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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 38 41
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 5,653 4,047 4,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.98% 6.73% 6.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.11% 17.57% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,918 3,300 3,980
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,399 £36,500 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +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 23,450 23,032 28,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.10% 38.32% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 17,378 13,810 19,656
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 13 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 13 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 +12 1,485 £37,500 +2.74% 283
North of England +24 1,395 £37,500 -3.17% 304
Midlands +24 1,023 £35,000 -4.11% 225
South West +13 681 £37,500 +7.14% 165
North West +14 652 £40,000 -5.88% 161
West Midlands +24 627 £36,750 -8.13% 135
East of England +16 608 £32,500 -7.14% 144
Yorkshire +41 564 £35,000 +0.72% 110
East Midlands +35 389 £33,500 +4.69% 90
Scotland -36 274 £37,750 +0.67% 70
North East +27 179 £37,500 +5.63% 37
Wales +17 110 £28,290 -24.56% 28
Northern Ireland +27 55 £35,000 -15.66% 17
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 3
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 1,258 (22.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,247 (22.06%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.08%) Confluence
4 56 (0.99%) 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 (0.088%) 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
1 842 (14.89%) Microsoft Office
2 224 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 83 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (0.62%) 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%) 1Password
12 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 58 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.60%) 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%) Maximo
6 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 6 (0.11%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.11%) Shopify
8 5 (0.088%) NetSuite
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%) iTrent
12 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,843 (50.29%) Azure
2 956 (16.91%) Entra ID
3 480 (8.49%) Power Platform
4 419 (7.41%) AWS
5 385 (6.81%) OneDrive
6 227 (4.02%) PowerApps
7 195 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 191 (3.38%) SaaS
9 158 (2.79%) GCP
10 127 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
11 120 (2.12%) IaaS
12 119 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
13 107 (1.89%) PaaS
14 91 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
15 78 (1.38%) Google Workspace
16 73 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
17 68 (1.20%) Mimecast
18 54 (0.96%) WhatsApp
19 49 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
20 37 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,099 (19.44%) Firewall
2 801 (14.17%) DNS
3 602 (10.65%) DHCP
4 559 (9.89%) WAN
5 514 (9.09%) LAN
6 428 (7.57%) VPN
7 390 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
8 370 (6.55%) TCP/IP
9 279 (4.94%) VLAN
10 268 (4.74%) Wireless
11 262 (4.63%) SAN
11 262 (4.63%) VoIP
12 141 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
13 140 (2.48%) Internet
14 123 (2.18%) Network Security
15 103 (1.82%) SD-WAN
16 90 (1.59%) NAS
17 76 (1.34%) Intranet
17 76 (1.34%) Unified Communications
18 74 (1.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (5.15%) SQL Server
2 255 (4.51%) Power BI
3 96 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (0.92%) MySQL
5 34 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 25 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (0.34%) GIS
9 17 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.27%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
11 14 (0.25%) MariaDB
11 14 (0.25%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.21%) Metadata
13 11 (0.19%) EDMS
14 8 (0.14%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.14%) Power Query
15 7 (0.12%) Ingres
16 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%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.12%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.088%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.088%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.071%) Hudson
6 4 (0.071%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.053%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.035%) GitLab
9 1 (0.018%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.018%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.018%) MSI
9 1 (0.018%) Postman
General
1 1,881 (33.27%) Social Skills
2 561 (9.92%) Finance
3 379 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 246 (4.35%) Law
6 218 (3.86%) Retail
7 206 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 180 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 178 (3.15%) Legal
10 173 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 158 (2.79%) Public Sector
12 137 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 119 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
14 107 (1.89%) 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 38 (0.67%) Automotive
20 33 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,227 (21.71%) IT Support
2 973 (17.21%) Support Engineer
3 835 (14.77%) IT Engineer
4 789 (13.96%) Analyst
5 615 (10.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 563 (9.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 486 (8.60%) IT Technician
8 389 (6.88%) 2nd Line Support
9 364 (6.44%) Senior
10 357 (6.32%) Support Technician
11 311 (5.50%) IT Manager
12 296 (5.24%) IT Support Technician
13 282 (4.99%) Support Analyst
14 277 (4.90%) IT Analyst
15 265 (4.69%) 1st Line Support
16 263 (4.65%) Lead
17 241 (4.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 241 (4.26%) Service Analyst
18 230 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support
19 225 (3.98%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (2.32%) .NET
2 51 (0.90%) HTML
3 47 (0.83%) SPFx
4 37 (0.65%) 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 15 (0.27%) EDI
10 15 (0.27%) REST
11 14 (0.25%) RESTful
11 14 (0.25%) SAML
12 12 (0.21%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.21%) HTML5 Canvas
13 11 (0.19%) LDAP
14 10 (0.18%) Entity Framework
14 10 (0.18%) Node.js
14 10 (0.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 376 (6.65%) Driving Licence
2 256 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 243 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 191 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 167 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 120 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 106 (1.88%) Replication
8 103 (1.82%) PKI
9 64 (1.13%) Smartphone
10 63 (1.11%) 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 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
17 37 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3,085 (54.57%) Windows
2 1,672 (29.58%) Windows Server
3 925 (16.36%) Windows 10
4 307 (5.43%) Linux
5 295 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 269 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 221 (3.91%) Android
8 205 (3.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 185 (3.27%) Apple iOS
10 165 (2.92%) Mac OS
11 160 (2.83%) Windows 7
12 110 (1.95%) Windows 8
13 69 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 44 (0.78%) Ubuntu
15 43 (0.76%) CentOS
16 35 (0.62%) Mac OS X
17 33 (0.58%) VMS
18 26 (0.46%) Unix
19 21 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
20 17 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (21.35%) Customer Service
2 1,123 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
3 1,045 (18.49%) ITIL
4 782 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 611 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
6 422 (7.47%) Project Management
7 381 (6.74%) Migration
8 371 (6.56%) Agile
9 335 (5.93%) Service Delivery
10 306 (5.41%) Mentoring
11 303 (5.36%) Service Management
12 281 (4.97%) Project Delivery
13 259 (4.58%) DevOps
14 256 (4.53%) Business Intelligence
15 254 (4.49%) ITSM
16 243 (4.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 242 (4.28%) Disaster Recovery
18 224 (3.96%) Roadmaps
19 206 (3.64%) Presales
20 201 (3.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 534 (9.45%) SQL
2 500 (8.84%) PowerShell
3 83 (1.47%) C#
4 67 (1.19%) Python
5 55 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 51 (0.90%) Bash
7 35 (0.62%) Java
8 29 (0.51%) VB
9 28 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.37%) R
11 20 (0.35%) Bicep
12 18 (0.32%) VBScript
13 17 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.088%) Formula Language
14 5 (0.088%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.088%) Perl
14 5 (0.088%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.071%) PHP
15 4 (0.071%) VBA
Qualifications
1 775 (13.71%) Degree
2 413 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 215 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 179 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
5 164 (2.90%) SC Cleared
6 156 (2.76%) DBS Check
7 151 (2.67%) CCNA
8 139 (2.46%) Azure Certification
9 121 (2.14%) MCP
10 111 (1.96%) MCSE
11 103 (1.82%) A+ Certification
12 76 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
13 67 (1.19%) CISSP
13 67 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
14 66 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 63 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
15 63 (1.11%) MCSA
16 56 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
17 54 (0.96%) PMI Certification
18 42 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (7.04%) SLA
2 241 (4.26%) GDPR
3 174 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 157 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (1.22%) 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 14 (0.25%) Data Quality
15 12 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.12%) COBIT
16 7 (0.12%) NCSC
17 6 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.11%) ISO 14001
18 5 (0.088%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2,794 (49.43%) Active Directory
2 820 (14.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 799 (14.13%) Hyper-V
4 135 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 131 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
5 131 (2.32%) vSphere
6 106 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
7 86 (1.52%) XenApp
8 74 (1.31%) XenDesktop
9 45 (0.80%) VirtualBox
10 39 (0.69%) Terminal Services
11 37 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
12 27 (0.48%) Docker
13 17 (0.30%) VMware Server
14 16 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 15 (0.27%) Firmware
16 10 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
17 8 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 6 (0.11%) NFS
18 6 (0.11%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 955 (16.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 289 (5.11%) SCCM
3 78 (1.38%) Terraform
4 72 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 69 (1.22%) vCenter Server
6 61 (1.08%) 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 21 (0.37%) SmoothWall
16 21 (0.37%) ZABBIX
17 19 (0.34%) AirWatch
18 13 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3,957 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1,281 (22.66%) VMware
3 431 (7.62%) Cisco
4 397 (7.02%) Citrix
5 323 (5.71%) Veeam
6 229 (4.05%) Google
7 227 (4.02%) Apple
8 159 (2.81%) Meraki
9 155 (2.74%) HP
10 142 (2.51%) Sophos
11 137 (2.42%) Dell
12 131 (2.32%) ServiceNow
13 110 (1.95%) Fortinet
14 93 (1.65%) Aruba
15 66 (1.17%) Adobe
16 55 (0.97%) SAP
17 54 (0.96%) SolarWinds
18 51 (0.90%) Draytek
18 51 (0.90%) Salesforce
19 49 (0.87%) WatchGuard