Microsoft 365 Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,044 1,501 2,332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.96% 6.59% 7.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.32% 20.16% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 1,089 1,676
10th Percentile £149 £155 £138
25th Percentile £180 £190 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £308 £275
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +11.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £438 £482 £438
90th Percentile £600 £614 £538
UK median daily rate £350 £389 £375
% change year-on-year -9.97% +3.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 86 181
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.58 £13.12
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.48 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.00 £50.50 £22.50
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% +10.24%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,405 7,446 10,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.68% 32.70% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 5,489 7,479
10th Percentile £215 £242 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 217 280
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +44.39% -4.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £29.10
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £63.20
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £38.78 £22.00
% change year-on-year -44.55% +76.25% +0.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England -1 237 £260 -13.33% 287
South East -8 233 £288 -10.85% 270
Midlands 0 176 £260 -25.71% 223
North West 0 153 £284 -12.62% 147
Scotland +4 139 £350 +25.00% 73
South West -8 139 £225 -30.77% 166
West Midlands -3 117 £350 -6.67% 126
East of England -7 95 £325 +30.00% 108
Yorkshire -11 73 £228 -13.33% 112
East Midlands -1 59 £200 -15.79% 97
Wales +2 24 £145 -35.56% 20
North East +14 10 £190 +8.57% 32
Northern Ireland -14 5 £363 +88.31% 11
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
1 237 (22.70%) SharePoint
2 207 (19.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.86%) CMS
3 9 (0.86%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.38%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.38%) Confluence
4 4 (0.38%) IIS
5 2 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.19%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.19%) WordPress
6 1 (0.096%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.096%) Drupal
6 1 (0.096%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 121 (11.59%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.96%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.29%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.19%) Maximo
3 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.096%) assyst
4 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.096%) Relativity
4 1 (0.096%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.096%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 329 (31.51%) Azure
2 120 (11.49%) Entra ID
3 90 (8.62%) Power Platform
4 82 (7.85%) OneDrive
5 52 (4.98%) PowerApps
6 48 (4.60%) Power Automate
7 44 (4.21%) AWS
8 30 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
8 30 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (2.01%) SaaS
10 20 (1.92%) Azure Storage
11 17 (1.63%) Yammer
12 14 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (1.05%) Canva
13 11 (1.05%) Mimecast
13 11 (1.05%) PaaS
13 11 (1.05%) Slack
14 10 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (9.29%) Firewall
2 83 (7.95%) Wi-Fi
3 79 (7.57%) DNS
4 52 (4.98%) DHCP
5 45 (4.31%) LAN
6 44 (4.21%) VPN
7 38 (3.64%) WAN
8 32 (3.07%) VoIP
9 28 (2.68%) Wireless
10 26 (2.49%) TCP/IP
11 25 (2.39%) Intranet
12 22 (2.11%) SAN
13 16 (1.53%) VLAN
14 15 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
15 12 (1.15%) Skype
16 11 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
16 11 (1.05%) Network Security
17 9 (0.86%) NAS
17 9 (0.86%) NetScaler
18 8 (0.77%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.35%) Power BI
1 35 (3.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.38%) GIS
3 4 (0.38%) QGIS
4 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.19%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.19%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.096%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.096%) DTS
5 1 (0.096%) Metadata
5 1 (0.096%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.096%) MySQL
5 1 (0.096%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.096%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.096%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.096%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (1.82%) JIRA
2 7 (0.67%) Hudson
3 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.19%) GitLab
6 1 (0.096%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (0.096%) Git
6 1 (0.096%) MSI
6 1 (0.096%) Subversion
General
1 387 (37.07%) Social Skills
2 127 (12.16%) Public Sector
3 77 (7.38%) Finance
4 70 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (4.69%) Retail
7 31 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 26 (2.49%) Legal
8 26 (2.49%) Marketing
9 24 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.44%) Publishing
13 11 (1.05%) Electronics
14 10 (0.96%) Local Government
15 9 (0.86%) Law
16 8 (0.77%) Automotive
16 8 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.67%) Military
17 7 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 206 (19.73%) Analyst
2 158 (15.13%) Support Engineer
3 144 (13.79%) IT Support
4 101 (9.67%) Service Analyst
5 100 (9.58%) Service Desk Analyst
6 77 (7.38%) IT Engineer
7 68 (6.51%) 2nd Line Support
8 62 (5.94%) Senior
9 61 (5.84%) Support Analyst
10 56 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
11 53 (5.08%) Architect
11 53 (5.08%) Desktop Support
12 50 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (4.31%) IT Analyst
14 44 (4.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 44 (4.21%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 43 (4.12%) Desktop Engineer
16 39 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 33 (3.16%) 1st Line Support
17 33 (3.16%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.92%) ARM Templates
2 18 (1.72%) .NET
3 11 (1.05%) CSS
4 10 (0.96%) REST
5 6 (0.57%) HTML
6 5 (0.48%) React
7 3 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (0.29%) RESTful
7 3 (0.29%) SPFx
7 3 (0.29%) XMPP
8 2 (0.19%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.19%) ADSI
8 2 (0.19%) HTML5
8 2 (0.19%) LAMP
8 2 (0.19%) XML
9 1 (0.096%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.096%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.096%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.096%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 37 (3.54%) PKI
2 34 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (2.87%) Video Editing
4 25 (2.39%) Driving Licence
5 23 (2.20%) NHS
6 21 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
7 18 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.63%) Digital Signage
8 17 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.34%) EPoS
10 13 (1.25%) CMDB
10 13 (1.25%) iPhone
11 12 (1.15%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.05%) iPad
13 10 (0.96%) Product Ownership
13 10 (0.96%) Smartphone
14 9 (0.86%) BYOD
14 9 (0.86%) Clustering
14 9 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 550 (52.68%) Windows
2 277 (26.53%) Windows 10
3 180 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 87 (8.33%) Apple iOS
5 65 (6.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 62 (5.94%) Linux
7 55 (5.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 44 (4.21%) Android
9 43 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 42 (4.02%) Mac OS
11 31 (2.97%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.77%) VMS
13 7 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.57%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.29%) Debian
16 2 (0.19%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.096%) AIX
17 1 (0.096%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (20.21%) Customer Service
2 188 (18.01%) ITIL
3 159 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (7.57%) Migration
5 78 (7.47%) Agile
6 73 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 67 (6.42%) Change Management
8 64 (6.13%) Incident Management
9 59 (5.65%) Service Management
9 59 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 56 (5.36%) Service Delivery
11 49 (4.69%) Mobile Device Management
12 47 (4.50%) Project Management
13 44 (4.21%) ITSM
14 42 (4.02%) DevOps
15 38 (3.64%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (3.45%) Identity Management
17 35 (3.35%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (3.35%) Information Security
18 32 (3.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 132 (12.64%) PowerShell
2 34 (3.26%) C#
3 31 (2.97%) SQL
4 20 (1.92%) Bicep
4 20 (1.92%) VB
4 20 (1.92%) VBScript
5 19 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.05%) C
7 8 (0.77%) Swift
8 6 (0.57%) Python
9 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.096%) Bash
10 1 (0.096%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 151 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 107 (10.25%) Degree
2 107 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 45 (4.31%) MCSA
6 44 (4.21%) A+ Certification
7 23 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 17 (1.63%) DBS Check
9 17 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (1.53%) MCSE
11 14 (1.34%) CCNA
11 14 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.15%) MCP
13 8 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.23%) SLA
2 14 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
3 10 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.57%) PMO
6 5 (0.48%) GDPR
7 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.29%) NIST
9 2 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.096%) COBIT
10 1 (0.096%) GxP
10 1 (0.096%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.096%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.096%) QA
10 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 503 (48.18%) Active Directory
2 63 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (4.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 43 (4.12%) Hyper-V
5 29 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.05%) BitLocker
6 11 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.86%) vSphere
7 9 (0.86%) XenApp
8 8 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (0.77%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.77%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.29%) Firmware
10 3 (0.29%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.096%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.096%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.096%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 186 (17.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 139 (13.31%) SCCM
3 27 (2.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 27 (2.59%) SCOM
3 27 (2.59%) WSUS
4 21 (2.01%) Kubernetes
4 21 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (1.05%) Autotask
7 9 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.38%) AirWatch
11 3 (0.29%) AppManager
11 3 (0.29%) Terraform
12 2 (0.19%) OPNET
12 2 (0.19%) SCDPM
12 2 (0.19%) SCVMM
13 1 (0.096%) Ansible
13 1 (0.096%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 618 (59.20%) Microsoft
2 118 (11.30%) VMware
3 108 (10.34%) Citrix
4 96 (9.20%) ServiceNow
5 79 (7.57%) Apple
6 57 (5.46%) Cisco
7 29 (2.78%) Veeam
8 23 (2.20%) HP
9 17 (1.63%) SAP
10 16 (1.53%) Oracle
11 15 (1.44%) Adobe
11 15 (1.44%) Sophos
12 13 (1.25%) Dell
13 12 (1.15%) Aruba
13 12 (1.15%) MobileIron
14 11 (1.05%) NetApp
15 10 (0.96%) Google
15 10 (0.96%) Polycom
16 9 (0.86%) Okta
16 9 (0.86%) Palo Alto