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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 360 388
Rank change year-on-year -29 +28 +92
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 193 194 229
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 1.52% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 128 165
10th Percentile £185 £185 £175
25th Percentile £255 £223 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -9.60%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £488
90th Percentile £625 £600 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £245 £350
% change year-on-year +58.16% -30.00% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.97 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.46 £22.50 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +19.30% +43.31%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £69.45 £25.84 £26.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £18.86
% change year-on-year -6.67% +19.30% +43.31%

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 13,815 12,799 15,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 35.73% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,383 8,453 11,352
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 185 294
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -16.49% +28.07% +13.14%

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 3 December 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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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 -17 179 £450 - 109
UK excluding London -14 111 £388 +58.16% 98
Work from Home +41 75 £400 -23.08% 37
London -30 74 £481 -7.89% 29
North of England -29 39 £190 -38.71% 23
South East +14 25 £275 -27.49% 34
North West -18 22 £418 -1.76% 8
East of England -14 14 £190 -33.33% 11
Midlands -24 13 £525 +150.00% 21
South West -9 11 £450 -7.22% 9
Yorkshire -27 11 £190 -20.83% 12
West Midlands -26 10 £550 +80.33% 9
Wales +1 6 - -
North East - 6 - - 4
Scotland -4 3 £450 +138.41% 2
East Midlands -15 3 £450 +136.84% 12

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
1 142 (73.58%) SharePoint
2 92 (47.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.15%) Skype for Business
4 7 (3.63%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (2.07%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 26 (13.47%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (4.15%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.55%) Trello
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.52%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (3.11%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.52%) Actimize
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (83.42%) Microsoft 365
2 95 (49.22%) Azure
3 74 (38.34%) Entra ID
4 25 (12.95%) Power Platform
5 20 (10.36%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (9.33%) PowerApps
7 17 (8.81%) Power Automate
8 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (4.66%) ShareGate
10 7 (3.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (2.59%) AWS
12 4 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.55%) Azure AI
13 3 (1.55%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.55%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (1.55%) GitHub
13 3 (1.55%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (6.22%) DNS
3 10 (5.18%) VPN
4 9 (4.66%) 4G
4 9 (4.66%) DHCP
4 9 (4.66%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.15%) Firewall
5 8 (4.15%) Skype
6 6 (3.11%) DMARC
7 5 (2.59%) DKIM
7 5 (2.59%) WAN
8 3 (1.55%) Intranet
8 3 (1.55%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.55%) SMTP
8 3 (1.55%) VLAN
8 3 (1.55%) WebEx
9 2 (1.04%) Extranet
9 2 (1.04%) Internet
9 2 (1.04%) LAN
9 2 (1.04%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.11%) Power BI
2 5 (2.59%) Metadata
3 2 (1.04%) Tableau
4 1 (0.52%) DTS
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Appium
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) MSI
3 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 99 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.69%) Finance
3 17 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.70%) Banking
6 5 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.59%) Legal
6 5 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Marketing
7 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Electronics
8 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Italian Language
8 2 (1.04%) Law
8 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (12.44%) Analyst
2 23 (11.92%) Consultant
2 23 (11.92%) Support Engineer
3 21 (10.88%) Support Analyst
4 19 (9.84%) Architect
5 18 (9.33%) IT Support
6 17 (8.81%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 16 (8.29%) Desktop Support
7 16 (8.29%) Operational Support Analyst
7 16 (8.29%) Operations Analyst
7 16 (8.29%) Operations Support Analyst
8 14 (7.25%) 2nd Line Support
9 11 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.18%) 1st Line Support
10 10 (5.18%) Desktop Specialist
10 10 (5.18%) Desktop Support Specialist
10 10 (5.18%) IT Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Support Specialist
10 10 (5.18%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (2.59%) REST
3 3 (1.55%) JSON
3 3 (1.55%) LangChain
3 3 (1.55%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (1.04%) OAuth
4 2 (1.04%) OpenID
4 2 (1.04%) SAML
5 1 (0.52%) .NET
5 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.52%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (0.52%) HTML
5 1 (0.52%) Kafka
5 1 (0.52%) Pandas
5 1 (0.52%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.52%) Web Services
5 1 (0.52%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.25%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.11%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.07%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.55%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.04%) PKI
7 2 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.52%) iPad
8 1 (0.52%) iPhone
8 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (44.56%) Windows
2 47 (24.35%) Windows 10
3 13 (6.74%) Apple iOS
4 8 (4.15%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.59%) Android
6 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.52%) VMS
7 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.52%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (29.53%) Migration
2 47 (24.35%) ITIL
3 36 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (14.51%) ITSM
5 27 (13.99%) Service Management
6 23 (11.92%) Customer Service
7 20 (10.36%) Problem Management
7 20 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (9.33%) Project Management
9 17 (8.81%) Agile
9 17 (8.81%) Data Loss Prevention
9 17 (8.81%) Identity Access Management
9 17 (8.81%) Identity Management
10 16 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (7.77%) Inventory Management
11 15 (7.77%) Mobile Device Management
12 14 (7.25%) Validation
13 12 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (6.22%) Roadmaps
13 12 (6.22%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.46%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.22%) SQL
3 5 (2.59%) Python
4 3 (1.55%) C#
5 1 (0.52%) Bicep
5 1 (0.52%) C
5 1 (0.52%) Java
5 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.44%) Degree
4 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.15%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.04%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.04%) PMP
8 1 (0.52%) CCNA
8 1 (0.52%) CISA
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CISSP
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.52%) MCSE
8 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.29%) GDPR
1 16 (8.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.11%) NIST
3 5 (2.59%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) PMO
4 3 (1.55%) SLA
5 2 (1.04%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
6 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 117 (60.62%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.52%) Docker
4 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (26.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (21.76%) SCCM
3 10 (5.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (4.15%) HP SiteScope
4 8 (4.15%) SCOM
5 6 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.07%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.55%) Terraform
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.04%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.52%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 152 (78.76%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.06%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.77%) Remedy
4 8 (4.15%) Apple
4 8 (4.15%) Splunk
5 7 (3.63%) Cisco
6 6 (3.11%) Workday
7 3 (1.55%) Google
7 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.55%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.55%) VMware
8 2 (1.04%) BMC
8 2 (1.04%) Citrix
8 2 (1.04%) Computacenter
8 2 (1.04%) SAP
8 2 (1.04%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.52%) Adobe
9 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.52%) Veritas