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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 45 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,368 961 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.71% 5.92% 6.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.59% 16.53% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,054 742 1,028
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,425 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -19.15% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £37,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -12.94% +1.19%

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 8,775 5,812 9,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.60% 35.78% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,435 4,193 6,772
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,770
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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 11 September 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
1 499 (36.48%) SharePoint
2 286 (20.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.83%) Confluence
4 18 (1.32%) IIS
5 5 (0.37%) CMS
6 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 144 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.37%) CorelDRAW
5 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.073%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 10 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Shopify
4 5 (0.37%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.073%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 683 (49.93%) Azure
2 442 (32.31%) Entra ID
3 245 (17.91%) Power Platform
4 162 (11.84%) AWS
5 150 (10.96%) OneDrive
6 133 (9.72%) Microsoft Copilot
7 117 (8.55%) Power Automate
8 113 (8.26%) PowerApps
9 104 (7.60%) SaaS
10 78 (5.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 49 (3.58%) Mimecast
12 40 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
13 37 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 37 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (2.27%) Copilot Studio
14 31 (2.27%) Google Workspace
15 28 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
16 26 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
17 24 (1.75%) IaaS
18 22 (1.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 235 (17.18%) Firewall
2 203 (14.84%) DNS
3 156 (11.40%) DHCP
4 148 (10.82%) VPN
5 112 (8.19%) TCP/IP
6 107 (7.82%) LAN
7 105 (7.68%) WAN
8 93 (6.80%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (4.02%) VLAN
10 48 (3.51%) VoIP
11 40 (2.92%) Network Security
12 38 (2.78%) Wireless
13 15 (1.10%) Unified Communications
14 13 (0.95%) SAN
15 10 (0.73%) Intranet
16 8 (0.58%) IP Telephony
16 8 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
16 8 (0.58%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.58%) WebEx
17 7 (0.51%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (5.41%) Power BI
2 53 (3.87%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (0.80%) Metadata
5 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.44%) MySQL
7 4 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.29%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.22%) Power Query
8 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.22%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.073%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.073%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.073%) Parquet
10 1 (0.073%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 90 (6.58%) JIRA
2 10 (0.73%) Git
3 5 (0.37%) VersionOne
4 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.073%) Postman
6 1 (0.073%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.073%) Selenium
General
1 706 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 155 (11.33%) Finance
3 121 (8.85%) Legal
4 96 (7.02%) Law
5 86 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (4.97%) Public Sector
8 48 (3.51%) Swedish Language
9 46 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (2.12%) Retail
14 26 (1.90%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.75%) Marketing
16 19 (1.39%) French Language
17 18 (1.32%) Advertising
17 18 (1.32%) Banking
18 16 (1.17%) Local Government
19 13 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 294 (21.49%) IT Support
2 226 (16.52%) Support Engineer
3 215 (15.72%) Analyst
4 210 (15.35%) IT Engineer
5 180 (13.16%) IT Support Engineer
6 166 (12.13%) Senior
7 116 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 114 (8.33%) Consultant
9 94 (6.87%) Service Analyst
10 86 (6.29%) Service Desk Analyst
11 83 (6.07%) Support Analyst
12 82 (5.99%) Architect
13 69 (5.04%) Developer
14 61 (4.46%) Lead
15 58 (4.24%) IT Analyst
16 55 (4.02%) 2nd Line Support
17 54 (3.95%) 1st Line Support
18 51 (3.73%) IT Manager
19 50 (3.65%) IT Technician
20 47 (3.44%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.80%) Microsoft Graph
2 48 (3.51%) HTML
3 41 (3.00%) .NET
3 41 (3.00%) CSS
4 36 (2.63%) SPFx
5 32 (2.34%) Terraform
6 31 (2.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 20 (1.46%) .NET Core
7 20 (1.46%) JSON
8 16 (1.17%) REST
9 12 (0.88%) Middleware
10 11 (0.80%) ASP.NET
10 11 (0.80%) React
11 8 (0.58%) RESTful
12 7 (0.51%) XMPP
13 5 (0.37%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (0.37%) OAuth
13 5 (0.37%) OpenID
13 5 (0.37%) XML
14 4 (0.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.36%) Driving Licence
2 123 (8.99%) Onboarding
3 42 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 31 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (1.83%) Clustering
8 24 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 22 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 20 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
14 14 (1.02%) Cloud Native
14 14 (1.02%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.73%) Replication
16 9 (0.66%) PKI
16 9 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
17 8 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 564 (41.23%) Windows
2 255 (18.64%) Windows Server
3 68 (4.97%) Mac OS
4 67 (4.90%) Linux
5 65 (4.75%) Windows 10
6 34 (2.49%) Android
7 31 (2.27%) Apple iOS
8 21 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.73%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.29%) Debian
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.073%) CentOS
14 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (28.58%) Problem-Solving
2 296 (21.64%) Customer Service
3 293 (21.42%) ITIL
4 287 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 233 (17.03%) Cybersecurity
6 193 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 173 (12.65%) AI
8 154 (11.26%) ITSM
9 150 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 141 (10.31%) Mentoring
11 134 (9.80%) Service Delivery
12 129 (9.43%) Project Delivery
13 121 (8.85%) Roadmaps
14 118 (8.63%) Disaster Recovery
15 113 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
16 95 (6.94%) Information Security
17 90 (6.58%) Agile
17 90 (6.58%) Service Management
17 90 (6.58%) User Experience
18 84 (6.14%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (14.18%) PowerShell
2 91 (6.65%) SQL
3 60 (4.39%) JavaScript
4 58 (4.24%) Python
5 56 (4.09%) C#
6 36 (2.63%) R
7 28 (2.05%) TypeScript
8 24 (1.75%) Bicep
9 20 (1.46%) VBA
10 13 (0.95%) Bash
11 9 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.44%) VBScript
14 5 (0.37%) Ruby
15 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.22%) C
16 3 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.22%) Java
17 2 (0.15%) PHP
17 2 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 205 (14.99%) Degree
2 172 (12.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 85 (6.21%) Security Cleared
4 75 (5.48%) MCSE
4 75 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 68 (4.97%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (2.12%) CISSP
9 24 (1.75%) CCNA
9 24 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.68%) DBS Check
11 21 (1.54%) CISM
12 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.88%) PMP
14 10 (0.73%) CCNP
14 10 (0.73%) GIAC
14 10 (0.73%) HNC
14 10 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (6.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 76 (5.56%) SLA
4 72 (5.26%) QA
5 64 (4.68%) GDPR
6 44 (3.22%) GRC
7 32 (2.34%) NIST
8 29 (2.12%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.51%) PMO
12 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
14 2 (0.15%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 454 (33.19%) Active Directory
2 153 (11.18%) Hyper-V
3 95 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.46%) vSphere
6 13 (0.95%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.58%) VMware Server
8 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.44%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.37%) ClearTrust
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
12 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.15%) Docker
14 1 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.073%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 326 (23.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.34%) SCCM
3 20 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
6 9 (0.66%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 8 (0.58%) Ansible
7 8 (0.58%) Autotask
8 7 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.51%) Grafana
9 6 (0.44%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.29%) Graylog
10 4 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Norton AntiVirus
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.15%) WhatsUp Gold
12 2 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,235 (90.28%) Microsoft
2 129 (9.43%) VMware
3 119 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 72 (5.26%) Cisco
5 58 (4.24%) Veeam
6 49 (3.58%) Google
7 41 (3.00%) Apple
8 37 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
9 35 (2.56%) Meraki
10 29 (2.12%) Fortinet
11 28 (2.05%) Adobe
12 26 (1.90%) iManage
13 19 (1.39%) SonicWALL
14 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.32%) WatchGuard
15 17 (1.24%) Salesforce
15 17 (1.24%) Zscaler
16 15 (1.10%) Citrix
16 15 (1.10%) N-able
17 14 (1.02%) Computacenter