Microsoft 365 Contracts

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 39 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 2,037 3,267 4,457
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.67% 5.43% 4.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.48% 14.72% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 2,392 3,171
10th Percentile £150 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £380
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £519
90th Percentile £638 £665 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £260 £325 £275
% change year-on-year -20.00% +18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 164 241
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £12.55
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.14 £18.84 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +7.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £21.00 £25.18 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.00 £65.55 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +3.13%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,070 22,200 34,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.24% 36.90% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,997 16,035 25,035
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 358 431
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% +59.99% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £76.60 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.31 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.13% +29.65% -3.85%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England -2 1,755 £344 -11.00% 1,394
UK excluding London -7 1,087 £260 -20.00% 1,149
London +6 793 £380 -10.59% 349
Work from Home -2 594 £450 -5.26% 532
North of England +3 250 £273 -9.84% 295
South East -5 249 £275 -21.43% 265
Midlands -4 171 £325 -17.72% 195
South West -10 159 £204 -43.79% 161
North West +5 156 £285 -32.94% 161
Scotland +4 131 £350 +29.63% 72
West Midlands 0 119 £350 -17.65% 120
East of England -16 91 £258 -6.36% 131
Yorkshire +2 82 £275 +4.76% 103
East Midlands -7 50 £195 -22.00% 75
Wales +6 31 £190 -15.56% 34
North East +17 12 £190 -10.59% 38
Northern Ireland -10 7 £438 +157.35% 26

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 471 (23.12%) SharePoint
2 427 (20.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (1.91%) Skype for Business
4 22 (1.08%) Confluence
5 16 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (0.69%) CMS
6 14 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
6 14 (0.69%) IIS
7 13 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
7 13 (0.64%) WordPress
8 11 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2003
9 9 (0.44%) Drupal
10 7 (0.34%) IBM Notes
11 6 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 6 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.20%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.15%) nginx
14 2 (0.098%) Moodle
Applications
1 322 (15.81%) Microsoft Office
2 95 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 10 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.15%) Camtasia
9 3 (0.15%) SPSS
10 2 (0.098%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.098%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.049%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.049%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.049%) Sketch
11 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.20%) Magento
2 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.098%) assyst
4 2 (0.098%) Eikon
4 2 (0.098%) Maximo
5 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.049%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.049%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.049%) iTrent
5 1 (0.049%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.049%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.049%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.049%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 773 (37.95%) Azure
2 284 (13.94%) Entra ID
3 209 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 174 (8.54%) OneDrive
5 119 (5.84%) PowerApps
6 107 (5.25%) AWS
7 101 (4.96%) Power Automate
8 75 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (2.36%) SaaS
10 47 (2.31%) IaaS
11 42 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (2.06%) Mimecast
12 34 (1.67%) PaaS
13 32 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
14 31 (1.52%) Slack
15 30 (1.47%) WhatsApp
16 28 (1.37%) GitHub
17 26 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
18 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
19 22 (1.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 176 (8.64%) Firewall
2 174 (8.54%) DNS
3 109 (5.35%) DHCP
4 104 (5.11%) VPN
5 94 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
6 81 (3.98%) LAN
7 71 (3.49%) WAN
8 69 (3.39%) Wireless
9 55 (2.70%) TCP/IP
10 50 (2.45%) VoIP
11 46 (2.26%) Skype
12 33 (1.62%) Intranet
12 33 (1.62%) SAN
13 32 (1.57%) Network Security
14 31 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
15 19 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
15 19 (0.93%) VLAN
16 15 (0.74%) MPLS
17 14 (0.69%) Internet
17 14 (0.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.81%) Power BI
2 90 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 20 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.54%) Metadata
6 11 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (0.39%) Power Query
8 8 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.34%) MySQL
10 4 (0.20%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.15%) BusinessObjects XI
11 3 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.15%) Tableau
12 2 (0.098%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.098%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.098%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.049%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 59 (2.90%) JIRA
2 14 (0.69%) Hudson
3 12 (0.59%) GitLab
4 7 (0.34%) Git
4 7 (0.34%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.049%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.049%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.049%) MSI
9 1 (0.049%) Subversion
9 1 (0.049%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.049%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 646 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 281 (13.79%) Finance
3 235 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 151 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (4.27%) Legal
6 76 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
7 62 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 59 (2.90%) Retail
9 53 (2.60%) Marketing
10 51 (2.50%) Banking
11 48 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 34 (1.67%) Electronics
15 33 (1.62%) Law
16 26 (1.28%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.03%) French Language
18 19 (0.93%) German Language
18 19 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 18 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (15.37%) Analyst
2 291 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 227 (11.14%) IT Support
4 156 (7.66%) Architect
5 149 (7.31%) IT Engineer
6 138 (6.77%) Service Analyst
7 136 (6.68%) Service Desk Analyst
8 132 (6.48%) Senior
9 121 (5.94%) 2nd Line Support
10 119 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 116 (5.69%) Desktop Support
12 107 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
13 93 (4.57%) Developer
14 90 (4.42%) Consultant
15 85 (4.17%) Support Analyst
16 84 (4.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 82 (4.03%) Desktop Engineer
18 80 (3.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
19 73 (3.58%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
20 61 (2.99%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.47%) .NET
2 24 (1.18%) REST
3 22 (1.08%) CSS
4 20 (0.98%) XML
5 15 (0.74%) JSON
5 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
6 14 (0.69%) ARM Templates
6 14 (0.69%) HTML
7 13 (0.64%) React
7 13 (0.64%) SPFx
8 12 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (0.39%) OAuth
10 7 (0.34%) SAML
11 6 (0.29%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.29%) jQuery
11 6 (0.29%) Node.js
11 6 (0.29%) SOAP
12 5 (0.25%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.25%) OpenID
12 5 (0.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 61 (2.99%) Management Information System
2 53 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
4 50 (2.45%) PKI
5 46 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 44 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 40 (1.96%) NHS
8 32 (1.57%) Driving Licence
9 31 (1.52%) Video Editing
10 27 (1.33%) iPad
10 27 (1.33%) iPhone
11 25 (1.23%) Smartphone
12 24 (1.18%) Cloud Native
13 23 (1.13%) CMDB
14 19 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (0.88%) Digital Signage
16 17 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 17 (0.83%) EPoS
16 17 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 17 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,025 (50.32%) Windows
2 488 (23.96%) Windows 10
3 320 (15.71%) Windows Server
4 128 (6.28%) Apple iOS
5 107 (5.25%) Android
6 80 (3.93%) Mac OS
7 78 (3.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 74 (3.63%) Linux
9 72 (3.53%) Windows 7
10 71 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 66 (3.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 31 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
13 19 (0.93%) Mac OS X
14 17 (0.83%) VMS
15 14 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.44%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.39%) Windows 8
18 3 (0.15%) Debian
18 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 3 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (16.74%) Customer Service
2 314 (15.41%) ITIL
3 299 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (11.29%) Migration
5 187 (9.18%) Agile
6 161 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 123 (6.04%) Change Management
8 122 (5.99%) Project Management
9 121 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
10 106 (5.20%) DevOps
11 96 (4.71%) Service Delivery
12 91 (4.47%) Mobile Device Management
13 89 (4.37%) ITSM
13 89 (4.37%) Service Management
13 89 (4.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 82 (4.03%) Cybersecurity
14 82 (4.03%) Incident Management
15 71 (3.49%) Information Security
16 68 (3.34%) Data Loss Prevention
17 65 (3.19%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 263 (12.91%) PowerShell
2 79 (3.88%) SQL
3 53 (2.60%) C#
4 41 (2.01%) Python
5 37 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.79%) VBScript
7 15 (0.74%) Bicep
7 15 (0.74%) VB
8 10 (0.49%) C
9 8 (0.39%) Swift
9 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.34%) Bash
11 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.25%) Java
12 3 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.15%) PHP
12 3 (0.15%) Ruby
13 2 (0.098%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.098%) R
Qualifications
1 254 (12.47%) Security Cleared
2 246 (12.08%) Degree
3 214 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 133 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 49 (2.41%) A+ Certification
5 49 (2.41%) MCSA
6 48 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 48 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
8 36 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.57%) DBS Check
11 28 (1.37%) MCSE
12 25 (1.23%) CCNA
13 23 (1.13%) CISSP
14 21 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 21 (1.03%) MCP
15 14 (0.69%) CISM
16 13 (0.64%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (6.19%) SLA
2 23 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.08%) QA
4 20 (0.98%) NIST
5 19 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 12 (0.59%) GDPR
8 9 (0.44%) GRC
8 9 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.39%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.34%) NCSC
10 7 (0.34%) PMO
11 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 959 (47.08%) Active Directory
2 114 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (3.58%) Hyper-V
4 44 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 38 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.08%) vSphere
7 17 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.64%) XenApp
9 11 (0.54%) BitLocker
10 10 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.44%) XenDesktop
12 8 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.39%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.29%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.25%) Firmware
15 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.098%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.098%) Docker
Systems Management
1 336 (16.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 273 (13.40%) SCCM
3 50 (2.45%) Jamf Pro
4 45 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 39 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (1.33%) SCOM
7 25 (1.23%) WSUS
8 20 (0.98%) Kubernetes
9 16 (0.79%) Terraform
10 12 (0.59%) Ansible
11 11 (0.54%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.49%) Autotask
12 10 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (0.44%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (0.39%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.29%) Packer
16 5 (0.25%) AirWatch
17 4 (0.20%) PaperCut
18 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,284 (63.03%) Microsoft
2 220 (10.80%) VMware
3 186 (9.13%) Citrix
4 173 (8.49%) ServiceNow
5 140 (6.87%) Apple
6 98 (4.81%) Cisco
7 47 (2.31%) SAP
7 47 (2.31%) Veeam
8 44 (2.16%) Google
9 35 (1.72%) Adobe
9 35 (1.72%) HP
10 33 (1.62%) Oracle
11 29 (1.42%) NetApp
12 28 (1.37%) Dell
13 21 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.98%) MobileIron
15 19 (0.93%) Bloomberg
16 18 (0.88%) CA
16 18 (0.88%) Okta
16 18 (0.88%) Sophos