Microsoft 365 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 2,331 2,549 2,966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.47% 7.08% 8.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.07% 21.90% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 1,474 2,649
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +3.90% +2.67%
75th Percentile £47,625 £53,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,654 11,639 12,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 32.35% 36.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,873 6,345 10,353
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft 365.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East -8 541 £35,600 -16.24% 298
North of England -5 530 £33,750 -15.63% 197
Midlands -13 430 £32,500 -23.53% 126
South West +9 369 £32,500 -2.99% 91
North West -4 260 £35,000 -12.50% 87
Yorkshire -1 221 £32,500 -14.47% 78
West Midlands -22 214 £37,500 -16.67% 68
East Midlands +6 211 £29,500 -13.24% 56
East of England -15 205 £36,730 +11.30% 107
Scotland +20 171 £35,000 -9.68% 43
North East +1 49 £31,500 -21.25% 37
Wales +6 45 £31,500 -33.68% 19
Northern Ireland +9 39 £52,000 -0.95% 10
Isle of Man -1 1 £62,500 +150.00% 3
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 528 (22.65%) SharePoint
2 523 (22.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.73%) Confluence
4 12 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.39%) IIS
7 7 (0.30%) WordPress
8 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.086%) CMS
11 1 (0.043%) Apache
11 1 (0.043%) Drupal
11 1 (0.043%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 361 (15.49%) Microsoft Office
2 116 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.30%) InDesign
7 4 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.13%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.043%) Revit
Business Applications
1 48 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.13%) Shopify
3 3 (0.13%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.086%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.086%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.043%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.043%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.043%) Pegasus Opera
5 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.043%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,168 (50.11%) Azure
2 552 (23.68%) Entra ID
3 197 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 171 (7.34%) AWS
5 142 (6.09%) OneDrive
6 100 (4.29%) SaaS
7 78 (3.35%) PowerApps
8 76 (3.26%) Power Automate
9 50 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 46 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
11 44 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (1.84%) Google Workspace
12 43 (1.84%) IaaS
13 42 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
14 38 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
15 32 (1.37%) GCP
16 29 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
17 28 (1.20%) PaaS
18 26 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
19 21 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 499 (21.41%) DNS
2 474 (20.33%) DHCP
3 432 (18.53%) Firewall
4 241 (10.34%) VPN
5 215 (9.22%) TCP/IP
6 178 (7.64%) VLAN
7 153 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
8 145 (6.22%) LAN
9 141 (6.05%) WAN
10 110 (4.72%) VoIP
11 92 (3.95%) Wireless
12 58 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
13 57 (2.45%) SAN
14 38 (1.63%) Network Security
15 26 (1.12%) SD-WAN
16 23 (0.99%) Internet
17 20 (0.86%) Unified Communications
18 19 (0.82%) WLAN
19 17 (0.73%) IP Telephony
20 16 (0.69%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (4.89%) Power BI
3 41 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 11 (0.47%) MySQL
5 8 (0.34%) DTS
5 8 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.26%) Power Query
8 5 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (0.21%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.21%) GIS
8 5 (0.21%) Metadata
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.17%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.086%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (1.84%) JIRA
2 10 (0.43%) Git
3 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (0.17%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.043%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,156 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 212 (9.09%) Finance
3 206 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
5 117 (5.02%) Manufacturing
6 82 (3.52%) Law
7 70 (3.00%) Legal
8 66 (2.83%) Retail
9 65 (2.79%) French Language
10 62 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 57 (2.45%) Swedish Language
12 52 (2.23%) Marketing
12 52 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 51 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
14 50 (2.15%) Public Sector
15 46 (1.97%) Back Office
16 38 (1.63%) Advertising
17 17 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 808 (34.66%) IT Support
2 510 (21.88%) Support Engineer
3 400 (17.16%) Analyst
4 361 (15.49%) IT Engineer
5 307 (13.17%) IT Support Engineer
6 239 (10.25%) 2nd Line Support
7 209 (8.97%) Support Analyst
8 196 (8.41%) Support Technician
9 189 (8.11%) IT Analyst
10 142 (6.09%) Service Analyst
11 138 (5.92%) IT Technician
12 137 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
13 132 (5.66%) Service Desk Analyst
14 131 (5.62%) Senior
15 124 (5.32%) IT Support Technician
16 123 (5.28%) 1st Line Support
17 121 (5.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 119 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
19 106 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 104 (4.46%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (0.90%) .NET
2 10 (0.43%) HTML
2 10 (0.43%) Web Services
3 8 (0.34%) EDI
3 8 (0.34%) LDAP
3 8 (0.34%) REST
4 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (0.30%) Software Packaging
5 6 (0.26%) Middleware
6 5 (0.21%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.21%) CSS
6 5 (0.21%) JSON
7 4 (0.17%) OAuth
7 4 (0.17%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.17%) OpenID
7 4 (0.17%) SAML
8 3 (0.13%) FHIR
8 3 (0.13%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.086%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.086%) React
Miscellaneous
1 348 (14.93%) Driving Licence
2 223 (9.57%) Onboarding
3 106 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 83 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 54 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 50 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 30 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 27 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 27 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
11 21 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (0.90%) Clustering
12 20 (0.86%) iPad
12 20 (0.86%) Replication
13 19 (0.82%) CMDB
14 17 (0.73%) Cloud Native
14 17 (0.73%) Social Media
15 16 (0.69%) FMCG
16 15 (0.64%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1,345 (57.70%) Windows
2 683 (29.30%) Windows Server
3 329 (14.11%) Windows 10
4 207 (8.88%) Linux
5 139 (5.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 117 (5.02%) Mac OS
7 89 (3.82%) Apple iOS
8 76 (3.26%) Android
9 54 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.56%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.47%) Windows 8
11 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.26%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Unix
14 4 (0.17%) VMS
15 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.043%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (33.89%) Problem-Solving
2 789 (33.85%) Customer Service
3 566 (24.28%) ITIL
4 335 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
5 327 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 231 (9.91%) ITSM
7 213 (9.14%) Mentoring
8 204 (8.75%) Migration
9 186 (7.98%) Customer Experience
10 182 (7.81%) Service Delivery
11 155 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 144 (6.18%) Asset Management
13 141 (6.05%) Agile
14 117 (5.02%) Roadmaps
15 116 (4.98%) Kalman Filter
16 115 (4.93%) Disaster Recovery
17 114 (4.89%) Business Intelligence
18 113 (4.85%) Project Delivery
19 111 (4.76%) Service Management
20 108 (4.63%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 259 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 108 (4.63%) SQL
3 63 (2.70%) Python
4 28 (1.20%) Bash
5 21 (0.90%) VBA
6 17 (0.73%) Bicep
7 11 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.39%) C#
9 6 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.26%) VBScript
10 5 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.21%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.17%) Groovy
12 3 (0.13%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.13%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.086%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.086%) Java
13 2 (0.086%) VB
14 1 (0.043%) Korn
14 1 (0.043%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 299 (12.83%) Degree
2 236 (10.12%) Microsoft Certification
2 236 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 228 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 87 (3.73%) AWS Certification
5 78 (3.35%) MCSE
6 61 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 56 (2.40%) A+ Certification
8 52 (2.23%) DBS Check
9 50 (2.15%) MCP
10 49 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (2.06%) CTC Cleared
12 36 (1.54%) CCNA
13 33 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 27 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 25 (1.07%) HND
15 25 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
16 19 (0.82%) MCSA
17 17 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
17 17 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (8.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 169 (7.25%) SLA
3 109 (4.68%) PCI DSS
4 100 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 82 (3.52%) GDPR
6 76 (3.26%) QA
7 43 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (1.24%) NIST
9 23 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 21 (0.90%) PMO
11 10 (0.43%) Data Quality
11 10 (0.43%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.30%) GRC
14 3 (0.13%) HL7
15 2 (0.086%) GxP
15 2 (0.086%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.086%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.043%) IASME
16 1 (0.043%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 1,179 (50.58%) Active Directory
2 351 (15.06%) Hyper-V
3 219 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 96 (4.12%) Terminal Server
5 81 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.73%) Firmware
8 13 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.47%) Docker
10 10 (0.43%) vSphere
11 8 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.26%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.21%) XenApp
14 4 (0.17%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.17%) Dovecot
14 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.17%) Postfix
14 4 (0.17%) Squid
14 4 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 536 (22.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 113 (4.85%) SCCM
3 56 (2.40%) Terraform
4 28 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
5 22 (0.94%) Autotask
6 20 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 14 (0.60%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.56%) Nagios
10 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
11 10 (0.43%) Kubernetes
12 8 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (0.34%) WSUS
13 7 (0.30%) Ansible
13 7 (0.30%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.30%) SmoothWall
14 6 (0.26%) Proxmox
15 5 (0.21%) Nessus
16 4 (0.17%) Grafana
16 4 (0.17%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,831 (78.55%) Microsoft
2 404 (17.33%) VMware
3 179 (7.68%) Cisco
4 159 (6.82%) Veeam
5 128 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 123 (5.28%) SolarWinds
7 109 (4.68%) Splunk
8 105 (4.50%) Apple
9 104 (4.46%) Tanium
10 97 (4.16%) Nimble Storage
11 96 (4.12%) Brocade
12 66 (2.83%) Google
13 57 (2.45%) Citrix
14 55 (2.36%) Meraki
15 40 (1.72%) Sophos
16 33 (1.42%) SonicWALL
17 32 (1.37%) HP
18 26 (1.12%) Freshdesk
19 25 (1.07%) Dell
19 25 (1.07%) WatchGuard