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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 346 399
Rank change year-on-year -25 +53 +36
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 220 186 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.60% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 122 123
10th Percentile £185 £185 £176
25th Percentile £275 £223 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% +0.06% -10.11%
75th Percentile £558 £571 £506
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £233 £315
% change year-on-year +93.55% -26.19% -25.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 11
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.65 £16.54
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £21.46 £22.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +25.82% +17.31%
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% +34.65%

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 14,423 11,637 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.72% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,963 7,746 10,508
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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 169 293
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +9.70%
75th Percentile £58.33 £43.75 £51.58
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.72% +26.19% +9.60%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -19 200 £475 +11.76% 87
UK excluding London -8 138 £450 +93.55% 80
London -42 73 £500 +2.56% 21
Work from Home +13 68 £456 -1.35% 34
North of England -7 67 £450 +83.67% 20
Yorkshire -17 39 £450 +87.50% 15
South East -8 25 £275 +15.79% 25
North West -19 21 £418 -1.76% 4
Midlands -48 13 £525 +150.00% 15
South West -20 10 £450 +14.29% 6
East of England -22 10 £190 -22.45% 8
West Midlands -45 10 £550 +161.90% 2
Wales +4 8 £300 +172.73% 3
North East - 7 £475 - 1
Scotland +7 5 £414 +120.67% 7
East Midlands -28 3 £450 +136.84% 13

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
1 167 (75.91%) SharePoint
2 108 (49.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.09%) Skype for Business
4 7 (3.18%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (1.82%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (5.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.64%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.36%) Trello
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.45%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (6.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.73%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Actimize
4 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (85.00%) Microsoft 365
2 98 (44.55%) Azure
3 85 (38.64%) Entra ID
4 28 (12.73%) Microsoft Copilot
5 25 (11.36%) Power Platform
6 22 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 17 (7.73%) Power Automate
8 16 (7.27%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.09%) ShareGate
10 8 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.64%) Rubrik
11 5 (2.27%) AWS
11 5 (2.27%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.27%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (2.27%) GitHub
12 4 (1.82%) SaaS
13 3 (1.36%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.36%) Google Workspace
13 3 (1.36%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.55%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (5.45%) DNS
3 11 (5.00%) VPN
4 10 (4.55%) DHCP
5 9 (4.09%) 4G
5 9 (4.09%) Firewall
5 9 (4.09%) Skype
6 8 (3.64%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.73%) WAN
8 5 (2.27%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.82%) DKIM
9 4 (1.82%) DMARC
10 3 (1.36%) Intranet
10 3 (1.36%) SMTP
10 3 (1.36%) VLAN
10 3 (1.36%) WebEx
11 2 (0.91%) Extranet
11 2 (0.91%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.91%) VoIP
12 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.64%) Power BI
2 3 (1.36%) Metadata
3 2 (0.91%) Tableau
4 1 (0.45%) DTS
Development Applications
1 7 (3.18%) JIRA
2 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Appium
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) MSI
3 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 113 (51.36%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.18%) Finance
3 20 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.91%) Legal
6 11 (5.00%) Banking
7 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Marketing
9 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (18.18%) Architect
2 29 (13.18%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 25 (11.36%) Support Engineer
4 21 (9.55%) Analyst
5 19 (8.64%) IT Support
5 19 (8.64%) Support Analyst
6 18 (8.18%) Consultant
7 16 (7.27%) Desktop Support
7 16 (7.27%) Operational Support Analyst
7 16 (7.27%) Operations Analyst
7 16 (7.27%) Operations Support Analyst
8 14 (6.36%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.55%) 1st Line Support
10 10 (4.55%) Desktop Support Specialist
10 10 (4.55%) Developer
10 10 (4.55%) IT Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Support Specialist
10 10 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.55%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (2.73%) REST
3 5 (2.27%) HTML
4 4 (1.82%) CSS
4 4 (1.82%) OpenID
4 4 (1.82%) SAML
5 3 (1.36%) .NET
5 3 (1.36%) JSON
5 3 (1.36%) LangChain
5 3 (1.36%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (0.91%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.91%) HTML5
6 2 (0.91%) jQuery
6 2 (0.91%) OAuth
7 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.45%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.45%) Kafka
7 1 (0.45%) Pandas
7 1 (0.45%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.18%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.73%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.27%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.36%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.36%) Smartphone
6 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Licensing
6 2 (0.91%) PKI
6 2 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.45%) iPad
7 1 (0.45%) iPhone
7 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 91 (41.36%) Windows
2 47 (21.36%) Windows 10
3 14 (6.36%) Apple iOS
4 12 (5.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.82%) Android
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.45%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.64%) Migration
2 46 (20.91%) ITIL
3 41 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (14.09%) ITSM
5 27 (12.27%) Problem Management
6 25 (11.36%) Service Management
7 22 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 21 (9.55%) Data Loss Prevention
8 21 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (7.73%) Identity Management
10 16 (7.27%) Incident Response
11 15 (6.82%) Agile
11 15 (6.82%) Inventory Management
11 15 (6.82%) Project Management
11 15 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (6.36%) CI/CD
12 14 (6.36%) Runbook
12 14 (6.36%) User Experience
12 14 (6.36%) Validation
13 13 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (34.09%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.82%) SQL
3 8 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
3 8 (3.64%) Python
4 7 (3.18%) C#
5 5 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.45%) Bicep
6 1 (0.45%) C
6 1 (0.45%) Java
6 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 46 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.55%) Degree
4 8 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.91%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.91%) PMP
8 1 (0.45%) CCNA
8 1 (0.45%) CISA
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.45%) CISSP
8 1 (0.45%) MCSE
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.27%) GDPR
2 13 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.00%) MiFID
4 10 (4.55%) FINRA
5 3 (1.36%) PMO
5 3 (1.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.91%) GRC
6 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 121 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (22.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (18.64%) SCCM
3 10 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (4.09%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (3.64%) HP SiteScope
5 8 (3.64%) SCOM
6 4 (1.82%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.36%) Terraform
8 2 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.91%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 179 (81.36%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.45%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.36%) Remedy
4 9 (4.09%) Apple
5 8 (3.64%) Cisco
5 8 (3.64%) Splunk
6 6 (2.73%) Workday
7 5 (2.27%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.82%) Google
9 3 (1.36%) Proofpoint
10 2 (0.91%) Aruba
10 2 (0.91%) Citrix
10 2 (0.91%) Computacenter
10 2 (0.91%) SAP
10 2 (0.91%) VMware
10 2 (0.91%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.45%) Adobe
11 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.45%) Veritas