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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 42 56
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,564 6,686 8,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.66% 6.47% 5.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.36% 15.13% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,485 5,513 7,061
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,298 £36,500 £35,075
% change year-on-year -0.55% +4.06% -6.47%

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 35,418 44,196 75,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26,806 29,064 41,941
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 £96,250 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +19 6,920 £39,500 -2.47% 1,496
UK excluding London +15 5,700 £36,298 -0.55% 1,237
Work from Home +22 2,428 £45,000 -5.26% 573
London +12 1,637 £53,500 +2.30% 373
South East +12 1,510 £36,500 +1.39% 280
North of England +25 1,390 £37,500 -2.60% 302
Midlands +23 1,028 £35,000 -4.11% 210
South West +16 692 £37,500 +7.14% 180
North West +15 648 £40,000 -3.61% 161
West Midlands +23 636 £37,500 -6.25% 128
East of England +16 610 £32,500 -7.14% 150
Yorkshire +39 561 £35,000 - 110
East Midlands +36 385 £33,500 +3.98% 82
Scotland -33 283 £38,000 +1.33% 85
North East +26 181 £37,500 +7.14% 37
Wales +16 110 £28,290 -24.56% 36
Northern Ireland +21 55 £35,000 -6.67% 23
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 3
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 1,769 (23.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,646 (21.76%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.95%) IIS
4 69 (0.91%) Confluence
5 46 (0.61%) 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 11 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
12 10 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
13 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.11%) SAS
15 6 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.079%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.053%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.053%) IBM Notes
16 4 (0.053%) Jupyter
17 3 (0.040%) Apache
Applications
1 1,143 (15.11%) Microsoft Office
2 290 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 7 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.093%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.093%) 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%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.026%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 94 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 13 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 12 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.11%) Magento
7 8 (0.11%) Maximo
8 7 (0.093%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.093%) Sage 200
8 7 (0.093%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.079%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.079%) Shopify
10 5 (0.066%) SAP Business One
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 3,836 (50.71%) Azure
2 1,270 (16.79%) Entra ID
3 721 (9.53%) Power Platform
4 562 (7.43%) AWS
5 501 (6.62%) OneDrive
6 362 (4.79%) PowerApps
7 326 (4.31%) Power Automate
8 306 (4.05%) SaaS
9 233 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
10 203 (2.68%) IaaS
11 199 (2.63%) GCP
12 189 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 184 (2.43%) PaaS
14 129 (1.71%) Mimecast
15 124 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
16 122 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
17 114 (1.51%) Google Workspace
18 83 (1.10%) WhatsApp
19 81 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
19 81 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,403 (18.55%) Firewall
2 1,002 (13.25%) DNS
3 804 (10.63%) WAN
4 742 (9.81%) DHCP
5 681 (9.00%) LAN
6 562 (7.43%) VPN
7 494 (6.53%) Wi-Fi
8 438 (5.79%) TCP/IP
9 435 (5.75%) Wireless
10 364 (4.81%) VLAN
11 328 (4.34%) SAN
12 297 (3.93%) VoIP
13 221 (2.92%) SD-WAN
14 189 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
15 173 (2.29%) Internet
16 162 (2.14%) Network Security
17 149 (1.97%) Cisco IOS
18 123 (1.63%) NAS
19 107 (1.41%) WebEx
20 94 (1.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 401 (5.30%) Power BI
3 96 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (0.75%) MySQL
6 56 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (0.28%) Relational Database
11 19 (0.25%) GIS
11 19 (0.25%) Metadata
12 18 (0.24%) Data Lake
13 14 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
13 14 (0.19%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.16%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.15%) EDMS
16 10 (0.13%) Power Query
17 7 (0.093%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 131 (1.73%) JIRA
2 49 (0.65%) Git
3 22 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 8 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.066%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.066%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.053%) Hudson
8 4 (0.053%) MSI
8 4 (0.053%) Subversion
9 2 (0.026%) GitLab
9 2 (0.026%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.013%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.013%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.013%) Postman
10 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,498 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 986 (13.04%) Finance
3 571 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 386 (5.10%) Law
5 291 (3.85%) Legal
6 273 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 262 (3.46%) Retail
8 259 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 253 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
10 222 (2.93%) Telecoms
11 218 (2.88%) Public Sector
12 174 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 154 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
14 147 (1.94%) Marketing
15 82 (1.08%) Banking
16 74 (0.98%) Local Government
17 73 (0.97%) Games
18 69 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 68 (0.90%) Automotive
20 60 (0.79%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,572 (20.78%) IT Support
2 1,180 (15.60%) Support Engineer
3 1,095 (14.48%) Analyst
4 993 (13.13%) IT Engineer
5 713 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 704 (9.31%) IT Support Engineer
7 671 (8.87%) Senior
8 533 (7.05%) IT Technician
9 489 (6.46%) 2nd Line Support
10 425 (5.62%) IT Analyst
11 399 (5.27%) Lead
12 397 (5.25%) IT Manager
12 397 (5.25%) Support Analyst
13 386 (5.10%) Support Technician
14 359 (4.75%) Architect
15 319 (4.22%) IT Support Technician
16 315 (4.16%) Service Analyst
17 312 (4.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 300 (3.97%) 1st Line Support
19 295 (3.90%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (2.63%) .NET
2 71 (0.94%) HTML
3 69 (0.91%) SPFx
4 57 (0.75%) ARM Templates
5 54 (0.71%) CSS
6 47 (0.62%) JSON
7 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 28 (0.37%) ASP.NET
9 27 (0.36%) React
10 22 (0.29%) EDI
10 22 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
11 19 (0.25%) .NET Framework
11 19 (0.25%) REST
11 19 (0.25%) RESTful
12 18 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
12 18 (0.24%) Web Services
13 16 (0.21%) OLE
14 15 (0.20%) SAML
14 15 (0.20%) YAML
15 13 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 397 (5.25%) Driving Licence
2 347 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 300 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 261 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 226 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 213 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
7 176 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 140 (1.85%) PKI
9 133 (1.76%) Replication
10 102 (1.35%) Wiki
11 83 (1.10%) Smartphone
12 82 (1.08%) Clustering
13 78 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 77 (1.02%) iPad
15 72 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
16 70 (0.93%) CCTV
17 63 (0.83%) Product Ownership
18 61 (0.81%) iPhone
19 59 (0.78%) Private Cloud
20 55 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4,108 (54.31%) Windows
2 2,037 (26.93%) Windows Server
3 1,369 (18.10%) Windows 10
4 376 (4.97%) Android
5 373 (4.93%) Linux
6 352 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 319 (4.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 271 (3.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 255 (3.37%) Apple iOS
10 243 (3.21%) Mac OS
11 198 (2.62%) Windows 7
12 116 (1.53%) Windows 8
13 90 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 63 (0.83%) Mac OS X
15 62 (0.82%) Ubuntu
16 42 (0.56%) CentOS
17 41 (0.54%) VMS
18 30 (0.40%) Unix
19 28 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
20 22 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,478 (19.54%) Customer Service
2 1,463 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
3 1,355 (17.91%) ITIL
4 966 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 849 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
6 566 (7.48%) Project Management
7 511 (6.76%) Agile
8 504 (6.66%) Migration
9 473 (6.25%) Service Delivery
10 405 (5.35%) Mentoring
11 398 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
12 388 (5.13%) Service Management
13 378 (5.00%) ITSM
14 372 (4.92%) DevOps
15 369 (4.88%) Project Delivery
16 354 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 336 (4.44%) Information Security
18 330 (4.36%) Roadmaps
19 312 (4.12%) Disaster Recovery
20 306 (4.05%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 810 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 676 (8.94%) SQL
3 153 (2.02%) C#
4 100 (1.32%) Python
5 91 (1.20%) Bash
6 86 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 44 (0.58%) T-SQL
8 41 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.49%) Java
10 31 (0.41%) VB
11 29 (0.38%) Bicep
12 21 (0.28%) R
13 18 (0.24%) VBScript
14 10 (0.13%) PHP
15 9 (0.12%) Perl
15 9 (0.12%) VBA
16 7 (0.093%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.066%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.066%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.066%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,154 (15.26%) Degree
2 541 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 275 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 225 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
5 203 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 203 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 198 (2.62%) SC Cleared
7 185 (2.45%) DBS Check
8 172 (2.27%) CCNA
9 150 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 141 (1.86%) CISSP
11 137 (1.81%) MCSE
12 131 (1.73%) MCP
13 124 (1.64%) A+ Certification
14 112 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
15 95 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 93 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
17 78 (1.03%) MCSA
18 69 (0.91%) PMI Certification
19 56 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (6.86%) SLA
2 283 (3.74%) GDPR
3 245 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 239 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 98 (1.30%) NIST
6 72 (0.95%) QA
7 48 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.46%) Accessibility
9 35 (0.46%) GRC
10 33 (0.44%) PMO
11 32 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 30 (0.40%) Data Quality
13 23 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 18 (0.24%) COBIT
16 17 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.20%) NCSC
18 6 (0.079%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.079%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,707 (49.01%) Active Directory
2 1,036 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 904 (11.95%) Hyper-V
4 280 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 192 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 188 (2.49%) XenApp
7 178 (2.35%) vSphere
8 170 (2.25%) XenDesktop
9 125 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
10 100 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
11 59 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
12 49 (0.65%) Terminal Services
13 47 (0.62%) VirtualBox
14 30 (0.40%) Docker
15 22 (0.29%) Firmware
16 17 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.21%) VMware Server
18 13 (0.17%) vCloud
19 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
19 10 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,301 (17.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 534 (7.06%) SCCM
3 116 (1.53%) AirWatch
4 112 (1.48%) Terraform
5 96 (1.27%) vCenter Server
6 89 (1.18%) WSUS
7 78 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 75 (0.99%) Kubernetes
10 70 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
11 48 (0.63%) FortiGate
12 47 (0.62%) SCOM
13 43 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.56%) Ansible
15 40 (0.53%) CASB
16 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
17 27 (0.36%) Nagios
18 26 (0.34%) Autotask
19 22 (0.29%) SmoothWall
19 22 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5,383 (71.17%) Microsoft
2 1,605 (21.22%) VMware
3 691 (9.14%) Cisco
4 589 (7.79%) Citrix
5 374 (4.94%) Veeam
6 341 (4.51%) Apple
7 299 (3.95%) Google
8 218 (2.88%) ServiceNow
9 205 (2.71%) Meraki
10 204 (2.70%) HP
11 172 (2.27%) Dell
12 156 (2.06%) Sophos
13 126 (1.67%) Fortinet
14 109 (1.44%) Aruba
15 99 (1.31%) iManage
16 85 (1.12%) Adobe
17 79 (1.04%) SAP
18 71 (0.94%) SolarWinds
19 63 (0.83%) Salesforce
20 62 (0.82%) Palo Alto