Microsoft 365 Engineer Jobs

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) salary in the UK is £51,875 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 683 850
Rank change year-on-year +53 +167 +169
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 62 213 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 58 192 129
10th Percentile £37,125 £30,050 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,563 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -18.18% +19.57%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,813 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,500 £75,063 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
England +37 59 £53,750 +19.44% 20
UK excluding London +101 34 £50,000 +17.65% 16
Work from Home +178 28 £49,000 -6.22% 10
London +68 24 £62,500 -3.85% 5
South East +87 14 £55,000 +22.22% 9
South West +94 7 £45,000 +20.00% 1
North of England +51 7 £46,500 +6.90% 4
North West +11 4 £48,250 +10.92% 3
Midlands +69 3 £37,500 -11.76% 2
Yorkshire +63 3 £45,000 +6.79% 1
West Midlands +38 2 £40,000 -5.88% 2
Scotland +128 1 - -
East Midlands +49 1 £37,500 -7.98%
East of England +43 1 £90,000 +157.14% 1
Northern Ireland +27 1 £47,500 +35.71%

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Microsoft 365 Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (77.42%) Microsoft
3 39 (62.90%) SharePoint
3 39 (62.90%) Azure
4 25 (40.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (35.48%) PowerShell
6 21 (33.87%) Entra ID
6 21 (33.87%) Power Platform
7 20 (32.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (32.26%) Active Directory
8 18 (29.03%) OneDrive
9 17 (27.42%) Windows
10 14 (22.58%) Power Automate
11 13 (20.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
12 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (17.74%) Power BI
14 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (12.90%) Firewall
15 8 (12.90%) VMware
15 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
16 7 (11.29%) DevOps
16 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (9.68%) Cisco
17 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
17 6 (9.68%) SCCM
17 6 (9.68%) Degree
17 6 (9.68%) Migration
17 6 (9.68%) SaaS

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 39 (62.90%) SharePoint
2 20 (32.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (62.90%) Azure
3 21 (33.87%) Entra ID
3 21 (33.87%) Power Platform
4 18 (29.03%) OneDrive
5 14 (22.58%) Power Automate
6 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (9.68%) PowerApps
6 6 (9.68%) SaaS
7 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.45%) Mimecast
9 3 (4.84%) AWS
9 3 (4.84%) IaaS
9 3 (4.84%) PaaS
10 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.61%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (1.61%) Miro
11 1 (1.61%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.90%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) Intranet
3 3 (4.84%) DNS
4 2 (3.23%) DHCP
4 2 (3.23%) SAN
4 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.61%) HTTP
5 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Power BI
2 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Legal
4 3 (4.84%) Finance
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Front Office
5 2 (3.23%) Law
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) French Language
6 1 (1.61%) Games
6 1 (1.61%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Driving Licence
2 2 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.61%) Online Games
3 1 (1.61%) PKI
3 1 (1.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.42%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
2 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.23%) Linux
5 1 (1.61%) CentOS
5 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.61%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (11.29%) DevOps
5 6 (9.68%) Migration
6 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
7 4 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (6.45%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (6.45%) ITIL
7 4 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (4.84%) Agile
8 3 (4.84%) B2B
8 3 (4.84%) B2C
8 3 (4.84%) Budget Control
8 3 (4.84%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (4.84%) Presales
8 3 (4.84%) PRINCE2
8 3 (4.84%) Problem Management
8 3 (4.84%) Project Roadmap
8 3 (4.84%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.06%) Python
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (9.68%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) CCNA
5 1 (1.61%) CCNP
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.61%) MCSA
5 1 (1.61%) RHCE
5 1 (1.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.61%) Docker
5 1 (1.61%) Dovecot
5 1 (1.61%) Postfix
5 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (40.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (9.68%) SCCM
3 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.61%) Ansible
5 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.61%) SCOM
5 1 (1.61%) Terraform
5 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (77.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) VMware
3 6 (9.68%) Cisco
4 4 (6.45%) Citrix
4 4 (6.45%) Meraki
5 3 (4.84%) Aderant
5 3 (4.84%) iManage
5 3 (4.84%) Intapp
5 3 (4.84%) Sophos
6 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.23%) Okta
6 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.61%) Avaya
7 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.61%) Dell
7 1 (1.61%) HP
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.61%) Varonis
7 1 (1.61%) WatchGuard