Microsoft 365 Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 45 69
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 598 1,253 1,699
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.86% 4.79% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.62% 12.16% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 939 1,255
10th Percentile £178 £200 £181
25th Percentile £285 £324 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.95% +3.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £713 £638
UK median daily rate £350 £395 £380
% change year-on-year -11.39% +3.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 37 75
10th Percentile £15.42 £12.65 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.32 £20.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% -6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £17.64 £66.00 £24.75
90th Percentile £19.00 £79.00 £53.90
UK median hourly rate £17.14 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.38% +5.71% +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,629 10,308 18,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.31% 39.38% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,016 7,562 13,883
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 126 174
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +87.83% -17.86%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £62.45 £81.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £33.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.78% +56.98% -4.44%

Microsoft 365
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365 hourly rate 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
1 174 (29.10%) SharePoint
2 135 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.01%) Exchange Server 2007
3 12 (2.01%) Exchange Server 2010
3 12 (2.01%) Skype for Business
4 11 (1.84%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (1.67%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (1.34%) Confluence
7 6 (1.00%) WordPress
8 5 (0.84%) Drupal
8 5 (0.84%) IIS
9 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.67%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.33%) CMS
10 2 (0.33%) Moodle
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.17%) Mendix
Applications
1 67 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.84%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.84%) Trello
5 4 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.33%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) InVision
7 1 (0.17%) Sketch
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.33%) assyst
4 1 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.17%) iTrent
4 1 (0.17%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.17%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 310 (51.84%) Azure
2 122 (20.40%) Entra ID
3 90 (15.05%) Power Platform
4 59 (9.87%) PowerApps
5 54 (9.03%) OneDrive
6 48 (8.03%) AWS
7 46 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 45 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (3.18%) PaaS
10 17 (2.84%) SaaS
11 16 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 16 (2.68%) Slack
12 15 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (2.51%) Azure Storage
12 15 (2.51%) GitHub
12 15 (2.51%) IaaS
13 10 (1.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (1.67%) Mimecast
14 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.70%) Firewall
2 47 (7.86%) DNS
3 35 (5.85%) DHCP
4 32 (5.35%) VPN
5 13 (2.17%) Skype
6 12 (2.01%) Intranet
7 11 (1.84%) LAN
8 10 (1.67%) WAN
9 7 (1.17%) NAS
9 7 (1.17%) SAN
9 7 (1.17%) VoIP
10 6 (1.00%) Network Security
11 4 (0.67%) VLAN
12 3 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.50%) HTTP
12 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.50%) WebEx
12 3 (0.50%) Wireless
13 2 (0.33%) SSL
13 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.19%) Power BI
2 36 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.84%) Metadata
6 5 (0.84%) Power Query
7 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.33%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.33%) Tableau
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) MS Access
9 1 (0.17%) MySQL
9 1 (0.17%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.17%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 32 (5.35%) JIRA
2 6 (1.00%) Git
3 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) MSI
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 169 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 92 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 73 (12.21%) Finance
4 43 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.68%) Legal
8 14 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.01%) Marketing
10 11 (1.84%) Banking
11 9 (1.51%) German Language
11 9 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.51%) Law
11 9 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Electronics
12 6 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.84%) French Language
13 5 (0.84%) Retail
13 5 (0.84%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (12.37%) Architect
2 73 (12.21%) Analyst
3 47 (7.86%) Developer
4 43 (7.19%) Consultant
5 38 (6.35%) Service Analyst
6 36 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (6.02%) Service Desk Analyst
7 35 (5.85%) IT Support
8 34 (5.69%) Senior
9 29 (4.85%) Support Engineer
10 27 (4.52%) IT Engineer
11 23 (3.85%) Project Manager
12 22 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (3.51%) Administrator
13 21 (3.51%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 21 (3.51%) Power Platform Developer
14 20 (3.34%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 20 (3.34%) Support Analyst
14 20 (3.34%) Support Specialist
15 19 (3.18%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.34%) ARM Templates
2 12 (2.01%) .NET
3 9 (1.51%) REST
4 6 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 6 (1.00%) JSON
4 6 (1.00%) React
4 6 (1.00%) SPFx
4 6 (1.00%) XML
5 5 (0.84%) CSS
5 5 (0.84%) OAuth
5 5 (0.84%) RESTful
5 5 (0.84%) SOAP
6 4 (0.67%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.67%) SAML
7 3 (0.50%) HTML
7 3 (0.50%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.33%) ADSI
8 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.33%) Node.js
8 2 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (3.68%) Data Centre
2 22 (3.68%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.18%) PKI
4 18 (3.01%) NHS
5 17 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.84%) Video Conferencing
6 15 (2.51%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (1.34%) Smartphone
9 7 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.00%) Video Editing
11 5 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.84%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.84%) EPoS
11 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.84%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 250 (41.81%) Windows
2 106 (17.73%) Windows 10
3 93 (15.55%) Windows Server
4 31 (5.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 27 (4.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (3.34%) Apple iOS
6 20 (3.34%) Linux
6 20 (3.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (2.01%) Android
9 11 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (1.51%) Mac OS
11 7 (1.17%) VMS
12 6 (1.00%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.84%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (19.57%) Migration
2 77 (12.88%) Agile
3 71 (11.87%) ITIL
4 64 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (9.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 55 (9.20%) DevOps
7 52 (8.70%) Customer Service
8 42 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (7.02%) Project Management
9 37 (6.19%) Change Management
10 34 (5.69%) Cybersecurity
11 33 (5.52%) Roadmaps
12 30 (5.02%) Service Management
12 30 (5.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (4.52%) Data Migration
14 24 (4.01%) Identity Management
14 24 (4.01%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 23 (3.85%) Data Security
15 23 (3.85%) Project Delivery
16 21 (3.51%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 99 (16.56%) PowerShell
2 34 (5.69%) SQL
3 30 (5.02%) C#
4 19 (3.18%) Python
5 15 (2.51%) VBScript
6 14 (2.34%) Bicep
6 14 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.34%) VB
7 4 (0.67%) Bash
7 4 (0.67%) C
7 4 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.50%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.33%) Java
9 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 104 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 99 (16.56%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.54%) Degree
4 36 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (2.01%) CISSP
9 10 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.67%) CISM
10 9 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.84%) MCSE
14 4 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.50%) CCNP
15 3 (0.50%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.68%) SLA
2 8 (1.34%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.34%) NIST
3 7 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (1.00%) QA
5 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.67%) NCSC
7 3 (0.50%) GDPR
8 2 (0.33%) COBIT
8 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) GLBA
9 1 (0.17%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 245 (40.97%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.68%) Hyper-V
4 20 (3.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.67%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.50%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.50%) vSphere
8 2 (0.33%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.17%) XenApp
9 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (15.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (10.03%) SCCM
3 19 (3.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (3.01%) Kubernetes
5 17 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (2.68%) WSUS
7 14 (2.34%) SCOM
8 8 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (1.34%) Terraform
9 6 (1.00%) Ansible
10 4 (0.67%) Packer
11 3 (0.50%) AirWatch
11 3 (0.50%) QRadar
12 2 (0.33%) Kibana
12 2 (0.33%) logstash
12 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.17%) CASB
13 1 (0.17%) Puppet
13 1 (0.17%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 406 (67.89%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.70%) VMware
3 30 (5.02%) Citrix
3 30 (5.02%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.34%) Veeam
5 18 (3.01%) NetApp
6 17 (2.84%) Cisco
7 16 (2.68%) Adobe
8 15 (2.51%) Apple
9 12 (2.01%) CA
9 12 (2.01%) Google
10 11 (1.84%) Oracle
10 11 (1.84%) SAP
11 9 (1.51%) HP
11 9 (1.51%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.34%) Splunk
13 7 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.17%) Qualys
14 6 (1.00%) iManage
15 5 (0.84%) Zscaler