 (3.70%) SQL
3 50 (2.57%) C#
4 37 (1.90%) Python
5 32 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.92%) VBScript
7 17 (0.87%) Bicep
7 17 (0.87%) VB
8 10 (0.51%) C
9 8 (0.41%) Swift
9 8 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.36%) Bash
11 4 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.21%) Java
11 4 (0.21%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.10%) VBA
14 1 (0.051%) PHP
14 1 (0.051%) R
14 1 (0.051%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 254 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 235 (12.07%) Degree
3 211 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 133 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 50 (2.57%) MCSA
6 49 (2.52%) A+ Certification
6 49 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 38 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
9 32 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.44%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.23%) CCNA
12 24 (1.23%) MCSE
13 23 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 20 (1.03%) CISSP
15 18 (0.92%) MCP
16 13 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.56%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (6.42%) SLA
2 22 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (1.13%) QA
3 19 (0.98%) NIST
4 18 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 17 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
6 12 (0.62%) GDPR
7 9 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.41%) GRC
9 7 (0.36%) PMO
10 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.31%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.26%) NCSC
12 4 (0.21%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 907 (46.58%) Active Directory
2 102 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (3.44%) Hyper-V
4 48 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 41 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.08%) vSphere
7 15 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.67%) BitLocker
9 12 (0.62%) XenApp
10 10 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.46%) XenDesktop
12 8 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.41%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.26%) Firmware
14 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.10%) Docker
17 1 (0.051%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 328 (16.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 262 (13.46%) SCCM
3 46 (2.36%) Jamf Pro
4 44 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 37 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (1.49%) SCOM
7 27 (1.39%) WSUS
8 22 (1.13%) Kubernetes
9 17 (0.87%) Terraform
10 12 (0.62%) Ansible
11 11 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.51%) Autotask
13 9 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.41%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.31%) AirWatch
15 6 (0.31%) Packer
16 4 (0.21%) PaperCut
17 3 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,245 (63.94%) Microsoft
2 196 (10.07%) VMware
3 176 (9.04%) Citrix
4 162 (8.32%) ServiceNow
5 141 (7.24%) Apple
6 94 (4.83%) Cisco
7 47 (2.41%) Veeam
8 46 (2.36%) SAP
9 39 (2.00%) Google
10 38 (1.95%) HP
11 36 (1.85%) Adobe
12 33 (1.69%) Oracle
13 28 (1.44%) NetApp
14 27 (1.39%) Dell
15 19 (0.98%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.98%) Sophos
16 18 (0.92%) MobileIron
17 17 (0.87%) Aruba
17 17 (0.87%) Bloomberg
18 16 (0.82%) CA