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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 387 408
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 -40
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 305 168 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.35% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 90 108
10th Percentile £180 £237 £168
25th Percentile £210 £283 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £433 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.67% +5.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £510 £534 £551
90th Percentile £600 £625 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -28.57% +9.38% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 5
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £20.29
25th Percentile £21.06 £20.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -13.15% +15.14%
75th Percentile £34.12 £25.15 -
90th Percentile £65.17 £65.73 £29.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £21.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +48.81% -13.15% +15.14%

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 19,046 12,484 12,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.02% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,648 8,342 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 292 180
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -24.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.40 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +39.86%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -16 276 £400 -6.76% 158
UK excluding London -32 147 £313 -28.57% 110
London -29 138 £409 -3.88% 47
Work from Home -49 91 £400 - 67
North of England -50 59 £436 +58.55% 29
North West -34 32 £495 +11.86% 20
Midlands -15 31 £225 -45.05% 23
West Midlands -22 30 £225 -45.05% 14
South East -48 26 £363 -25.03% 22
Yorkshire -23 25 £200 +5.26% 8
Scotland -6 17 £453 +0.56% 9
South West -34 15 £175 -61.11% 10
East of England -26 7 £205 -56.84% 14
North East -43 2 £275 - 1
East Midlands -17 1 £250 - 9

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
1 262 (85.90%) SharePoint
2 144 (47.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (5.25%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (1.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.66%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (0.66%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 30 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.66%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Monis
2 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 292 (95.74%) Microsoft 365
2 154 (50.49%) Azure
3 142 (46.56%) Entra ID
4 72 (23.61%) Power Platform
5 62 (20.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 45 (14.75%) Power Automate
7 41 (13.44%) PowerApps
8 39 (12.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (6.23%) Azure AI
10 16 (5.25%) SaaS
11 14 (4.59%) AWS
12 8 (2.62%) Copilot Studio
12 8 (2.62%) Google Workspace
13 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.30%) Viva Engage
14 6 (1.97%) ShareGate
15 5 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
16 4 (1.31%) Google Drive
16 4 (1.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (16.72%) DNS
2 48 (15.74%) VPN
3 40 (13.11%) DHCP
4 37 (12.13%) TCP/IP
5 27 (8.85%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (5.25%) Firewall
7 11 (3.61%) LAN
8 8 (2.62%) WAN
9 7 (2.30%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (2.30%) Network Security
10 6 (1.97%) Wireless
11 5 (1.64%) SMTP
11 5 (1.64%) VLAN
12 4 (1.31%) Intranet
12 4 (1.31%) PSTN
12 4 (1.31%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.98%) Internet
13 3 (0.98%) Value-Added Service
14 2 (0.66%) DKIM
14 2 (0.66%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.21%) Power BI
2 18 (5.90%) Metadata
3 9 (2.95%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.31%) EDRMS
5 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.66%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.66%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.90%) JIRA
2 5 (1.64%) Fiddler
3 4 (1.31%) MSI
3 4 (1.31%) Zephyr
4 3 (0.98%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.66%) TestRail
5 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (45.57%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.34%) Finance
3 23 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.89%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.93%) Legal
6 10 (3.28%) Banking
7 7 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.97%) Law
9 5 (1.64%) German Language
9 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Marketing
10 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.98%) Advertising
11 3 (0.98%) Military
12 2 (0.66%) Italian Language
12 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (18.69%) IT Support
2 53 (17.38%) Support Engineer
3 38 (12.46%) Analyst
4 35 (11.48%) IT Engineer
4 35 (11.48%) IT Support Engineer
5 27 (8.85%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 20 (6.56%) 2nd Line Support
6 20 (6.56%) Support Analyst
7 19 (6.23%) Senior
8 17 (5.57%) Desktop Support
8 17 (5.57%) Project Manager
9 15 (4.92%) 1st Line Support
9 15 (4.92%) Microsoft 365 Manager
10 14 (4.59%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
11 13 (4.26%) Help Desk Support
11 13 (4.26%) Lead
12 12 (3.93%) Developer
13 11 (3.61%) Desktop Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
13 11 (3.61%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.92%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (2.62%) .NET
2 8 (2.62%) CSS
3 7 (2.30%) JSON
3 7 (2.30%) SPFx
4 6 (1.97%) React
5 4 (1.31%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.31%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.31%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (1.31%) HTML
5 4 (1.31%) jQuery
5 4 (1.31%) OAuth
5 4 (1.31%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.31%) OpenID
5 4 (1.31%) SAML
6 3 (0.98%) FIDO
6 3 (0.98%) REST
7 2 (0.66%) OpenGL
7 2 (0.66%) Qt
7 2 (0.66%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.41%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.92%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.26%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (2.62%) Driving Licence
4 8 (2.62%) Smartphone
5 7 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.97%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.31%) AS400
7 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.31%) iSeries
7 4 (1.31%) PMI
8 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.66%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.66%) CUDA
9 2 (0.66%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 149 (48.85%) Windows
2 33 (10.82%) Windows 10
3 32 (10.49%) Apple iOS
4 28 (9.18%) Mac OS
5 18 (5.90%) Android
6 13 (4.26%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.98%) Linux
7 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (31.80%) Customer Service
2 77 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (23.61%) Migration
4 70 (22.95%) ITIL
5 67 (21.97%) ITSM
6 60 (19.67%) Service Management
7 49 (16.07%) AI
8 34 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (11.15%) User Experience
9 29 (9.51%) Data Protection
10 28 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (9.18%) Roadmaps
10 28 (9.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (7.87%) Data Loss Prevention
12 22 (7.21%) Change Management
13 21 (6.89%) Agile
14 20 (6.56%) Data Governance
15 19 (6.23%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (6.23%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (21.64%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.95%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.62%) C#
4 7 (2.30%) SQL
4 7 (2.30%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.97%) Python
6 2 (0.66%) Bash
6 2 (0.66%) C++
7 1 (0.33%) Bicep
7 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (15.74%) Degree
2 30 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.25%) A+ Certification
5 12 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.66%) MCSE
10 2 (0.66%) PMP
11 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.18%) SLA
2 10 (3.28%) GDPR
3 9 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.62%) QA
5 4 (1.31%) PMO
6 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 133 (43.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) Docker
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (34.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (10.49%) SCCM
3 16 (5.25%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.98%) WSUS
6 2 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.66%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 273 (89.51%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.10%) ServiceNow
3 32 (10.49%) Cisco
4 25 (8.20%) VMware
5 12 (3.93%) Apple
6 10 (3.28%) Meraki
7 9 (2.95%) Google
8 8 (2.62%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.30%) Proofpoint
10 6 (1.97%) Canon
10 6 (1.97%) Citrix
10 6 (1.97%) HP
11 5 (1.64%) Adobe
12 4 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.31%) DocuSign
12 4 (1.31%) Freshdesk
12 4 (1.31%) IBM
12 4 (1.31%) Workday
13 3 (0.98%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.98%) Samsung