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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 408 392
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 -53
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 276 137 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.12% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 82 131
10th Percentile £186 £214 £190
25th Percentile £216 £283 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £415 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% +4.62%
75th Percentile £541 £509 £538
90th Percentile £625 £585 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £284 £350 £400
% change year-on-year -18.93% -12.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 6
10th Percentile £19.00 £58.90 £17.26
25th Percentile £25.29 £60.99 £18.20
Median hourly rate £32.50 £68.23 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year -52.36% +206.87% -1.32%
75th Percentile £34.12 £72.24 £24.18
90th Percentile £40.07 £72.40 £28.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £68.23 £22.23
% change year-on-year -52.36% +206.87% -1.32%

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 18,704 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,355 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £621 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.87 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +90.30% -10.14% -20.75%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +12 252 £415 - 115
UK excluding London -11 145 £284 -18.93% 97
London -20 113 £450 +5.88% 28
Work from Home -12 87 £400 -4.48% 40
North of England -25 60 £450 +2.86% 32
South East -40 36 £250 -50.00% 19
Yorkshire -18 32 £314 -21.56% 13
North West -36 27 £495 +11.93% 14
Midlands -48 21 £225 -18.18% 26
West Midlands -54 20 £225 -18.18% 11
Scotland -9 13 £250 -25.93% 2
South West -31 10 £169 -17.68% 10
East of England -19 7 £205 -13.68% 12
East Midlands -11 1 £250 - 15
North East - 1 £275 - 6

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
1 240 (86.96%) SharePoint
2 122 (44.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.26%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (2.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 30 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (9.06%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 260 (94.20%) Microsoft 365
2 160 (57.97%) Azure
3 134 (48.55%) Entra ID
4 59 (21.38%) Microsoft Copilot
4 59 (21.38%) Power Platform
5 46 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 39 (14.13%) Power Automate
7 37 (13.41%) PowerApps
8 16 (5.80%) AWS
9 15 (5.43%) SaaS
10 11 (3.99%) Azure AI
10 11 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.99%) ShareGate
11 7 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.54%) Google Workspace
12 6 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.17%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.09%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (18.84%) DNS
2 48 (17.39%) VPN
3 42 (15.22%) DHCP
4 33 (11.96%) TCP/IP
5 30 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (6.16%) Firewall
7 15 (5.43%) LAN
8 11 (3.99%) WAN
9 7 (2.54%) Intranet
9 7 (2.54%) Network Security
9 7 (2.54%) Unified Communications
9 7 (2.54%) VLAN
9 7 (2.54%) Wireless
10 6 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.81%) PSTN
12 4 (1.45%) SMTP
12 4 (1.45%) VoIP
13 2 (0.72%) PCoIP
13 2 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.88%) Power BI
2 16 (5.80%) Metadata
3 8 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.45%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (6.88%) JIRA
2 5 (1.81%) Fiddler
3 4 (1.45%) MSI
3 4 (1.45%) Zephyr
4 3 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.72%) TestRail
5 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 119 (43.12%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.39%) Finance
3 24 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.99%) Legal
6 7 (2.54%) Banking
7 6 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.81%) German Language
9 4 (1.45%) Italian Language
9 4 (1.45%) Law
9 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.09%) Advertising
10 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Local Government
10 3 (1.09%) Marketing
10 3 (1.09%) Military
10 3 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (14.13%) IT Support
2 37 (13.41%) Analyst
2 37 (13.41%) Support Engineer
3 30 (10.87%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 25 (9.06%) IT Engineer
4 25 (9.06%) IT Support Engineer
5 21 (7.61%) Senior
6 17 (6.16%) 2nd Line Support
7 16 (5.80%) Consultant
8 13 (4.71%) Support Analyst
9 12 (4.35%) Desktop Support
9 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (3.99%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.62%) Architect
11 10 (3.62%) Service Analyst
12 9 (3.26%) 1st Line Support
12 9 (3.26%) Developer
12 9 (3.26%) Help Desk Support
12 9 (3.26%) Lead
12 9 (3.26%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.42%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (2.90%) JSON
2 8 (2.90%) SPFx
3 7 (2.54%) .NET
3 7 (2.54%) CSS
3 7 (2.54%) React
4 4 (1.45%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (1.45%) OAuth
4 4 (1.45%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.45%) OpenID
4 4 (1.45%) REST
4 4 (1.45%) SAML
5 3 (1.09%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.09%) FIDO
5 3 (1.09%) HTML
5 3 (1.09%) jQuery
6 2 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.72%) OpenGL
6 2 (0.72%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.41%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.54%) Smartphone
5 6 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.81%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.45%) AS400
7 4 (1.45%) iSeries
7 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.45%) PMI
7 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.09%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.09%) IoT
9 2 (0.72%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.72%) CUDA
9 2 (0.72%) PKI
9 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 131 (47.46%) Windows
2 31 (11.23%) Mac OS
3 27 (9.78%) Windows 10
4 22 (7.97%) Apple iOS
5 14 (5.07%) Android
6 10 (3.62%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.09%) Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.00%) Migration
2 65 (23.55%) Customer Service
3 59 (21.38%) ITIL
3 59 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (17.75%) ITSM
5 45 (16.30%) Service Management
6 37 (13.41%) AI
7 31 (11.23%) User Experience
8 28 (10.14%) Data Loss Prevention
9 27 (9.78%) Data Protection
10 23 (8.33%) Change Management
10 23 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (7.61%) Agile
11 21 (7.61%) Records Management
12 20 (7.25%) Information Governance
12 20 (7.25%) Roadmaps
13 19 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (6.52%) Project Delivery
14 18 (6.52%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (26.81%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.26%) Python
3 8 (2.90%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.90%) TypeScript
4 7 (2.54%) C#
5 6 (2.17%) SQL
6 4 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.72%) Bash
7 2 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.36%) Bicep
8 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (14.13%) Degree
2 27 (9.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (9.06%) Security Cleared
4 19 (6.88%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.90%) A+ Certification
5 8 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.72%) MCSE
9 2 (0.72%) PMP
9 2 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.36%) ACSP
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.36%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.97%) SLA
2 11 (3.99%) GDPR
3 6 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.17%) QA
4 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.72%) FINRA
6 2 (0.72%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 1
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.72%) Docker
5 2 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.36%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 109 (39.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (9.78%) SCCM
3 19 (6.88%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (1.09%) Terraform
7 2 (0.72%) Ansible
7 2 (0.72%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 243 (88.04%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.13%) ServiceNow
3 22 (7.97%) Cisco
4 19 (6.88%) VMware
5 13 (4.71%) Apple
6 8 (2.90%) Citrix
7 7 (2.54%) Google
7 7 (2.54%) HP
7 7 (2.54%) Proofpoint
8 6 (2.17%) Canon
8 6 (2.17%) Meraki
8 6 (2.17%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.45%) Dell
9 4 (1.45%) DocuSign
9 4 (1.45%) Freshdesk
9 4 (1.45%) IBM
10 3 (1.09%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.09%) F5
10 3 (1.09%) Forcepoint
10 3 (1.09%) Remedy