Microsoft 365 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 340 562 1,097
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.48% 3.80% 4.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.50% 10.36% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 402 815
10th Percentile £213 £175 £188
25th Percentile £297 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £527 £606 £625
90th Percentile £622 £700 £743
UK median daily rate £325 £350 £378
% change year-on-year -7.14% -7.28% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 38
10th Percentile £15.23 £13.13 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.98 £15.50 £15.84
Median hourly rate £61.13 £16.32 £21.71
Median % change year-on-year +274.66% -24.83% +0.95%
75th Percentile £65.25 £17.55 £62.50
90th Percentile £66.23 £27.44 £66.83
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +35.29% -15.00% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Microsoft 365 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,000 5,427 9,398
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.91% 36.72% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 3,903 6,994
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 88 132
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £17.43 £21.31
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -45.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.06 £69.63
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

Microsoft 365
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Microsoft 365
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.

Microsoft 365 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Microsoft 365 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
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.

Microsoft 365 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Microsoft 365 hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
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:

Application Platforms
1 129 (37.94%) SharePoint
2 82 (24.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.18%) Confluence
5 3 (0.88%) SAS
6 2 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.29%) TPMS
Applications
1 33 (9.71%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.88%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.29%) Notion
6 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 192 (56.47%) Azure
2 106 (31.18%) Entra ID
3 52 (15.29%) Power Platform
4 47 (13.82%) OneDrive
5 33 (9.71%) SaaS
6 24 (7.06%) PowerApps
7 23 (6.76%) IaaS
8 21 (6.18%) Power Automate
9 17 (5.00%) PaaS
10 16 (4.71%) AWS
10 16 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (4.12%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (2.35%) Mimecast
14 8 (2.35%) Slack
14 8 (2.35%) Yammer
15 7 (2.06%) Asana
15 7 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 39 (11.47%) Firewall
2 17 (5.00%) VPN
3 14 (4.12%) DNS
4 10 (2.94%) DHCP
4 10 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (2.65%) LAN
5 9 (2.65%) Network Security
5 9 (2.65%) WAN
6 7 (2.06%) Internet
7 6 (1.76%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (1.47%) VoIP
9 4 (1.18%) PSTN
9 4 (1.18%) Skype
9 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.88%) Intranet
10 3 (0.88%) SAN
10 3 (0.88%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.88%) Wireless
11 2 (0.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.18%) Power BI
1 21 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.18%) Big Data
4 4 (1.18%) Hadoop
4 4 (1.18%) Tableau
5 3 (0.88%) MS Access
6 2 (0.59%) Dremio
6 2 (0.59%) Metadata
6 2 (0.59%) Power Query
6 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.29%) Sisense
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.24%) JIRA
2 3 (0.88%) MSI
3 2 (0.59%) Git
3 2 (0.59%) Postman
3 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) Hudson
General
1 114 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.65%) Finance
3 59 (17.35%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.94%) Banking
5 15 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.65%) Legal
10 7 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.06%) Marketing
11 6 (1.76%) Electronics
12 5 (1.47%) Law
12 5 (1.47%) Local Government
12 5 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.59%) French Language
13 2 (0.59%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (13.53%) Support Engineer
2 43 (12.65%) Analyst
3 35 (10.29%) Architect
4 33 (9.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 32 (9.41%) Senior
6 27 (7.94%) Consultant
6 27 (7.94%) IT Support
7 22 (6.47%) Developer
8 19 (5.59%) IT Engineer
9 18 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (4.41%) Security Engineer
11 15 (4.41%) Service Analyst
11 15 (4.41%) Service Desk Analyst
12 13 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.53%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (3.53%) Technical Support
14 11 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.24%) REST
2 7 (2.06%) .NET
3 4 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.18%) Kafka
3 4 (1.18%) Web Services
4 3 (0.88%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (0.88%) CSS
4 3 (0.88%) HTML
4 3 (0.88%) SAML
4 3 (0.88%) Software Packaging
5 2 (0.59%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.59%) CSS3
5 2 (0.59%) HTML5
5 2 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.59%) PySpark
5 2 (0.59%) RESTful
5 2 (0.59%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.76%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.18%) PKI
8 4 (1.18%) Social Media
9 3 (0.88%) CMDB
9 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.88%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.88%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.88%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.59%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.59%) BYOD
10 2 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (35.29%) Windows
2 35 (10.29%) Windows 10
3 32 (9.41%) Windows Server
4 20 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 19 (5.59%) Android
6 17 (5.00%) Mac OS
7 10 (2.94%) Linux
8 7 (2.06%) VMS
9 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.59%) Debian
13 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (17.35%) Migration
2 57 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (15.88%) ITIL
4 45 (13.24%) Agile
5 31 (9.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (8.53%) Customer Service
7 27 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (7.94%) Data Loss Prevention
7 27 (7.94%) Project Management
8 26 (7.65%) ITSM
9 25 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (6.76%) Cloud Security
10 23 (6.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (6.18%) DevOps
12 20 (5.88%) Information Security
12 20 (5.88%) User Experience
13 18 (5.29%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (5.29%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (5.29%) Roadmaps
13 18 (5.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.29%) PowerShell
2 13 (3.82%) Python
2 13 (3.82%) SQL
3 9 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.35%) Bash
5 6 (1.76%) C#
5 6 (1.76%) VBA
6 4 (1.18%) Bicep
7 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.59%) VBScript
8 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.29%) Groovy
8 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.29%) R
8 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 49 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (8.82%) Degree
5 20 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.06%) PMP
7 6 (1.76%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.59%) CISSP
10 2 (0.59%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.59%) OSCE
11 1 (0.29%) ACTC
11 1 (0.29%) GSEC
11 1 (0.29%) HNC
11 1 (0.29%) HND
11 1 (0.29%) MCP
11 1 (0.29%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.29%) GDPR
2 13 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.53%) SLA
4 7 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.06%) NIST
5 6 (1.76%) PMO
5 6 (1.76%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.59%) COBIT
8 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 122 (35.88%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.65%) vSphere
4 8 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.18%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (25.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.29%) SCCM
3 15 (4.41%) Terraform
4 8 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.76%) WSUS
6 4 (1.18%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.59%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.59%) SCOM
8 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.29%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.29%) Plesk
8 1 (0.29%) QRadar
8 1 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 260 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.94%) VMware
3 21 (6.18%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.88%) Cisco
5 16 (4.71%) Apple
6 13 (3.82%) Zscaler
7 8 (2.35%) Citrix
8 7 (2.06%) Databricks
8 7 (2.06%) Meraki
8 7 (2.06%) SAP
9 5 (1.47%) Adobe
9 5 (1.47%) Darktrace
9 5 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.47%) Sophos
10 4 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.18%) Informatica
10 4 (1.18%) Oracle
10 4 (1.18%) Proofpoint
10 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.18%) Sparx