Microsoft 365 Engineer Job Trends

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 623 585
Rank change year-on-year +101 -38 +321
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 127 88 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 105 70 124
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.42% +11.76% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 54,710 49,797 52,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.91% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,899 25,819 40,678
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Microsoft 365 Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Top 13 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 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
England +86 112 £45,000 -18.18% 7
UK excluding London +85 93 £43,500 -8.42% 5
London +50 27 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Work from Home +62 26 £57,500 +4.55% 2
South East +41 26 £45,000 +32.35% 4
Midlands +41 23 £45,000 +20.00% 1
South West +17 18 £34,000 -15.00% 1
North of England +15 18 £47,250 -0.53%
West Midlands +35 17 £45,000 - 1
North West +19 10 £35,000 -26.32%
Scotland +12 8 - -
Yorkshire -5 8 £62,500 +9.98%
East Midlands -12 1 £29,000 -22.67%

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Microsoft 365 Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 121 (95.28%) Microsoft 365
2 113 (88.98%) Microsoft
3 68 (53.54%) Azure
4 63 (49.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 60 (47.24%) SharePoint
6 53 (41.73%) Entra ID
7 47 (37.01%) PowerShell
8 41 (32.28%) Windows
9 39 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (25.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (24.41%) Active Directory
12 22 (17.32%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (16.54%) Customer Service
13 21 (16.54%) Firewall
14 19 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (14.96%) ITIL
14 19 (14.96%) Sophos
15 18 (14.17%) Migration
16 17 (13.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 16 (12.60%) VPN
18 15 (11.81%) ConnectWise
18 15 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 15 (11.81%) SLA
19 14 (11.02%) DNS
19 14 (11.02%) VMware
19 14 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
20 13 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
20 13 (10.24%) Python
21 12 (9.45%) Coaching
21 12 (9.45%) Windows Server

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 63 (49.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (47.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.15%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 121 (95.28%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (53.54%) Azure
3 53 (41.73%) Entra ID
4 22 (17.32%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Copilot
6 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.30%) Mimecast
8 7 (5.51%) Google Workspace
9 6 (4.72%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.94%) AWS
11 4 (3.15%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.15%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.36%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.36%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.36%) ChatGPT
13 2 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (1.57%) Slack
14 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.54%) Firewall
2 16 (12.60%) VPN
3 14 (11.02%) DNS
4 10 (7.87%) DHCP
5 7 (5.51%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (3.15%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (3.15%) IPsec
7 4 (3.15%) LAN
7 4 (3.15%) VLAN
7 4 (3.15%) VoIP
7 4 (3.15%) Wireless
8 2 (1.57%) WAN
9 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.51%) Power BI
2 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (4.72%) JIRA
General
1 48 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.17%) Finance
3 10 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.87%) Legal
3 10 (7.87%) Manufacturing
4 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.72%) Electronics
5 6 (4.72%) Marketing
5 6 (4.72%) Tech for Good
5 6 (4.72%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.15%) Banking
6 4 (3.15%) Front Office
6 4 (3.15%) Law
7 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.96%) Onboarding
2 17 (13.39%) Driving Licence
3 8 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.15%) Clustering
5 3 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 41 (32.28%) Windows
2 12 (9.45%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.51%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.94%) Linux
5 4 (3.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (16.54%) Customer Service
3 19 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (14.96%) ITIL
4 18 (14.17%) Migration
5 15 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (9.45%) Coaching
8 11 (8.66%) AI
8 11 (8.66%) Analytics
8 11 (8.66%) DevOps
8 11 (8.66%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (7.87%) Mentoring
9 10 (7.87%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (7.09%) Agile
10 9 (7.09%) Information Security
11 8 (6.30%) Asset Management
11 8 (6.30%) Configuration Management
11 8 (6.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.01%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.24%) Python
3 8 (6.30%) Bash
4 2 (1.57%) Google Apps Script
4 2 (1.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (7.09%) Degree
2 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.94%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.15%) ACMT
4 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) SLA
2 6 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (24.41%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.09%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.15%) Docker
4 4 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (25.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.30%) Terraform
3 5 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.15%) Autotask
4 4 (3.15%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.15%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 113 (88.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.96%) Sophos
3 15 (11.81%) ConnectWise
4 14 (11.02%) VMware
5 7 (5.51%) Google
5 7 (5.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.72%) Cisco
6 6 (4.72%) SAP
7 5 (3.94%) Apple
8 4 (3.15%) Datto
8 4 (3.15%) Oracle
8 4 (3.15%) Veeam
9 2 (1.57%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.57%) Logitech
9 2 (1.57%) Meraki
9 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.57%) Yealink
10 1 (0.79%) HP
10 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.79%) Zoho