Microsoft 365 Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 37 38
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 5,727 4,259 4,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.19% 6.84% 7.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.42% 17.72% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,998 3,426 4,075
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,750 £23,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,298 £36,500 £35,700
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +2.24% -4.80%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £49,305
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £39,000 £41,875 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% -1.47% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,450 24,031 28,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.55% 38.61% 40.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,437 14,336 19,970
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £84,775
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +13 1,530 £36,500 +2.10% 261
North of England +24 1,397 £37,500 -3.85% 291
Midlands +21 1,024 £35,750 +1.52% 195
South West +14 697 £37,500 +4.17% 159
North West +13 650 £40,000 -2.44% 159
West Midlands +19 632 £37,500 -5.96% 121
East of England +14 607 £32,500 -7.14% 130
Yorkshire +39 563 £35,000 - 101
East Midlands +32 386 £33,500 +11.67% 74
Scotland -29 289 £38,000 +1.33% 71
North East +30 184 £37,500 +7.14% 38
Wales +19 108 £28,290 -24.56% 32
Northern Ireland +19 53 £35,000 -6.67% 25
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 1
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,261 (22.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,251 (21.84%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.10%) Confluence
4 59 (1.03%) IIS
5 38 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2013
6 35 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
7 28 (0.49%) WordPress
8 26 (0.45%) CMS
9 18 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
10 12 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 6 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2000
11 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.070%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.070%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.070%) SAS
14 3 (0.052%) Alfresco
14 3 (0.052%) Documentum
14 3 (0.052%) FileNet
14 3 (0.052%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 873 (15.24%) Microsoft Office
2 224 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 87 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.17%) Trello
8 7 (0.12%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.10%) InVision
9 6 (0.10%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.10%) Sketch
10 3 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.052%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.052%) InDesign
11 2 (0.035%) 1Password
11 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.035%) CATIA
11 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 53 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
4 11 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
5 10 (0.17%) Maximo
6 9 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.14%) Magento
8 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.12%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.10%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.10%) Shopify
10 4 (0.070%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.052%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.052%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.052%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.035%) Teamcenter
13 1 (0.017%) Dynamics AX
13 1 (0.017%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,855 (49.85%) Azure
2 960 (16.76%) Entra ID
3 478 (8.35%) Power Platform
4 414 (7.23%) AWS
5 372 (6.50%) OneDrive
6 225 (3.93%) PowerApps
7 189 (3.30%) Power Automate
8 186 (3.25%) SaaS
9 154 (2.69%) GCP
10 128 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 123 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
11 123 (2.15%) IaaS
12 108 (1.89%) PaaS
13 91 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
14 82 (1.43%) Google Workspace
15 80 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
16 77 (1.34%) Mimecast
17 49 (0.86%) WhatsApp
18 39 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
19 36 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,121 (19.57%) Firewall
2 820 (14.32%) DNS
3 625 (10.91%) DHCP
4 582 (10.16%) WAN
5 532 (9.29%) LAN
6 437 (7.63%) VPN
7 389 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
8 378 (6.60%) TCP/IP
9 319 (5.57%) VLAN
10 280 (4.89%) Wireless
11 268 (4.68%) SAN
11 268 (4.68%) VoIP
12 141 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
13 140 (2.44%) Internet
14 127 (2.22%) Network Security
15 104 (1.82%) SD-WAN
16 93 (1.62%) NAS
17 76 (1.33%) Intranet
17 76 (1.33%) Unified Communications
18 74 (1.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 253 (4.42%) Power BI
3 99 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (0.91%) MySQL
5 35 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (0.37%) GIS
9 14 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
9 14 (0.24%) MariaDB
10 13 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.21%) Relational Database
12 11 (0.19%) EDMS
13 10 (0.17%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.16%) Metadata
15 8 (0.14%) Power Query
16 7 (0.12%) Ingres
17 6 (0.10%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 98 (1.71%) JIRA
2 35 (0.61%) Git
3 10 (0.17%) gulp
3 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
4 9 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (0.14%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.087%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.070%) Hudson
7 4 (0.070%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.070%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.052%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.035%) GitLab
9 2 (0.035%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.017%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.017%) MSI
10 1 (0.017%) Postman
10 1 (0.017%) Subversion
General
1 1,905 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 571 (9.97%) Finance
3 379 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (4.33%) Law
5 246 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 221 (3.86%) Retail
7 210 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
8 182 (3.18%) Legal
9 180 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 176 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 160 (2.79%) Public Sector
12 133 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
13 126 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 104 (1.82%) Marketing
15 63 (1.10%) Local Government
16 61 (1.07%) Fire and Rescue
17 56 (0.98%) Games
18 43 (0.75%) Advertising
19 39 (0.68%) Automotive
20 35 (0.61%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,246 (21.76%) IT Support
2 977 (17.06%) Support Engineer
3 862 (15.05%) IT Engineer
4 809 (14.13%) Analyst
5 620 (10.83%) IT Support Engineer
6 589 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 483 (8.43%) IT Technician
8 394 (6.88%) 2nd Line Support
9 388 (6.77%) Senior
10 352 (6.15%) Support Technician
11 320 (5.59%) IT Manager
12 293 (5.12%) Support Analyst
13 292 (5.10%) IT Support Technician
14 283 (4.94%) IT Analyst
15 271 (4.73%) 1st Line Support
16 255 (4.45%) Lead
17 247 (4.31%) Service Analyst
18 236 (4.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 226 (3.95%) Service Desk Analyst
20 224 (3.91%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (2.36%) .NET
2 53 (0.93%) HTML
3 47 (0.82%) SPFx
4 39 (0.68%) ARM Templates
5 38 (0.66%) CSS
6 32 (0.56%) JSON
7 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (0.33%) ASP.NET
9 18 (0.31%) React
10 17 (0.30%) REST
11 16 (0.28%) OLE
12 15 (0.26%) EDI
13 14 (0.24%) RESTful
13 14 (0.24%) SAML
14 13 (0.23%) .NET Framework
14 13 (0.23%) HTML5 Canvas
15 12 (0.21%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (0.21%) Entity Framework
16 11 (0.19%) AngularJS
16 11 (0.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 386 (6.74%) Driving Licence
2 260 (4.54%) Data Centre
3 246 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 194 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 122 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 107 (1.87%) Replication
8 106 (1.85%) PKI
9 63 (1.10%) CCTV
10 62 (1.08%) Clustering
11 59 (1.03%) Smartphone
12 53 (0.93%) Product Ownership
13 49 (0.86%) iPad
14 48 (0.84%) Private Cloud
15 41 (0.72%) Low-Code
16 40 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
17 39 (0.68%) iPhone
17 39 (0.68%) NHS
18 37 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
18 37 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3,151 (55.02%) Windows
2 1,701 (29.70%) Windows Server
3 965 (16.85%) Windows 10
4 319 (5.57%) Linux
5 295 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 280 (4.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 216 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 213 (3.72%) Android
9 182 (3.18%) Apple iOS
10 169 (2.95%) Mac OS
10 169 (2.95%) Windows 7
11 119 (2.08%) Windows 8
12 78 (1.36%) Windows Server 2008
13 43 (0.75%) CentOS
14 41 (0.72%) Ubuntu
15 36 (0.63%) Mac OS X
16 33 (0.58%) VMS
17 28 (0.49%) Unix
18 26 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
19 17 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,236 (21.58%) Customer Service
2 1,128 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 1,055 (18.42%) ITIL
4 808 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 616 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
6 418 (7.30%) Project Management
7 390 (6.81%) Migration
8 380 (6.64%) Agile
9 343 (5.99%) Service Delivery
10 303 (5.29%) Service Management
11 297 (5.19%) Mentoring
12 293 (5.12%) Project Delivery
13 263 (4.59%) DevOps
14 258 (4.50%) ITSM
15 248 (4.33%) Business Intelligence
16 246 (4.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 246 (4.30%) Disaster Recovery
17 226 (3.95%) Roadmaps
18 212 (3.70%) Time Management
19 206 (3.60%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 546 (9.53%) SQL
2 512 (8.94%) PowerShell
3 84 (1.47%) C#
4 67 (1.17%) Python
5 59 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 54 (0.94%) Bash
7 36 (0.63%) Java
8 32 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 30 (0.52%) VB
10 21 (0.37%) R
11 20 (0.35%) Bicep
12 18 (0.31%) VBScript
13 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.087%) Formula Language
14 5 (0.087%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.087%) Perl
14 5 (0.087%) PHP
14 5 (0.087%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.070%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.070%) VBA
Qualifications
1 772 (13.48%) Degree
2 420 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 216 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 191 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
5 165 (2.88%) SC Cleared
6 159 (2.78%) CCNA
7 155 (2.71%) DBS Check
8 138 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 116 (2.03%) MCP
10 105 (1.83%) A+ Certification
11 102 (1.78%) MCSE
12 86 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
13 74 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
14 69 (1.20%) CISSP
15 67 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 61 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
17 56 (0.98%) MCSA
18 49 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
18 49 (0.86%) DV Cleared
18 49 (0.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (6.91%) SLA
2 242 (4.23%) GDPR
3 177 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 160 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (1.24%) NIST
6 64 (1.12%) QA
7 31 (0.54%) PMO
8 27 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 26 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 18 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 14 (0.24%) GRC
14 11 (0.19%) Data Quality
15 8 (0.14%) NCSC
16 7 (0.12%) COBIT
17 6 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.10%) ISO 14001
18 5 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2,819 (49.22%) Active Directory
2 826 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 808 (14.11%) Hyper-V
4 142 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 138 (2.41%) vSphere
6 123 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
7 110 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 81 (1.41%) XenApp
9 67 (1.17%) XenDesktop
10 47 (0.82%) VirtualBox
11 40 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
12 39 (0.68%) Terminal Services
13 27 (0.47%) Docker
14 19 (0.33%) Firmware
15 17 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
17 10 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 7 (0.12%) NFS
19 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 967 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 290 (5.06%) SCCM
3 77 (1.34%) Terraform
4 72 (1.26%) Kubernetes
5 67 (1.17%) WSUS
6 63 (1.10%) vCenter Server
7 57 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 47 (0.82%) SCOM
9 44 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
10 37 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 35 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.52%) CASB
13 29 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 27 (0.47%) Ansible
15 26 (0.45%) Nagios
16 25 (0.44%) Autotask
17 23 (0.40%) AirWatch
17 23 (0.40%) SmoothWall
18 21 (0.37%) ZABBIX
19 15 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 4,006 (69.95%) Microsoft
2 1,294 (22.59%) VMware
3 446 (7.79%) Cisco
4 386 (6.74%) Citrix
5 324 (5.66%) Veeam
6 240 (4.19%) Apple
7 228 (3.98%) Google
8 169 (2.95%) Meraki
9 153 (2.67%) HP
10 145 (2.53%) Sophos
11 140 (2.44%) ServiceNow
12 139 (2.43%) Dell
13 107 (1.87%) Fortinet
14 96 (1.68%) Aruba
15 66 (1.15%) Adobe
16 56 (0.98%) SolarWinds
17 54 (0.94%) SAP
18 52 (0.91%) WatchGuard
19 51 (0.89%) Salesforce
20 48 (0.84%) Acronis