Microsoft 365 Contracts in England

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 37 45
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,639 2,464 3,761
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.41% 5.22% 5.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.78% 14.40% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 1,814 2,774
10th Percentile £156 £163 £150
25th Percentile £200 £206 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £515
90th Percentile £638 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £350 £385 £375
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 101 181
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.04
Median hourly rate £16.47 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +8.57% +8.53%
75th Percentile £21.37 £26.48 £22.25
90th Percentile £24.05 £64.50 £27.75
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.82% +11.43% +10.24%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,896 17,108 27,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.26% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,524 12,542 20,154
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 284 319
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.02 £19.69 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.44 £70.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
% change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in England

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London -3 730 £422 -2.99% 286
North of England -2 233 £251 -16.25% 307
South East -6 232 £289 -9.77% 271
Midlands -3 177 £265 -22.06% 223
North West 0 152 £283 -19.14% 163
South West -5 139 £225 -30.77% 171
West Midlands -3 118 £350 -6.67% 126
East of England -7 95 £325 +32.65% 106
Yorkshire -13 70 £223 -11.00% 117
East Midlands +1 59 £200 -11.11% 97
North East +15 10 £190 +8.57% 31
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 400 (24.41%) SharePoint
2 330 (20.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.53%) Skype for Business
4 20 (1.22%) Confluence
5 14 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 14 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
6 12 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (0.73%) IIS
7 10 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2003
8 7 (0.43%) CMS
9 6 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
10 5 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.18%) IBM Notes
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.18%) WordPress
12 1 (0.061%) Apache
12 1 (0.061%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.061%) Drupal
12 1 (0.061%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.061%) Umbraco
Applications
1 232 (14.15%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) SPSS
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.12%) Eikon
4 2 (0.12%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.12%) Relativity
4 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.061%) Magento
5 1 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.061%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.061%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 611 (37.28%) Azure
2 227 (13.85%) Entra ID
3 181 (11.04%) Power Platform
4 136 (8.30%) OneDrive
5 104 (6.35%) PowerApps
6 86 (5.25%) Power Automate
7 76 (4.64%) AWS
8 51 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
9 40 (2.44%) IaaS
10 38 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (2.26%) SaaS
12 36 (2.20%) Mimecast
13 33 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
14 30 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
14 30 (1.83%) PaaS
15 28 (1.71%) Azure Storage
16 20 (1.22%) WhatsApp
17 19 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
18 17 (1.04%) GitHub
18 17 (1.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 142 (8.66%) DNS
2 140 (8.54%) Firewall
3 94 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
4 89 (5.43%) DHCP
5 79 (4.82%) VPN
6 63 (3.84%) LAN
7 52 (3.17%) VoIP
8 51 (3.11%) WAN
9 49 (2.99%) Wireless
10 37 (2.26%) TCP/IP
11 29 (1.77%) Skype
12 27 (1.65%) SAN
13 24 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
14 23 (1.40%) Intranet
15 19 (1.16%) VLAN
16 17 (1.04%) Internet
16 17 (1.04%) Network Security
17 13 (0.79%) MPLS
18 11 (0.67%) NAS
19 10 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (5.43%) Power BI
2 85 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 10 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.18%) BusinessObjects XI
7 3 (0.18%) Power Query
7 3 (0.18%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.12%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.12%) Metadata
8 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.12%) Tableau
9 1 (0.061%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.061%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.061%) DTS
9 1 (0.061%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (3.17%) JIRA
2 15 (0.92%) GitLab
3 10 (0.61%) Hudson
3 10 (0.61%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.43%) Git
5 5 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.12%) Subversion
8 1 (0.061%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.061%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.061%) MSI
General
1 531 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 230 (14.03%) Finance
3 177 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 133 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (4.15%) Legal
6 59 (3.60%) Banking
7 55 (3.36%) Retail
8 47 (2.87%) Marketing
9 46 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 41 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.53%) Electronics
15 23 (1.40%) Law
16 20 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.04%) Local Government
19 15 (0.92%) Advertising
20 14 (0.85%) French Language
Job Titles
1 261 (15.92%) Analyst
2 219 (13.36%) Support Engineer
3 167 (10.19%) IT Support
4 153 (9.33%) Architect
5 126 (7.69%) Service Analyst
6 123 (7.50%) Service Desk Analyst
7 107 (6.53%) IT Engineer
8 99 (6.04%) Senior
9 97 (5.92%) Desktop Support
10 95 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 91 (5.55%) 2nd Line Support
12 75 (4.58%) Developer
13 74 (4.51%) IT Support Engineer
14 67 (4.09%) Support Analyst
15 66 (4.03%) Consultant
15 66 (4.03%) Desktop Engineer
16 58 (3.54%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 54 (3.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 51 (3.11%) IT Analyst
19 49 (2.99%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.71%) .NET
2 20 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 19 (1.16%) REST
4 15 (0.92%) XML
5 13 (0.79%) JSON
6 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
7 11 (0.67%) CSS
8 8 (0.49%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (0.49%) SPFx
9 7 (0.43%) OAuth
10 6 (0.37%) React
10 6 (0.37%) SAML
11 5 (0.31%) LDAP
12 4 (0.24%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.24%) HTML
12 4 (0.24%) jQuery
12 4 (0.24%) OpenID
12 4 (0.24%) RESTful
12 4 (0.24%) SOAP
12 4 (0.24%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 53 (3.23%) PKI
2 51 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
3 48 (2.93%) Management Information System
4 47 (2.87%) Video Conferencing
5 35 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 25 (1.53%) Driving Licence
8 24 (1.46%) NHS
9 23 (1.40%) iPhone
10 22 (1.34%) iPad
11 20 (1.22%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.22%) Video Editing
12 19 (1.16%) Digital Signage
13 18 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.85%) Clustering
16 13 (0.79%) EPoS
16 13 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 827 (50.46%) Windows
2 387 (23.61%) Windows 10
3 269 (16.41%) Windows Server
4 93 (5.67%) Apple iOS
5 76 (4.64%) Android
6 70 (4.27%) Linux
7 69 (4.21%) Mac OS
8 68 (4.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 62 (3.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 58 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 57 (3.48%) Windows 7
12 21 (1.28%) Windows Server 2008
13 15 (0.92%) Mac OS X
14 14 (0.85%) VMS
15 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
16 6 (0.37%) Unix
16 6 (0.37%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.18%) Debian
18 1 (0.061%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (17.21%) Customer Service
2 276 (16.84%) ITIL
3 237 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
4 210 (12.81%) Migration
5 157 (9.58%) Agile
6 131 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 110 (6.71%) Change Management
8 106 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
9 98 (5.98%) DevOps
10 96 (5.86%) Project Management
11 88 (5.37%) Service Delivery
12 74 (4.51%) Incident Management
12 74 (4.51%) Roadmaps
13 73 (4.45%) Mobile Device Management
14 72 (4.39%) Service Management
15 71 (4.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 70 (4.27%) Cybersecurity
17 66 (4.03%) Information Security
18 62 (3.78%) ITSM
19 55 (3.36%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 249 (15.19%) PowerShell
2 63 (3.84%) SQL
3 56 (3.42%) C#
4 28 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (1.28%) Bicep
5 21 (1.28%) VB
5 21 (1.28%) VBScript
6 17 (1.04%) Python
7 12 (0.73%) C
8 10 (0.61%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.49%) Swift
10 3 (0.18%) Bash
10 3 (0.18%) Java
10 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.12%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 241 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 185 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 183 (11.17%) Degree
4 125 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 59 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 53 (3.23%) MCSA
7 46 (2.81%) A+ Certification
8 44 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
10 28 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (1.22%) CCNA
13 20 (1.22%) DBS Check
14 17 (1.04%) MCSE
15 16 (0.98%) CISSP
16 13 (0.79%) MCP
17 12 (0.73%) CISM
18 10 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
19 5 (0.31%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.41%) SLA
2 23 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.04%) NIST
3 17 (1.04%) QA
4 16 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.79%) GDPR
7 8 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.31%) GRC
9 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.24%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.24%) PMO
10 3 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.12%) COBIT
11 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.061%) ISAE 3402
12 1 (0.061%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 766 (46.74%) Active Directory
2 96 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (3.54%) Hyper-V
3 58 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 47 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.34%) vSphere
6 13 (0.79%) BitLocker
6 13 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.61%) XenApp
8 9 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 8 (0.49%) XenDesktop
10 6 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.24%) Firmware
12 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.12%) Docker
14 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.061%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 280 (17.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 212 (12.93%) SCCM
3 41 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 38 (2.32%) SCOM
5 33 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
6 32 (1.95%) WSUS
7 31 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.53%) Kubernetes
9 13 (0.79%) Terraform
10 11 (0.67%) Autotask
10 11 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
11 10 (0.61%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.55%) Ansible
13 8 (0.49%) PingFederate
14 7 (0.43%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.31%) AirWatch
15 5 (0.31%) SCVMM
15 5 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 4 (0.24%) VxRail
17 3 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,051 (64.12%) Microsoft
2 177 (10.80%) VMware
3 153 (9.33%) Citrix
4 143 (8.72%) ServiceNow
5 112 (6.83%) Apple
6 73 (4.45%) Cisco
7 40 (2.44%) Veeam
8 38 (2.32%) SAP
9 31 (1.89%) NetApp
10 28 (1.71%) Google
11 26 (1.59%) Dell
11 26 (1.59%) HP
11 26 (1.59%) Oracle
12 25 (1.53%) Adobe
13 17 (1.04%) CA
14 16 (0.98%) MobileIron
14 16 (0.98%) Okta
14 16 (0.98%) Sophos
15 13 (0.79%) Bloomberg
15 13 (0.79%) Palo Alto