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 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 40 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,905 2,966 4,355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.42% 5.29% 4.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.64% 14.52% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 2,169 3,180
10th Percentile £156 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £205 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £519 £549 £521
90th Percentile £638 £684 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £260 £310 £275
% change year-on-year -16.13% +12.73% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 125 211
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.78 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +8.57% +12.90%
75th Percentile £21.37 £30.00 £22.25
90th Percentile £23.80 £66.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +6.45%

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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 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 1 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 1,636 £350 -7.66% 1,369
UK excluding London -6 1,036 £260 -16.13% 1,115
London +2 730 £418 -1.76% 289
Work from Home -6 559 £450 -5.26% 549
North of England -2 236 £253 -15.83% 305
South East -10 230 £288 -17.86% 267
Midlands 0 172 £270 -22.86% 224
North West +3 151 £284 -15.85% 160
Scotland +3 139 £350 +27.27% 60
South West -11 138 £225 -30.77% 159
West Midlands -1 115 £350 -6.67% 131
East of England -11 95 £265 +6.00% 108
Yorkshire -4 75 £228 -13.33% 114
East Midlands +1 57 £200 -20.00% 93
Wales +2 25 £145 -35.56% 22
North East +15 10 £190 +8.57% 36
Northern Ireland -16 5 £363 +113.24% 9

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
1 474 (24.88%) SharePoint
2 375 (19.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.68%) Skype for Business
4 22 (1.15%) Confluence
5 16 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
7 14 (0.73%) CMS
7 14 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2007
8 12 (0.63%) IIS
9 11 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2003
9 11 (0.58%) WordPress
10 10 (0.52%) Drupal
11 6 (0.31%) SharePoint 2013
12 5 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) IBM Notes
15 1 (0.052%) Apache
15 1 (0.052%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 257 (13.49%) Microsoft Office
2 98 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.52%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.26%) Trello
7 3 (0.16%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.16%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 21 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.26%) Magento
2 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.10%) Eikon
4 2 (0.10%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.10%) Maximo
4 2 (0.10%) Relativity
4 2 (0.10%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.10%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.052%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.052%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.052%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 708 (37.17%) Azure
2 261 (13.70%) Entra ID
3 221 (11.60%) Power Platform
4 163 (8.56%) OneDrive
5 121 (6.35%) PowerApps
6 104 (5.46%) AWS
7 97 (5.09%) Power Automate
8 82 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
9 45 (2.36%) SaaS
10 41 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (1.99%) IaaS
12 37 (1.94%) Mimecast
13 33 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
14 32 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
15 31 (1.63%) PaaS
16 30 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
17 29 (1.52%) GitHub
17 29 (1.52%) Slack
18 27 (1.42%) Azure Storage
19 21 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 159 (8.35%) Firewall
2 147 (7.72%) DNS
3 96 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
4 92 (4.83%) DHCP
5 81 (4.25%) VPN
6 68 (3.57%) LAN
7 56 (2.94%) WAN
8 51 (2.68%) VoIP
9 48 (2.52%) Wireless
10 43 (2.26%) TCP/IP
11 39 (2.05%) Intranet
12 38 (1.99%) Skype
13 30 (1.57%) SAN
14 25 (1.31%) Cisco IOS
15 22 (1.15%) Network Security
16 18 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
16 18 (0.94%) VLAN
17 17 (0.89%) Internet
18 14 (0.73%) NAS
19 12 (0.63%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.41%) Power BI
2 87 (4.57%) SQL Server
3 18 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.10%) DTS
10 2 (0.10%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (2.94%) JIRA
2 16 (0.84%) GitLab
3 11 (0.58%) Hudson
4 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.37%) Git
6 5 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.10%) Subversion
10 1 (0.052%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.052%) MSI
10 1 (0.052%) TestRail
General
1 635 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 255 (13.39%) Finance
3 220 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 152 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (3.67%) Legal
6 67 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (3.04%) Banking
8 57 (2.99%) Retail
9 50 (2.62%) Marketing
10 48 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 42 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.42%) Electronics
15 25 (1.31%) Law
16 21 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.89%) Advertising
20 16 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 306 (16.06%) Analyst
2 249 (13.07%) Support Engineer
3 207 (10.87%) IT Support
4 166 (8.71%) Architect
5 135 (7.09%) Service Analyst
6 132 (6.93%) Service Desk Analyst
7 123 (6.46%) IT Engineer
8 112 (5.88%) Senior
9 103 (5.41%) Desktop Support
10 99 (5.20%) 2nd Line Support
10 99 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 93 (4.88%) Developer
12 88 (4.62%) Support Analyst
13 87 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
14 83 (4.36%) Consultant
15 72 (3.78%) Desktop Engineer
16 70 (3.67%) IT Analyst
17 66 (3.46%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 58 (3.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 55 (2.89%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.68%) .NET
2 20 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 19 (1.00%) REST
4 17 (0.89%) React
5 16 (0.84%) CSS
5 16 (0.84%) XML
6 13 (0.68%) JSON
6 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
7 11 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (0.47%) HTML
8 9 (0.47%) SPFx
9 7 (0.37%) RESTful
10 6 (0.31%) OAuth
11 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.26%) jQuery
11 5 (0.26%) LDAP
11 5 (0.26%) SAML
12 4 (0.21%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.21%) SOAP
12 4 (0.21%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 61 (3.20%) PKI
2 53 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 50 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
5 41 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 37 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.63%) Video Editing
8 29 (1.52%) iPhone
9 28 (1.47%) NHS
10 27 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.31%) iPad
12 21 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.05%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 19 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.00%) Digital Signage
14 19 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 18 (0.94%) CMDB
15 18 (0.94%) Smartphone
16 15 (0.79%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 920 (48.29%) Windows
2 441 (23.15%) Windows 10
3 291 (15.28%) Windows Server
4 112 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 82 (4.30%) Android
6 76 (3.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 74 (3.88%) Linux
8 72 (3.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 71 (3.73%) Mac OS
10 65 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 61 (3.20%) Windows 7
12 24 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (0.84%) Mac OS X
14 15 (0.79%) VMS
15 14 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.37%) Unix
17 6 (0.31%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.31%) Windows 8
18 3 (0.16%) Debian
19 1 (0.052%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (16.27%) Customer Service
2 308 (16.17%) ITIL
3 284 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 229 (12.02%) Migration
5 190 (9.97%) Agile
6 138 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 122 (6.40%) Change Management
8 120 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
9 119 (6.25%) Project Management
10 114 (5.98%) DevOps
11 93 (4.88%) Service Delivery
12 90 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 85 (4.46%) Cybersecurity
14 83 (4.36%) Incident Management
15 81 (4.25%) Service Management
16 79 (4.15%) Mobile Device Management
17 74 (3.88%) ITSM
18 73 (3.83%) Roadmaps
19 71 (3.73%) Information Security
20 62 (3.25%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 271 (14.23%) PowerShell
2 75 (3.94%) SQL
3 56 (2.94%) C#
4 34 (1.78%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.78%) Python
5 21 (1.10%) Bicep
5 21 (1.10%) VB
5 21 (1.10%) VBScript
6 11 (0.58%) C
7 10 (0.52%) T-SQL
8 8 (0.42%) Swift
9 6 (0.31%) Bash
10 5 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.16%) Java
13 2 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 272 (14.28%) Security Cleared
2 221 (11.60%) Degree
3 216 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 136 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 61 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 53 (2.78%) MCSA
7 47 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 46 (2.41%) A+ Certification
9 36 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
10 34 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.52%) DBS Check
12 27 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 22 (1.15%) CCNA
13 22 (1.15%) MCSE
14 18 (0.94%) CISSP
15 14 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.73%) MCP
16 13 (0.68%) CISM
17 11 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.09%) SLA
2 23 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.15%) QA
4 18 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (0.89%) NIST
6 15 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (0.73%) GDPR
8 9 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.37%) PMO
10 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.26%) GRC
12 4 (0.21%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.10%) COBIT
14 2 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.052%) GxP
15 1 (0.052%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 855 (44.88%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 61 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 47 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.26%) vSphere
7 16 (0.84%) BitLocker
8 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.58%) XenApp
10 9 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.47%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.31%) Firmware
13 5 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 2 (0.10%) Docker
16 1 (0.052%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 308 (16.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 245 (12.86%) SCCM
3 45 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 38 (1.99%) SCOM
5 37 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
6 32 (1.68%) WSUS
7 31 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.31%) Kubernetes
9 16 (0.84%) Terraform
10 11 (0.58%) Ansible
11 10 (0.52%) Autotask
11 10 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
11 10 (0.52%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.42%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.42%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.31%) AirWatch
15 5 (0.26%) Packer
15 5 (0.26%) SCVMM
16 4 (0.21%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,227 (64.41%) Microsoft
2 187 (9.82%) VMware
3 167 (8.77%) Citrix
4 157 (8.24%) ServiceNow
5 131 (6.88%) Apple
6 84 (4.41%) Cisco
7 41 (2.15%) Veeam
8 40 (2.10%) Google
8 40 (2.10%) SAP
9 34 (1.78%) Oracle
10 33 (1.73%) Adobe
10 33 (1.73%) HP
10 33 (1.73%) NetApp
11 28 (1.47%) Dell
12 17 (0.89%) CA
12 17 (0.89%) MobileIron
13 16 (0.84%) Okta
13 16 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 16 (0.84%) Sophos
14 14 (0.73%) Salesforce