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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 333 428
Rank change year-on-year -52 +95 -3
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 247 197 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.67% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.76% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 133 128
10th Percentile £185 £187 £177
25th Percentile £255 £223 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -9.60%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £500
90th Percentile £613 £600 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £245 £400
% change year-on-year +83.67% -38.75% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 11
10th Percentile £20.13 £18.17 £16.79
25th Percentile £23.23 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +24.66% -33.08%
75th Percentile £31.25 £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £65.62 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year +13.85% +24.66% -33.08%

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 15,892 11,223 14,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.34% 38.07% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,854 7,757 10,362
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £490
% change year-on-year -4.04% +1.02% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 188 360
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.39 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.28 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.51 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +48.10% +21.67% -14.52%
75th Percentile £61.44 £42.23 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.28 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.31 £24.18 £17.80
% change year-on-year +83.23% +35.84% -19.24%

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 11 March 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 11 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for OneDrive in the UK

OneDrive
Top 16 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 11 March 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 -44 227 £450 - 84
UK excluding London -14 163 £450 +83.67% 72
North of England -19 74 £463 +27.59% 22
London -60 73 £469 -6.25% 22
Work from Home -24 55 £456 -3.95% 24
Yorkshire -20 53 £500 +115.05% 5
South East -9 43 £260 -48.00% 22
North West -37 19 £449 -1.05% 16
Midlands -66 14 £525 +150.00% 12
South West -27 11 £450 +9.09% 3
West Midlands -56 11 £550 +161.90% 1
East of England -21 10 £190 -15.56% 14
Scotland +16 9 £178 -8.97% 3
Wales -4 3 £300 -
East Midlands -35 3 £450 +136.84% 11
North East - 2 £475 - 2

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
1 197 (79.76%) SharePoint
2 120 (48.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.81%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.81%) Trello
5 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.40%) InDesign
5 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.43%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Actimize
4 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 218 (88.26%) Microsoft 365
2 112 (45.34%) Entra ID
3 104 (42.11%) Azure
4 45 (18.22%) Power Platform
5 43 (17.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 38 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (12.15%) PowerApps
8 27 (10.93%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (4.86%) SaaS
10 10 (4.05%) Rubrik
11 9 (3.64%) ShareGate
12 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.02%) AWS
13 5 (2.02%) PaaS
14 4 (1.62%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (1.62%) GitHub
14 4 (1.62%) Google Workspace
15 3 (1.21%) Azure AI
15 3 (1.21%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (8.91%) VPN
3 15 (6.07%) DNS
4 13 (5.26%) LAN
5 12 (4.86%) DHCP
5 12 (4.86%) WAN
6 11 (4.45%) TCP/IP
7 10 (4.05%) Unified Communications
8 9 (3.64%) 4G
9 6 (2.43%) Firewall
10 5 (2.02%) PSTN
10 5 (2.02%) VoIP
11 4 (1.62%) DKIM
11 4 (1.62%) DMARC
11 4 (1.62%) Intranet
11 4 (1.62%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.21%) SMTP
13 2 (0.81%) Extranet
13 2 (0.81%) VLAN
13 2 (0.81%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.07%) Power BI
2 5 (2.02%) Metadata
3 2 (0.81%) Tableau
4 1 (0.40%) DTS
Development Applications
1 17 (6.88%) JIRA
2 2 (0.81%) MSI
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 105 (42.51%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.77%) Finance
3 24 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.29%) Legal
5 12 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.83%) Banking
6 7 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.21%) Retail
9 2 (0.81%) Games
9 2 (0.81%) Local Government
10 1 (0.40%) Electronics
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.40%) Publishing
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (18.62%) Architect
2 35 (14.17%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 35 (14.17%) Support Engineer
3 29 (11.74%) IT Support
4 22 (8.91%) Consultant
5 20 (8.10%) IT Engineer
6 18 (7.29%) IT Support Engineer
7 17 (6.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 14 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (5.26%) Developer
10 12 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.45%) Analyst
11 11 (4.45%) Senior
12 10 (4.05%) Administrator
12 10 (4.05%) Desktop Support
12 10 (4.05%) Windows Engineer
13 9 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Engineer
13 9 (3.64%) Windows Support Engineer
14 8 (3.24%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (19.43%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (2.43%) REST
3 5 (2.02%) HTML
3 5 (2.02%) JSON
4 4 (1.62%) CSS
4 4 (1.62%) OpenID
4 4 (1.62%) SAML
5 3 (1.21%) .NET
6 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.81%) HTML5
6 2 (0.81%) jQuery
6 2 (0.81%) OAuth
6 2 (0.81%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.40%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.40%) LangChain
7 1 (0.40%) Pandas
7 1 (0.40%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.40%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.43%) Driving Licence
2 6 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.02%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.02%) IoT
4 4 (1.62%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.21%) PKI
5 3 (1.21%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Licensing
6 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.40%) BYOD
7 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 100 (40.49%) Windows
2 39 (15.79%) Windows 10
3 15 (6.07%) Mac OS
4 11 (4.45%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.43%) Android
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.48%) Migration
2 37 (14.98%) ITIL
3 33 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (12.96%) Customer Service
5 26 (10.53%) ITSM
6 25 (10.12%) Data Loss Prevention
7 23 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (8.91%) Agile
8 22 (8.91%) Information Governance
8 22 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (8.50%) Service Management
10 20 (8.10%) Identity Management
11 19 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
11 19 (7.69%) Incident Response
11 19 (7.69%) Records Management
11 19 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (6.88%) E-Discovery
13 16 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (6.48%) Runbook
14 15 (6.07%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 84 (34.01%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.26%) Python
3 11 (4.45%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.64%) SQL
5 5 (2.02%) C#
6 4 (1.62%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.40%) C
7 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.40%) Korn
7 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.69%) Degree
4 15 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) MCSE
7 1 (0.40%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) CCNA
7 1 (0.40%) CISA
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.40%) PMP
7 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.55%) GDPR
2 14 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (5.67%) MiFID
3 13 (5.26%) FINRA
4 6 (2.43%) SLA
5 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.21%) GRC
6 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.81%) PMO
6 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 110 (44.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (11.74%) SCCM
3 11 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (3.24%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (0.81%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.81%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 208 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.24%) Apple
3 8 (3.24%) Cisco
4 6 (2.43%) Workday
5 5 (2.02%) Google
5 5 (2.02%) VMware
6 4 (1.62%) Citrix
6 4 (1.62%) Remedy
7 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.81%) Aruba
8 2 (0.81%) Computacenter
8 2 (0.81%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.40%) F5
9 1 (0.40%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.40%) NetApp
9 1 (0.40%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) Veritas