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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 42 56
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,547 6,713 8,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.66% 6.48% 5.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.37% 15.15% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,466 5,512 7,090
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -3.53% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,298 £36,000 £35,450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +1.55% -5.71%

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 35,310 44,297 75,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.84% 42.78% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,696 29,083 41,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £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 £95,000 £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 4 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 4 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 6,902 £39,500 -2.47% 1,468
UK excluding London +14 5,689 £36,298 +0.83% 1,230
Work from Home +21 2,426 £45,000 -5.26% 575
London +13 1,632 £54,403 +4.03% 356
South East +12 1,509 £36,500 +1.39% 277
North of England +26 1,385 £37,500 -2.60% 302
Midlands +24 1,024 £35,000 -2.78% 208
South West +14 690 £37,500 +7.14% 188
North West +11 644 £40,000 -3.61% 161
West Midlands +20 632 £37,500 -6.25% 128
East of England +16 610 £32,500 -7.14% 149
Yorkshire +39 560 £35,000 +1.45% 112
East Midlands +30 385 £33,500 +5.51% 80
Scotland -34 284 £38,000 +1.33% 80
North East +27 181 £37,500 +7.14% 35
Wales +19 110 £28,290 -24.56% 37
Northern Ireland +23 55 £35,000 -6.67% 23
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 3
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 1,769 (23.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,644 (21.78%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.95%) IIS
4 70 (0.93%) 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 (0.27%) 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 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.080%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.053%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.053%) IBM Notes
16 4 (0.053%) Jupyter
17 3 (0.040%) Apache
Applications
1 1,139 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
2 291 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 7 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.093%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.093%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.080%) InVision
9 6 (0.080%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.080%) Sketch
10 4 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.053%) InDesign
11 3 (0.040%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.040%) SPSS
12 2 (0.027%) 1Password
12 2 (0.027%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.027%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 93 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 13 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 12 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.11%) Magento
7 8 (0.11%) Maximo
8 7 (0.093%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.093%) Sage 200
8 7 (0.093%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.080%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.080%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.080%) 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 3,822 (50.64%) Azure
2 1,267 (16.79%) Entra ID
3 719 (9.53%) Power Platform
4 562 (7.45%) AWS
5 501 (6.64%) OneDrive
6 361 (4.78%) PowerApps
7 325 (4.31%) Power Automate
8 306 (4.05%) SaaS
9 232 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
10 203 (2.69%) IaaS
11 199 (2.64%) GCP
12 189 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 184 (2.44%) PaaS
14 129 (1.71%) Mimecast
15 124 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
16 121 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
17 113 (1.50%) Google Workspace
18 83 (1.10%) WhatsApp
19 81 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
20 80 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,400 (18.55%) Firewall
2 998 (13.22%) DNS
3 804 (10.65%) WAN
4 739 (9.79%) DHCP
5 678 (8.98%) LAN
6 560 (7.42%) VPN
7 494 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
8 437 (5.79%) TCP/IP
8 437 (5.79%) Wireless
9 364 (4.82%) VLAN
10 328 (4.35%) SAN
11 297 (3.94%) VoIP
12 223 (2.95%) SD-WAN
13 189 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
14 171 (2.27%) Internet
15 161 (2.13%) Network Security
16 151 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
17 123 (1.63%) NAS
18 107 (1.42%) WebEx
19 93 (1.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 400 (5.30%) Power BI
3 96 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (0.76%) MySQL
6 56 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (0.25%) GIS
10 19 (0.25%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.21%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.21%) Metadata
12 14 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
12 14 (0.19%) MariaDB
13 12 (0.16%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.15%) EDMS
15 10 (0.13%) Power Query
15 10 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (0.093%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 132 (1.75%) JIRA
2 48 (0.64%) Git
3 22 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 8 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.066%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.066%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.053%) Hudson
8 4 (0.053%) MSI
8 4 (0.053%) Subversion
9 2 (0.027%) GitLab
9 2 (0.027%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.013%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.013%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.013%) Postman
10 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,493 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 984 (13.04%) Finance
3 569 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 385 (5.10%) Law
5 290 (3.84%) Legal
6 273 (3.62%) Manufacturing
7 261 (3.46%) Retail
8 257 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 253 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
10 221 (2.93%) Telecoms
11 216 (2.86%) Public Sector
12 174 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 152 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 147 (1.95%) Marketing
15 83 (1.10%) Banking
16 74 (0.98%) Local Government
17 73 (0.97%) Games
18 69 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 68 (0.90%) Automotive
20 60 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,567 (20.76%) IT Support
2 1,172 (15.53%) Support Engineer
3 1,093 (14.48%) Analyst
4 989 (13.10%) IT Engineer
5 712 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 700 (9.28%) IT Support Engineer
7 669 (8.86%) Senior
8 532 (7.05%) IT Technician
9 487 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
10 422 (5.59%) IT Analyst
11 399 (5.29%) Lead
12 397 (5.26%) IT Manager
13 394 (5.22%) Support Analyst
14 385 (5.10%) Support Technician
15 359 (4.76%) Architect
16 318 (4.21%) IT Support Technician
17 316 (4.19%) Service Analyst
18 310 (4.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 300 (3.98%) 1st Line Support
20 295 (3.91%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (2.62%) .NET
2 69 (0.91%) HTML
2 69 (0.91%) SPFx
3 57 (0.76%) ARM Templates
4 53 (0.70%) CSS
5 47 (0.62%) JSON
6 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 28 (0.37%) ASP.NET
8 27 (0.36%) React
9 22 (0.29%) EDI
9 22 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
10 19 (0.25%) RESTful
11 18 (0.24%) .NET Framework
11 18 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
11 18 (0.24%) REST
12 17 (0.23%) Web Services
13 16 (0.21%) OLE
14 15 (0.20%) SAML
14 15 (0.20%) YAML
15 13 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 397 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 347 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 300 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 261 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 226 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 215 (2.85%) Video Conferencing
7 176 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 140 (1.86%) PKI
9 131 (1.74%) Replication
10 104 (1.38%) Wiki
11 82 (1.09%) Clustering
11 82 (1.09%) Smartphone
12 78 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 77 (1.02%) iPad
14 72 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
15 70 (0.93%) CCTV
16 63 (0.83%) Product Ownership
17 59 (0.78%) iPhone
17 59 (0.78%) Private Cloud
18 55 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4,100 (54.33%) Windows
2 2,033 (26.94%) Windows Server
3 1,366 (18.10%) Windows 10
4 378 (5.01%) Android
5 373 (4.94%) Linux
6 351 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 318 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 270 (3.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 254 (3.37%) Apple iOS
10 240 (3.18%) Mac OS
11 198 (2.62%) Windows 7
12 116 (1.54%) Windows 8
13 89 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
14 63 (0.83%) Mac OS X
15 62 (0.82%) Ubuntu
16 42 (0.56%) CentOS
17 41 (0.54%) VMS
18 30 (0.40%) Unix
19 28 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
20 22 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,472 (19.50%) Customer Service
2 1,458 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
3 1,352 (17.91%) ITIL
4 966 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 846 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
6 565 (7.49%) Project Management
7 511 (6.77%) Agile
8 504 (6.68%) Migration
9 472 (6.25%) Service Delivery
10 404 (5.35%) Mentoring
11 397 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
12 388 (5.14%) Service Management
13 379 (5.02%) ITSM
14 369 (4.89%) DevOps
14 369 (4.89%) Project Delivery
15 353 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 335 (4.44%) Information Security
17 330 (4.37%) Roadmaps
18 312 (4.13%) Disaster Recovery
19 307 (4.07%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 809 (10.72%) PowerShell
2 673 (8.92%) SQL
3 152 (2.01%) C#
4 100 (1.33%) Python
5 91 (1.21%) Bash
6 84 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 42 (0.56%) T-SQL
8 41 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.49%) Java
10 31 (0.41%) VB
11 29 (0.38%) Bicep
12 21 (0.28%) R
13 18 (0.24%) VBScript
14 10 (0.13%) PHP
15 9 (0.12%) Perl
15 9 (0.12%) VBA
16 7 (0.093%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.066%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.066%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.066%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,151 (15.25%) Degree
2 540 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 275 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 224 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
5 205 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 202 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 198 (2.62%) SC Cleared
8 185 (2.45%) DBS Check
9 171 (2.27%) CCNA
10 152 (2.01%) Master's Degree
11 141 (1.87%) CISSP
12 137 (1.82%) MCSE
13 131 (1.74%) MCP
14 124 (1.64%) A+ Certification
15 111 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
16 95 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 93 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
18 78 (1.03%) MCSA
19 68 (0.90%) PMI Certification
20 56 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (6.88%) SLA
2 282 (3.74%) GDPR
3 245 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 238 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 98 (1.30%) NIST
6 72 (0.95%) QA
7 48 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 34 (0.45%) GRC
10 33 (0.44%) PMO
11 32 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 27 (0.36%) Data Quality
13 23 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 18 (0.24%) COBIT
16 17 (0.23%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.20%) NCSC
18 6 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.080%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,699 (49.01%) Active Directory
2 1,034 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 902 (11.95%) Hyper-V
4 281 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
5 192 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 190 (2.52%) XenApp
7 178 (2.36%) vSphere
8 172 (2.28%) XenDesktop
9 124 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
10 102 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
11 59 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
12 49 (0.65%) Terminal Services
13 47 (0.62%) VirtualBox
14 30 (0.40%) Docker
15 22 (0.29%) Firmware
16 17 (0.23%) 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 1,295 (17.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 534 (7.08%) SCCM
3 117 (1.55%) AirWatch
4 111 (1.47%) Terraform
5 96 (1.27%) vCenter Server
6 88 (1.17%) WSUS
7 78 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 75 (0.99%) Kubernetes
10 68 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
11 48 (0.64%) FortiGate
12 47 (0.62%) SCOM
13 43 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.56%) Ansible
15 39 (0.52%) CASB
16 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
17 27 (0.36%) Nagios
18 26 (0.34%) Autotask
19 22 (0.29%) SmoothWall
19 22 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5,370 (71.15%) Microsoft
2 1,603 (21.24%) VMware
3 691 (9.16%) Cisco
4 590 (7.82%) Citrix
5 373 (4.94%) Veeam
6 339 (4.49%) Apple
7 298 (3.95%) Google
8 219 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 205 (2.72%) Meraki
10 203 (2.69%) HP
11 170 (2.25%) Dell
12 156 (2.07%) Sophos
13 126 (1.67%) Fortinet
14 109 (1.44%) Aruba
15 98 (1.30%) iManage
16 85 (1.13%) Adobe
17 79 (1.05%) SAP
18 71 (0.94%) SolarWinds
19 63 (0.83%) Salesforce
20 62 (0.82%) Palo Alto