Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 42 56
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,582 6,725 8,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.69% 6.48% 5.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.44% 15.11% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,492 5,506 7,108
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,875 £24,969
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £36,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year - +2.82% -5.33%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,366 44,509 75,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.89% 42.88% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 26,758 29,173 41,880
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +19 6,935 £39,747 -2.74% 1,420
UK excluding London +16 5,712 £36,500 - 1,208
Work from Home +21 2,435 £45,000 -5.26% 552
London +13 1,641 £54,250 +3.33% 325
South East +13 1,518 £36,500 +1.39% 265
North of England +26 1,390 £37,500 -3.79% 302
Midlands +21 1,026 £35,000 -4.11% 212
South West +13 694 £37,500 +4.17% 177
North West +14 647 £40,000 -3.61% 161
West Midlands +21 633 £37,500 -6.25% 130
East of England +16 612 £32,500 -7.14% 146
Yorkshire +40 561 £35,000 +1.45% 114
East Midlands +31 386 £33,500 +7.20% 82
Scotland -31 286 £38,000 +2.01% 84
North East +25 182 £37,500 +5.63% 32
Wales +20 110 £28,290 -24.56% 34
Northern Ireland +26 54 £35,000 -6.67% 21
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 1
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%

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 1,782 (23.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,653 (21.80%) SharePoint
3 74 (0.98%) IIS
4 70 (0.92%) Confluence
5 46 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
6 43 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
7 41 (0.54%) Skype for Business
8 34 (0.45%) WordPress
9 26 (0.34%) CMS
10 20 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
11 11 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
12 10 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
13 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.11%) SAS
15 6 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.079%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.053%) Alfresco
16 4 (0.053%) Documentum
16 4 (0.053%) IBM Notes
16 4 (0.053%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,144 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
2 292 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 7 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.092%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.092%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.079%) InVision
9 6 (0.079%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.079%) Sketch
10 4 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.053%) InDesign
11 3 (0.040%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.040%) SPSS
12 2 (0.026%) 1Password
12 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.026%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 92 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 13 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 11 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
6 9 (0.12%) Maximo
7 8 (0.11%) Magento
7 8 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.092%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.092%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.079%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.079%) Shopify
10 5 (0.066%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.066%) SAP CX
11 4 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.040%) Eikon
12 3 (0.040%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 3,848 (50.75%) Azure
2 1,269 (16.74%) Entra ID
3 723 (9.54%) Power Platform
4 567 (7.48%) AWS
5 502 (6.62%) OneDrive
6 365 (4.81%) PowerApps
7 327 (4.31%) Power Automate
8 309 (4.08%) SaaS
9 233 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
10 206 (2.72%) IaaS
11 199 (2.62%) GCP
12 190 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
13 187 (2.47%) PaaS
14 130 (1.71%) Mimecast
15 124 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
15 124 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
16 113 (1.49%) Google Workspace
17 84 (1.11%) WhatsApp
18 81 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
19 80 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,410 (18.60%) Firewall
2 1,006 (13.27%) DNS
3 810 (10.68%) WAN
4 747 (9.85%) DHCP
5 681 (8.98%) LAN
6 566 (7.47%) VPN
7 497 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
8 440 (5.80%) Wireless
9 438 (5.78%) TCP/IP
10 368 (4.85%) VLAN
11 330 (4.35%) SAN
12 299 (3.94%) VoIP
13 225 (2.97%) SD-WAN
14 191 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
15 171 (2.26%) Internet
16 162 (2.14%) Network Security
17 153 (2.02%) Cisco IOS
18 122 (1.61%) NAS
19 109 (1.44%) WebEx
20 94 (1.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 398 (5.25%) Power BI
3 99 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (0.75%) MySQL
6 56 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (0.26%) GIS
11 19 (0.25%) Relational Database
12 16 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.21%) Metadata
13 14 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
13 14 (0.18%) MariaDB
14 13 (0.17%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.15%) EDMS
16 10 (0.13%) Power Query
16 10 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (0.092%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 132 (1.74%) JIRA
2 49 (0.65%) Git
3 22 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 9 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.066%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.066%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.053%) Hudson
9 4 (0.053%) MSI
9 4 (0.053%) Subversion
10 2 (0.026%) GitLab
10 2 (0.026%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.013%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.013%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.013%) Postman
11 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
11 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,502 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 987 (13.02%) Finance
3 571 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 385 (5.08%) Law
5 294 (3.88%) Legal
6 271 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 263 (3.47%) Retail
8 257 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 253 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
10 218 (2.88%) Telecoms
11 216 (2.85%) Public Sector
12 175 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 152 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 148 (1.95%) Marketing
15 84 (1.11%) Banking
16 74 (0.98%) Local Government
17 73 (0.96%) Games
18 69 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 68 (0.90%) Automotive
20 60 (0.79%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,575 (20.77%) IT Support
2 1,178 (15.54%) Support Engineer
3 1,099 (14.49%) Analyst
4 995 (13.12%) IT Engineer
5 723 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 703 (9.27%) IT Support Engineer
7 677 (8.93%) Senior
8 533 (7.03%) IT Technician
9 490 (6.46%) 2nd Line Support
10 426 (5.62%) IT Analyst
11 403 (5.32%) Lead
12 398 (5.25%) Support Analyst
13 397 (5.24%) IT Manager
14 385 (5.08%) Support Technician
15 361 (4.76%) Architect
16 319 (4.21%) Service Analyst
17 318 (4.19%) IT Support Technician
18 312 (4.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 300 (3.96%) 1st Line Support
20 297 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (2.62%) .NET
2 70 (0.92%) HTML
3 69 (0.91%) SPFx
4 57 (0.75%) ARM Templates
5 54 (0.71%) CSS
6 48 (0.63%) JSON
7 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 28 (0.37%) ASP.NET
9 27 (0.36%) React
10 22 (0.29%) EDI
10 22 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
11 20 (0.26%) REST
12 19 (0.25%) RESTful
13 18 (0.24%) .NET Framework
13 18 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (0.22%) Web Services
15 16 (0.21%) OLE
16 15 (0.20%) SAML
16 15 (0.20%) YAML
17 13 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 399 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 349 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 300 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 263 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 225 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 217 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
7 176 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 140 (1.85%) PKI
9 132 (1.74%) Replication
10 106 (1.40%) Wiki
11 85 (1.12%) Clustering
12 84 (1.11%) Smartphone
13 78 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 77 (1.02%) iPad
15 72 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
16 70 (0.92%) CCTV
17 64 (0.84%) Product Ownership
18 60 (0.79%) iPhone
19 59 (0.78%) Private Cloud
20 55 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4,123 (54.38%) Windows
2 2,042 (26.93%) Windows Server
3 1,377 (18.16%) Windows 10
4 381 (5.03%) Android
5 374 (4.93%) Linux
6 353 (4.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 323 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 272 (3.59%) Windows Server 2012
9 254 (3.35%) Apple iOS
10 240 (3.17%) Mac OS
11 199 (2.62%) Windows 7
12 116 (1.53%) Windows 8
13 91 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
14 63 (0.83%) Mac OS X
15 62 (0.82%) Ubuntu
16 42 (0.55%) CentOS
17 41 (0.54%) VMS
18 30 (0.40%) Unix
19 29 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
20 22 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,473 (19.43%) Customer Service
2 1,465 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
3 1,363 (17.98%) ITIL
4 978 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 850 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
6 566 (7.47%) Project Management
7 513 (6.77%) Agile
8 505 (6.66%) Migration
9 476 (6.28%) Service Delivery
10 404 (5.33%) Mentoring
11 395 (5.21%) Business Intelligence
12 387 (5.10%) Service Management
13 381 (5.03%) ITSM
14 369 (4.87%) DevOps
14 369 (4.87%) Project Delivery
15 354 (4.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 339 (4.47%) Information Security
17 333 (4.39%) Roadmaps
18 313 (4.13%) Disaster Recovery
19 308 (4.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 811 (10.70%) PowerShell
2 675 (8.90%) SQL
3 153 (2.02%) C#
4 101 (1.33%) Python
5 91 (1.20%) Bash
6 86 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 42 (0.55%) T-SQL
7 42 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 39 (0.51%) Java
9 31 (0.41%) VB
10 29 (0.38%) Bicep
11 21 (0.28%) R
12 18 (0.24%) VBScript
13 11 (0.15%) PHP
14 9 (0.12%) Perl
14 9 (0.12%) VBA
15 7 (0.092%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.079%) Ruby
17 5 (0.066%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.066%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,163 (15.34%) Degree
2 541 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 279 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 226 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
5 210 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 205 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 202 (2.66%) SC Cleared
8 185 (2.44%) DBS Check
9 172 (2.27%) CCNA
10 154 (2.03%) Master's Degree
11 142 (1.87%) CISSP
12 137 (1.81%) MCSE
13 131 (1.73%) MCP
14 127 (1.68%) A+ Certification
15 112 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
16 95 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 94 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
18 78 (1.03%) MCSA
19 68 (0.90%) PMI Certification
20 56 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 521 (6.87%) SLA
2 285 (3.76%) GDPR
3 246 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 239 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 99 (1.31%) NIST
6 72 (0.95%) QA
7 48 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.46%) Accessibility
10 34 (0.45%) GRC
11 33 (0.44%) PMO
12 32 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 27 (0.36%) Data Quality
14 23 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 18 (0.24%) COBIT
17 17 (0.22%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.20%) NCSC
19 6 (0.079%) Actionable Recommendations
19 6 (0.079%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,722 (49.09%) Active Directory
2 1,037 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 903 (11.91%) Hyper-V
4 282 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
5 194 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 192 (2.53%) XenApp
7 179 (2.36%) vSphere
8 174 (2.29%) XenDesktop
9 125 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
10 104 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
11 60 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 49 (0.65%) Terminal Services
13 47 (0.62%) VirtualBox
14 30 (0.40%) Docker
15 24 (0.32%) Firmware
16 17 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.21%) VMware Server
18 13 (0.17%) vCloud
19 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
19 10 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,309 (17.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 538 (7.10%) SCCM
3 120 (1.58%) AirWatch
4 111 (1.46%) Terraform
5 95 (1.25%) vCenter Server
6 88 (1.16%) WSUS
7 79 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 75 (0.99%) Kubernetes
10 68 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
11 50 (0.66%) FortiGate
12 48 (0.63%) SCOM
13 45 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.55%) Ansible
15 39 (0.51%) CASB
16 32 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
17 27 (0.36%) Nagios
18 26 (0.34%) Autotask
19 22 (0.29%) Nessus
19 22 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5,400 (71.22%) Microsoft
2 1,610 (21.23%) VMware
3 695 (9.17%) Cisco
4 593 (7.82%) Citrix
5 374 (4.93%) Veeam
6 340 (4.48%) Apple
7 298 (3.93%) Google
8 220 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 205 (2.70%) Meraki
10 204 (2.69%) HP
11 172 (2.27%) Dell
12 158 (2.08%) Sophos
13 126 (1.66%) Fortinet
14 111 (1.46%) Aruba
15 99 (1.31%) iManage
16 85 (1.12%) Adobe
17 78 (1.03%) SAP
18 71 (0.94%) SolarWinds
19 64 (0.84%) Salesforce
20 63 (0.83%) Palo Alto