Microsoft 365 Contracts in England

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 37 45
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,715 2,697 3,786
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.65% 5.40% 5.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.59% 14.77% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,982 2,741
10th Percentile £150 £163 £150
25th Percentile £195 £213 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £398 £350
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +13.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £501
90th Percentile £638 £684 £613
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 133 199
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.40
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £21.37 £24.50 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £56.50 £29.75
UK median hourly rate £16.78 £18.93 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.34% +8.17% +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
England

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,751 18,255 27,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.55% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,494 13,351 20,143
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 309 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%
75th Percentile £32.31 £65.75 £42.88
90th Percentile £61.72 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +3 784 £400 -5.88% 387
North of England +2 239 £258 -18.90% 304
South East -4 236 £275 -21.43% 287
Midlands 0 167 £283 -24.67% 210
North West +5 151 £284 -32.38% 163
South West -11 148 £194 -44.63% 188
West Midlands -2 114 £350 -17.65% 128
East of England -11 99 £250 -16.67% 153
Yorkshire -4 77 £240 -14.67% 112
East Midlands -3 52 £195 -22.00% 82
North East +15 11 £190 -10.59% 35
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 392 (22.86%) SharePoint
2 369 (21.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.75%) Skype for Business
4 19 (1.11%) Confluence
5 15 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
6 13 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2007
6 13 (0.76%) IIS
7 12 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2003
9 9 (0.52%) CMS
10 7 (0.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (0.41%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.23%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.23%) WordPress
13 3 (0.17%) nginx
13 3 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.058%) Drupal
14 1 (0.058%) SharePoint 2010
14 1 (0.058%) Umbraco
Applications
1 292 (17.03%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.17%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.17%) SPSS
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Eikon
4 2 (0.12%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.058%) assyst
5 1 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.058%) Magento
5 1 (0.058%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.058%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.058%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.058%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.058%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.058%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.058%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.058%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 641 (37.38%) Azure
2 239 (13.94%) Entra ID
3 159 (9.27%) Power Platform
4 145 (8.45%) OneDrive
5 96 (5.60%) PowerApps
6 84 (4.90%) Power Automate
7 79 (4.61%) AWS
8 43 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.45%) IaaS
10 39 (2.27%) Mimecast
11 37 (2.16%) SaaS
12 32 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.69%) WhatsApp
14 26 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (1.52%) PaaS
15 23 (1.34%) Azure Storage
15 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
17 19 (1.11%) Google Workspace
18 17 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 150 (8.75%) Firewall
2 149 (8.69%) DNS
3 97 (5.66%) DHCP
4 94 (5.48%) Wi-Fi
5 89 (5.19%) VPN
6 68 (3.97%) LAN
7 62 (3.62%) WAN
8 60 (3.50%) Wireless
9 49 (2.86%) VoIP
10 45 (2.62%) TCP/IP
11 37 (2.16%) Skype
12 30 (1.75%) SAN
13 29 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
14 26 (1.52%) Network Security
15 20 (1.17%) Intranet
16 16 (0.93%) Internet
16 16 (0.93%) MPLS
16 16 (0.93%) VLAN
17 14 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
17 14 (0.82%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 75 (4.37%) Power BI
3 11 (0.64%) NoSQL
3 11 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.29%) MySQL
6 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.23%) Metadata
7 4 (0.23%) Power Query
8 3 (0.17%) BusinessObjects XI
8 3 (0.17%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.12%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.12%) Tableau
10 1 (0.058%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.058%) MS Access
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (2.97%) JIRA
2 15 (0.87%) GitLab
3 12 (0.70%) Hudson
4 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.35%) Git
6 5 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.12%) Subversion
9 1 (0.058%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.058%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.058%) MSI
9 1 (0.058%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.058%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 563 (32.83%) Social Skills
2 243 (14.17%) Finance
3 180 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 139 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (4.37%) Legal
6 58 (3.38%) Retail
7 54 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (2.97%) Banking
9 49 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.86%) Marketing
10 42 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.69%) Law
14 28 (1.63%) Electronics
15 23 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.17%) French Language
17 18 (1.05%) Local Government
18 17 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (0.93%) German Language
Job Titles
1 270 (15.74%) Analyst
2 244 (14.23%) Support Engineer
3 179 (10.44%) IT Support
4 142 (8.28%) Architect
5 138 (8.05%) Service Analyst
6 135 (7.87%) Service Desk Analyst
7 113 (6.59%) IT Engineer
8 110 (6.41%) Desktop Support
9 104 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
9 104 (6.06%) Senior
10 101 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 79 (4.61%) IT Support Engineer
12 75 (4.37%) Developer
13 74 (4.31%) Desktop Engineer
14 71 (4.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 70 (4.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 69 (4.02%) Consultant
16 69 (4.02%) Support Analyst
17 60 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 57 (3.32%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.40%) .NET
1 24 (1.40%) REST
2 19 (1.11%) CSS
3 16 (0.93%) ARM Templates
3 16 (0.93%) XML
4 15 (0.87%) JSON
5 13 (0.76%) HTML
6 12 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
6 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
7 11 (0.64%) SPFx
8 8 (0.47%) OAuth
9 7 (0.41%) jQuery
9 7 (0.41%) SAML
10 6 (0.35%) React
11 5 (0.29%) LDAP
11 5 (0.29%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.29%) OpenID
11 5 (0.29%) SOAP
12 4 (0.23%) RESTful
12 4 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 52 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 50 (2.92%) PKI
3 50 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
4 44 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 40 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 31 (1.81%) Driving Licence
7 26 (1.52%) NHS
8 24 (1.40%) iPhone
9 23 (1.34%) iPad
10 20 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.17%) Video Editing
11 18 (1.05%) Digital Signage
12 17 (0.99%) EPoS
12 17 (0.99%) Smartphone
13 16 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.87%) CMDB
14 15 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.87%) Low-Code
15 14 (0.82%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 908 (52.94%) Windows
2 436 (25.42%) Windows 10
3 282 (16.44%) Windows Server
4 110 (6.41%) Apple iOS
5 96 (5.60%) Android
6 75 (4.37%) Mac OS
6 75 (4.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 74 (4.31%) Linux
8 67 (3.91%) Windows 7
9 63 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 63 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 18 (1.05%) Mac OS X
12 14 (0.82%) VMS
13 12 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
14 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.52%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.29%) Unix
16 3 (0.17%) Debian
16 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (18.72%) Customer Service
2 289 (16.85%) ITIL
3 257 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
4 203 (11.84%) Migration
5 156 (9.10%) Agile
6 137 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 106 (6.18%) Change Management
8 98 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (5.36%) DevOps
9 92 (5.36%) Project Management
10 89 (5.19%) Service Delivery
11 82 (4.78%) Service Management
12 78 (4.55%) ITSM
12 78 (4.55%) Mobile Device Management
13 75 (4.37%) Incident Management
14 68 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
15 66 (3.85%) Information Security
16 62 (3.62%) Data Loss Prevention
17 61 (3.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 60 (3.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 249 (14.52%) PowerShell
2 66 (3.85%) SQL
3 53 (3.09%) C#
4 29 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 24 (1.40%) Python
6 18 (1.05%) VBScript
7 17 (0.99%) Bicep
7 17 (0.99%) VB
8 10 (0.58%) C
9 8 (0.47%) Swift
9 8 (0.47%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.35%) Java
11 5 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.23%) Bash
13 3 (0.17%) PHP
13 3 (0.17%) Ruby
14 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.12%) R
14 2 (0.12%) VBA
15 1 (0.058%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 219 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 199 (11.60%) Degree
3 178 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 127 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 53 (3.09%) A+ Certification
6 50 (2.92%) MCSA
7 46 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.57%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
10 31 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.46%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.34%) CCNA
13 23 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 20 (1.17%) CISSP
15 19 (1.11%) MCP
16 18 (1.05%) MCSE
17 11 (0.64%) CISM
18 10 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
19 8 (0.47%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (6.88%) SLA
2 23 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (1.17%) NIST
4 17 (0.99%) QA
5 15 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.70%) GDPR
8 9 (0.52%) GRC
8 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.35%) NCSC
10 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.17%) PMO
12 2 (0.12%) COBIT
System Software
1 843 (49.15%) Active Directory
2 97 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (3.56%) Hyper-V
4 44 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 40 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.28%) vSphere
7 15 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.64%) XenApp
9 10 (0.58%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.52%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.47%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.12%) Docker
13 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 301 (17.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 246 (14.34%) SCCM
3 42 (2.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 42 (2.45%) Jamf Pro
4 35 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (1.69%) SCOM
6 28 (1.63%) WSUS
7 22 (1.28%) Kubernetes
8 14 (0.82%) Terraform
9 11 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
9 11 (0.64%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.58%) Ansible
10 10 (0.58%) Autotask
11 9 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 8 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.47%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.29%) AirWatch
14 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.23%) Packer
14 4 (0.23%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,089 (63.50%) Microsoft
2 188 (10.96%) VMware
3 167 (9.74%) Citrix
4 156 (9.10%) ServiceNow
5 130 (7.58%) Apple
6 81 (4.72%) Cisco
7 45 (2.62%) Veeam
8 41 (2.39%) SAP
9 34 (1.98%) HP
10 31 (1.81%) Google
11 29 (1.69%) Adobe
12 25 (1.46%) Dell
12 25 (1.46%) NetApp
13 23 (1.34%) Oracle
14 19 (1.11%) Bloomberg
14 19 (1.11%) Sophos
15 18 (1.05%) MobileIron
16 17 (0.99%) Aruba
17 16 (0.93%) Palo Alto
18 15 (0.87%) iManage