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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 44 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,411 957 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.69% 5.70% 6.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.46% 16.64% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 703 952
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,598
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,662 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -18.68% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,500 £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 8,572 5,750 9,196
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.59% 34.24% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,289 4,073 6,052
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
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 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +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 9 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
1 514 (36.43%) SharePoint
2 298 (21.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.77%) Confluence
4 16 (1.13%) IIS
5 6 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 127 (9.00%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.50%) 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 (0.071%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.57%) 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 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 695 (49.26%) Azure
2 470 (33.31%) Entra ID
3 261 (18.50%) Power Platform
4 168 (11.91%) Microsoft Copilot
5 161 (11.41%) OneDrive
6 145 (10.28%) AWS
7 127 (9.00%) Power Automate
8 116 (8.22%) PowerApps
9 103 (7.30%) SaaS
10 88 (6.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 52 (3.69%) Copilot Studio
12 42 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
13 40 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
14 39 (2.76%) Mimecast
15 35 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
16 34 (2.41%) Google Workspace
17 30 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
18 29 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
19 24 (1.70%) IaaS
20 23 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 225 (15.95%) DNS
2 216 (15.31%) Firewall
3 174 (12.33%) DHCP
4 165 (11.69%) VPN
5 107 (7.58%) TCP/IP
6 105 (7.44%) LAN
7 104 (7.37%) WAN
8 93 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
9 57 (4.04%) VLAN
10 44 (3.12%) VoIP
11 41 (2.91%) Wireless
12 38 (2.69%) Network Security
13 16 (1.13%) Intranet
14 13 (0.92%) SAN
15 12 (0.85%) IP Telephony
16 11 (0.78%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.64%) SSL
18 8 (0.57%) SD-WAN
18 8 (0.57%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (5.03%) Power BI
2 57 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (0.78%) Metadata
5 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.35%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.35%) Spatial Data
7 4 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.28%) Power Query
8 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.14%) MySQL
9 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.071%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.071%) GIS
10 1 (0.071%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.071%) Parquet
10 1 (0.071%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (6.02%) JIRA
2 13 (0.92%) Git
3 6 (0.43%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.21%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.071%) Postman
6 1 (0.071%) Rational DOORS
General
1 736 (52.16%) Social Skills
2 163 (11.55%) Finance
3 117 (8.29%) Legal
4 105 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (6.87%) Law
6 73 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 72 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (3.12%) Swedish Language
11 41 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (2.20%) Manufacturing
14 29 (2.06%) Marketing
14 29 (2.06%) Retail
15 19 (1.35%) Advertising
16 16 (1.13%) Banking
16 16 (1.13%) Games
16 16 (1.13%) Local Government
17 12 (0.85%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 307 (21.76%) IT Support
2 227 (16.09%) Support Engineer
3 217 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 215 (15.24%) Analyst
5 185 (13.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 158 (11.20%) Senior
7 122 (8.65%) Consultant
8 115 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 97 (6.87%) Support Analyst
10 84 (5.95%) Architect
11 83 (5.88%) Service Analyst
12 76 (5.39%) Developer
13 72 (5.10%) Service Desk Analyst
14 68 (4.82%) Lead
15 66 (4.68%) IT Analyst
16 63 (4.46%) 1st Line Support
17 57 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support
18 53 (3.76%) IT Support Analyst
19 51 (3.61%) IT Manager
20 47 (3.33%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.61%) HTML
2 47 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 38 (2.69%) .NET
4 37 (2.62%) CSS
5 32 (2.27%) Terraform
6 28 (1.98%) SPFx
7 23 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
8 22 (1.56%) REST
9 15 (1.06%) Middleware
10 14 (0.99%) JSON
11 13 (0.92%) ASP.NET
12 12 (0.85%) .NET Core
12 12 (0.85%) React
13 10 (0.71%) RESTful
14 7 (0.50%) Pandas
15 6 (0.43%) Langfuse
15 6 (0.43%) Model Context Protocol
15 6 (0.43%) Next.js
15 6 (0.43%) Node.js
15 6 (0.43%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 156 (11.06%) Driving Licence
2 142 (10.06%) Onboarding
3 47 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 40 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 28 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (1.63%) Clustering
10 22 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 18 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
13 16 (1.13%) Replication
14 14 (0.99%) CCTV
15 13 (0.92%) Cloud Native
16 11 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
17 10 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
18 9 (0.64%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 590 (41.81%) Windows
2 268 (18.99%) Windows Server
3 76 (5.39%) Mac OS
4 67 (4.75%) Linux
5 56 (3.97%) Windows 10
6 32 (2.27%) Android
7 31 (2.20%) Apple iOS
8 18 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (23.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 300 (21.26%) Customer Service
4 275 (19.49%) ITIL
5 262 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
6 196 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 195 (13.82%) AI
8 168 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 151 (10.70%) ITSM
9 151 (10.70%) Mentoring
10 145 (10.28%) Service Delivery
11 140 (9.92%) Project Delivery
12 126 (8.93%) Roadmaps
13 120 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
14 112 (7.94%) Information Security
15 104 (7.37%) Collaborative Working
16 101 (7.16%) Agile
16 101 (7.16%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (6.95%) Service Management
18 93 (6.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 202 (14.32%) PowerShell
2 87 (6.17%) SQL
3 65 (4.61%) JavaScript
4 58 (4.11%) Python
5 57 (4.04%) C#
6 29 (2.06%) R
7 27 (1.91%) Bicep
8 21 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.13%) VBA
10 12 (0.85%) Bash
10 12 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.35%) Ruby
12 5 (0.35%) VBScript
13 3 (0.21%) C
13 3 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.21%) PHP
14 2 (0.14%) Java
14 2 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 198 (14.03%) Degree
2 158 (11.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 91 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 75 (5.32%) SC Cleared
5 67 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 62 (4.39%) MCSE
7 52 (3.69%) AWS Certification
8 36 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (2.06%) CCNA
10 27 (1.91%) CISSP
11 26 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (1.49%) CISM
12 21 (1.49%) DBS Check
13 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 18 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (1.06%) CCNP
15 15 (1.06%) MCSA
16 13 (0.92%) PMP
17 11 (0.78%) A+ Certification
18 9 (0.64%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (6.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 76 (5.39%) SLA
4 71 (5.03%) GDPR
5 60 (4.25%) QA
6 44 (3.12%) GRC
7 43 (3.05%) Accessibility
8 34 (2.41%) NIST
9 24 (1.70%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.43%) PMO
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.35%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 465 (32.96%) Active Directory
2 162 (11.48%) Hyper-V
3 93 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.92%) vSphere
7 9 (0.64%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.57%) VMware Server
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.071%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.071%) Docker
13 1 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.071%) Firmware
13 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 337 (23.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.27%) SCCM
3 20 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
4 13 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 9 (0.64%) Autotask
6 8 (0.57%) Kubernetes
7 5 (0.35%) Ansible
7 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.35%) Grafana
8 4 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.28%) Graylog
8 4 (0.28%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.28%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.21%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.14%) SCOM
10 2 (0.14%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.14%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 1,273 (90.22%) Microsoft
2 133 (9.43%) VMware
3 98 (6.95%) ServiceNow
4 67 (4.75%) Cisco
5 53 (3.76%) Veeam
6 52 (3.69%) Google
7 44 (3.12%) Apple
8 29 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
8 29 (2.06%) Meraki
9 24 (1.70%) WatchGuard
10 23 (1.63%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.49%) Adobe
12 20 (1.42%) Citrix
12 20 (1.42%) iManage
13 19 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.35%) Zscaler
14 18 (1.28%) SonicWALL
15 15 (1.06%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.99%) N-able
16 14 (0.99%) OpenAI