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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 47 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,408 952 1,531
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.67% 5.75% 6.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.14% 16.68% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 709 968
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,950 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,408 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.68% -17.19% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,950 £73,750
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 8,723 5,708 9,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.12% 34.47% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,394 4,052 6,208
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 £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 29 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
1 510 (36.22%) SharePoint
2 295 (20.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (1.70%) Confluence
4 17 (1.21%) IIS
5 6 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 136 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.36%) CorelDRAW
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.57%) Shopify
3 5 (0.36%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.14%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 683 (48.51%) Azure
2 464 (32.95%) Entra ID
3 250 (17.76%) Power Platform
4 158 (11.22%) OneDrive
5 155 (11.01%) AWS
6 153 (10.87%) Microsoft Copilot
7 120 (8.52%) Power Automate
8 111 (7.88%) PowerApps
9 103 (7.32%) SaaS
10 84 (5.97%) Microsoft Purview
11 42 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
11 42 (2.98%) Copilot Studio
12 41 (2.91%) Mimecast
13 39 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
14 34 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
14 34 (2.41%) Google Workspace
15 32 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
16 29 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (1.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 221 (15.70%) Firewall
2 216 (15.34%) DNS
3 166 (11.79%) DHCP
4 158 (11.22%) VPN
5 108 (7.67%) TCP/IP
6 105 (7.46%) LAN
7 104 (7.39%) WAN
8 93 (6.61%) Wi-Fi
9 56 (3.98%) VLAN
10 48 (3.41%) VoIP
11 40 (2.84%) Wireless
12 39 (2.77%) Network Security
13 14 (0.99%) Intranet
14 12 (0.85%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.78%) SAN
16 10 (0.71%) IP Telephony
17 9 (0.64%) WebEx
18 8 (0.57%) Internet
18 8 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.90%) Power BI
2 52 (3.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (0.85%) Metadata
5 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.28%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.28%) MySQL
6 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.28%) Power Query
7 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.21%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.071%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.071%) GIS
9 1 (0.071%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.071%) Parquet
9 1 (0.071%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 84 (5.97%) JIRA
2 10 (0.71%) Git
3 6 (0.43%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.36%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.071%) Postman
6 1 (0.071%) Rational DOORS
General
1 733 (52.06%) Social Skills
2 160 (11.36%) Finance
3 118 (8.38%) Legal
4 99 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (6.82%) Law
6 76 (5.40%) Public Sector
7 74 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.41%) Swedish Language
9 47 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (2.98%) Telecoms
12 33 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (2.13%) Retail
14 29 (2.06%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.92%) Marketing
16 19 (1.35%) Advertising
17 17 (1.21%) Banking
17 17 (1.21%) Local Government
18 15 (1.07%) Games
19 13 (0.92%) French Language
Job Titles
1 303 (21.52%) IT Support
2 225 (15.98%) Support Engineer
3 219 (15.55%) Analyst
4 216 (15.34%) IT Engineer
5 183 (13.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 162 (11.51%) Senior
7 119 (8.45%) Consultant
8 111 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 96 (6.82%) Support Analyst
10 92 (6.53%) Service Analyst
11 85 (6.04%) Architect
12 81 (5.75%) Service Desk Analyst
13 71 (5.04%) Developer
14 67 (4.76%) Lead
15 63 (4.47%) IT Analyst
16 61 (4.33%) 1st Line Support
17 58 (4.12%) 2nd Line Support
18 52 (3.69%) IT Support Analyst
19 51 (3.62%) IT Manager
20 50 (3.55%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.55%) HTML
1 50 (3.55%) Microsoft Graph
2 39 (2.77%) CSS
3 37 (2.63%) .NET
4 32 (2.27%) SPFx
4 32 (2.27%) Terraform
5 26 (1.85%) HTML5 Canvas
6 18 (1.28%) REST
7 16 (1.14%) JSON
8 15 (1.07%) .NET Core
8 15 (1.07%) Middleware
9 12 (0.85%) ASP.NET
10 11 (0.78%) React
11 8 (0.57%) RESTful
12 7 (0.50%) Pandas
13 6 (0.43%) Langfuse
13 6 (0.43%) Model Context Protocol
13 6 (0.43%) NumPy
14 5 (0.36%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (0.36%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 146 (10.37%) Driving Licence
2 143 (10.16%) Onboarding
3 43 (3.05%) Security Posture
4 39 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (1.70%) Clustering
8 24 (1.70%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 19 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 14 (0.99%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
14 11 (0.78%) CCTV
15 10 (0.71%) Replication
16 9 (0.64%) Mobile App
16 9 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 582 (41.34%) Windows
2 258 (18.32%) Windows Server
3 73 (5.18%) Mac OS
4 66 (4.69%) Linux
5 60 (4.26%) Windows 10
6 32 (2.27%) Android
7 30 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 17 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.57%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.28%) Debian
13 1 (0.071%) CentOS
13 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 307 (21.80%) Customer Service
4 281 (19.96%) ITIL
5 254 (18.04%) Cybersecurity
6 190 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 189 (13.42%) AI
8 160 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 158 (11.22%) ITSM
10 152 (10.80%) Mentoring
11 143 (10.16%) Service Delivery
12 136 (9.66%) Project Delivery
13 121 (8.59%) Roadmaps
14 116 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
15 106 (7.53%) Technical Leadership
16 105 (7.46%) Information Security
17 98 (6.96%) Collaborative Working
18 96 (6.82%) Agile
18 96 (6.82%) Service Management
19 91 (6.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 198 (14.06%) PowerShell
2 89 (6.32%) SQL
3 61 (4.33%) JavaScript
4 58 (4.12%) Python
5 53 (3.76%) C#
6 30 (2.13%) R
7 26 (1.85%) Bicep
8 23 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.28%) VBA
10 13 (0.92%) Bash
11 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.43%) VBScript
14 5 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.36%) Ruby
15 3 (0.21%) C
15 3 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.21%) PHP
16 2 (0.14%) Java
16 2 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 206 (14.63%) Degree
2 169 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 90 (6.39%) Security Cleared
4 75 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 70 (4.97%) MCSE
6 63 (4.47%) Azure Certification
7 62 (4.40%) AWS Certification
8 34 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.92%) CCNA
9 27 (1.92%) CISSP
10 25 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.49%) CISM
11 21 (1.49%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.92%) CCNP
14 13 (0.92%) PMP
15 11 (0.78%) MCSA
16 10 (0.71%) A+ Certification
16 10 (0.71%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (6.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 78 (5.54%) SLA
4 72 (5.11%) GDPR
5 69 (4.90%) QA
6 41 (2.91%) GRC
7 37 (2.63%) Accessibility
8 35 (2.49%) NIST
9 19 (1.35%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.50%) PMO
12 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.21%) NCSC
13 3 (0.21%) WCAG
14 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.071%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 461 (32.74%) Active Directory
2 155 (11.01%) Hyper-V
3 91 (6.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.07%) vSphere
7 10 (0.71%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.57%) VMware Server
9 5 (0.36%) ClearTrust
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.36%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) KVM
11 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.14%) Docker
13 1 (0.071%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.071%) Firmware
13 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 331 (23.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.13%) SCCM
3 19 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
4 12 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 9 (0.64%) Kubernetes
6 8 (0.57%) Autotask
7 6 (0.43%) Ansible
7 6 (0.43%) Grafana
8 5 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.36%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.28%) Graylog
9 4 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.21%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.14%) WhatsUp Gold
11 2 (0.14%) WMI
11 2 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,278 (90.77%) Microsoft
2 129 (9.16%) VMware
3 110 (7.81%) ServiceNow
4 69 (4.90%) Cisco
5 56 (3.98%) Veeam
6 52 (3.69%) Google
7 43 (3.05%) Apple
8 31 (2.20%) Meraki
9 30 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (1.92%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.63%) Adobe
12 22 (1.56%) iManage
13 21 (1.49%) WatchGuard
14 19 (1.35%) SonicWALL
15 18 (1.28%) Citrix
15 18 (1.28%) Salesforce
16 17 (1.21%) Zscaler
17 16 (1.14%) Palo Alto
18 15 (1.07%) N-able
19 14 (0.99%) OpenAI