Microsoft 365 Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 38 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 5,647 4,006 4,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.97% 6.72% 6.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.07% 17.53% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,912 3,267 3,984
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,298 £36,500 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +2.82% -6.58%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £49,361
90th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £39,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.02% -2.35% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,457 22,850 28,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.10% 38.32% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 17,386 13,678 19,676
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +13 1,480 £37,500 +1.35% 287
North of England +25 1,393 £37,500 -3.79% 300
Midlands +24 1,024 £35,000 -2.78% 225
South West +14 678 £37,500 +7.14% 176
North West +15 652 £40,000 -5.88% 157
West Midlands +22 625 £36,500 -8.75% 126
East of England +16 610 £32,500 -7.14% 145
Yorkshire +42 561 £35,000 - 113
East Midlands +34 392 £33,500 +4.69% 99
Scotland -35 275 £37,750 +0.67% 68
North East +24 180 £37,500 +5.63% 33
Wales +19 110 £28,290 -24.56% 30
Northern Ireland +32 55 £35,000 -16.67% 17
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands -1 4 £85,000 +34.92%
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,251 (22.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,247 (22.08%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.08%) Confluence
4 55 (0.97%) IIS
5 41 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
6 39 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
7 28 (0.50%) WordPress
8 26 (0.46%) CMS
9 18 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
10 12 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 7 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
11 7 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
12 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.071%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.071%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.071%) SAS
15 3 (0.053%) Jupyter
16 2 (0.035%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 841 (14.89%) Microsoft Office
2 227 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 86 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Trello
8 8 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.11%) InVision
9 6 (0.11%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.053%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.053%) InDesign
11 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.035%) CATIA
11 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 57 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
4 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
5 8 (0.14%) Magento
5 8 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.12%) Maximo
6 7 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 6 (0.11%) Shopify
8 5 (0.089%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.089%) Sage X3
9 4 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.053%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.035%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.035%) Teamcenter
12 1 (0.018%) Sage 300 ERP
12 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,838 (50.26%) Azure
2 956 (16.93%) Entra ID
3 475 (8.41%) Power Platform
4 417 (7.38%) AWS
5 388 (6.87%) OneDrive
6 225 (3.98%) PowerApps
7 194 (3.44%) Power Automate
8 192 (3.40%) SaaS
9 158 (2.80%) GCP
10 127 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
11 121 (2.14%) IaaS
12 117 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
13 108 (1.91%) PaaS
14 92 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
15 79 (1.40%) Google Workspace
16 73 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
17 68 (1.20%) Mimecast
18 52 (0.92%) WhatsApp
19 49 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
20 37 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,093 (19.36%) Firewall
2 799 (14.15%) DNS
3 600 (10.63%) DHCP
4 563 (9.97%) WAN
5 518 (9.17%) LAN
6 427 (7.56%) VPN
7 390 (6.91%) Wi-Fi
8 371 (6.57%) TCP/IP
9 278 (4.92%) VLAN
10 271 (4.80%) Wireless
11 260 (4.60%) SAN
12 258 (4.57%) VoIP
13 143 (2.53%) Remote Desktop
14 141 (2.50%) Internet
15 123 (2.18%) Network Security
16 104 (1.84%) SD-WAN
17 90 (1.59%) NAS
18 76 (1.35%) Intranet
18 76 (1.35%) Unified Communications
18 76 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (5.14%) SQL Server
2 251 (4.44%) Power BI
3 96 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
4 53 (0.94%) MySQL
5 34 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.32%) GIS
10 17 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.27%) Data Lake
12 14 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
12 14 (0.25%) MariaDB
12 14 (0.25%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.21%) Metadata
14 11 (0.19%) EDMS
15 8 (0.14%) Power Query
16 7 (0.12%) Ingres
16 7 (0.12%) NoSQL
17 6 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 96 (1.70%) JIRA
2 35 (0.62%) Git
3 10 (0.18%) gulp
3 10 (0.18%) Yeoman
4 7 (0.12%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.089%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.089%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.071%) Hudson
7 4 (0.071%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.053%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.035%) GitLab
10 1 (0.018%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.018%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.018%) MSI
10 1 (0.018%) Postman
General
1 1,884 (33.36%) Social Skills
2 564 (9.99%) Finance
3 378 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (4.66%) Manufacturing
5 246 (4.36%) Law
6 217 (3.84%) Retail
7 204 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 180 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 176 (3.12%) Legal
10 173 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 156 (2.76%) Public Sector
12 137 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 116 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
14 106 (1.88%) Marketing
15 61 (1.08%) Local Government
16 60 (1.06%) Fire and Rescue
17 56 (0.99%) Games
18 43 (0.76%) Advertising
19 39 (0.69%) Automotive
20 33 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,229 (21.76%) IT Support
2 975 (17.27%) Support Engineer
3 838 (14.84%) IT Engineer
4 786 (13.92%) Analyst
5 618 (10.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 563 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 486 (8.61%) IT Technician
8 386 (6.84%) 2nd Line Support
9 364 (6.45%) Senior
10 356 (6.30%) Support Technician
11 310 (5.49%) IT Manager
12 295 (5.22%) IT Support Technician
13 285 (5.05%) Support Analyst
14 277 (4.91%) IT Analyst
15 265 (4.69%) 1st Line Support
16 264 (4.68%) Lead
17 241 (4.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 240 (4.25%) Service Analyst
19 228 (4.04%) 3rd Line Support
20 224 (3.97%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.27%) .NET
2 52 (0.92%) HTML
3 47 (0.83%) SPFx
4 37 (0.66%) ARM Templates
5 36 (0.64%) CSS
6 28 (0.50%) JSON
7 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (0.32%) React
9 16 (0.28%) ASP.NET
9 16 (0.28%) OLE
10 14 (0.25%) EDI
10 14 (0.25%) REST
10 14 (0.25%) RESTful
10 14 (0.25%) SAML
11 12 (0.21%) .NET Framework
11 12 (0.21%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (0.19%) LDAP
13 10 (0.18%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (0.18%) Entity Framework
13 10 (0.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 375 (6.64%) Driving Licence
2 256 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 243 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 190 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 167 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 120 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 106 (1.88%) Replication
8 103 (1.82%) PKI
9 64 (1.13%) Smartphone
10 62 (1.10%) CCTV
11 56 (0.99%) Clustering
12 53 (0.94%) Product Ownership
13 49 (0.87%) iPad
14 47 (0.83%) Private Cloud
15 40 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
16 39 (0.69%) iPhone
16 39 (0.69%) Low-Code
16 39 (0.69%) NHS
17 37 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
17 37 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3,086 (54.65%) Windows
2 1,667 (29.52%) Windows Server
3 926 (16.40%) Windows 10
4 307 (5.44%) Linux
5 297 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 271 (4.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 220 (3.90%) Android
8 205 (3.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 185 (3.28%) Apple iOS
10 164 (2.90%) Mac OS
11 158 (2.80%) Windows 7
12 108 (1.91%) Windows 8
13 68 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
14 43 (0.76%) CentOS
14 43 (0.76%) Ubuntu
15 35 (0.62%) Mac OS X
16 33 (0.58%) VMS
17 26 (0.46%) Unix
18 21 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
19 16 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (21.37%) Customer Service
2 1,126 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
3 1,043 (18.47%) ITIL
4 782 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 608 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
6 421 (7.46%) Project Management
7 378 (6.69%) Migration
8 371 (6.57%) Agile
9 337 (5.97%) Service Delivery
10 307 (5.44%) Mentoring
11 305 (5.40%) Service Management
12 281 (4.98%) Project Delivery
13 255 (4.52%) DevOps
14 254 (4.50%) ITSM
15 252 (4.46%) Business Intelligence
16 244 (4.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 243 (4.30%) Disaster Recovery
18 223 (3.95%) Roadmaps
19 205 (3.63%) Presales
20 202 (3.58%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 529 (9.37%) SQL
2 499 (8.84%) PowerShell
3 83 (1.47%) C#
4 68 (1.20%) Python
5 54 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 52 (0.92%) Bash
7 34 (0.60%) Java
8 29 (0.51%) VB
9 27 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.37%) R
11 20 (0.35%) Bicep
12 18 (0.32%) VBScript
13 17 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.089%) Formula Language
14 5 (0.089%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.089%) Perl
14 5 (0.089%) PHP
14 5 (0.089%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.071%) VBA
Qualifications
1 772 (13.67%) Degree
2 410 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 215 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 179 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
5 162 (2.87%) SC Cleared
6 157 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 151 (2.67%) CCNA
8 139 (2.46%) Azure Certification
9 120 (2.13%) MCP
10 111 (1.97%) MCSE
11 100 (1.77%) A+ Certification
12 77 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
13 68 (1.20%) CISSP
14 66 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 66 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
15 64 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
16 62 (1.10%) MCSA
17 55 (0.97%) PMI Certification
18 54 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
19 42 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (7.10%) SLA
2 240 (4.25%) GDPR
3 173 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 158 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (1.20%) NIST
6 62 (1.10%) QA
7 30 (0.53%) PMO
8 27 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 19 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 16 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.27%) GRC
14 13 (0.23%) Data Quality
15 12 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.12%) NCSC
17 6 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.11%) COBIT
17 6 (0.11%) ISO 14001
17 6 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2,789 (49.39%) Active Directory
2 818 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 798 (14.13%) Hyper-V
4 137 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 132 (2.34%) vSphere
6 130 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
7 106 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
8 84 (1.49%) XenApp
9 72 (1.28%) XenDesktop
10 43 (0.76%) VirtualBox
11 39 (0.69%) Terminal Services
12 37 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 27 (0.48%) Docker
14 17 (0.30%) VMware Server
15 16 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 15 (0.27%) Firmware
17 10 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 6 (0.11%) NFS
19 6 (0.11%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 957 (16.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 289 (5.12%) SCCM
3 78 (1.38%) Terraform
4 72 (1.28%) Kubernetes
5 68 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 62 (1.10%) WSUS
7 58 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 42 (0.74%) SCOM
9 38 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
10 35 (0.62%) FortiGate
11 33 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
12 29 (0.51%) CASB
13 27 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
14 26 (0.46%) Ansible
14 26 (0.46%) Nagios
15 25 (0.44%) Autotask
16 22 (0.39%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.37%) SmoothWall
18 19 (0.34%) AirWatch
19 13 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3,954 (70.02%) Microsoft
2 1,281 (22.68%) VMware
3 430 (7.61%) Cisco
4 395 (6.99%) Citrix
5 322 (5.70%) Veeam
6 230 (4.07%) Google
7 228 (4.04%) Apple
8 159 (2.82%) Meraki
9 154 (2.73%) HP
10 142 (2.51%) Sophos
11 137 (2.43%) Dell
12 132 (2.34%) ServiceNow
13 110 (1.95%) Fortinet
14 92 (1.63%) Aruba
15 65 (1.15%) Adobe
16 55 (0.97%) SAP
17 54 (0.96%) SolarWinds
18 51 (0.90%) Draytek
19 50 (0.89%) Salesforce
20 48 (0.85%) WatchGuard