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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 387 400
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 -34
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 265 148 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.48% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.28% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 87 135
10th Percentile £190 £206 £191
25th Percentile £228 £269 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £420
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -1.79% -1.18%
75th Percentile £565 £500 £547
90th Percentile £630 £585 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £350 £400
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 4
10th Percentile £18.75 - £17.07
25th Percentile £25.19 £57.50 £17.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £20.95
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +210.26% -7.01%
75th Percentile £33.75 £72.50 £26.26
90th Percentile £35.60 - £30.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.94 £65.00 £20.95
% change year-on-year -55.48% +210.26% -14.51%

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 18,181 11,543 14,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 37.72% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,100 7,737 9,953
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 292 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £72.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.87
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.58% -19.73%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -8 239 £424 +2.48% 70
UK excluding London -20 152 £300 -14.29% 64
London -52 99 £450 +5.88% 19
Work from Home -17 77 £415 -0.90% 25
North of England -20 71 £500 +11.86% 17
Yorkshire +1 56 £534 +33.50% 10
South East -42 35 £244 -51.25% 22
West Midlands -49 18 £225 -18.18% 2
Midlands -56 18 £225 -18.18% 11
North West -44 14 £450 -0.77% 6
Scotland -7 13 £178 -45.38% 3
South West -30 7 £400 +86.05% 8
East of England -31 7 £205 -11.35% 9
Wales -12 3 £300 -
North East - 1 £275 - 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
1 228 (86.04%) SharePoint
2 120 (45.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.77%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 25 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.38%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.38%) InDesign
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 251 (94.72%) Microsoft 365
2 133 (50.19%) Entra ID
3 132 (49.81%) Azure
4 58 (21.89%) Microsoft Copilot
5 51 (19.25%) Power Platform
6 50 (18.87%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (11.32%) PowerApps
8 28 (10.57%) Power Automate
9 18 (6.79%) SaaS
10 16 (6.04%) AWS
11 11 (4.15%) ShareGate
12 9 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.02%) Rubrik
14 7 (2.64%) Google Workspace
14 7 (2.64%) PaaS
15 5 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
16 3 (1.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.09%) DNS
2 39 (14.72%) VPN
3 33 (12.45%) Wi-Fi
4 29 (10.94%) DHCP
5 23 (8.68%) TCP/IP
6 19 (7.17%) LAN
7 15 (5.66%) WAN
8 13 (4.91%) Unified Communications
9 11 (4.15%) Firewall
10 8 (3.02%) PSTN
11 7 (2.64%) Intranet
12 6 (2.26%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (2.26%) VoIP
13 3 (1.13%) VLAN
14 2 (0.75%) Network Security
14 2 (0.75%) PCoIP
14 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.75%) SMTP
14 2 (0.75%) Wireless
14 2 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.42%) Power BI
2 10 (3.77%) Metadata
3 4 (1.51%) EDRMS
4 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.38%) MySQL
5 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.79%) JIRA
2 5 (1.89%) Fiddler
3 4 (1.51%) MSI
4 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.98%) Finance
3 25 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.79%) Legal
5 16 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.89%) German Language
7 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.51%) Italian Language
8 4 (1.51%) Law
8 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Advertising
9 3 (1.13%) Local Government
9 3 (1.13%) Marketing
9 3 (1.13%) Military
9 3 (1.13%) Publishing
10 2 (0.75%) Banking
10 2 (0.75%) Games
10 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (13.58%) IT Support
2 29 (10.94%) Support Engineer
3 28 (10.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 26 (9.81%) Architect
5 25 (9.43%) Analyst
6 22 (8.30%) IT Engineer
6 22 (8.30%) IT Support Engineer
6 22 (8.30%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 17 (6.42%) Senior
8 16 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
8 16 (6.04%) Consultant
9 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (3.77%) Developer
11 9 (3.40%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.40%) Service Analyst
11 9 (3.40%) Service Desk Analyst
12 8 (3.02%) IT Analyst
12 8 (3.02%) Lead
12 8 (3.02%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
12 8 (3.02%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.74%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (3.02%) JSON
2 8 (3.02%) SPFx
3 7 (2.64%) React
4 6 (2.26%) .NET
4 6 (2.26%) CSS
5 4 (1.51%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.51%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (1.51%) OAuth
5 4 (1.51%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.51%) OpenID
5 4 (1.51%) REST
5 4 (1.51%) SAML
6 3 (1.13%) FIDO
7 2 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.75%) HTML
7 2 (0.75%) OpenGL
7 2 (0.75%) Qt
7 2 (0.75%) Unreal Engine
8 1 (0.38%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.70%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.64%) IoT
4 7 (2.64%) Smartphone
5 6 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.89%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.51%) PMI
7 4 (1.51%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.13%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.75%) CMDB
9 2 (0.75%) CUDA
9 2 (0.75%) PKI
9 2 (0.75%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.38%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 116 (43.77%) Windows
2 30 (11.32%) Mac OS
3 21 (7.92%) Windows 10
4 19 (7.17%) Apple iOS
5 14 (5.28%) Android
6 4 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.13%) Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (19.25%) Migration
2 50 (18.87%) Customer Service
3 46 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (16.60%) ITSM
5 41 (15.47%) ITIL
6 37 (13.96%) User Experience
7 36 (13.58%) AI
8 33 (12.45%) Data Loss Prevention
9 29 (10.94%) Service Management
10 26 (9.81%) Data Protection
10 26 (9.81%) Records Management
10 26 (9.81%) Root Cause Analysis
11 25 (9.43%) Information Governance
12 22 (8.30%) E-Discovery
13 21 (7.92%) Agile
14 20 (7.55%) Roadmaps
14 20 (7.55%) Runbook
15 18 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (6.42%) Problem Management
16 17 (6.42%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (33.21%) PowerShell
2 14 (5.28%) Python
3 10 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
4 8 (3.02%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.26%) C#
7 4 (1.51%) SQL
8 2 (0.75%) Bash
8 2 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (12.08%) Degree
2 25 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.89%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.75%) MCSE
6 2 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.38%) ACSP
7 1 (0.38%) ACTC
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.38%) MCT
7 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.68%) GDPR
2 15 (5.66%) SLA
3 10 (3.77%) FINRA
3 10 (3.77%) MiFID
4 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.75%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.38%) QA
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 1
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (42.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.75%) Docker
5 2 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.38%) Firmware
6 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.38%) NFS
6 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 95 (35.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (9.43%) SCCM
3 23 (8.68%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (1.13%) Terraform
7 2 (0.75%) Ansible
7 2 (0.75%) Packer
8 1 (0.38%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 234 (88.30%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.96%) ServiceNow
3 15 (5.66%) Cisco
4 10 (3.77%) Apple
5 8 (3.02%) Citrix
6 7 (2.64%) Google
7 6 (2.26%) Canon
7 6 (2.26%) VMware
8 5 (1.89%) Proofpoint
9 4 (1.51%) Dell
9 4 (1.51%) Freshdesk
10 3 (1.13%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.13%) F5
10 3 (1.13%) Forcepoint
10 3 (1.13%) HP
11 2 (0.75%) Aruba
11 2 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.75%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.75%) Leostream
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle