Microsoft 365 Job Trends in Portsmouth

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 10 37 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 3.00% 12.63% 6.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.87% 38.54% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 16
10th Percentile - £29,400 £24,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £26,249
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -4.07% +27.41%
75th Percentile £78,500 £58,750 £61,660
90th Percentile - £78,125 £68,750
Hampshire median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £33,250
% change year-on-year -6.25% +20.30% -6.99%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Portsmouth

Microsoft 365 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 53 96 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 15.92% 32.76% 33.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50 58 68
10th Percentile £27,725 £31,250 £30,850
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £83,875 £72,500 £76,125
Hampshire median annual salary £47,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.64% -4.35%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Microsoft 365.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in Portsmouth

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (50.00%) Azure AI
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 5 (50.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Security Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Security Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (40.00%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Threat Detection
2 5 (50.00%) AI
2 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) SIEM
3 4 (40.00%) SOAR
3 4 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (40.00%) Use Case
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) Bicep
2 4 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (40.00%) Splunk