Hybrid/Remote Microsoft 365 Job Trends

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 44 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,426 962 1,503
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.74% 5.77% 6.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.55% 16.77% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 710 948
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,831 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.21% -18.34% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £37,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% -17.78% +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,617 5,738 9,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.67% 34.41% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,317 4,064 6,015
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft 365.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Microsoft 365 salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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
1 517 (36.26%) SharePoint
2 298 (20.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.82%) Confluence
4 16 (1.12%) IIS
5 6 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 127 (8.91%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.35%) CorelDRAW
5 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.56%) Shopify
4 5 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.14%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 699 (49.02%) Azure
2 472 (33.10%) Entra ID
3 264 (18.51%) Power Platform
4 172 (12.06%) Microsoft Copilot
5 161 (11.29%) OneDrive
6 146 (10.24%) AWS
7 130 (9.12%) Power Automate
8 118 (8.27%) PowerApps
9 104 (7.29%) SaaS
10 90 (6.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 54 (3.79%) Copilot Studio
12 42 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
13 40 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
14 39 (2.73%) Mimecast
15 35 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
15 35 (2.45%) Google Workspace
16 32 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
17 29 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
18 24 (1.68%) IaaS
19 22 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 224 (15.71%) DNS
2 220 (15.43%) Firewall
3 174 (12.20%) DHCP
4 164 (11.50%) VPN
5 106 (7.43%) LAN
5 106 (7.43%) TCP/IP
6 105 (7.36%) WAN
7 94 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
8 58 (4.07%) VLAN
9 45 (3.16%) VoIP
10 41 (2.88%) Wireless
11 38 (2.66%) Network Security
12 17 (1.19%) Intranet
13 14 (0.98%) SAN
14 13 (0.91%) Unified Communications
15 12 (0.84%) IP Telephony
16 10 (0.70%) WebEx
17 9 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.63%) SSL
18 8 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (5.05%) Power BI
2 60 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (0.84%) Metadata
5 8 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.42%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.42%) Spatial Data
7 5 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.35%) Power Query
8 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.14%) MySQL
9 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.14%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.070%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.070%) GIS
10 1 (0.070%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.070%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 87 (6.10%) JIRA
2 13 (0.91%) Git
3 7 (0.49%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.21%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.070%) Postman
6 1 (0.070%) Rational DOORS
General
1 746 (52.31%) Social Skills
2 167 (11.71%) Finance
3 120 (8.42%) Legal
4 107 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (6.80%) Law
6 74 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
6 74 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 51 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (3.09%) Swedish Language
10 42 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 36 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.17%) Retail
14 29 (2.03%) Marketing
15 20 (1.40%) Advertising
16 17 (1.19%) Banking
16 17 (1.19%) Local Government
17 16 (1.12%) Games
18 12 (0.84%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 310 (21.74%) IT Support
2 228 (15.99%) Support Engineer
3 218 (15.29%) IT Engineer
4 217 (15.22%) Analyst
5 186 (13.04%) IT Support Engineer
6 158 (11.08%) Senior
7 123 (8.63%) Consultant
8 116 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 98 (6.87%) Support Analyst
10 85 (5.96%) Architect
11 84 (5.89%) Service Analyst
12 81 (5.68%) Developer
13 73 (5.12%) Service Desk Analyst
14 69 (4.84%) Lead
15 67 (4.70%) IT Analyst
16 64 (4.49%) 1st Line Support
17 57 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
18 54 (3.79%) IT Support Analyst
19 51 (3.58%) IT Manager
20 48 (3.37%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.65%) HTML
2 48 (3.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 42 (2.95%) .NET
4 38 (2.66%) CSS
5 32 (2.24%) Terraform
6 29 (2.03%) SPFx
7 24 (1.68%) REST
8 23 (1.61%) HTML5 Canvas
9 16 (1.12%) ASP.NET
10 15 (1.05%) Middleware
11 14 (0.98%) JSON
11 14 (0.98%) React
12 12 (0.84%) .NET Core
13 11 (0.77%) RESTful
14 7 (0.49%) Next.js
14 7 (0.49%) Node.js
14 7 (0.49%) Pandas
15 6 (0.42%) Langfuse
15 6 (0.42%) Model Context Protocol
15 6 (0.42%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 159 (11.15%) Driving Licence
2 145 (10.17%) Onboarding
3 47 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 40 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.61%) Clustering
10 23 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
12 18 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 18 (1.26%) Replication
13 14 (0.98%) CCTV
14 13 (0.91%) Cloud Native
15 11 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.77%) Web Conferencing
16 9 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 594 (41.65%) Windows
2 270 (18.93%) Windows Server
3 77 (5.40%) Mac OS
4 68 (4.77%) Linux
5 57 (4.00%) Windows 10
6 32 (2.24%) Apple iOS
7 31 (2.17%) Android
8 18 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
2 333 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 305 (21.39%) Customer Service
4 279 (19.57%) ITIL
5 265 (18.58%) Cybersecurity
6 199 (13.96%) AI
7 197 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 168 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 153 (10.73%) ITSM
9 153 (10.73%) Mentoring
10 145 (10.17%) Service Delivery
11 141 (9.89%) Project Delivery
12 126 (8.84%) Roadmaps
13 122 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
14 114 (7.99%) Information Security
15 104 (7.29%) Collaborative Working
16 103 (7.22%) Agile
17 102 (7.15%) Technical Leadership
18 101 (7.08%) Service Management
19 95 (6.66%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 204 (14.31%) PowerShell
2 88 (6.17%) SQL
3 68 (4.77%) JavaScript
4 62 (4.35%) C#
5 60 (4.21%) Python
6 29 (2.03%) R
7 27 (1.89%) Bicep
8 24 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.12%) VBA
10 12 (0.84%) Bash
10 12 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.35%) Ruby
13 5 (0.35%) VBScript
14 4 (0.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.21%) C
15 3 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.14%) Dart
16 2 (0.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 198 (13.88%) Degree
2 159 (11.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 92 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 76 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 69 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 62 (4.35%) MCSE
7 52 (3.65%) AWS Certification
8 36 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (2.03%) CCNA
10 27 (1.89%) CISSP
11 26 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (1.54%) DBS Check
13 21 (1.47%) CISM
14 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 19 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.12%) MCSA
17 14 (0.98%) CCNP
18 13 (0.91%) PMP
19 11 (0.77%) A+ Certification
20 9 (0.63%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 76 (5.33%) SLA
4 70 (4.91%) GDPR
5 60 (4.21%) QA
6 46 (3.23%) Accessibility
7 44 (3.09%) GRC
8 34 (2.38%) NIST
9 25 (1.75%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.42%) PMO
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.28%) WCAG
14 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.21%) NCSC
15 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.070%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 467 (32.75%) Active Directory
2 163 (11.43%) Hyper-V
3 94 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.98%) vSphere
7 9 (0.63%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.56%) VMware Server
9 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.35%) ClearTrust
11 4 (0.28%) KVM
11 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.070%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.070%) Docker
13 1 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.070%) Firmware
13 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 336 (23.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.24%) SCCM
3 20 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
4 13 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 9 (0.63%) Autotask
6 8 (0.56%) Kubernetes
7 6 (0.42%) Ansible
7 6 (0.42%) Grafana
8 5 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.28%) Graylog
9 4 (0.28%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.21%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.21%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.14%) SCOM
11 2 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,287 (90.25%) Microsoft
2 134 (9.40%) VMware
3 99 (6.94%) ServiceNow
4 70 (4.91%) Cisco
5 53 (3.72%) Google
5 53 (3.72%) Veeam
6 43 (3.02%) Apple
7 29 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
8 28 (1.96%) Meraki
9 24 (1.68%) Fortinet
9 24 (1.68%) WatchGuard
10 21 (1.47%) Adobe
11 20 (1.40%) Citrix
11 20 (1.40%) iManage
12 19 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 19 (1.33%) Zscaler
13 18 (1.26%) SonicWALL
14 16 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.98%) Computacenter
15 14 (0.98%) Mitel