Microsoft 365 Job Trends in Watford

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 16 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 8.21% 11.80% 12.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.54% 25.30% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16 19 20
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £26,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £27,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.36% -23.61% -6.49%
75th Percentile £49,688 £38,750 £38,750
90th Percentile £53,250 - £54,625
Hertfordshire median annual salary £43,107 £46,250 £36,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% +28.47% -15.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Watford

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 in Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 71 83 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 36.41% 46.63% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 58 50 44
10th Percentile £39,250 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,972 £27,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +4.88% -6.82%
75th Percentile £86,563 £76,188 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,625 £82,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.65%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in Watford

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Microsoft 365.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Watford over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in Watford

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 4 (25.00%) IaaS
4 3 (18.75%) PaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) IP Telephony
3 5 (31.25%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 4 (25.00%) VPN
5 3 (18.75%) DNS
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 2 (12.50%) WAN
7 1 (6.25%) Internet
7 1 (6.25%) IPv4
7 1 (6.25%) IPv6
7 1 (6.25%) LAN
7 1 (6.25%) MPLS
7 1 (6.25%) SAN
7 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Core Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) IT Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) IT Operations Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Network Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) iPad
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 12 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (43.75%) Windows 10
4 6 (37.50%) Android
5 3 (18.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (12.50%) Linux
7 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (6.25%) Windows 2000
7 1 (6.25%) Windows 8
7 1 (6.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) ITIL
2 9 (56.25%) ITSM
3 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Task Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (18.75%) Service Management
7 2 (12.50%) Change Control
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Proactive Management
7 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 2 (12.50%) User Experience
7 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) CCNA
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (31.25%) DBS Check
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) MCDST
4 1 (6.25%) MCITP
4 1 (6.25%) MCSA
4 1 (6.25%) MCSE
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (62.50%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) ServiceNow
3 6 (37.50%) Apple
4 5 (31.25%) Remedy
5 2 (12.50%) Google
5 2 (12.50%) Okta
5 2 (12.50%) VMware
6 1 (6.25%) Dell
6 1 (6.25%) HP
6 1 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.25%) Zscaler