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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 34 41
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 5,676 3,943 4,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.47% 6.97% 6.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.54% 17.96% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,866 3,208 3,943
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,064 £37,250 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.93% -6.58%
75th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,750 £66,385 £64,500
UK median annual salary £38,000 £41,659 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.78% -1.98% -

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 24,112 21,949 29,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.74% 38.82% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 17,718 13,331 19,511
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £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 £66,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

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 1 June 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +9 1,460 £37,500 -6.25% 269
North of England +15 1,400 £37,500 -3.85% 307
Midlands +16 1,049 £35,000 -4.11% 224
South West +17 679 £37,500 +7.14% 160
North West +10 660 £40,000 -5.88% 160
West Midlands +13 638 £36,500 -7.92% 131
East of England +13 621 £32,500 -7.14% 109
Yorkshire +37 562 £35,000 - 116
East Midlands +28 405 £33,500 +3.08% 93
Scotland -36 272 £36,500 -2.67% 61
North East +22 178 £37,500 +5.63% 36
Wales +18 117 £28,290 -16.79% 22
Northern Ireland +21 56 £35,000 -17.65% 9
Isle of Man +3 20 £37,000 -48.97% 1
Channel Islands +1 4 £85,000 -5.56%
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 1,237 (21.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,231 (21.69%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.04%) Confluence
4 57 (1.00%) IIS
5 41 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
6 38 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
7 27 (0.48%) WordPress
8 26 (0.46%) CMS
9 18 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.19%) Skype for Business
11 7 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
11 7 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.088%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.070%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.070%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.070%) SAS
15 3 (0.053%) Jupyter
16 2 (0.035%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 828 (14.59%) Microsoft Office
2 233 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 93 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.26%) 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%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.035%) CATIA
11 2 (0.035%) NASTRAN
11 2 (0.035%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 60 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
4 8 (0.14%) Magento
4 8 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 6 (0.11%) Shopify
7 5 (0.088%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.088%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.070%) Maximo
8 4 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.053%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.035%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.035%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.035%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.035%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.018%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2,833 (49.91%) Azure
2 968 (17.05%) Entra ID
3 456 (8.03%) Power Platform
4 407 (7.17%) AWS
5 394 (6.94%) OneDrive
6 227 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 199 (3.51%) Power Automate
8 197 (3.47%) SaaS
9 159 (2.80%) GCP
10 129 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
11 119 (2.10%) IaaS
12 102 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
13 101 (1.78%) PaaS
14 94 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
15 80 (1.41%) Google Workspace
16 72 (1.27%) Mimecast
17 69 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
18 53 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
19 44 (0.78%) WhatsApp
20 34 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,103 (19.43%) Firewall
2 788 (13.88%) DNS
3 594 (10.47%) DHCP
4 559 (9.85%) WAN
5 516 (9.09%) LAN
6 419 (7.38%) VPN
7 392 (6.91%) Wi-Fi
8 377 (6.64%) TCP/IP
9 278 (4.90%) VLAN
10 273 (4.81%) Wireless
11 269 (4.74%) SAN
12 249 (4.39%) VoIP
13 147 (2.59%) Internet
14 145 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
15 121 (2.13%) Network Security
16 104 (1.83%) SD-WAN
17 94 (1.66%) NAS
18 77 (1.36%) WLAN
19 75 (1.32%) Intranet
20 65 (1.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (4.99%) SQL Server
2 240 (4.23%) Power BI
3 94 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 53 (0.93%) MySQL
5 33 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.26%) Data Lake
9 15 (0.26%) GIS
9 15 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 14 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
11 13 (0.23%) MariaDB
12 12 (0.21%) Metadata
13 11 (0.19%) EDMS
14 8 (0.14%) Power Query
15 7 (0.12%) Ingres
16 6 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 5 (0.088%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 90 (1.59%) JIRA
2 38 (0.67%) Git
3 10 (0.18%) gulp
3 10 (0.18%) Yeoman
4 7 (0.12%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.088%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.088%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.070%) Hudson
6 4 (0.070%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.053%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.035%) GitLab
9 1 (0.018%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.018%) MSI
9 1 (0.018%) Postman
General
1 1,881 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 551 (9.71%) Finance
3 380 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (4.67%) Manufacturing
5 240 (4.23%) Law
6 211 (3.72%) Retail
7 209 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 181 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 174 (3.07%) Telecoms
10 169 (2.98%) Legal
11 155 (2.73%) Public Sector
12 133 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 108 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
14 105 (1.85%) Marketing
15 60 (1.06%) Local Government
16 59 (1.04%) Games
17 56 (0.99%) Fire and Rescue
18 44 (0.78%) Advertising
19 43 (0.76%) Automotive
20 33 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,224 (21.56%) IT Support
2 969 (17.07%) Support Engineer
3 819 (14.43%) IT Engineer
4 775 (13.65%) Analyst
5 608 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
6 559 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 499 (8.79%) IT Technician
8 394 (6.94%) 2nd Line Support
9 366 (6.45%) Support Technician
10 358 (6.31%) Senior
11 305 (5.37%) IT Manager
12 302 (5.32%) IT Support Technician
13 273 (4.81%) Support Analyst
14 270 (4.76%) IT Analyst
15 266 (4.69%) Lead
16 255 (4.49%) 1st Line Support
17 248 (4.37%) Service Analyst
18 245 (4.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 234 (4.12%) Service Desk Analyst
20 226 (3.98%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (2.13%) .NET
2 54 (0.95%) HTML
3 47 (0.83%) SPFx
4 36 (0.63%) CSS
5 35 (0.62%) ARM Templates
6 21 (0.37%) JSON
6 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (0.32%) React
8 16 (0.28%) OLE
9 15 (0.26%) RESTful
10 14 (0.25%) EDI
10 14 (0.25%) SAML
11 13 (0.23%) ASP.NET
12 12 (0.21%) .NET Core
12 12 (0.21%) REST
13 11 (0.19%) .NET Framework
14 10 (0.18%) HTML5 Canvas
14 10 (0.18%) LDAP
14 10 (0.18%) Node.js
15 8 (0.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 373 (6.57%) Driving Licence
2 257 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 247 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 184 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 169 (2.98%) Public Cloud
6 118 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 108 (1.90%) Replication
8 106 (1.87%) PKI
9 67 (1.18%) Smartphone
10 61 (1.07%) CCTV
11 57 (1.00%) Clustering
12 51 (0.90%) Product Ownership
13 47 (0.83%) iPad
14 46 (0.81%) Private Cloud
15 39 (0.69%) iPhone
16 38 (0.67%) NHS
17 37 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
17 37 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
18 36 (0.63%) Low-Code
18 36 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3,076 (54.19%) Windows
2 1,659 (29.23%) Windows Server
3 920 (16.21%) Windows 10
4 315 (5.55%) Linux
5 295 (5.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 281 (4.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 233 (4.11%) Android
8 202 (3.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 192 (3.38%) Apple iOS
10 164 (2.89%) Mac OS
11 155 (2.73%) Windows 7
12 99 (1.74%) Windows 8
13 70 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
14 43 (0.76%) Ubuntu
15 42 (0.74%) CentOS
16 36 (0.63%) Mac OS X
17 33 (0.58%) VMS
18 25 (0.44%) Unix
19 18 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
20 15 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,232 (21.71%) Customer Service
2 1,143 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1,041 (18.34%) ITIL
4 777 (13.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 606 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
6 413 (7.28%) Project Management
7 379 (6.68%) Migration
8 353 (6.22%) Agile
9 345 (6.08%) Service Delivery
10 304 (5.36%) Service Management
11 300 (5.29%) Mentoring
12 270 (4.76%) Project Delivery
13 245 (4.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 243 (4.28%) ITSM
15 242 (4.26%) Business Intelligence
15 242 (4.26%) Disaster Recovery
16 238 (4.19%) DevOps
17 217 (3.82%) Roadmaps
18 213 (3.75%) Presales
19 202 (3.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 517 (9.11%) SQL
2 491 (8.65%) PowerShell
3 82 (1.44%) C#
4 71 (1.25%) Python
5 51 (0.90%) Bash
5 51 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 35 (0.62%) Java
7 32 (0.56%) VB
8 24 (0.42%) Bicep
9 22 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.37%) R
10 21 (0.37%) VBScript
11 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.12%) PHP
13 5 (0.088%) Formula Language
13 5 (0.088%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.088%) Perl
13 5 (0.088%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.070%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.070%) VBA
Qualifications
1 771 (13.58%) Degree
2 412 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 218 (3.84%) Security Cleared
4 177 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
5 164 (2.89%) DBS Check
6 162 (2.85%) SC Cleared
7 150 (2.64%) CCNA
8 137 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 124 (2.18%) MCP
10 109 (1.92%) MCSE
11 102 (1.80%) A+ Certification
12 77 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
13 67 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 67 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 65 (1.15%) CISSP
15 61 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
16 60 (1.06%) MCSA
17 54 (0.95%) PMI Certification
18 52 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
19 46 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (7.19%) SLA
2 244 (4.30%) GDPR
3 179 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 164 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (1.09%) NIST
6 61 (1.07%) QA
7 30 (0.53%) PMO
8 28 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 28 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 26 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 16 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 15 (0.26%) GRC
13 12 (0.21%) Data Quality
14 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.11%) COBIT
15 6 (0.11%) ISO 14001
15 6 (0.11%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 2,790 (49.15%) Active Directory
2 818 (14.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 796 (14.02%) Hyper-V
4 139 (2.45%) vSphere
5 135 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 127 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
7 104 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
8 85 (1.50%) XenApp
9 74 (1.30%) XenDesktop
10 41 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
10 41 (0.72%) VirtualBox
11 39 (0.69%) Terminal Services
12 28 (0.49%) Docker
13 19 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 16 (0.28%) VMware Server
15 12 (0.21%) Firmware
16 10 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
17 7 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 6 (0.11%) NFS
18 6 (0.11%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 959 (16.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 298 (5.25%) SCCM
3 78 (1.37%) Kubernetes
4 75 (1.32%) Terraform
5 71 (1.25%) vCenter Server
6 67 (1.18%) WSUS
7 63 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 45 (0.79%) SCOM
9 38 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
10 34 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
11 31 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 28 (0.49%) CASB
13 27 (0.48%) Nagios
13 27 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
14 26 (0.46%) Autotask
15 25 (0.44%) Ansible
16 22 (0.39%) ZABBIX
17 20 (0.35%) SmoothWall
18 18 (0.32%) AirWatch
19 14 (0.25%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3,962 (69.80%) Microsoft
2 1,285 (22.64%) VMware
3 422 (7.43%) Cisco
4 391 (6.89%) Citrix
5 332 (5.85%) Veeam
6 226 (3.98%) Apple
7 221 (3.89%) Google
8 157 (2.77%) HP
9 155 (2.73%) Meraki
10 144 (2.54%) Sophos
11 143 (2.52%) Dell
12 133 (2.34%) ServiceNow
13 108 (1.90%) Fortinet
14 91 (1.60%) Aruba
15 65 (1.15%) Adobe
16 58 (1.02%) SAP
17 52 (0.92%) WatchGuard
18 50 (0.88%) Draytek
18 50 (0.88%) SolarWinds
19 47 (0.83%) Acronis