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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 375 411
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 -39
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 258 152 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.37% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 89 131
10th Percentile £190 £207 £190
25th Percentile £250 £263 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £410
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.61% -7.87%
75th Percentile £558 £500 £556
90th Percentile £629 £585 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £363 £400
% change year-on-year -13.72% -9.38% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 3
10th Percentile £18.75 - £16.98
25th Percentile £25.19 £57.50 £17.26
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +266.82% -21.35%
75th Percentile £33.75 £72.50 £20.98
90th Percentile £35.60 - £22.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.94 £65.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -55.48% +266.82% -21.35%

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 17,713 11,130 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,857 7,532 9,982
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 270 357
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +95.98% +0.26% -30.60%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -16 231 £447 +7.71% 80
UK excluding London -26 149 £313 -13.72% 69
London -45 93 £450 +5.88% 25
North of England -20 73 £500 +11.86% 21
Work from Home -28 70 £425 +4.62% 31
Yorkshire +4 58 £534 +15.46% 6
South East -37 33 £244 -51.25% 23
West Midlands -55 16 £225 -18.18% 5
Midlands -64 16 £225 -17.05% 12
North West -43 14 £450 +0.67% 14
Scotland -8 12 £178 -45.38% 3
East of England -27 7 £205 -11.35% 8
South West -28 6 £425 +13.33% 6
Wales -11 3 £300 -
North East - 1 £275 - 2

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
1 224 (86.82%) SharePoint
2 124 (48.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.39%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.39%) InDesign
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 244 (94.57%) Microsoft 365
2 128 (49.61%) Entra ID
3 126 (48.84%) Azure
4 57 (22.09%) Microsoft Copilot
5 49 (18.99%) Microsoft Purview
6 48 (18.60%) Power Platform
7 30 (11.63%) PowerApps
8 29 (11.24%) Power Automate
9 17 (6.59%) SaaS
10 15 (5.81%) AWS
11 11 (4.26%) ShareGate
12 10 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (3.88%) Rubrik
13 9 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.10%) Google Workspace
15 7 (2.71%) PaaS
16 5 (1.94%) Copilot Studio
17 4 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
17 4 (1.55%) GitHub
17 4 (1.55%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.34%) DNS
2 34 (13.18%) VPN
3 31 (12.02%) Wi-Fi
4 27 (10.47%) DHCP
5 20 (7.75%) TCP/IP
6 16 (6.20%) LAN
7 13 (5.04%) WAN
8 11 (4.26%) Unified Communications
9 8 (3.10%) Firewall
9 8 (3.10%) PSTN
10 7 (2.71%) Intranet
11 6 (2.33%) VoIP
12 4 (1.55%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (1.16%) SMTP
13 3 (1.16%) VLAN
14 2 (0.78%) Network Security
14 2 (0.78%) PCoIP
14 2 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.20%) Power BI
2 8 (3.10%) Metadata
3 4 (1.55%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.39%) MySQL
4 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (6.98%) JIRA
2 4 (1.55%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.16%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.16%) MSI
4 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.50%) Finance
3 27 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.53%) Legal
5 16 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.94%) German Language
8 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.55%) Italian Language
8 4 (1.55%) Law
8 4 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.16%) Local Government
9 3 (1.16%) Military
9 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Advertising
10 2 (0.78%) Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Games
10 2 (0.78%) Police
10 2 (0.78%) Publishing
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (13.18%) IT Support
2 32 (12.40%) Architect
3 27 (10.47%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 25 (9.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 25 (9.69%) Support Engineer
5 23 (8.91%) Analyst
6 20 (7.75%) IT Engineer
6 20 (7.75%) IT Support Engineer
7 17 (6.59%) Senior
8 15 (5.81%) Consultant
9 13 (5.04%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (4.26%) Developer
10 11 (4.26%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.88%) Microsoft Engineer
12 9 (3.49%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
13 8 (3.10%) IT Analyst
13 8 (3.10%) Service Analyst
13 8 (3.10%) Service Desk Analyst
14 7 (2.71%) Desktop Engineer
14 7 (2.71%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.77%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (3.49%) CSS
3 7 (2.71%) .NET
3 7 (2.71%) JSON
3 7 (2.71%) React
3 7 (2.71%) SPFx
4 6 (2.33%) OpenID
4 6 (2.33%) SAML
5 5 (1.94%) HTML
6 4 (1.55%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (1.55%) OAuth
6 4 (1.55%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.16%) FIDO
7 3 (1.16%) jQuery
7 3 (1.16%) REST
8 2 (0.78%) HTML5
8 2 (0.78%) Qt
8 2 (0.78%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.24%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.81%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.71%) IoT
5 5 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.94%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.55%) PMI
6 4 (1.55%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.16%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.16%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.78%) CMDB
8 2 (0.78%) CUDA
8 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Licensing
8 2 (0.78%) PKI
8 2 (0.78%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 108 (41.86%) Windows
2 31 (12.02%) Mac OS
3 19 (7.36%) Apple iOS
4 17 (6.59%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.65%) Android
6 3 (1.16%) Linux
6 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (20.93%) Migration
2 45 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (17.05%) Customer Service
4 43 (16.67%) ITSM
5 38 (14.73%) ITIL
6 34 (13.18%) Data Loss Prevention
7 33 (12.79%) AI
8 32 (12.40%) User Experience
9 29 (11.24%) Records Management
10 28 (10.85%) Information Governance
11 26 (10.08%) Root Cause Analysis
12 25 (9.69%) Data Protection
12 25 (9.69%) E-Discovery
12 25 (9.69%) Service Management
13 21 (8.14%) Agile
14 20 (7.75%) Runbook
15 18 (6.98%) Incident Response
16 17 (6.59%) Roadmaps
16 17 (6.59%) Time Management
17 16 (6.20%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (35.27%) PowerShell
2 14 (5.43%) Python
3 11 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.49%) C#
4 9 (3.49%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.71%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.94%) SQL
7 2 (0.78%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) C++
8 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (12.02%) Degree
2 28 (10.85%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) MCSE
7 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.39%) ACSP
8 1 (0.39%) ACTC
8 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.47%) GDPR
2 13 (5.04%) FINRA
2 13 (5.04%) MiFID
2 13 (5.04%) SLA
3 7 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.16%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.78%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.39%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) SOC 1
System Software
1 105 (40.70%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) Docker
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) NFS
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (32.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (8.91%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (8.14%) SCCM
4 11 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (1.16%) Terraform
7 2 (0.78%) Ansible
7 2 (0.78%) Packer
8 1 (0.39%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 230 (89.15%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.73%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.65%) Cisco
4 10 (3.88%) Apple
5 8 (3.10%) Google
6 7 (2.71%) Citrix
7 5 (1.94%) Proofpoint
7 5 (1.94%) VMware
8 4 (1.55%) Canon
8 4 (1.55%) Freshdesk
9 3 (1.16%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.16%) Dell
9 3 (1.16%) Forcepoint
9 3 (1.16%) HP
10 2 (0.78%) Aruba
10 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.78%) Leostream
10 2 (0.78%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle