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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 353 403
Rank change year-on-year -9 +50 +42
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 244 187 193
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.61% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.63% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 122 130
10th Percentile £185 £185 £166
25th Percentile £275 £223 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +0.06% -10.11%
75th Percentile £556 £554 £500
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £245 £350
% change year-on-year +83.67% -30.00% -19.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.65 £16.57
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.05 £17.49
Median hourly rate £21.46 £22.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +25.82% +3.93%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.07 £20.00
90th Percentile £61.87 £24.18 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £22.30 £17.72
% change year-on-year -5.81% +25.82% -10.60%

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 14,677 11,449 15,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.90% 37.09% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,102 7,587 10,774
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 172 323
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.78 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.28
Median hourly rate £33.73 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £59.69 £43.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £80.10 £68.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.96 £24.66 £20.99
% change year-on-year +45.80% +17.51% +4.93%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -21 223 £463 +8.82% 115
UK excluding London 0 154 £450 +83.67% 111
London -29 81 £481 -1.28% 20
North of England -7 73 £450 +20.00% 28
Work from Home +11 71 £450 +5.88% 43
Yorkshire -10 46 £475 +97.92% 16
South East -7 31 £260 +9.47% 30
North West -27 20 £418 -9.73% 10
Midlands -56 13 £525 +150.00% 24
South West -29 12 £450 +14.29% 8
East of England -17 10 £190 -22.45% 12
West Midlands -35 10 £550 +161.90% 7
Wales +10 9 £300 +172.73% 3
North East - 7 £475 - 2
Scotland +7 6 £178 -5.96% 9
East Midlands -28 3 £450 +136.84% 17

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
1 190 (77.87%) SharePoint
2 125 (51.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.10%) Confluence
4 9 (3.69%) Skype for Business
5 7 (2.87%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.82%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 27 (11.07%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.23%) Trello
6 2 (0.82%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.41%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.46%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Actimize
4 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 211 (86.48%) Microsoft 365
2 105 (43.03%) Azure
3 98 (40.16%) Entra ID
4 32 (13.11%) Power Platform
5 30 (12.30%) Microsoft Copilot
6 28 (11.48%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (8.61%) PowerApps
8 17 (6.97%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.10%) SaaS
10 9 (3.69%) Rubrik
10 9 (3.69%) ShareGate
11 8 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.46%) AWS
13 5 (2.05%) Azure AI
13 5 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.05%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (2.05%) GitHub
14 4 (1.64%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.64%) PaaS
15 3 (1.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.30%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (5.74%) DNS
2 14 (5.74%) VPN
3 12 (4.92%) WAN
4 11 (4.51%) DHCP
5 9 (3.69%) 4G
5 9 (3.69%) LAN
5 9 (3.69%) Skype
5 9 (3.69%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.28%) Firewall
6 8 (3.28%) Unified Communications
7 5 (2.05%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.64%) DKIM
8 4 (1.64%) DMARC
8 4 (1.64%) PSTN
9 3 (1.23%) Intranet
9 3 (1.23%) SMTP
9 3 (1.23%) VLAN
9 3 (1.23%) VoIP
10 2 (0.82%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.10%) Power BI
2 3 (1.23%) Metadata
3 2 (0.82%) Tableau
4 1 (0.41%) DTS
Development Applications
1 14 (5.74%) JIRA
2 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) Appium
3 1 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) MSI
3 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 121 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.13%) Finance
3 22 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.56%) Legal
6 11 (4.51%) Banking
7 8 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Marketing
9 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Electronics
10 2 (0.82%) Games
10 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (18.03%) Architect
2 32 (13.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 29 (11.89%) Support Engineer
4 25 (10.25%) Analyst
5 24 (9.84%) IT Support
6 19 (7.79%) Consultant
6 19 (7.79%) Support Analyst
7 16 (6.56%) Desktop Support
7 16 (6.56%) Operational Support Analyst
7 16 (6.56%) Operations Analyst
7 16 (6.56%) Operations Support Analyst
8 15 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support
8 15 (6.15%) IT Engineer
9 13 (5.33%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.51%) Developer
11 11 (4.51%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 10 (4.10%) Desktop Specialist
12 10 (4.10%) Desktop Support Specialist
12 10 (4.10%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.21%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (2.46%) REST
3 5 (2.05%) HTML
4 4 (1.64%) CSS
4 4 (1.64%) OpenID
4 4 (1.64%) SAML
5 3 (1.23%) .NET
5 3 (1.23%) JSON
5 3 (1.23%) LangChain
5 3 (1.23%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.82%) HTML5
6 2 (0.82%) jQuery
6 2 (0.82%) OAuth
6 2 (0.82%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.41%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.41%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.41%) Kafka
7 1 (0.41%) Pandas
7 1 (0.41%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.56%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.28%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.46%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.05%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.05%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.64%) IoT
6 3 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.23%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.23%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Licensing
7 2 (0.82%) PKI
7 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.41%) iPhone
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 98 (40.16%) Windows
2 47 (19.26%) Windows 10
3 14 (5.74%) Apple iOS
4 13 (5.33%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.64%) Android
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.23%) Migration
2 51 (20.90%) ITIL
3 44 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (13.93%) ITSM
5 29 (11.89%) Service Management
6 28 (11.48%) Problem Management
7 25 (10.25%) Customer Service
8 23 (9.43%) Data Loss Prevention
9 22 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (8.61%) Agile
11 19 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (7.38%) Identity Management
12 18 (7.38%) Incident Response
13 17 (6.97%) CI/CD
13 17 (6.97%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (6.56%) E-Discovery
15 15 (6.15%) Information Governance
15 15 (6.15%) Inventory Management
15 15 (6.15%) User Experience
16 14 (5.74%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (36.07%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.15%) SQL
3 14 (5.74%) Python
4 11 (4.51%) Kusto Query Language
5 7 (2.87%) C#
6 5 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.41%) Bicep
7 1 (0.41%) C
7 1 (0.41%) Java
7 1 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 50 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.02%) Degree
4 8 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.82%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) CCNA
8 1 (0.41%) CISA
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) MCSE
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMP
8 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.30%) GDPR
2 13 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.33%) MiFID
3 12 (4.92%) FINRA
4 5 (2.05%) SLA
5 3 (1.23%) GRC
6 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.82%) PMO
6 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 125 (51.23%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (23.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (18.03%) SCCM
3 11 (4.51%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (3.28%) HP SiteScope
5 8 (3.28%) SCOM
6 5 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.64%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (1.23%) Terraform
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.82%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 197 (80.74%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.16%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.74%) Remedy
4 8 (3.28%) Apple
4 8 (3.28%) Splunk
5 7 (2.87%) Cisco
6 6 (2.46%) Workday
7 5 (2.05%) Google
7 5 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.23%) Proofpoint
9 2 (0.82%) Aruba
9 2 (0.82%) Citrix
9 2 (0.82%) Computacenter
9 2 (0.82%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) VMware
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.41%) HP
10 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) Veritas