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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 389 395
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +94
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 186 163 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.27% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 104 170
10th Percentile £185 £185 £177
25th Percentile £255 £223 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £500
90th Percentile £590 £600 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £288 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -28.13% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.76 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.05 £19.43
Median hourly rate £21.46 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +20.90% +51.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £22.53
90th Percentile £69.65 £25.84 £26.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.15% +20.90% +51.98%

All Cloud 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 13,382 12,847 16,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.65% 35.17% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 8,457 11,795
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 166 318
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.90 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.61%
75th Percentile £44.43 £64.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £70.00 £78.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.74 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.75% +49.93% +15.38%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for OneDrive in the UK

OneDrive
Top 17 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 November 2025. 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 +30 168 £450 - 211
UK excluding London -17 105 £288 -28.13% 186
Work from Home +49 79 £388 -29.55% 68
London -3 72 £463 -2.63% 85
North of England -7 38 £190 -55.29% 24
North West -3 22 £418 -1.76% 12
South East +9 18 £268 +7.00% 76
East of England -9 15 £190 -35.59% 20
South West -1 14 £450 -14.29% 28
Yorkshire -20 10 £190 -36.67% 6
Midlands -33 9 £525 +31.25% 21
West Midlands -28 7 £538 +34.38% 11
Wales +5 6 - - 4
North East - 6 - - 6
Scotland -5 4 £450 +138.41% 14
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 10
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 1

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
1 134 (72.04%) SharePoint
2 87 (46.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.38%) Skype for Business
4 7 (3.76%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.61%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (15.05%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (4.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.08%) Acrobat
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.08%) Trello
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.54%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (8.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.61%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (82.80%) Microsoft 365
2 88 (47.31%) Azure
3 68 (36.56%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.75%) Power Platform
5 17 (9.14%) PowerApps
6 16 (8.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (8.06%) Power Automate
8 12 (6.45%) ShareGate
9 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (4.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (2.69%) AWS
12 4 (2.15%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.61%) Azure AI
13 3 (1.61%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.61%) Copilot Studio
14 2 (1.08%) SaaS
14 2 (1.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (7.53%) DNS
3 13 (6.99%) VPN
4 11 (5.91%) DHCP
5 10 (5.38%) Skype
6 9 (4.84%) 4G
6 9 (4.84%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.30%) Firewall
8 7 (3.76%) WAN
9 6 (3.23%) DMARC
10 5 (2.69%) VLAN
11 4 (2.15%) DKIM
11 4 (2.15%) LAN
11 4 (2.15%) SMTP
11 4 (2.15%) WebEx
12 3 (1.61%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.61%) VoIP
13 2 (1.08%) Internet
13 2 (1.08%) Intranet
13 2 (1.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.69%) Power BI
2 3 (1.61%) Metadata
3 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Appium
2 1 (0.54%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.54%) MSI
2 1 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 92 (49.46%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.43%) Finance
3 17 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.38%) Banking
6 6 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.23%) Legal
7 5 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Law
9 2 (1.08%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (13.44%) Analyst
2 24 (12.90%) Support Engineer
3 23 (12.37%) Consultant
4 22 (11.83%) Support Analyst
5 18 (9.68%) Desktop Support
5 18 (9.68%) IT Support
6 16 (8.60%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 16 (8.60%) Operational Support Analyst
6 16 (8.60%) Operations Analyst
6 16 (8.60%) Operations Support Analyst
7 14 (7.53%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (5.91%) Architect
8 11 (5.91%) Windows Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) Desktop Specialist
9 10 (5.38%) Desktop Support Specialist
9 10 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) IT Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
9 10 (5.38%) Support Specialist
10 9 (4.84%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (1.61%) LangChain
2 3 (1.61%) REST
2 3 (1.61%) Semantic Kernel
3 2 (1.08%) JSON
4 1 (0.54%) .NET
4 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.54%) CSS
4 1 (0.54%) HTML
4 1 (0.54%) OAuth
4 1 (0.54%) OpenID
4 1 (0.54%) SAML
4 1 (0.54%) SPFx
4 1 (0.54%) Web Services
4 1 (0.54%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.69%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.61%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.61%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.08%) PKI
6 2 (1.08%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.54%) BYOD
7 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Replication
7 1 (0.54%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.54%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 88 (47.31%) Windows
2 48 (25.81%) Windows 10
3 13 (6.99%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.76%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.69%) Android
6 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.54%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.54%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.65%) Migration
2 49 (26.34%) ITIL
3 32 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (13.98%) ITSM
5 25 (13.44%) Service Management
6 20 (10.75%) Customer Service
6 20 (10.75%) Problem Management
7 19 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (9.68%) Data Loss Prevention
8 18 (9.68%) Project Management
9 17 (9.14%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (8.60%) Agile
10 16 (8.60%) Identity Management
10 16 (8.60%) Mobile Device Management
11 14 (7.53%) Validation
12 13 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (6.99%) Inventory Management
12 13 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (6.45%) Patch Management
13 12 (6.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 54 (29.03%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.84%) SQL
3 4 (2.15%) C#
3 4 (2.15%) Python
4 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.54%) Bicep
5 1 (0.54%) Java
5 1 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 47 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.52%) Degree
4 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.61%) PMP
7 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.08%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.54%) CISA
8 1 (0.54%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.60%) GDPR
1 16 (8.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.76%) NIST
3 6 (3.23%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.61%) PMO
4 3 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.54%) GRC
5 1 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 117 (62.90%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.54%) XenApp
5 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (25.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (23.12%) SCCM
3 8 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (4.30%) HP SiteScope
3 8 (4.30%) SCOM
4 7 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.61%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (1.61%) Terraform
6 2 (1.08%) AppManager
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.54%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.54%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.54%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 145 (77.96%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 15 (8.06%) Remedy
4 8 (4.30%) Apple
4 8 (4.30%) Splunk
5 6 (3.23%) Cisco
6 5 (2.69%) VMware
7 3 (1.61%) Adobe
7 3 (1.61%) Citrix
7 3 (1.61%) Google
7 3 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.61%) Workday
8 2 (1.08%) BMC
8 2 (1.08%) Computacenter
8 2 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.08%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.08%) Okta
8 2 (1.08%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.08%) Veeam
8 2 (1.08%) Zscaler