Microsoft 365 Engineer Contract Job Trends

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
UK

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 500 494
Rank change year-on-year -97 -6 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 88 60 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 46 47
10th Percentile £246 £129 £215
25th Percentile £417 £213 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £413
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -27.27% +8.20%
75th Percentile £550 £419 £510
90th Percentile £636 £488 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £275 £425
% change year-on-year +81.82% -35.29% +15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,838 30,062 35,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.24% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,768 18,992 22,689
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,565 1,567 1,847
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.84% +10.00%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Microsoft 365 Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
England -84 88 £500 +66.67% 16
London -45 52 £450 +44.00% 8
UK excluding London -96 36 £500 +81.82% 7
Work from Home -55 29 £500 +25.00% 5
North of England -61 16 £510 +27.54% 5
South East -60 15 £500 +81.82%
Yorkshire -38 8 £616 +389.09% 2
North West -56 8 £510 +27.54% 3
South West -41 3 £550 +221.64%
East Midlands -14 1 £250 -50.00% 1
East of England -31 1 £320 -5.19%
Midlands -52 1 £250 -16.67% 2

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 August 2026, Microsoft 365 Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (88.64%) Microsoft
3 56 (63.64%) SharePoint
4 50 (56.82%) Entra ID
5 41 (46.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 33 (37.50%) Azure
7 32 (36.36%) Active Directory
8 24 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (27.27%) OneDrive
9 23 (26.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
11 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
12 20 (22.73%) Migration
13 17 (19.32%) PowerShell
14 16 (18.18%) Windows
15 15 (17.05%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (15.91%) Zero Trust
17 11 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
17 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
18 10 (11.36%) Service Delivery
18 10 (11.36%) SIEM
18 10 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
19 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
19 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 9 (10.23%) Threat Detection
20 8 (9.09%) AI
20 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
20 8 (9.09%) DevOps
20 8 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
21 7 (7.95%) Change Management

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 56 (63.64%) SharePoint
2 41 (46.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (56.82%) Entra ID
3 33 (37.50%) Azure
4 24 (27.27%) OneDrive
5 23 (26.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 15 (17.05%) Microsoft Copilot
7 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.82%) PowerApps
9 5 (5.68%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.68%) SaaS
10 4 (4.55%) AWS
10 4 (4.55%) ShareGate
11 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.41%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (3.41%) Google Workspace
12 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.27%) Mimecast
12 2 (2.27%) Serverless
12 2 (2.27%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) DNS
2 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.55%) Firewall
4 3 (3.41%) DHCP
4 3 (3.41%) DKIM
5 2 (2.27%) LAN
5 2 (2.27%) Skype
5 2 (2.27%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.27%) WAN
6 1 (1.14%) DMARC
6 1 (1.14%) SMTP
6 1 (1.14%) VPN
6 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.41%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.14%) MSI
4 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Finance
3 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (5.68%) JSON
3 4 (4.55%) OAuth
3 4 (4.55%) OpenID
3 4 (4.55%) SAML
4 3 (3.41%) FIDO
4 3 (3.41%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.41%) Terraform
5 2 (2.27%) REST
5 2 (2.27%) SPFx
6 1 (1.14%) .NET
6 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.14%) Backbone.js
6 1 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.14%) React
6 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security Posture
1 9 (10.23%) Security Posture
2 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.41%) Blackberry
3 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.27%) Handset
5 1 (1.14%) BYOD
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Linked Data
5 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.41%) Android
3 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.73%) Migration
2 14 (15.91%) Zero Trust
3 11 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (11.36%) Service Delivery
4 10 (11.36%) SIEM
4 10 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
5 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (10.23%) Threat Detection
6 8 (9.09%) AI
6 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (9.09%) DevOps
7 7 (7.95%) Change Management
7 7 (7.95%) Roadmaps
8 6 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (6.82%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (6.82%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (6.82%) RBAC
8 6 (6.82%) Service Management
9 5 (5.68%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.32%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.41%) Python
3 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.14%) Bicep
4 1 (1.14%) C++
4 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.41%) SLA
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.27%) SCCM
5 1 (1.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 78 (88.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) Proofpoint
3 5 (5.68%) Google
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco
4 3 (3.41%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.27%) F5
5 2 (2.27%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.14%) Apple
6 1 (1.14%) Clearswift
6 1 (1.14%) Okta
6 1 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.14%) Qualys
6 1 (1.14%) Varonis
6 1 (1.14%) VMware