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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 5,704 4,169 4,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.10% 6.78% 6.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.26% 17.75% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,966 3,364 4,050
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,750 £23,238
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £36,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +1.41% -5.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £49,250 £49,250
90th Percentile £58,875 £62,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £39,000 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.88% -3.53% -

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 23,510 23,488 28,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.39% 38.21% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 17,424 14,071 19,891
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 £85,000
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 3 May 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 3 May 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 1,514 £36,500 +1.39% 265
North of England +26 1,388 £37,500 -2.60% 297
Midlands +20 1,026 £35,000 -0.61% 210
South West +13 693 £37,500 +7.14% 175
North West +13 646 £40,000 -3.61% 156
West Midlands +20 634 £37,500 -6.25% 128
East of England +14 612 £32,500 -7.14% 143
Yorkshire +38 560 £35,000 +1.45% 114
East Midlands +25 385 £33,500 +6.35% 82
Scotland -36 284 £38,000 +1.33% 83
North East +28 182 £37,500 +7.14% 32
Wales +16 110 £28,290 -24.56% 34
Northern Ireland +26 55 £35,000 -6.67% 21
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 1,272 (22.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,254 (21.98%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.10%) Confluence
4 59 (1.03%) IIS
5 41 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
6 38 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
7 28 (0.49%) WordPress
8 26 (0.46%) CMS
9 18 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
10 12 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
11 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
11 6 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
12 5 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.070%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.070%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.070%) SAS
14 3 (0.053%) Documentum
14 3 (0.053%) FileNet
Applications
1 857 (15.02%) Microsoft Office
2 225 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Trello
8 7 (0.12%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.11%) InVision
9 6 (0.11%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.053%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.053%) InDesign
11 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.035%) CATIA
11 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 55 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
4 11 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
5 10 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.16%) Maximo
7 8 (0.14%) Magento
8 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.12%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.11%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.11%) Shopify
10 4 (0.070%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.053%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.035%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.035%) Teamcenter
13 1 (0.018%) iTrent
13 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,857 (50.09%) Azure
2 964 (16.90%) Entra ID
3 483 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 420 (7.36%) AWS
5 382 (6.70%) OneDrive
6 227 (3.98%) PowerApps
7 194 (3.40%) Power Automate
8 188 (3.30%) SaaS
9 157 (2.75%) GCP
10 126 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
11 125 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
12 121 (2.12%) IaaS
13 108 (1.89%) PaaS
14 90 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
15 83 (1.46%) Google Workspace
16 78 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
17 72 (1.26%) Mimecast
18 51 (0.89%) WhatsApp
19 47 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
20 37 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,116 (19.57%) Firewall
2 808 (14.17%) DNS
3 611 (10.71%) DHCP
4 573 (10.05%) WAN
5 527 (9.24%) LAN
6 438 (7.68%) VPN
7 391 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
8 373 (6.54%) TCP/IP
9 298 (5.22%) VLAN
10 281 (4.93%) Wireless
11 268 (4.70%) SAN
11 268 (4.70%) VoIP
12 143 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
13 140 (2.45%) Internet
14 127 (2.23%) Network Security
15 103 (1.81%) SD-WAN
16 93 (1.63%) NAS
17 76 (1.33%) Intranet
17 76 (1.33%) Unified Communications
18 74 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 255 (4.47%) Power BI
3 97 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (0.91%) MySQL
5 35 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (0.35%) GIS
9 14 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
9 14 (0.25%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.25%) MariaDB
9 14 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.21%) Relational Database
11 11 (0.19%) EDMS
12 9 (0.16%) Metadata
12 9 (0.16%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.14%) Power Query
14 7 (0.12%) Ingres
15 6 (0.11%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 98 (1.72%) JIRA
2 34 (0.60%) Git
3 10 (0.18%) gulp
3 10 (0.18%) Yeoman
4 8 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (0.14%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.088%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.088%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.070%) Hudson
6 4 (0.070%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.053%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.035%) GitLab
8 2 (0.035%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.018%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.018%) MSI
9 1 (0.018%) Postman
General
1 1,899 (33.29%) Social Skills
2 568 (9.96%) Finance
3 379 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (4.52%) Manufacturing
5 249 (4.37%) Law
6 219 (3.84%) Retail
7 210 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 183 (3.21%) Legal
9 179 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 178 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 158 (2.77%) Public Sector
12 134 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 125 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
14 106 (1.86%) Marketing
15 61 (1.07%) Local Government
16 60 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
17 56 (0.98%) Games
18 43 (0.75%) Advertising
19 38 (0.67%) Automotive
20 33 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,238 (21.70%) IT Support
2 981 (17.20%) Support Engineer
3 850 (14.90%) IT Engineer
4 800 (14.03%) Analyst
5 617 (10.82%) IT Support Engineer
6 577 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 484 (8.49%) IT Technician
8 399 (7.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 378 (6.63%) Senior
10 353 (6.19%) Support Technician
11 313 (5.49%) IT Manager
12 293 (5.14%) IT Support Technician
13 290 (5.08%) Support Analyst
14 283 (4.96%) IT Analyst
15 270 (4.73%) 1st Line Support
16 261 (4.58%) Lead
17 244 (4.28%) Service Analyst
18 241 (4.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 232 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support
20 226 (3.96%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (2.33%) .NET
2 52 (0.91%) HTML
3 47 (0.82%) SPFx
4 38 (0.67%) ARM Templates
5 37 (0.65%) CSS
6 31 (0.54%) JSON
7 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (0.33%) ASP.NET
9 18 (0.32%) React
10 16 (0.28%) OLE
11 15 (0.26%) EDI
11 15 (0.26%) REST
12 14 (0.25%) RESTful
12 14 (0.25%) SAML
13 13 (0.23%) .NET Framework
13 13 (0.23%) HTML5 Canvas
14 12 (0.21%) ASP.NET MVC
14 12 (0.21%) Entity Framework
15 11 (0.19%) LDAP
16 10 (0.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 382 (6.70%) Driving Licence
2 256 (4.49%) Data Centre
3 245 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 192 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 168 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 122 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 107 (1.88%) Replication
8 106 (1.86%) PKI
9 63 (1.10%) CCTV
10 62 (1.09%) Smartphone
11 61 (1.07%) Clustering
12 53 (0.93%) Product Ownership
13 49 (0.86%) iPad
14 47 (0.82%) Private Cloud
15 41 (0.72%) Low-Code
16 40 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
17 39 (0.68%) NHS
18 38 (0.67%) iPhone
18 38 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
18 38 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3,127 (54.82%) Windows
2 1,697 (29.75%) Windows Server
3 948 (16.62%) Windows 10
4 314 (5.50%) Linux
5 301 (5.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 273 (4.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 217 (3.80%) Android
8 214 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 184 (3.23%) Apple iOS
10 168 (2.95%) Mac OS
11 166 (2.91%) Windows 7
12 115 (2.02%) Windows 8
13 74 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
14 42 (0.74%) CentOS
14 42 (0.74%) Ubuntu
15 35 (0.61%) Mac OS X
16 33 (0.58%) VMS
17 27 (0.47%) Unix
18 22 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
19 17 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,220 (21.39%) Customer Service
2 1,126 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
3 1,048 (18.37%) ITIL
4 795 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 618 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
6 421 (7.38%) Project Management
7 389 (6.82%) Migration
8 377 (6.61%) Agile
9 338 (5.93%) Service Delivery
10 304 (5.33%) Mentoring
10 304 (5.33%) Service Management
11 286 (5.01%) Project Delivery
12 263 (4.61%) DevOps
13 257 (4.51%) ITSM
14 254 (4.45%) Business Intelligence
15 248 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 245 (4.30%) Disaster Recovery
17 223 (3.91%) Roadmaps
18 207 (3.63%) Presales
18 207 (3.63%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 542 (9.50%) SQL
2 510 (8.94%) PowerShell
3 84 (1.47%) C#
4 67 (1.17%) Python
5 57 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 53 (0.93%) Bash
7 36 (0.63%) Java
8 31 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 30 (0.53%) VB
10 21 (0.37%) R
11 20 (0.35%) Bicep
12 18 (0.32%) VBScript
13 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.088%) Formula Language
14 5 (0.088%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.088%) Perl
14 5 (0.088%) PHP
14 5 (0.088%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.070%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.070%) VBA
Qualifications
1 768 (13.46%) Degree
2 421 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 223 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 185 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
5 171 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 156 (2.73%) DBS Check
7 155 (2.72%) CCNA
8 138 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 116 (2.03%) MCP
10 108 (1.89%) MCSE
11 104 (1.82%) A+ Certification
12 78 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
13 75 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
14 68 (1.19%) CISSP
15 67 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 60 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
17 58 (1.02%) MCSA
18 56 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
19 51 (0.89%) PMI Certification
20 47 (0.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (6.96%) SLA
2 242 (4.24%) GDPR
3 173 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 156 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (1.26%) NIST
6 63 (1.10%) QA
7 30 (0.53%) PMO
8 26 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 26 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 20 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 16 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 14 (0.25%) GRC
12 14 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.19%) Data Quality
14 7 (0.12%) COBIT
14 7 (0.12%) NCSC
15 6 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.11%) ISO 14001
16 5 (0.088%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,813 (49.32%) Active Directory
2 831 (14.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 810 (14.20%) Hyper-V
4 141 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 135 (2.37%) vSphere
6 129 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
7 108 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 84 (1.47%) XenApp
9 72 (1.26%) XenDesktop
10 47 (0.82%) VirtualBox
11 39 (0.68%) Terminal Services
12 38 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
13 27 (0.47%) Docker
14 17 (0.30%) Firmware
15 16 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
16 10 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
17 8 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 7 (0.12%) NFS
18 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 963 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 295 (5.17%) SCCM
3 77 (1.35%) Terraform
4 72 (1.26%) Kubernetes
5 68 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 63 (1.10%) WSUS
7 58 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 44 (0.77%) SCOM
9 43 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
10 36 (0.63%) FortiGate
11 34 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.53%) CASB
13 27 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
14 26 (0.46%) Ansible
14 26 (0.46%) Nagios
15 25 (0.44%) Autotask
16 22 (0.39%) SmoothWall
17 21 (0.37%) AirWatch
17 21 (0.37%) ZABBIX
18 14 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 3,987 (69.90%) Microsoft
2 1,296 (22.72%) VMware
3 440 (7.71%) Cisco
4 396 (6.94%) Citrix
5 324 (5.68%) Veeam
6 233 (4.08%) Apple
7 232 (4.07%) Google
8 164 (2.88%) Meraki
9 158 (2.77%) HP
10 143 (2.51%) Sophos
11 139 (2.44%) Dell
12 137 (2.40%) ServiceNow
13 109 (1.91%) Fortinet
14 94 (1.65%) Aruba
15 68 (1.19%) Adobe
16 56 (0.98%) SolarWinds
17 54 (0.95%) SAP
18 52 (0.91%) Salesforce
19 51 (0.89%) Draytek
19 51 (0.89%) WatchGuard