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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 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 5,723 4,243 4,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.17% 6.84% 7.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.39% 17.66% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,989 3,410 4,055
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,750 £23,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,298 £36,500 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +2.82% -5.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £49,756 £48,949
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £39,000 £41,557 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% -2.22% -

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 23,462 24,024 28,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.48% 38.71% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,429 14,305 19,860
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 25 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 25 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 1,528 £36,500 +2.82% 268
North of England +25 1,392 £37,500 -3.85% 290
Midlands +19 1,024 £35,000 -2.78% 195
South West +15 695 £37,500 +4.17% 164
North West +13 646 £40,000 -3.61% 163
West Midlands +21 632 £37,500 -5.96% 126
East of England +15 613 £32,500 -7.14% 136
Yorkshire +38 564 £35,000 - 97
East Midlands +31 386 £33,500 +11.67% 69
Scotland -32 287 £38,000 +1.33% 77
North East +28 182 £37,500 +5.63% 36
Wales +19 109 £28,290 -24.56% 32
Northern Ireland +20 53 £35,000 -6.67% 23
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 1,260 (22.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,251 (21.86%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.08%) Confluence
4 59 (1.03%) IIS
5 38 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2013
6 36 (0.63%) 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
13 4 (0.070%) SharePoint 2010
13 4 (0.070%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.052%) Documentum
14 3 (0.052%) FileNet
Applications
1 868 (15.17%) Microsoft Office
2 223 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) 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%) Aareon QL
13 1 (0.017%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,858 (49.94%) Azure
2 961 (16.79%) Entra ID
3 478 (8.35%) Power Platform
4 418 (7.30%) AWS
5 376 (6.57%) OneDrive
6 226 (3.95%) PowerApps
7 190 (3.32%) Power Automate
8 187 (3.27%) SaaS
9 155 (2.71%) GCP
10 128 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 124 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
11 124 (2.17%) IaaS
12 109 (1.90%) PaaS
13 91 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
14 83 (1.45%) Google Workspace
15 81 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
16 77 (1.35%) Mimecast
17 50 (0.87%) WhatsApp
18 40 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
19 37 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,122 (19.61%) Firewall
2 818 (14.29%) DNS
3 622 (10.87%) DHCP
4 578 (10.10%) WAN
5 530 (9.26%) LAN
6 437 (7.64%) VPN
7 388 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
8 377 (6.59%) TCP/IP
9 317 (5.54%) VLAN
10 280 (4.89%) Wireless
11 268 (4.68%) VoIP
12 267 (4.67%) SAN
13 141 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
14 140 (2.45%) Internet
15 128 (2.24%) Network Security
16 103 (1.80%) SD-WAN
17 92 (1.61%) NAS
18 76 (1.33%) Intranet
18 76 (1.33%) Unified Communications
19 74 (1.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 252 (4.40%) Power BI
3 100 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (0.91%) MySQL
5 35 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.37%) GIS
10 14 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
10 14 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.24%) MariaDB
10 14 (0.24%) 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 96 (1.68%) 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
6 5 (0.087%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.070%) Hudson
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 1,902 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 573 (10.01%) Finance
3 381 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 248 (4.33%) Law
6 220 (3.84%) Retail
7 210 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
8 184 (3.22%) Legal
9 179 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 176 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 159 (2.78%) Public Sector
12 134 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 126 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 105 (1.83%) 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 34 (0.59%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,246 (21.77%) IT Support
2 979 (17.11%) Support Engineer
3 859 (15.01%) IT Engineer
4 809 (14.14%) Analyst
5 619 (10.82%) IT Support Engineer
6 586 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 484 (8.46%) IT Technician
8 395 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
9 385 (6.73%) Senior
10 353 (6.17%) Support Technician
11 319 (5.57%) IT Manager
12 294 (5.14%) Support Analyst
13 293 (5.12%) IT Support Technician
14 286 (5.00%) IT Analyst
15 269 (4.70%) 1st Line Support
16 256 (4.47%) Lead
17 246 (4.30%) Service Analyst
18 237 (4.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 229 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support
20 226 (3.95%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (2.34%) .NET
2 52 (0.91%) HTML
3 47 (0.82%) SPFx
4 39 (0.68%) ARM Templates
5 37 (0.65%) CSS
6 32 (0.56%) JSON
7 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (0.33%) ASP.NET
9 18 (0.31%) React
10 16 (0.28%) OLE
10 16 (0.28%) REST
11 15 (0.26%) EDI
12 14 (0.24%) RESTful
12 14 (0.24%) 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 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 386 (6.74%) Driving Licence
2 259 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 246 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 195 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 121 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 107 (1.87%) Replication
8 106 (1.85%) PKI
9 63 (1.10%) CCTV
10 62 (1.08%) Clustering
11 61 (1.07%) 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 38 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
19 37 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3,147 (54.99%) Windows
2 1,700 (29.70%) Windows Server
3 965 (16.86%) Windows 10
4 318 (5.56%) Linux
5 297 (5.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 277 (4.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 215 (3.76%) Android
8 214 (3.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 183 (3.20%) Apple iOS
10 169 (2.95%) Windows 7
11 168 (2.94%) Mac OS
12 118 (2.06%) Windows 8
13 78 (1.36%) Windows Server 2008
14 43 (0.75%) CentOS
15 41 (0.72%) Ubuntu
16 37 (0.65%) Mac OS X
17 33 (0.58%) VMS
18 28 (0.49%) Unix
19 24 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
20 17 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,234 (21.56%) Customer Service
2 1,127 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1,051 (18.36%) ITIL
4 803 (14.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 615 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
6 418 (7.30%) Project Management
7 388 (6.78%) Migration
8 379 (6.62%) Agile
9 344 (6.01%) Service Delivery
10 302 (5.28%) Service Management
11 298 (5.21%) Mentoring
12 293 (5.12%) Project Delivery
13 263 (4.60%) DevOps
14 256 (4.47%) ITSM
15 247 (4.32%) Business Intelligence
16 246 (4.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 244 (4.26%) Disaster Recovery
18 226 (3.95%) Roadmaps
19 211 (3.69%) Time Management
20 207 (3.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 546 (9.54%) SQL
2 511 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 84 (1.47%) C#
4 67 (1.17%) Python
5 58 (1.01%) 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 (13.49%) Degree
2 423 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 218 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 191 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
5 167 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 159 (2.78%) CCNA
7 155 (2.71%) DBS Check
8 139 (2.43%) Azure Certification
9 115 (2.01%) MCP
10 107 (1.87%) A+ Certification
11 104 (1.82%) MCSE
12 85 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
13 74 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
14 69 (1.21%) CISSP
15 67 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 61 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
17 56 (0.98%) MCSA
18 50 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
19 49 (0.86%) DV Cleared
20 48 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (6.90%) SLA
2 244 (4.26%) GDPR
3 177 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 162 (2.83%) 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 16 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 16 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.24%) GRC
13 11 (0.19%) Data Quality
14 8 (0.14%) NCSC
15 7 (0.12%) COBIT
16 6 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.10%) ISO 14001
17 5 (0.087%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,816 (49.20%) Active Directory
2 827 (14.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 810 (14.15%) Hyper-V
4 141 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 138 (2.41%) vSphere
6 123 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
7 110 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 82 (1.43%) XenApp
9 68 (1.19%) XenDesktop
10 47 (0.82%) VirtualBox
11 39 (0.68%) Terminal Services
11 39 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
12 27 (0.47%) Docker
13 19 (0.33%) Firmware
14 16 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
15 10 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
16 8 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 7 (0.12%) NFS
17 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 966 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 290 (5.07%) SCCM
3 77 (1.35%) Terraform
4 72 (1.26%) Kubernetes
5 67 (1.17%) WSUS
6 64 (1.12%) vCenter Server
7 57 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 46 (0.80%) SCOM
9 44 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
10 37 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 35 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.52%) CASB
13 28 (0.49%) 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 4,007 (70.02%) Microsoft
2 1,294 (22.61%) VMware
3 447 (7.81%) Cisco
4 390 (6.81%) Citrix
5 324 (5.66%) Veeam
6 238 (4.16%) Apple
7 229 (4.00%) Google
8 168 (2.94%) Meraki
9 154 (2.69%) HP
10 146 (2.55%) Sophos
11 139 (2.43%) Dell
12 138 (2.41%) ServiceNow
13 107 (1.87%) Fortinet
14 96 (1.68%) Aruba
15 67 (1.17%) Adobe
16 57 (1.00%) SolarWinds
17 54 (0.94%) SAP
18 52 (0.91%) WatchGuard
19 51 (0.89%) Salesforce
20 48 (0.84%) Draytek