Microsoft 365 Engineer Jobs

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 678 731
Rank change year-on-year +33 +53 +387
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 72 158 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 68 142 128
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -18.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,375 £75,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -9.47% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 54,335 83,820 72,442
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 94.92% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 30,072 55,927 50,735
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +1.92%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Top 12 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 1 August 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 +13 70 £50,000 +5.26% 23
UK excluding London +66 55 £47,500 +10.47% 20
South East +47 18 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North of England +29 18 £35,000 -23.91% 3
Work from Home +22 16 £46,500 -11.43% 8
South West +69 15 £42,500 +6.25% 4
London +15 15 £67,500 +22.73% 4
North West -6 13 £35,000 -23.91% 3
Yorkshire +8 5 £45,000 -21.74%
Midlands +41 3 £57,500 +4.55% 5
West Midlands +35 3 £57,500 +4.55% 3
East of England -16 1 £90,000 +143.24%

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 August 2025, Microsoft 365 Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (76.39%) Microsoft
3 52 (72.22%) SharePoint
4 32 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 32 (44.44%) Azure
5 24 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 24 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 23 (31.94%) Windows
6 23 (31.94%) Migration
7 22 (30.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (29.17%) Power Platform
9 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (23.61%) Power Automate
10 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
11 15 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (19.44%) Power BI
13 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
14 12 (16.67%) OneDrive
14 12 (16.67%) VMware
14 12 (16.67%) Degree
15 11 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
15 11 (15.28%) Cisco
16 10 (13.89%) Windows Server
16 10 (13.89%) Client Onboarding
16 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
16 10 (13.89%) Task Automation

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
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 52 (72.22%) SharePoint
2 24 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (44.44%) Azure
3 24 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 21 (29.17%) Power Platform
5 17 (23.61%) Power Automate
6 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (16.67%) OneDrive
9 6 (8.33%) PowerApps
10 4 (5.56%) AWS
11 3 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (4.17%) Mimecast
12 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.78%) Serverless
13 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
13 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (1.39%) IaaS
13 1 (1.39%) Slack
13 1 (1.39%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) DNS
1 8 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (6.94%) DHCP
3 4 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (5.56%) Intranet
3 4 (5.56%) IPsec
3 4 (5.56%) VLAN
3 4 (5.56%) VoIP
3 4 (5.56%) VPN
3 4 (5.56%) Wireless
4 2 (2.78%) WAN
4 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.39%) HTTP
5 1 (1.39%) Internet
5 1 (1.39%) IPv4
5 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.39%) LAN
5 1 (1.39%) Network Security
5 1 (1.39%) SAN
5 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) Power BI
2 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.11%) Finance
6 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.94%) Electronics
7 5 (6.94%) Marketing
7 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.56%) Banking
8 4 (5.56%) Front Office
9 3 (4.17%) Legal
10 1 (1.39%) Games
10 1 (1.39%) Law
10 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.39%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.39%) REST
2 1 (1.39%) SAML
2 1 (1.39%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.56%) Clustering
4 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.39%) Online Games
5 1 (1.39%) PKI
5 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.39%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.94%) Windows
2 10 (13.89%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.11%) Linux
4 5 (6.94%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.56%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.39%) Android
7 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.39%) CentOS
7 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) Migration
2 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (13.89%) Client Onboarding
4 10 (13.89%) Identity Management
4 10 (13.89%) Knowledge Management
4 10 (13.89%) Task Automation
5 6 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (8.33%) ITIL
5 6 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 5 (6.94%) Coaching
6 5 (6.94%) Containerisation
6 5 (6.94%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (6.94%) DevOps
6 5 (6.94%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (6.94%) Programme Management
6 5 (6.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 5 (6.94%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (5.56%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (1.39%) Bash
3 1 (1.39%) Perl
3 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) ACMT
2 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (4.17%) CCNA
3 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) CCNP
4 2 (2.78%) CISSP
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.39%) RHCE
5 1 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.78%) GDPR
2 2 (2.78%) PMO
2 2 (2.78%) SLA
3 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.94%) Docker
4 5 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.78%) vSphere
6 1 (1.39%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.39%) Postfix
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (30.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.94%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (6.94%) vCenter Server
3 4 (5.56%) Autotask
4 2 (2.78%) Ansible
4 2 (2.78%) SCCM
4 2 (2.78%) Terraform
5 1 (1.39%) CASB
5 1 (1.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 55 (76.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.67%) VMware
3 11 (15.28%) Cisco
4 5 (6.94%) SAP
4 5 (6.94%) Sophos
5 4 (5.56%) Apple
5 4 (5.56%) Datto
5 4 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.56%) HP
5 4 (5.56%) Oracle
5 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.56%) Veeam
6 3 (4.17%) Citrix
6 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.78%) Meraki
7 2 (2.78%) Okta
8 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.39%) Exabeam
8 1 (1.39%) Varonis