Microsoft 365 Jobs

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 24 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 2,919 7,634 6,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 7.78% 6.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.27% 21.61% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 6,538 5,580
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £30,780
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £39,000 £41,557
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.15% -2.22%
75th Percentile £58,086 £53,142 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,298 £36,500
% change year-on-year -3.58% -0.55% +2.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Microsoft 365 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,150 35,329 45,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.36% 35.99% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 26,785 29,604
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 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 -16 2,751 £42,000 +5.34% 1,551
UK excluding London -17 1,907 £35,000 -3.58% 1,045
Work from Home -9 990 £45,000 - 583
London -7 896 £57,500 +5.31% 616
South East -24 460 £40,000 +9.59% 282
Midlands -12 449 £35,000 - 168
North of England -45 439 £35,000 -6.67% 296
East of England -6 274 £33,500 +3.08% 129
West Midlands -16 268 £44,750 +19.33% 91
North West -64 246 £37,500 -6.25% 137
South West -11 207 £32,500 -13.33% 112
East Midlands -5 181 £31,500 -5.97% 75
Yorkshire -22 159 £32,500 -7.14% 132
Scotland -15 49 £37,500 -1.32% 59
North East -19 33 £34,000 -9.33% 34
Wales -33 17 £38,094 +34.66% 17
Northern Ireland -2 10 £52,500 +50.00% 13
Isle of Man +3 5 £38,000 +2.70% 6

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
1 768 (26.31%) SharePoint
2 655 (22.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (1.99%) IIS
4 29 (0.99%) Confluence
5 23 (0.79%) CMS
6 15 (0.51%) IBM Domino
7 11 (0.38%) WordPress
8 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
11 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.10%) Moodle
12 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.069%) Apache
13 2 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.034%) nginx
14 1 (0.034%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.034%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 463 (15.86%) Microsoft Office
2 136 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.31%) Acrobat
6 8 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.10%) Productboard
10 3 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.069%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) 1Password
12 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.034%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 50 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
3 18 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.41%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.31%) Sage 50
6 7 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 6 (0.21%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.17%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
9 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.10%) Fidessa
11 2 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 2 (0.069%) SystmOne
12 1 (0.034%) Eikon
12 1 (0.034%) Magento
12 1 (0.034%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,552 (53.17%) Azure
2 573 (19.63%) Entra ID
3 278 (9.52%) OneDrive
3 278 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 234 (8.02%) AWS
5 181 (6.20%) SaaS
6 129 (4.42%) Power Automate
7 126 (4.32%) PowerApps
8 90 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
9 84 (2.88%) Mimecast
10 79 (2.71%) Microsoft Copilot
11 77 (2.64%) IaaS
12 69 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
12 69 (2.36%) PaaS
13 68 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
14 66 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 53 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
15 53 (1.82%) Google Workspace
16 29 (0.99%) GCP
17 24 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 528 (18.09%) Firewall
2 427 (14.63%) DNS
3 341 (11.68%) DHCP
4 293 (10.04%) VPN
5 286 (9.80%) WAN
6 267 (9.15%) LAN
7 185 (6.34%) TCP/IP
8 182 (6.24%) VLAN
9 173 (5.93%) VoIP
10 170 (5.82%) Wi-Fi
11 86 (2.95%) Network Security
12 85 (2.91%) Wireless
13 57 (1.95%) Internet
13 57 (1.95%) Remote Desktop
14 56 (1.92%) SAN
15 55 (1.88%) SD-WAN
16 43 (1.47%) Cisco IOS
17 36 (1.23%) Intranet
18 27 (0.92%) IPv4
18 27 (0.92%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 131 (4.49%) Power BI
3 37 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.24%) MySQL
9 7 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (0.17%) Power Query
12 4 (0.14%) FileMaker
12 4 (0.14%) GIS
12 4 (0.14%) Metabase
12 4 (0.14%) Metadata
12 4 (0.14%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.10%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.10%) EDMS
13 3 (0.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 69 (2.36%) JIRA
2 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.21%) Git
4 5 (0.17%) WiX
5 3 (0.10%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.10%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.069%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.069%) MSI
6 2 (0.069%) Selenium
7 1 (0.034%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.034%) gulp
7 1 (0.034%) Hudson
7 1 (0.034%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.034%) Subversion
7 1 (0.034%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.034%) Yeoman
General
1 1,118 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 387 (13.26%) Finance
3 285 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (7.16%) Law
5 194 (6.65%) Legal
6 128 (4.39%) Retail
7 103 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 86 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
9 77 (2.64%) Telecoms
10 64 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 55 (1.88%) Marketing
12 49 (1.68%) Banking
13 41 (1.40%) Public Sector
14 33 (1.13%) Local Government
15 28 (0.96%) Games
16 27 (0.92%) Automotive
17 22 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.58%) Advertising
18 17 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 627 (21.48%) IT Support
2 597 (20.45%) Analyst
3 431 (14.77%) Support Engineer
4 316 (10.83%) Support Analyst
5 302 (10.35%) IT Engineer
6 296 (10.14%) Senior
7 245 (8.39%) IT Analyst
8 234 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 231 (7.91%) 2nd Line Support
10 203 (6.95%) IT Support Engineer
11 169 (5.79%) IT Support Analyst
12 135 (4.62%) Lead
13 133 (4.56%) Service Analyst
14 124 (4.25%) IT Manager
15 116 (3.97%) Service Desk Analyst
16 115 (3.94%) Desktop Support
16 115 (3.94%) IT Technician
17 102 (3.49%) 1st Line Support
18 95 (3.25%) Support Specialist
19 92 (3.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (1.95%) .NET
2 27 (0.92%) HTML
3 26 (0.89%) JSON
4 25 (0.86%) React
5 23 (0.79%) CSS
6 21 (0.72%) XML
7 16 (0.55%) SPFx
8 14 (0.48%) REST
9 11 (0.38%) ASP.NET
10 10 (0.34%) .NET Framework
10 10 (0.34%) SOAP
11 9 (0.31%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.31%) SAML
11 9 (0.31%) Software Packaging
12 8 (0.27%) HTML5
13 7 (0.24%) ARM Templates
13 7 (0.24%) EDI
14 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
15 5 (0.17%) 802.1X
15 5 (0.17%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 184 (6.30%) Driving Licence
2 154 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 127 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 85 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 69 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 48 (1.64%) CCTV
7 46 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 40 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 36 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
11 35 (1.20%) Client/Server
11 35 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 34 (1.16%) iPhone
12 34 (1.16%) Social Media
13 31 (1.06%) Private Cloud
14 28 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (0.92%) Product Ownership
16 22 (0.75%) PKI
17 21 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1,596 (54.68%) Windows
2 711 (24.36%) Windows Server
3 516 (17.68%) Windows 10
4 177 (6.06%) Linux
5 156 (5.34%) Mac OS
6 127 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 108 (3.70%) Apple iOS
8 107 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 105 (3.60%) Android
10 74 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 31 (1.06%) Windows 7
12 25 (0.86%) Mac OS X
13 20 (0.69%) VMS
14 18 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (0.58%) Unix
16 15 (0.51%) AIX
17 11 (0.38%) Ubuntu
18 8 (0.27%) CentOS
19 5 (0.17%) Debian
20 4 (0.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (27.95%) Problem-Solving
2 604 (20.69%) Customer Service
3 585 (20.04%) ITIL
4 386 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
5 272 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 234 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 212 (7.26%) ITSM
8 210 (7.19%) Project Management
9 206 (7.06%) Service Delivery
10 196 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 192 (6.58%) Migration
12 168 (5.76%) Roadmaps
13 164 (5.62%) Service Management
14 161 (5.52%) Project Delivery
15 151 (5.17%) Mentoring
16 147 (5.04%) Data Protection
17 144 (4.93%) Agile
18 138 (4.73%) Business Intelligence
19 137 (4.69%) CRM
20 134 (4.59%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 436 (14.94%) PowerShell
2 209 (7.16%) SQL
3 93 (3.19%) Python
4 70 (2.40%) C#
5 58 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 29 (0.99%) T-SQL
7 19 (0.65%) Bash
7 19 (0.65%) Java
8 15 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (0.51%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.38%) C++
10 10 (0.34%) Go
11 9 (0.31%) VBA
12 8 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.24%) VB
14 6 (0.21%) PHP
15 5 (0.17%) VBScript
16 3 (0.10%) Bicep
16 3 (0.10%) Progress 4GL
16 3 (0.10%) RPG
Qualifications
1 439 (15.04%) Degree
2 303 (10.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 116 (3.97%) Azure Certification
4 96 (3.29%) A+ Certification
5 89 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
6 78 (2.67%) Security Cleared
7 74 (2.54%) CCNA
8 70 (2.40%) DBS Check
9 63 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
9 63 (2.16%) SC Cleared
10 62 (2.12%) Network+ Certification
11 50 (1.71%) MCSA
12 44 (1.51%) CISSP
13 41 (1.40%) MCP
14 36 (1.23%) MCSE
15 27 (0.92%) CCNP
16 26 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 25 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
18 24 (0.82%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (6.89%) SLA
2 112 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 103 (3.53%) GDPR
5 39 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 34 (1.16%) NIST
7 29 (0.99%) QA
8 26 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 24 (0.82%) Data Quality
10 15 (0.51%) GRC
11 12 (0.41%) PMO
12 9 (0.31%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.31%) PERC
13 7 (0.24%) NCSC
14 6 (0.21%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.17%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.14%) HL7
17 3 (0.10%) COBIT
System Software
1 1,420 (48.65%) Active Directory
2 332 (11.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 276 (9.46%) Hyper-V
4 113 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 53 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 50 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (1.37%) vSphere
8 33 (1.13%) XenApp
9 22 (0.75%) Docker
10 16 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.51%) BitLocker
12 14 (0.48%) Firmware
13 8 (0.27%) XenDesktop
14 7 (0.24%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.17%) Postfix
16 3 (0.10%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.10%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 615 (21.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 208 (7.13%) SCCM
3 55 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
4 54 (1.85%) Terraform
5 33 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 30 (1.03%) Kubernetes
7 26 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
7 26 (0.89%) WSUS
8 25 (0.86%) Ansible
9 19 (0.65%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.51%) NetBackup
10 15 (0.51%) SCOM
11 14 (0.48%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.38%) Autotask
13 9 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (0.27%) Graylog
15 7 (0.24%) Backup Exec
15 7 (0.24%) Grafana
16 6 (0.21%) Nagios
16 6 (0.21%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 2,130 (72.97%) Microsoft
2 479 (16.41%) VMware
3 317 (10.86%) Cisco
4 183 (6.27%) Citrix
5 147 (5.04%) Meraki
6 136 (4.66%) Apple
7 117 (4.01%) ServiceNow
8 91 (3.12%) Veeam
9 82 (2.81%) Google
10 66 (2.26%) HP
11 60 (2.06%) Salesforce
12 52 (1.78%) Dell
13 49 (1.68%) iManage
14 43 (1.47%) Fortinet
15 38 (1.30%) Palo Alto
16 37 (1.27%) CheckPoint
16 37 (1.27%) Oracle
16 37 (1.27%) Sophos
17 36 (1.23%) SAP
17 36 (1.23%) SonicWALL