Microsoft 365 Engineer Job Trends in England

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK > England

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 595 556
Rank change year-on-year +89 -39 +286
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 111 84 124
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 100 67 121
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +24.23% -19.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,864 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 48,032 44,628 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,380 23,318 36,700
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Microsoft 365 Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in England

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in England

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 27 £51,250 -6.82% 5
South East +51 25 £45,000 +40.63% 4
Midlands +42 23 £45,000 +20.00% 1
South West +29 18 £34,000 -15.00% 1
North of England +9 18 £47,250 -0.53%
West Midlands +36 17 £45,000 - 1
North West +14 10 £35,000 -26.32%
Yorkshire -5 8 £62,500 +9.98%
East Midlands -7 1 £29,000 -22.67%
Microsoft 365 Engineer
UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Microsoft 365 Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 106 (95.50%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (89.19%) Microsoft
3 57 (51.35%) Azure
4 53 (47.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 49 (44.14%) SharePoint
6 43 (38.74%) Entra ID
7 41 (36.94%) Windows
8 40 (36.04%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (34.23%) PowerShell
10 31 (27.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (25.23%) Active Directory
12 21 (18.92%) Customer Service
12 21 (18.92%) Firewall
13 19 (17.12%) Sophos
14 18 (16.22%) Migration
15 17 (15.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (13.51%) ConnectWise
16 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 15 (13.51%) VMware
16 15 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
16 15 (13.51%) VPN
17 14 (12.61%) DNS
17 14 (12.61%) SLA
18 12 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
18 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
19 11 (9.91%) Disaster Recovery
19 11 (9.91%) Windows Server
20 10 (9.01%) DHCP
20 10 (9.01%) Hyper-V
20 10 (9.01%) ITIL

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 53 (47.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (44.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.60%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (95.50%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (51.35%) Azure
3 43 (38.74%) Entra ID
4 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (6.31%) Google Workspace
6 7 (6.31%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.50%) AWS
7 5 (4.50%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.80%) ChatGPT
10 2 (1.80%) Slack
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.90%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.92%) Firewall
2 15 (13.51%) VPN
3 14 (12.61%) DNS
4 10 (9.01%) DHCP
5 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
5 7 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.60%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (3.60%) IPsec
6 4 (3.60%) LAN
6 4 (3.60%) VLAN
6 4 (3.60%) VoIP
6 4 (3.60%) Wireless
7 3 (2.70%) WAN
8 1 (0.90%) DMARC
8 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) Power BI
2 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 46 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Legal
3 10 (9.01%) Manufacturing
4 9 (8.11%) Finance
4 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.41%) Electronics
5 6 (5.41%) Marketing
5 6 (5.41%) Tech for Good
5 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.50%) Law
7 4 (3.60%) Banking
7 4 (3.60%) Front Office
8 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Onboarding
2 17 (15.32%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.60%) Clustering
4 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (36.94%) Windows
2 11 (9.91%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.31%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.41%) Linux
5 4 (3.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.04%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.92%) Customer Service
3 18 (16.22%) Migration
4 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (9.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (9.01%) ITIL
8 8 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (6.31%) Identity Management
9 7 (6.31%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.31%) Task Automation
10 6 (5.41%) Client Onboarding
10 6 (5.41%) Cloud Security
10 6 (5.41%) Customer Engagement
10 6 (5.41%) Digital Marketing
10 6 (5.41%) Knowledge Management
10 6 (5.41%) Programme Management
11 5 (4.50%) Business Continuity
11 5 (4.50%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.23%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.50%) Python
3 3 (2.70%) SQL
4 2 (1.80%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (15.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (8.11%) Degree
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.60%) ACMT
4 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) SLA
2 6 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (25.23%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.01%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.60%) Docker
4 4 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (27.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.60%) Autotask
3 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.60%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.80%) SCCM
5 1 (0.90%) CASB
5 1 (0.90%) QRadar
Vendors
1 99 (89.19%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.12%) Sophos
3 15 (13.51%) ConnectWise
3 15 (13.51%) VMware
4 7 (6.31%) Cisco
4 7 (6.31%) Google
4 7 (6.31%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.41%) SAP
6 5 (4.50%) Apple
7 4 (3.60%) Datto
7 4 (3.60%) Oracle
7 4 (3.60%) Veeam
8 2 (1.80%) Computacenter
8 2 (1.80%) Logitech
8 2 (1.80%) Meraki
8 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.80%) Yealink
9 1 (0.90%) Exabeam
9 1 (0.90%) Forcepoint
9 1 (0.90%) Qualys