OneDrive Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OneDrive skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 150 193
Rank change year-on-year -43 +43 -18
Permanent jobs citing OneDrive 13 17 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 1.58% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 20
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,125 £31,800
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £54,175 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +4.18% +30.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,438 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,000 -
England median annual salary £42,500 £38,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.84% -10.59% -5.56%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

OneDrive 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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,025 1,073 1,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.88% 32.91% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,460 855 1,135
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,750 £31,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -6.63% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,635 £60,000 £62,900
% change year-on-year +7.73% -4.61% -3.23%

OneDrive
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OneDrive relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

OneDrive job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

OneDrive
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OneDrive.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OneDrive

OneDrive
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OneDrive in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for OneDrive in the West Midlands

OneDrive
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OneDrive within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Worcestershire - 5 £34,000 - 3
Birmingham -40 4 £60,000 +114.29% 2
Staffordshire +5 3 £39,000 -24.19% 2
OneDrive
England

OneDrive
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 13 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 11 (84.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (69.23%) Entra ID
3 7 (53.85%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DHCP
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) VLAN
3 3 (23.08%) Wireless
4 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 2 (15.38%) VoIP
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Advertising
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) IT Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) IT Support
2 4 (30.77%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Information Manager
5 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Records Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Onboarding
2 3 (23.08%) Driving Licence
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) BYOD
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
4 2 (15.38%) Android
4 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) Major Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Server Virtualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Business Case
5 1 (7.69%) Information Management
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CIPD
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Apple
3 2 (15.38%) Samsung
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow