Microsoft 365 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 52 47 70
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -17
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 564 1,229 1,699
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.72% 4.81% 3.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.31% 12.17% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 916 1,271
10th Percentile £175 £200 £176
25th Percentile £282 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +9.70% +1.88%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £550
90th Percentile £688 £728 £638
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 39 75
10th Percentile £15.42 £12.66 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.21 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -2.33% +34.38%
75th Percentile £17.50 £65.25 £24.75
90th Percentile £19.00 £70.00 £53.90
UK median hourly rate £16.78 £18.93 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.34% +8.17% +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,468 10,096 18,475
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.09% 39.53% 41.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,930 7,416 13,801
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 129 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +87.83% -27.22%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.24
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

Microsoft 365
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Microsoft 365 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 167 (29.61%) SharePoint
2 132 (23.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2007
3 12 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2010
3 12 (2.13%) Skype for Business
4 11 (1.95%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (1.77%) Confluence
5 10 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2013
6 6 (1.06%) WordPress
7 5 (0.89%) Drupal
7 5 (0.89%) IIS
7 5 (0.89%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.35%) Moodle
9 2 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.18%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 67 (11.88%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.89%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.89%) Trello
5 4 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.35%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) InVision
7 1 (0.18%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) assyst
4 1 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 283 (50.18%) Azure
2 111 (19.68%) Entra ID
3 86 (15.25%) Power Platform
4 52 (9.22%) OneDrive
4 52 (9.22%) PowerApps
5 43 (7.62%) AWS
5 43 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (7.62%) Power Automate
6 17 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (3.01%) Azure Storage
6 17 (3.01%) PaaS
7 16 (2.84%) SaaS
8 15 (2.66%) GitHub
8 15 (2.66%) Slack
9 14 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 14 (2.48%) IaaS
10 11 (1.95%) Mimecast
11 10 (1.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.75%) Firewall
2 44 (7.80%) DNS
3 32 (5.67%) DHCP
4 26 (4.61%) VPN
5 13 (2.30%) Intranet
6 12 (2.13%) Skype
7 9 (1.60%) LAN
8 8 (1.42%) WAN
9 7 (1.24%) NAS
9 7 (1.24%) SAN
9 7 (1.24%) VoIP
10 5 (0.89%) Network Security
11 4 (0.71%) HTTP
11 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.53%) SNMP
12 3 (0.53%) WebEx
12 3 (0.53%) Wireless
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.38%) Power BI
2 31 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.77%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.71%) Power Query
7 3 (0.53%) Metadata
8 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.35%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) MS Access
9 1 (0.18%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.18%) Tableau
9 1 (0.18%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 30 (5.32%) JIRA
2 5 (0.89%) Git
3 4 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.53%) GitLab
5 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.18%) MSI
6 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 161 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.43%) Public Sector
3 70 (12.41%) Finance
4 41 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.48%) Legal
8 12 (2.13%) Marketing
9 11 (1.95%) Banking
9 11 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.60%) German Language
10 9 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.60%) Law
10 9 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.06%) Electronics
11 6 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.89%) French Language
12 5 (0.89%) Spanish Language
13 4 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (12.59%) Analyst
2 70 (12.41%) Architect
3 42 (7.45%) Developer
4 41 (7.27%) Consultant
5 37 (6.56%) Service Analyst
6 35 (6.21%) Service Desk Analyst
7 33 (5.85%) Senior
8 31 (5.50%) IT Support
9 29 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (4.79%) Support Engineer
11 24 (4.26%) Project Manager
12 22 (3.90%) IT Engineer
12 22 (3.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 21 (3.72%) Support Analyst
13 21 (3.72%) Support Specialist
14 19 (3.37%) Azure Specialist
14 19 (3.37%) Power Platform Developer
15 17 (3.01%) IT Analyst
15 17 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.01%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.84%) ARM Templates
2 10 (1.77%) .NET
3 9 (1.60%) REST
4 7 (1.24%) XML
5 6 (1.06%) CSS
5 6 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
5 6 (1.06%) JSON
5 6 (1.06%) React
5 6 (1.06%) SPFx
6 5 (0.89%) SOAP
7 4 (0.71%) RESTful
8 3 (0.53%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.53%) HTML
8 3 (0.53%) OAuth
8 3 (0.53%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.35%) ADSI
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.35%) SAML
10 1 (0.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (3.90%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.55%) PKI
4 18 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.01%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.01%) Video Conferencing
6 15 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.48%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.48%) NHS
8 8 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.06%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.06%) Smartphone
10 6 (1.06%) Video Editing
11 5 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.89%) EPoS
11 5 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.89%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 233 (41.31%) Windows
2 101 (17.91%) Windows 10
3 83 (14.72%) Windows Server
4 33 (5.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (4.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (4.26%) Linux
7 22 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (3.01%) Apple iOS
9 13 (2.30%) Windows Server 2003
10 12 (2.13%) Android
11 11 (1.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (1.60%) Mac OS
13 6 (1.06%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.89%) VMS
15 3 (0.53%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (19.68%) Migration
2 79 (14.01%) Agile
3 71 (12.59%) ITIL
4 64 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (10.46%) DevOps
6 52 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 51 (9.04%) Customer Service
8 42 (7.45%) Project Management
9 39 (6.91%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (6.21%) Change Management
11 34 (6.03%) Roadmaps
12 33 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (5.32%) Service Management
14 28 (4.96%) Data Migration
14 28 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (4.43%) Identity Management
15 25 (4.43%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 25 (4.43%) Project Delivery
16 24 (4.26%) Data Security
17 22 (3.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 99 (17.55%) PowerShell
2 32 (5.67%) C#
3 31 (5.50%) SQL
4 18 (3.19%) Python
5 17 (3.01%) VBScript
6 16 (2.84%) Bicep
6 16 (2.84%) VB
7 13 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.71%) Bash
8 4 (0.71%) C
8 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.35%) Java
9 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.18%) PHP
10 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Ruby
10 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 99 (17.55%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.99%) Degree
4 35 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (4.43%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (1.60%) CISSP
9 7 (1.24%) CISM
9 7 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.71%) MCSE
12 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.53%) MCSA
14 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.96%) SLA
2 8 (1.42%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.42%) NIST
3 7 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.06%) QA
5 5 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.53%) GDPR
8 2 (0.35%) COBIT
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.18%) GLBA
9 1 (0.18%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 229 (40.60%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (3.90%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.53%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.53%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.35%) Firmware
8 2 (0.35%) vSphere
9 1 (0.18%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
9 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 85 (15.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (10.11%) SCCM
3 20 (3.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (3.19%) Kubernetes
4 18 (3.19%) WSUS
5 16 (2.84%) SCOM
6 14 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.42%) Terraform
8 5 (0.89%) Ansible
9 4 (0.71%) Packer
10 3 (0.53%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.53%) QRadar
11 2 (0.35%) Kibana
11 2 (0.35%) logstash
11 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.18%) CASB
12 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 388 (68.79%) Microsoft
2 56 (9.93%) VMware
3 29 (5.14%) Citrix
4 27 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.72%) Veeam
6 17 (3.01%) Cisco
6 17 (3.01%) NetApp
7 16 (2.84%) Adobe
8 14 (2.48%) Apple
9 11 (1.95%) Oracle
9 11 (1.95%) SAP
10 10 (1.77%) CA
10 10 (1.77%) Splunk
11 9 (1.60%) Google
11 9 (1.60%) HP
11 9 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.24%) Qualys
13 6 (1.06%) iManage
13 6 (1.06%) Salesforce