Microsoft 365 Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft 365 Architect (M365 Architect)
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft 365 Architect (M365 Architect) daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £751, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 325 432
Rank change year-on-year +26 +107 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Architect 5 20 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 37
10th Percentile £630 £493 £520
25th Percentile £750 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £600 £740
Median % change year-on-year +25.17% -18.92% +18.40%
75th Percentile - £769 £743
90th Percentile - £925 £810
UK median daily rate £750 £625 £700
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Microsoft 365 Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Microsoft 365 Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microsoft 365 Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 Architect.

Microsoft 365 Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365 Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Microsoft 365 Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365 Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 Architect.

Microsoft 365 Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365 Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Microsoft 365 Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Microsoft 365 Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 3 (60.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (60.00%) SOC 2
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Reinsurance
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines

Microsoft 365 Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (60.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bicep
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft