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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 374 392
Rank change year-on-year -19 +18 +86
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 191 192 226
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.56% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.53% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 127 164
10th Percentile £185 £185 £176
25th Percentile £255 £223 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -10.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £488
90th Percentile £618 £617 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £245 £350
% change year-on-year +51.02% -30.00% -15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 12
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.97 £16.66
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £21.46 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +26.98% +34.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £69.37 £25.84 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -6.67% +26.98% +34.65%

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 13,884 12,520 15,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 36.20% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,470 8,314 11,153
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 175 275
10th Percentile £14.98 £18.30 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £57.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £69.73 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% +29.17% +7.69%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -27 176 £450 - 78
UK excluding London -21 110 £370 +51.02% 80
Work from Home +40 72 £375 -23.94% 33
London -22 72 £494 -5.95% 12
North of England -16 41 £190 -22.45% 15
South East +18 25 £275 -27.49% 27
North West -10 23 £388 -8.82% 9
Midlands -37 13 £525 +150.00% 12
East of England -22 12 £190 -33.33% 16
Yorkshire -40 11 £190 -20.83% 4
South West -17 10 £450 +20.81% 5
West Midlands -36 10 £550 +80.33% 3
North East - 7 £475 - 3
Wales +3 6 - -
Scotland -4 3 £450 +138.41% 10
East Midlands -18 3 £450 +136.84% 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
1 140 (73.30%) SharePoint
2 89 (46.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.19%) Skype for Business
4 7 (3.66%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (2.09%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 26 (13.61%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (4.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.57%) 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 (7.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (3.14%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.52%) Actimize
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 158 (82.72%) Microsoft 365
2 92 (48.17%) Azure
3 72 (37.70%) Entra ID
4 26 (13.61%) Power Platform
5 19 (9.95%) PowerApps
6 17 (8.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (8.90%) Power Automate
7 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (4.71%) ShareGate
9 6 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.62%) AWS
11 4 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.57%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.57%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.57%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (1.57%) GitHub
12 3 (1.57%) SaaS
12 3 (1.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.95%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (6.28%) DNS
3 10 (5.24%) DHCP
3 10 (5.24%) VPN
4 9 (4.71%) 4G
5 8 (4.19%) Skype
5 8 (4.19%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.66%) Firewall
7 5 (2.62%) DKIM
7 5 (2.62%) DMARC
7 5 (2.62%) WAN
8 3 (1.57%) Intranet
8 3 (1.57%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.57%) VLAN
8 3 (1.57%) WebEx
9 2 (1.05%) Extranet
9 2 (1.05%) Internet
9 2 (1.05%) LAN
9 2 (1.05%) SMTP
9 2 (1.05%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.14%) Power BI
2 5 (2.62%) Metadata
3 2 (1.05%) Tableau
4 1 (0.52%) DTS
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Appium
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) MSI
3 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 101 (52.88%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.85%) Finance
3 18 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.76%) Banking
6 6 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.09%) Legal
8 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Marketing
8 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Retail
8 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Electronics
9 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 23 (12.04%) Analyst
1 23 (12.04%) Support Engineer
2 22 (11.52%) Consultant
3 21 (10.99%) Support Analyst
4 20 (10.47%) Architect
5 18 (9.42%) IT Support
6 16 (8.38%) Desktop Support
6 16 (8.38%) Operational Support Analyst
6 16 (8.38%) Operations Analyst
6 16 (8.38%) Operations Support Analyst
7 14 (7.33%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (6.81%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.24%) 1st Line Support
10 10 (5.24%) Desktop Specialist
10 10 (5.24%) Desktop Support Specialist
10 10 (5.24%) IT Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 10 (5.24%) Support Specialist
10 10 (5.24%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (3.14%) REST
3 3 (1.57%) JSON
3 3 (1.57%) LangChain
3 3 (1.57%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (1.05%) OAuth
4 2 (1.05%) OpenID
4 2 (1.05%) 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%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.52%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.52%) Web Services
5 1 (0.52%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.14%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.62%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.62%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.57%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.57%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.57%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) PKI
6 2 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.52%) BYOD
7 1 (0.52%) iPad
7 1 (0.52%) iPhone
7 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (43.98%) Windows
2 48 (25.13%) Windows 10
3 14 (7.33%) Apple iOS
4 9 (4.71%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.62%) Android
6 3 (1.57%) 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 (29.84%) Migration
2 48 (25.13%) ITIL
3 38 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (14.66%) ITSM
5 27 (14.14%) Service Management
6 23 (12.04%) Customer Service
7 20 (10.47%) Problem Management
7 20 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (8.38%) Agile
8 16 (8.38%) Project Management
8 16 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (7.85%) Identity Management
9 15 (7.85%) Inventory Management
9 15 (7.85%) Mobile Device Management
10 14 (7.33%) Data Loss Prevention
10 14 (7.33%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (7.33%) Validation
11 12 (6.28%) Roadmaps
11 12 (6.28%) Task Automation
12 11 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.23%) PowerShell
2 13 (6.81%) SQL
3 6 (3.14%) Python
4 3 (1.57%) 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 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.99%) Degree
4 8 (4.19%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.05%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.05%) 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 13 (6.81%) GDPR
1 13 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.57%) NIST
2 3 (1.57%) PMO
2 3 (1.57%) SLA
3 2 (1.05%) GRC
3 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 117 (61.26%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.52%) Docker
5 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (27.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (22.51%) SCCM
3 10 (5.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (4.19%) HP SiteScope
4 8 (4.19%) SCOM
5 7 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.57%) Terraform
8 2 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.05%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.52%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 150 (78.53%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.23%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.85%) Remedy
4 9 (4.71%) Apple
5 8 (4.19%) Splunk
6 7 (3.66%) Cisco
7 6 (3.14%) Workday
8 4 (2.09%) Google
8 4 (2.09%) VMware
9 3 (1.57%) Citrix
9 3 (1.57%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.57%) Proofpoint
10 2 (1.05%) BMC
10 2 (1.05%) Computacenter
10 2 (1.05%) SAP
10 2 (1.05%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.52%) Okta
11 1 (0.52%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.52%) Toshiba
11 1 (0.52%) UiPath