OneDrive Contract Job Trends

Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 365 407
Rank change year-on-year -29 +42 -47
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 252 154 178
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.53% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.40% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 91 130
10th Percentile £190 £208 £190
25th Percentile £263 £269 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £405
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% +2.47% -8.99%
75th Percentile £558 £506 £559
90th Percentile £629 £585 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £363 £400
% change year-on-year -13.66% -9.38% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 3
10th Percentile £17.99 - £16.98
25th Percentile £25.38 £57.50 £17.26
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +266.82% -21.35%
75th Percentile £34.12 £72.50 £20.98
90th Percentile £36.17 - £22.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -50.00% +266.82% -21.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

OneDrive 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 17,587 10,998 13,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.88% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,796 7,465 9,878
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 262 352
10th Percentile £15.75 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.21 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.18% +31.19% -42.67%
75th Percentile £68.33 £47.41 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.15 £72.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +82.93% +7.89% -30.91%

OneDrive
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OneDrive job vacancy trend in the UK

OneDrive
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OneDrive

OneDrive
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OneDrive over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OneDrive in the UK

OneDrive
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OneDrive

OneDrive
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OneDrive over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OneDrive in the UK

OneDrive
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 OneDrive within the UK over the 6 months to 6 June 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 -16 225 £450 +7.14% 91
UK excluding London -30 145 £313 -13.66% 77
London -48 91 £450 +5.88% 26
North of England -15 74 £500 +11.86% 23
Work from Home -26 65 £425 +4.62% 40
Yorkshire -7 58 £534 +15.46% 7
South East -42 30 £244 -51.25% 23
West Midlands -54 15 £225 -18.18% 6
Midlands -55 15 £225 -17.05% 10
North West -41 14 £450 +0.67% 13
Scotland -5 12 £178 -45.38% 5
East of England -28 7 £205 -11.35% 11
South West -30 5 £425 +13.33% 8
Wales -17 3 £300 -
North East - 2 £375 - 3

OneDrive
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
1 218 (86.51%) SharePoint
2 123 (48.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.40%) InDesign
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 238 (94.44%) Microsoft 365
2 126 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 121 (48.02%) Azure
4 57 (22.62%) Microsoft Copilot
5 49 (19.44%) Microsoft Purview
5 49 (19.44%) Power Platform
6 31 (12.30%) PowerApps
7 30 (11.90%) Power Automate
8 17 (6.75%) SaaS
9 12 (4.76%) AWS
10 10 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.97%) Rubrik
10 10 (3.97%) ShareGate
11 9 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.78%) PaaS
13 6 (2.38%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.98%) Copilot Studio
15 4 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (1.59%) GitHub
16 3 (1.19%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.10%) DNS
2 32 (12.70%) VPN
3 30 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (9.13%) DHCP
5 16 (6.35%) LAN
5 16 (6.35%) TCP/IP
6 13 (5.16%) WAN
7 11 (4.37%) Unified Communications
8 8 (3.17%) Firewall
8 8 (3.17%) PSTN
9 7 (2.78%) Intranet
10 6 (2.38%) VoIP
11 3 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (1.19%) SMTP
11 3 (1.19%) VLAN
12 2 (0.79%) Network Security
12 2 (0.79%) PCoIP
12 2 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.35%) Power BI
2 8 (3.17%) Metadata
3 4 (1.59%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) MySQL
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (6.75%) JIRA
2 4 (1.59%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.19%) MSI
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.87%) Finance
3 27 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.73%) Legal
5 16 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.98%) German Language
8 4 (1.59%) Italian Language
8 4 (1.59%) Law
8 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Local Government
9 3 (1.19%) Military
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Games
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Police
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (12.70%) Architect
2 30 (11.90%) IT Support
3 27 (10.71%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 24 (9.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 23 (9.13%) Analyst
6 22 (8.73%) Support Engineer
7 18 (7.14%) IT Engineer
7 18 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (6.75%) Senior
9 15 (5.95%) Consultant
10 12 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
10 12 (4.76%) Developer
11 11 (4.37%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
14 8 (3.17%) IT Analyst
14 8 (3.17%) Service Analyst
14 8 (3.17%) Service Desk Analyst
15 7 (2.78%) Desktop Engineer
15 7 (2.78%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.24%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (3.57%) CSS
3 7 (2.78%) .NET
3 7 (2.78%) JSON
3 7 (2.78%) React
3 7 (2.78%) SPFx
4 6 (2.38%) OpenID
4 6 (2.38%) SAML
5 5 (1.98%) HTML
6 4 (1.59%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.59%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (1.59%) OAuth
6 4 (1.59%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.59%) REST
7 3 (1.19%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.19%) FIDO
7 3 (1.19%) jQuery
8 2 (0.79%) HTML5
8 2 (0.79%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.79%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.32%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.78%) IoT
5 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.59%) PMI
6 4 (1.59%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.59%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.19%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.79%) CMDB
8 2 (0.79%) CUDA
8 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Licensing
8 2 (0.79%) PKI
8 2 (0.79%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 103 (40.87%) Windows
2 28 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 16 (6.35%) Windows 10
4 15 (5.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.97%) Android
6 3 (1.19%) Linux
6 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.63%) Migration
2 42 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (15.48%) Customer Service
3 39 (15.48%) ITSM
4 36 (14.29%) ITIL
5 34 (13.49%) Data Loss Prevention
6 30 (11.90%) AI
7 29 (11.51%) Records Management
7 29 (11.51%) User Experience
8 28 (11.11%) Information Governance
9 26 (10.32%) Root Cause Analysis
10 25 (9.92%) E-Discovery
10 25 (9.92%) Service Management
11 22 (8.73%) Data Protection
12 21 (8.33%) Agile
13 20 (7.94%) Runbook
14 18 (7.14%) Incident Response
15 16 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (6.35%) Roadmaps
16 15 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (36.51%) PowerShell
2 14 (5.56%) Python
3 11 (4.37%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.57%) C#
4 9 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.78%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.38%) SQL
7 2 (0.79%) Bash
8 1 (0.40%) C++
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (11.11%) Degree
2 27 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.98%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.79%) MCSE
7 2 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.40%) ACSP
8 1 (0.40%) ACTC
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.71%) GDPR
2 13 (5.16%) FINRA
2 13 (5.16%) MiFID
3 11 (4.37%) SLA
4 7 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.19%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.40%) QA
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 1
System Software
1 103 (40.87%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.79%) Docker
5 2 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.40%) Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) NFS
6 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (31.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 21 (8.33%) SCCM
3 11 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (1.19%) Terraform
6 2 (0.79%) Ansible
6 2 (0.79%) Packer
7 1 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 224 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.49%) ServiceNow
3 11 (4.37%) Cisco
4 9 (3.57%) Apple
5 8 (3.17%) Citrix
6 6 (2.38%) Google
6 6 (2.38%) VMware
7 5 (1.98%) Proofpoint
8 4 (1.59%) Freshdesk
9 3 (1.19%) Canon
9 3 (1.19%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.19%) Dell
9 3 (1.19%) Forcepoint
9 3 (1.19%) HP
10 2 (0.79%) Aruba
10 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.79%) Leostream
10 2 (0.79%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle