Microsoft 365 Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 541 618
Rank change year-on-year +119 +77 +142
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 25 45 49
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23 42 44
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £35,225
25th Percentile £43,125 £40,123 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,750 £70,000 £68,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -21.74% +27.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 15,896 32,441 39,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 95.98% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9,943 24,914 28,116
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,127 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 Engineer.

Microsoft 365 Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft 365 Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Microsoft 365 Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (96.00%) Microsoft
3 22 (88.00%) Azure
4 13 (52.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (48.00%) SharePoint
6 10 (40.00%) Entra ID
6 10 (40.00%) Windows
7 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
7 8 (32.00%) VMware
8 7 (28.00%) Firewall
8 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
9 6 (24.00%) PowerApps
9 6 (24.00%) Power Automate
9 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
10 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (20.00%) SaaS
10 5 (20.00%) SCCM
10 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
10 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
10 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (16.00%) ITIL
11 4 (16.00%) Citrix
11 4 (16.00%) Intranet
11 4 (16.00%) Legal
11 4 (16.00%) AWS
11 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (48.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (88.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (24.00%) Power Automate
4 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (24.00%) PowerApps
5 5 (20.00%) SaaS
6 4 (16.00%) AWS
7 3 (12.00%) IaaS
7 3 (12.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (12.00%) PaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.00%) Dropbox
8 1 (4.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) Intranet
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
4 1 (4.00%) DNS
4 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security
4 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (16.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (4.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) CentOS
3 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Agile
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Migration
4 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.00%) Identity Management
6 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps
6 1 (4.00%) Emotional Intelligence
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (4.00%) RBAC
6 1 (4.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) CCNA
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (4.00%) MCSA
4 1 (4.00%) RHCE
4 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) Dovecot
4 1 (4.00%) Postfix
4 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (20.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Terraform
5 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.00%) Citrix
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
4 3 (12.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.00%) Aderant
5 2 (8.00%) HP
5 2 (8.00%) iManage
5 2 (8.00%) Intapp
6 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.00%) Avaya
6 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.00%) Dell
6 1 (4.00%) Okta
6 1 (4.00%) Ping Identity
6 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (4.00%) Veeam
6 1 (4.00%) WatchGuard