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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 350 409
Rank change year-on-year -58 +59 +3
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 227 185 181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.66% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 128 132
10th Percentile £190 £209 £182
25th Percentile £304 £243 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +5.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £562 £538 £538
90th Percentile £635 £596 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £259 £400
% change year-on-year +73.91% -35.31% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 7
10th Percentile £16.73 - £16.69
25th Percentile £20.36 - £17.26
Median hourly rate £25.38 £16.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +56.09% -8.24% -33.08%
75th Percentile £31.25 - -
90th Percentile £69.36 - £17.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £16.26 £17.72
% change year-on-year +56.09% -8.24% -33.08%

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 16,741 11,123 14,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.38% 37.89% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 7,742 10,076
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +0.16% -2.86% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 244 347
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £19.79 £16.03
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.10% +32.76% -30.29%
75th Percentile £68.29 £50.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.35 £60.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.83%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -75 202 £450 +5.88% 71
UK excluding London -30 142 £450 +73.91% 60
London -85 72 £475 - 25
North of England -25 69 £550 +41.94% 15
Yorkshire -11 49 £554 +130.83% 6
Work from Home -29 44 £520 +20.58% 21
South East -35 30 £250 -50.00% 19
North West -32 19 £450 +0.67% 5
Midlands -75 16 £493 +134.52% 3
West Midlands -60 13 £525 +96.26% 2
Scotland +9 11 £178 -45.38% 8
East of England -27 9 £190 -17.84% 14
South West -38 5 £400 +33.33% 6
Wales -8 3 £300 -
East Midlands -33 3 £450 +136.84% 1
North East - 1 £475 - 4

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
1 196 (86.34%) SharePoint
2 121 (53.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (5.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.88%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.88%) Trello
4 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.44%) InDesign
4 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.44%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 213 (93.83%) Microsoft 365
2 104 (45.81%) Entra ID
3 98 (43.17%) Azure
4 46 (20.26%) Microsoft Copilot
4 46 (20.26%) Power Platform
5 43 (18.94%) Microsoft Purview
6 31 (13.66%) PowerApps
7 27 (11.89%) Power Automate
8 15 (6.61%) SaaS
9 14 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.41%) Rubrik
11 8 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.08%) PaaS
13 6 (2.64%) AWS
14 5 (2.20%) Google Workspace
14 5 (2.20%) ShareGate
15 4 (1.76%) GitHub
16 3 (1.32%) Copilot Studio
17 2 (0.88%) Azure AI
17 2 (0.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.86%) Wi-Fi
2 25 (11.01%) VPN
3 21 (9.25%) DNS
4 15 (6.61%) LAN
5 13 (5.73%) WAN
6 12 (5.29%) DHCP
6 12 (5.29%) TCP/IP
7 11 (4.85%) Unified Communications
8 7 (3.08%) Firewall
8 7 (3.08%) PSTN
9 6 (2.64%) VoIP
10 4 (1.76%) Intranet
10 4 (1.76%) VLAN
11 3 (1.32%) DKIM
11 3 (1.32%) DMARC
11 3 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.32%) SMTP
12 2 (0.88%) 4G
12 2 (0.88%) Wireless
13 1 (0.44%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.61%) Power BI
2 6 (2.64%) Metadata
3 2 (0.88%) Tableau
4 1 (0.44%) DTS
4 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.44%) MySQL
4 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (7.93%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (0.88%) Fiddler
2 2 (0.88%) MSI
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 93 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.86%) Finance
3 25 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.37%) Legal
5 12 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.08%) Banking
7 5 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.76%) German Language
8 4 (1.76%) Italian Language
8 4 (1.76%) Local Government
8 4 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Law
9 3 (1.32%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Games
10 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) Police
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (18.94%) Architect
2 35 (15.42%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 26 (11.45%) Support Engineer
4 22 (9.69%) IT Support
5 17 (7.49%) IT Engineer
5 17 (7.49%) IT Support Engineer
5 17 (7.49%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 16 (7.05%) Consultant
7 15 (6.61%) Analyst
8 14 (6.17%) Developer
8 14 (6.17%) Senior
9 13 (5.73%) Project Manager
10 10 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.08%) Administrator
11 7 (3.08%) Microsoft 365 Manager
11 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Engineer
12 6 (2.64%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (2.64%) SharePoint Consultant
12 6 (2.64%) SharePoint Developer
12 6 (2.64%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (22.47%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (2.64%) OpenID
2 6 (2.64%) REST
2 6 (2.64%) SAML
3 5 (2.20%) HTML
4 4 (1.76%) CSS
4 4 (1.76%) JSON
4 4 (1.76%) OAuth
5 3 (1.32%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.88%) .NET
6 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.88%) FIDO
6 2 (0.88%) HTML5
6 2 (0.88%) jQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.44%) Kafka
7 1 (0.44%) LDAP
7 1 (0.44%) Pandas
7 1 (0.44%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.44%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.61%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.08%) Driving Licence
2 7 (3.08%) IoT
3 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.20%) Taxonomies
4 4 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.32%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.32%) PKI
5 3 (1.32%) PMI
6 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.88%) CMDB
6 2 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Licensing
6 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 79 (34.80%) Windows
2 22 (9.69%) Windows 10
3 17 (7.49%) Mac OS
4 12 (5.29%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.20%) Android
6 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.35%) Migration
2 28 (12.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 28 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (11.89%) Customer Service
3 27 (11.89%) ITSM
4 24 (10.57%) Information Governance
5 23 (10.13%) ITIL
5 23 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (9.69%) Agile
6 22 (9.69%) Records Management
7 21 (9.25%) Root Cause Analysis
8 20 (8.81%) E-Discovery
8 20 (8.81%) Incident Response
9 18 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (7.49%) User Experience
11 16 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (7.05%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (7.05%) Identity Management
11 16 (7.05%) Roadmaps
12 15 (6.61%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 78 (34.36%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.17%) Python
3 11 (4.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.96%) SQL
5 4 (1.76%) C#
5 4 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.44%) C
6 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.93%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.49%) Degree
4 14 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.76%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.44%) ACSP
7 1 (0.44%) ACTC
7 1 (0.44%) CCNA
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) PMP
7 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.33%) GDPR
2 14 (6.17%) MiFID
3 13 (5.73%) FINRA
4 10 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.76%) GRC
6 3 (1.32%) SLA
6 3 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) QA
8 1 (0.44%) SOC 1
System Software
1 87 (38.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Docker
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.44%) NFS
4 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (22.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (6.17%) SCCM
3 13 (5.73%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (4.85%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.88%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.88%) Terraform
7 1 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 206 (90.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.01%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.08%) Apple
3 7 (3.08%) Citrix
4 6 (2.64%) Workday
5 5 (2.20%) Cisco
5 5 (2.20%) Google
6 4 (1.76%) VMware
7 3 (1.32%) Dell
7 3 (1.32%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.32%) Remedy
8 2 (0.88%) Aruba
8 2 (0.88%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.88%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.44%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.44%) Tanium
9 1 (0.44%) WatchGuard