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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 23 48 50
Rank change year-on-year +25 +2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 4,567 7,787 7,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.56% 6.21% 6.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.07% 14.48% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,001 6,442 6,816
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.66% -3.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%

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 22,754 53,785 60,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 42.91% 46.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,950 35,940 42,584
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,664 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 18 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 2 December 2023. 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 +22 4,246 £42,500 - 1,946
UK excluding London +14 2,835 £37,500 - 1,604
Work from Home +29 1,682 £47,500 +5.56% 750
London +32 1,570 £55,000 +5.77% 439
South East +15 821 £37,500 +7.14% 420
North of England +16 673 £36,000 - 452
Midlands +21 465 £40,500 +1.25% 306
South West +19 462 £37,500 +4.17% 172
West Midlands +26 362 £41,854 +1.16% 195
Yorkshire +18 314 £35,000 - 171
North West +14 310 £37,500 - 221
East of England +9 193 £34,500 -8.00% 164
Scotland -21 143 £40,000 - 84
East Midlands -5 101 £37,500 +7.14% 111
Wales +3 61 £43,457 -3.43% 26
North East +26 50 £33,000 -12.31% 66
Northern Ireland +17 31 £42,500 +13.33% 18
Isle of Man - 2 £72,500 -

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 1,036 (22.68%) SharePoint
2 401 (8.78%) MS Exchange
3 63 (1.38%) IIS
4 16 (0.35%) Skype for Business
5 15 (0.33%) Confluence
6 14 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
7 13 (0.28%) CMS
8 9 (0.20%) WordPress
9 8 (0.18%) IBM Domino
9 8 (0.18%) IBM Notes
10 7 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.088%) Site Server
13 3 (0.066%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.066%) SharePoint 2013
14 2 (0.044%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.044%) FileNet
14 2 (0.044%) MODX
14 2 (0.044%) nginx
14 2 (0.044%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 647 (14.17%) Microsoft Office
2 136 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 98 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.066%) 1Password
9 3 (0.066%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.066%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.066%) Trello
10 2 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.044%) InDesign
10 2 (0.044%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.044%) LightWave 3D
10 2 (0.044%) Revit
11 1 (0.022%) InCopy
11 1 (0.022%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 55 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
3 16 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 12 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 10 (0.22%) Maximo
7 9 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.18%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
12 4 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
13 3 (0.066%) Eikon
13 3 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
14 2 (0.044%) iTrent
14 2 (0.044%) ResourceLink
14 2 (0.044%) Sage 50
14 2 (0.044%) SAP CX
15 1 (0.022%) Alphatax
15 1 (0.022%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 2,571 (56.30%) Azure
2 865 (18.94%) Entra ID
3 455 (9.96%) AWS
4 421 (9.22%) Power Platform
5 303 (6.63%) OneDrive
6 217 (4.75%) IaaS
7 211 (4.62%) PowerApps
8 184 (4.03%) SaaS
9 177 (3.88%) PaaS
10 169 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 165 (3.61%) Power Automate
12 151 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
13 102 (2.23%) Mimecast
14 90 (1.97%) WhatsApp
15 82 (1.80%) GCP
16 70 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
17 57 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
18 55 (1.20%) Serverless
19 43 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
20 35 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 866 (18.96%) Firewall
2 742 (16.25%) DNS
3 653 (14.30%) DHCP
4 560 (12.26%) WAN
5 498 (10.90%) VPN
6 450 (9.85%) LAN
7 340 (7.44%) TCP/IP
8 316 (6.92%) Wireless
9 272 (5.96%) VLAN
10 257 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
11 207 (4.53%) SAN
12 202 (4.42%) VoIP
13 158 (3.46%) SD-WAN
14 133 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
15 129 (2.82%) Cisco IOS
16 103 (2.26%) WebEx
17 95 (2.08%) Internet
18 85 (1.86%) Network Security
19 59 (1.29%) NAS
20 53 (1.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (7.16%) SQL Server
2 205 (4.49%) Power BI
3 98 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (0.83%) MySQL
5 33 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (0.37%) GIS
9 17 (0.37%) Metadata
9 17 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.26%) InterSystems Cache
11 11 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.22%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.20%) Power Query
13 9 (0.20%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (0.11%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 57 (1.25%) JIRA
2 18 (0.39%) Git
3 12 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
4 10 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.13%) GitLab
6 5 (0.11%) Subversion
7 3 (0.066%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.044%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.044%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (0.044%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.044%) MSBuild
8 2 (0.044%) MSI
9 1 (0.022%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,482 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 686 (15.02%) Finance
3 300 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (5.36%) Legal
5 236 (5.17%) Law
6 166 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 158 (3.46%) Manufacturing
8 144 (3.15%) Banking
9 142 (3.11%) Retail
10 140 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
11 139 (3.04%) Telecoms
12 115 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 83 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 69 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 58 (1.27%) Marketing
16 32 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 32 (0.70%) Local Government
17 29 (0.63%) Back Office
18 28 (0.61%) Advertising
19 26 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 829 (18.15%) Analyst
2 802 (17.56%) IT Support
3 781 (17.10%) Support Engineer
4 531 (11.63%) IT Engineer
5 514 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 463 (10.14%) Senior
7 403 (8.82%) Support Analyst
8 379 (8.30%) 2nd Line Support
9 331 (7.25%) IT Analyst
10 314 (6.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 266 (5.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 241 (5.28%) IT Support Analyst
13 203 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 200 (4.38%) Desktop Support
15 197 (4.31%) Lead
16 195 (4.27%) Service Analyst
17 190 (4.16%) Architect
18 181 (3.96%) IT Manager
19 179 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
20 163 (3.57%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.76%) .NET
2 79 (1.73%) ARM Templates
3 65 (1.42%) JSON
4 39 (0.85%) YAML
5 31 (0.68%) HTML
6 28 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 24 (0.53%) ASP.NET
8 23 (0.50%) SAML
9 21 (0.46%) CSS
10 20 (0.44%) Web Services
11 19 (0.42%) HTML5 Canvas
12 18 (0.39%) Entity Framework
12 18 (0.39%) REST
13 17 (0.37%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.28%) .NET Core
14 13 (0.28%) Middleware
15 12 (0.26%) React
16 11 (0.24%) XML
17 10 (0.22%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (0.22%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 247 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 232 (5.08%) Driving Licence
3 154 (3.37%) Video Conferencing
4 150 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 134 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 120 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 95 (2.08%) Wiki
8 91 (1.99%) Replication
9 85 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 73 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
11 68 (1.49%) iPhone
12 65 (1.42%) Clustering
13 46 (1.01%) PKI
14 45 (0.99%) Private Cloud
15 44 (0.96%) Smartphone
16 36 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
17 34 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.63%) iPad
18 29 (0.63%) Life Science
18 29 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2,693 (58.97%) Windows
2 1,310 (28.68%) Windows Server
3 1,037 (22.71%) Windows 10
4 307 (6.72%) Android
5 302 (6.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 280 (6.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 267 (5.85%) Linux
8 258 (5.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 197 (4.31%) Apple iOS
10 178 (3.90%) Mac OS
11 101 (2.21%) Windows 7
12 77 (1.69%) Windows 8
13 48 (1.05%) Mac OS X
13 48 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
14 33 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
15 28 (0.61%) Ubuntu
16 25 (0.55%) Unix
17 19 (0.42%) CentOS
18 16 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 14 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,008 (22.07%) ITIL
2 831 (18.20%) Customer Service
3 726 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
4 610 (13.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 373 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
6 368 (8.06%) Agile
7 342 (7.49%) Project Management
8 313 (6.85%) Service Management
9 308 (6.74%) Migration
10 305 (6.68%) DevOps
11 264 (5.78%) Change Management
12 255 (5.58%) Project Delivery
13 254 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
14 249 (5.45%) Roadmaps
15 244 (5.34%) Service Delivery
16 238 (5.21%) ITSM
17 237 (5.19%) Information Security
18 235 (5.15%) Mobile Device Management
19 229 (5.01%) Mentoring
20 195 (4.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 714 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 411 (9.00%) SQL
3 114 (2.50%) C#
4 100 (2.19%) Python
5 74 (1.62%) Bash
6 62 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 35 (0.77%) T-SQL
8 27 (0.59%) Bicep
9 25 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.53%) VBScript
11 22 (0.48%) VB
12 16 (0.35%) Ruby
13 11 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.22%) Java
14 10 (0.22%) PHP
15 7 (0.15%) Korn
16 6 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.11%) DataFlex
17 5 (0.11%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 702 (15.37%) Degree
2 383 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 253 (5.54%) Security Cleared
4 185 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 154 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 145 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 132 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
8 114 (2.50%) MCSE
9 104 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 103 (2.26%) CCNA
11 98 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
12 77 (1.69%) DBS Check
13 75 (1.64%) MCSA
14 72 (1.58%) MCP
15 68 (1.49%) A+ Certification
16 56 (1.23%) CISSP
17 54 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
18 49 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 49 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
19 42 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 390 (8.54%) SLA
2 151 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 147 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (1.84%) GDPR
5 53 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 42 (0.92%) NIST
7 38 (0.83%) QA
8 30 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 23 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.46%) PMO
11 15 (0.33%) NCSC
12 10 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.20%) COBIT
13 9 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.18%) Data Quality
15 7 (0.15%) GRC
16 4 (0.088%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.044%) Disclosure Scotland
17 2 (0.044%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 2 (0.044%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2,556 (55.97%) Active Directory
2 723 (15.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 579 (12.68%) Hyper-V
4 239 (5.23%) VMware ESXi
5 162 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 144 (3.15%) XenApp
7 141 (3.09%) vSphere
8 115 (2.52%) XenDesktop
9 109 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
10 102 (2.23%) Microsoft App-V
11 61 (1.34%) Firmware
12 52 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
13 33 (0.72%) Docker
14 28 (0.61%) VMware NSX
15 27 (0.59%) vCloud
16 26 (0.57%) BitLocker
17 18 (0.39%) Terminal Services
18 15 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
19 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 11 (0.24%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 899 (19.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 578 (12.66%) SCCM
3 103 (2.26%) Terraform
4 93 (2.04%) AirWatch
5 74 (1.62%) SCOM
6 63 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 59 (1.29%) FortiGate
8 56 (1.23%) Kubernetes
9 53 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 52 (1.14%) Ansible
11 47 (1.03%) WSUS
12 45 (0.99%) Failover Clustering
13 44 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
14 41 (0.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 40 (0.88%) vCenter Server
16 35 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
17 26 (0.57%) SCVMM
18 20 (0.44%) Nessus
19 17 (0.37%) Grafana
19 17 (0.37%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 3,169 (69.39%) Microsoft
2 1,078 (23.60%) VMware
3 539 (11.80%) Citrix
4 538 (11.78%) Cisco
5 220 (4.82%) Apple
6 208 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 172 (3.77%) HP
8 164 (3.59%) Veeam
9 146 (3.20%) Dell
10 143 (3.13%) Meraki
11 116 (2.54%) Google
12 79 (1.73%) SolarWinds
13 76 (1.66%) Aruba
14 74 (1.62%) Salesforce
15 73 (1.60%) Bloomberg
15 73 (1.60%) iManage
15 73 (1.60%) Sophos
16 66 (1.45%) Remedy
16 66 (1.45%) SAP
17 53 (1.16%) Fortinet