Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 42 55
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,583 6,793 8,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.73% 6.49% 5.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.54% 15.06% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,491 5,560 7,121
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,875 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,557 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £53,050 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,298 £36,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year -0.55% +2.82% -5.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +20 6,939 £39,750 -3.05% 1,379
UK excluding London +16 5,689 £36,298 -0.55% 1,155
Work from Home +22 2,427 £45,000 -4.26% 519
London +15 1,668 £54,645 +4.09% 337
South East +13 1,512 £36,500 +1.39% 259
North of England +27 1,388 £37,500 -3.73% 298
Midlands +21 1,020 £35,000 -4.11% 195
South West +17 689 £37,500 +4.17% 159
North West +12 646 £40,000 -3.61% 165
West Midlands +19 629 £37,500 -6.25% 124
East of England +15 611 £32,500 -7.14% 137
Yorkshire +39 561 £35,000 - 101
East Midlands +29 385 £33,500 +8.06% 70
Scotland -35 286 £38,000 +1.33% 78
North East +27 181 £37,500 +7.14% 38
Wales +18 108 £28,290 -24.56% 38
Northern Ireland +23 53 £35,000 -6.67% 22
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 1
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%

Microsoft 365
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 1,786 (23.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,647 (21.72%) SharePoint
3 73 (0.96%) IIS
4 69 (0.91%) Confluence
5 44 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
6 43 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
7 41 (0.54%) Skype for Business
8 34 (0.45%) WordPress
9 26 (0.34%) CMS
10 20 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
11 9 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
12 8 (0.11%) SAS
12 8 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
13 6 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2000
13 6 (0.079%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.053%) Alfresco
14 4 (0.053%) Documentum
14 4 (0.053%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.053%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,152 (15.19%) Microsoft Office
2 290 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 7 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.092%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.092%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.079%) InVision
9 6 (0.079%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.079%) Sketch
10 4 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.053%) InDesign
11 3 (0.040%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.040%) SPSS
12 2 (0.026%) 1Password
12 2 (0.026%) CATIA
12 2 (0.026%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 91 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 13 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 11 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
6 9 (0.12%) Maximo
7 8 (0.11%) Magento
7 8 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.092%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.092%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.079%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.079%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.079%) Shopify
10 5 (0.066%) SAP CX
11 4 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.040%) Eikon
12 3 (0.040%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 3,835 (50.57%) Azure
2 1,262 (16.64%) Entra ID
3 716 (9.44%) Power Platform
4 566 (7.46%) AWS
5 499 (6.58%) OneDrive
6 363 (4.79%) PowerApps
7 323 (4.26%) Power Automate
8 311 (4.10%) SaaS
9 229 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
10 212 (2.80%) IaaS
11 197 (2.60%) GCP
12 196 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
13 190 (2.51%) PaaS
14 136 (1.79%) Mimecast
15 124 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
16 123 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
17 112 (1.48%) Google Workspace
18 84 (1.11%) WhatsApp
19 81 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
20 76 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,406 (18.54%) Firewall
2 1,006 (13.27%) DNS
3 819 (10.80%) WAN
4 752 (9.92%) DHCP
5 684 (9.02%) LAN
6 571 (7.53%) VPN
7 496 (6.54%) Wi-Fi
8 445 (5.87%) Wireless
9 440 (5.80%) TCP/IP
10 379 (5.00%) VLAN
11 334 (4.40%) SAN
12 297 (3.92%) VoIP
13 231 (3.05%) SD-WAN
14 190 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
15 171 (2.26%) Internet
16 164 (2.16%) Network Security
17 161 (2.12%) Cisco IOS
18 123 (1.62%) NAS
19 115 (1.52%) WebEx
20 94 (1.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 396 (5.22%) Power BI
3 99 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (0.75%) MySQL
6 38 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (0.26%) GIS
10 18 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.22%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.21%) Metadata
13 14 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
13 14 (0.18%) MariaDB
14 13 (0.17%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.15%) EDMS
16 10 (0.13%) Power Query
16 10 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (0.092%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 129 (1.70%) JIRA
2 49 (0.65%) Git
3 22 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 18 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 9 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.066%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.066%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.053%) Hudson
9 4 (0.053%) MSI
9 4 (0.053%) Subversion
10 2 (0.026%) GitLab
10 2 (0.026%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.013%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.013%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.013%) Postman
11 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
11 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,502 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 991 (13.07%) Finance
3 570 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 390 (5.14%) Law
5 296 (3.90%) Legal
6 265 (3.49%) Manufacturing
7 263 (3.47%) Retail
8 257 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 253 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
10 218 (2.87%) Telecoms
11 214 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 175 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 153 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
14 147 (1.94%) Marketing
15 88 (1.16%) Banking
16 73 (0.96%) Games
16 73 (0.96%) Local Government
17 69 (0.91%) Automotive
18 67 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
19 60 (0.79%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,587 (20.93%) IT Support
2 1,171 (15.44%) Support Engineer
3 1,103 (14.55%) Analyst
4 998 (13.16%) IT Engineer
5 731 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 707 (9.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 682 (8.99%) Senior
8 531 (7.00%) IT Technician
9 488 (6.44%) 2nd Line Support
10 428 (5.64%) IT Analyst
11 400 (5.27%) Support Analyst
12 398 (5.25%) IT Manager
13 397 (5.24%) Lead
14 383 (5.05%) Support Technician
15 359 (4.73%) Architect
16 320 (4.22%) Service Analyst
17 317 (4.18%) IT Support Technician
18 306 (4.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 297 (3.92%) 1st Line Support
19 297 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (2.60%) .NET
2 69 (0.91%) HTML
2 69 (0.91%) SPFx
3 61 (0.80%) ARM Templates
4 54 (0.71%) CSS
5 53 (0.70%) JSON
6 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 28 (0.37%) ASP.NET
8 27 (0.36%) React
9 22 (0.29%) EDI
10 21 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
11 20 (0.26%) REST
12 19 (0.25%) RESTful
13 18 (0.24%) .NET Framework
13 18 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
14 16 (0.21%) OLE
14 16 (0.21%) Web Services
14 16 (0.21%) YAML
15 15 (0.20%) SAML
16 13 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 398 (5.25%) Driving Licence
2 355 (4.68%) Data Centre
3 300 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 261 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 225 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 223 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
7 172 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 139 (1.83%) PKI
9 131 (1.73%) Replication
10 113 (1.49%) Wiki
11 85 (1.12%) Clustering
11 85 (1.12%) Smartphone
12 80 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 78 (1.03%) iPad
14 71 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
15 70 (0.92%) CCTV
16 63 (0.83%) Product Ownership
17 62 (0.82%) Private Cloud
18 61 (0.80%) iPhone
19 55 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4,124 (54.38%) Windows
2 2,037 (26.86%) Windows Server
3 1,391 (18.34%) Windows 10
4 386 (5.09%) Android
5 376 (4.96%) Linux
6 348 (4.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 322 (4.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 270 (3.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 253 (3.34%) Apple iOS
10 242 (3.19%) Mac OS
11 201 (2.65%) Windows 7
12 118 (1.56%) Windows 8
13 93 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
14 63 (0.83%) Mac OS X
15 62 (0.82%) Ubuntu
16 42 (0.55%) CentOS
17 41 (0.54%) VMS
18 30 (0.40%) Unix
18 30 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
19 22 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,480 (19.52%) Customer Service
2 1,459 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
3 1,358 (17.91%) ITIL
4 986 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 841 (11.09%) Cybersecurity
6 561 (7.40%) Project Management
7 513 (6.77%) Agile
8 507 (6.69%) Migration
9 476 (6.28%) Service Delivery
10 402 (5.30%) Mentoring
11 387 (5.10%) Service Management
12 386 (5.09%) Business Intelligence
13 381 (5.02%) ITSM
14 374 (4.93%) Project Delivery
15 372 (4.91%) DevOps
16 353 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 340 (4.48%) Information Security
18 331 (4.37%) Roadmaps
19 316 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
20 308 (4.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 821 (10.83%) PowerShell
2 677 (8.93%) SQL
3 149 (1.96%) C#
4 101 (1.33%) Python
5 92 (1.21%) Bash
6 84 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 42 (0.55%) T-SQL
7 42 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 39 (0.51%) Java
9 31 (0.41%) VB
10 30 (0.40%) Bicep
11 21 (0.28%) R
12 18 (0.24%) VBScript
13 11 (0.15%) PHP
14 9 (0.12%) Perl
14 9 (0.12%) VBA
15 6 (0.079%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.079%) Ruby
16 5 (0.066%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.066%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,171 (15.44%) Degree
2 539 (7.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 271 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 229 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
5 215 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 202 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 195 (2.57%) SC Cleared
8 181 (2.39%) DBS Check
9 174 (2.29%) CCNA
10 159 (2.10%) Master's Degree
11 141 (1.86%) CISSP
12 135 (1.78%) MCSE
13 130 (1.71%) MCP
14 129 (1.70%) A+ Certification
15 109 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
16 99 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
17 94 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 77 (1.02%) MCSA
19 65 (0.86%) PMI Certification
20 53 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 523 (6.90%) SLA
2 284 (3.75%) GDPR
3 245 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 238 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 96 (1.27%) NIST
6 73 (0.96%) QA
7 50 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 47 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.46%) Accessibility
10 34 (0.45%) GRC
10 34 (0.45%) PMO
11 32 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 27 (0.36%) Data Quality
13 25 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 17 (0.22%) COBIT
16 16 (0.21%) NCSC
16 16 (0.21%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.079%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.079%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,727 (49.15%) Active Directory
2 1,041 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 901 (11.88%) Hyper-V
4 286 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
5 196 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 195 (2.57%) XenApp
7 182 (2.40%) vSphere
8 176 (2.32%) XenDesktop
9 125 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
10 110 (1.45%) Microsoft App-V
11 60 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 49 (0.65%) Terminal Services
13 47 (0.62%) VirtualBox
14 30 (0.40%) Docker
15 24 (0.32%) Firmware
16 17 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.21%) VMware Server
18 14 (0.18%) vCloud
19 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
19 10 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,303 (17.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 537 (7.08%) SCCM
3 127 (1.67%) AirWatch
4 111 (1.46%) Terraform
5 94 (1.24%) vCenter Server
6 90 (1.19%) WSUS
7 78 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 75 (0.99%) Kubernetes
10 69 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
11 50 (0.66%) FortiGate
12 49 (0.65%) SCOM
13 45 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.55%) Ansible
15 40 (0.53%) CASB
16 32 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
17 27 (0.36%) Nagios
18 26 (0.34%) Autotask
19 22 (0.29%) Nessus
19 22 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5,397 (71.17%) Microsoft
2 1,615 (21.30%) VMware
3 707 (9.32%) Cisco
4 597 (7.87%) Citrix
5 376 (4.96%) Veeam
6 340 (4.48%) Apple
7 293 (3.86%) Google
8 221 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 211 (2.78%) Meraki
10 204 (2.69%) HP
11 170 (2.24%) Dell
12 159 (2.10%) Sophos
13 122 (1.61%) Fortinet
14 110 (1.45%) Aruba
15 101 (1.33%) iManage
16 85 (1.12%) Adobe
17 78 (1.03%) SAP
18 75 (0.99%) SolarWinds
19 64 (0.84%) Salesforce
20 63 (0.83%) Palo Alto