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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,901 2,939 4,375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.39% 5.28% 4.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.55% 14.47% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,290 2,157 3,200
10th Percentile £156 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £205 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £385 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £519 £540 £525
90th Percentile £638 £684 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £260 £300 £275
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 120 207
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.33
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +11.43% +10.24%
75th Percentile £21.37 £31.78 £22.25
90th Percentile £24.12 £66.28 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.63
% change year-on-year -6.86% +5.26% +3.91%

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 14,031 20,309 33,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 36.46% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,917 14,688 24,753
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 329 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.73% +44.59% -3.76%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -3 1,639 £350 -6.67% 1,415
UK excluding London -8 1,040 £260 -13.33% 1,169
London -3 730 £422 -2.99% 301
Work from Home -6 561 £450 -5.26% 563
North of England -2 233 £251 -16.25% 306
South East -6 232 £289 -9.77% 276
Midlands -3 177 £265 -22.06% 228
North West 0 152 £283 -19.14% 159
South West -5 139 £225 -30.77% 171
Scotland +2 138 £350 +14.75% 74
West Midlands -3 118 £350 -6.67% 129
East of England -7 95 £325 +32.65% 109
Yorkshire -13 70 £223 -11.00% 119
East Midlands +1 59 £200 -11.11% 99
Wales 0 25 £145 -29.27% 26
North East +15 10 £190 +8.57% 32
Northern Ireland -15 5 £363 +113.24% 12

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
1 478 (25.14%) SharePoint
2 371 (19.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.58%) Skype for Business
4 23 (1.21%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2010
5 15 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
6 13 (0.68%) CMS
6 13 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
7 12 (0.63%) IIS
8 11 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (0.58%) WordPress
9 10 (0.53%) Drupal
10 6 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
11 5 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) IBM Notes
14 1 (0.053%) Apache
14 1 (0.053%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 250 (13.15%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.16%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.16%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.16%) SPSS
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 22 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Magento
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Eikon
5 2 (0.11%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Relativity
5 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.053%) assyst
6 1 (0.053%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.053%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.053%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 708 (37.24%) Azure
2 263 (13.83%) Entra ID
3 222 (11.68%) Power Platform
4 163 (8.57%) OneDrive
5 122 (6.42%) PowerApps
6 103 (5.42%) AWS
7 98 (5.16%) Power Automate
8 83 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
9 45 (2.37%) SaaS
10 42 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (2.16%) IaaS
12 38 (2.00%) Mimecast
13 34 (1.79%) PaaS
14 33 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
15 32 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
16 30 (1.58%) Slack
17 29 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
17 29 (1.53%) GitHub
18 28 (1.47%) Azure Storage
19 21 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 158 (8.31%) Firewall
2 147 (7.73%) DNS
3 96 (5.05%) Wi-Fi
4 90 (4.73%) DHCP
5 83 (4.37%) VPN
6 67 (3.52%) LAN
7 53 (2.79%) VoIP
7 53 (2.79%) WAN
8 49 (2.58%) Wireless
9 40 (2.10%) Intranet
9 40 (2.10%) TCP/IP
10 34 (1.79%) Skype
11 30 (1.58%) SAN
12 25 (1.32%) Cisco IOS
13 19 (1.00%) Network Security
13 19 (1.00%) VLAN
14 17 (0.89%) Internet
14 17 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
15 14 (0.74%) NAS
16 13 (0.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.58%) Power BI
2 87 (4.58%) SQL Server
3 18 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (0.53%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.32%) Power Query
8 4 (0.21%) GIS
8 4 (0.21%) Metadata
8 4 (0.21%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.21%) QGIS
9 3 (0.16%) BusinessObjects XI
9 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.11%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.11%) DTS
10 2 (0.11%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (3.00%) JIRA
2 16 (0.84%) GitLab
3 10 (0.53%) Hudson
3 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.37%) Git
5 5 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.11%) Subversion
9 1 (0.053%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.053%) MSI
9 1 (0.053%) TestRail
General
1 634 (33.35%) Social Skills
2 249 (13.10%) Finance
3 224 (11.78%) Public Sector
4 149 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (3.79%) Legal
6 68 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.10%) Banking
8 55 (2.89%) Retail
9 50 (2.63%) Marketing
10 49 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 44 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.47%) Electronics
15 24 (1.26%) Law
16 21 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.89%) Local Government
19 16 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 309 (16.25%) Analyst
2 244 (12.84%) Support Engineer
3 204 (10.73%) IT Support
4 166 (8.73%) Architect
5 134 (7.05%) Service Analyst
6 131 (6.89%) Service Desk Analyst
7 126 (6.63%) IT Engineer
8 117 (6.15%) Senior
9 101 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 100 (5.26%) Desktop Support
11 98 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support
12 93 (4.89%) Developer
13 88 (4.63%) IT Support Engineer
14 87 (4.58%) Support Analyst
15 81 (4.26%) Consultant
16 70 (3.68%) Desktop Engineer
16 70 (3.68%) IT Analyst
17 64 (3.37%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 57 (3.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 53 (2.79%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.74%) .NET
2 20 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 19 (1.00%) REST
4 17 (0.89%) React
5 16 (0.84%) XML
6 15 (0.79%) CSS
7 13 (0.68%) JSON
7 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (0.42%) HTML
9 8 (0.42%) SPFx
10 7 (0.37%) OAuth
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.32%) SAML
12 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.26%) LDAP
13 4 (0.21%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.21%) OpenID
13 4 (0.21%) SOAP
13 4 (0.21%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 58 (3.05%) PKI
2 53 (2.79%) Management Information System
3 51 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
5 41 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 36 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.63%) Video Editing
8 28 (1.47%) NHS
9 27 (1.42%) Driving Licence
9 27 (1.42%) iPhone
10 25 (1.32%) iPad
11 22 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.10%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 19 (1.00%) Digital Signage
15 18 (0.95%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.84%) CMDB
17 15 (0.79%) Smartphone
18 14 (0.74%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 908 (47.76%) Windows
2 433 (22.78%) Windows 10
3 290 (15.26%) Windows Server
4 107 (5.63%) Apple iOS
5 82 (4.31%) Android
6 75 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 74 (3.89%) Linux
8 72 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 71 (3.73%) Mac OS
10 63 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 60 (3.16%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (0.84%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.79%) VMS
15 13 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.37%) Unix
17 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.32%) Windows 8
18 3 (0.16%) Debian
19 1 (0.053%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (15.89%) Customer Service
2 301 (15.83%) ITIL
3 282 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
4 231 (12.15%) Migration
5 186 (9.78%) Agile
6 141 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 124 (6.52%) Change Management
8 123 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
9 120 (6.31%) Project Management
10 114 (6.00%) DevOps
11 93 (4.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 91 (4.79%) Service Delivery
13 86 (4.52%) Cybersecurity
14 85 (4.47%) Incident Management
15 80 (4.21%) Mobile Device Management
16 76 (4.00%) Roadmaps
17 75 (3.95%) Service Management
18 72 (3.79%) ITSM
19 69 (3.63%) Information Security
20 59 (3.10%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 272 (14.31%) PowerShell
2 73 (3.84%) SQL
3 57 (3.00%) C#
4 34 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 33 (1.74%) Python
6 21 (1.10%) Bicep
6 21 (1.10%) VB
6 21 (1.10%) VBScript
7 12 (0.63%) C
8 10 (0.53%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.42%) Swift
10 6 (0.32%) Bash
11 5 (0.26%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.16%) Java
14 2 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 273 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 219 (11.52%) Degree
3 213 (11.20%) SC Cleared
4 136 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 63 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 53 (2.79%) MCSA
7 48 (2.52%) Azure Certification
8 46 (2.42%) A+ Certification
9 35 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 34 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 25 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (1.32%) DBS Check
13 21 (1.10%) CCNA
13 21 (1.10%) MCSE
14 16 (0.84%) CISSP
15 14 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.68%) MCP
17 12 (0.63%) CISM
18 11 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.79%) SLA
2 24 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.16%) QA
4 18 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (0.95%) NIST
5 17 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 14 (0.74%) GDPR
7 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.42%) PMO
8 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.26%) GRC
10 4 (0.21%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.11%) COBIT
12 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 847 (44.56%) Active Directory
2 102 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (3.52%) Hyper-V
4 62 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 48 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.21%) vSphere
7 16 (0.84%) BitLocker
8 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.53%) XenApp
10 9 (0.47%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 7 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.32%) Firmware
14 5 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 2 (0.11%) Docker
16 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.053%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 308 (16.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 235 (12.36%) SCCM
3 42 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 38 (2.00%) SCOM
5 36 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
6 32 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.68%) WSUS
7 25 (1.32%) Kubernetes
8 16 (0.84%) Terraform
9 11 (0.58%) Ansible
9 11 (0.58%) Autotask
9 11 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (0.53%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.42%) PingFederate
12 7 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.26%) AirWatch
13 5 (0.26%) Packer
13 5 (0.26%) SCVMM
13 5 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 4 (0.21%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,226 (64.49%) Microsoft
2 188 (9.89%) VMware
3 166 (8.73%) Citrix
4 152 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 122 (6.42%) Apple
6 83 (4.37%) Cisco
7 41 (2.16%) SAP
7 41 (2.16%) Veeam
8 36 (1.89%) Google
9 34 (1.79%) Oracle
10 32 (1.68%) Adobe
10 32 (1.68%) NetApp
11 30 (1.58%) HP
12 28 (1.47%) Dell
13 18 (0.95%) CA
14 16 (0.84%) MobileIron
14 16 (0.84%) Okta
14 16 (0.84%) Palo Alto
14 16 (0.84%) Sophos
15 14 (0.74%) Salesforce