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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 492 503
Rank change year-on-year -66 +11 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 100 69 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 52 57
10th Percentile £294 £207 £163
25th Percentile £417 £230 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £313 £398
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -21.38% -6.47%
75th Percentile £587 £438 £488
90th Percentile £638 £530 £547
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £288 £406
% change year-on-year +73.91% -29.23% +6.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +66.67%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% +66.67%

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 48,822 29,919 38,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.60% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,449 19,032 24,743
10th Percentile £325 £285 £298
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,293 1,436 2,397
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% +6.78%

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 23 July 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 13 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 23 July 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 -86 100 £500 +60.00% 18
London -32 55 £500 +53.85% 2
UK excluding London -97 45 £500 +73.91% 16
Work from Home -61 32 £500 +25.00% 5
North of England -64 25 £525 +31.25% 8
South East -61 16 £500 +81.82% 4
North West -47 13 £540 +27.06% 4
Yorkshire -41 11 £500 +296.83% 4
South West -40 2 £550 +174.31% 1
East Midlands -12 1 £250 -50.00% 1
East of England -33 1 £320 +42.22%
Midlands -62 1 £250 -16.67% 3
North East - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 100 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 88 (88.00%) Microsoft
3 58 (58.00%) SharePoint
4 53 (53.00%) Entra ID
5 52 (52.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (40.00%) Azure
7 39 (39.00%) Active Directory
8 30 (30.00%) OneDrive
9 25 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (23.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (23.00%) Migration
11 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
12 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (21.00%) PowerShell
13 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
14 17 (17.00%) Power Platform
15 16 (16.00%) Windows
16 14 (14.00%) Roadmaps
17 13 (13.00%) Zero Trust
18 12 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
19 11 (11.00%) Identity Access Management
19 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Certification
19 11 (11.00%) Power Automate
19 11 (11.00%) PowerApps
20 10 (10.00%) Change Management
20 10 (10.00%) Degree
20 10 (10.00%) Project Delivery
20 10 (10.00%) Service Delivery
21 9 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
21 9 (9.00%) SIEM

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 58 (58.00%) SharePoint
2 52 (52.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (53.00%) Entra ID
3 40 (40.00%) Azure
4 30 (30.00%) OneDrive
5 23 (23.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (17.00%) Power Platform
8 11 (11.00%) Power Automate
8 11 (11.00%) PowerApps
9 5 (5.00%) AWS
9 5 (5.00%) SaaS
10 4 (4.00%) Google Workspace
10 4 (4.00%) ShareGate
11 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.00%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) DNS
2 7 (7.00%) Firewall
3 4 (4.00%) DKIM
3 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.00%) DHCP
4 3 (3.00%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.00%) LAN
5 2 (2.00%) WAN
6 1 (1.00%) DMARC
6 1 (1.00%) MPLS
6 1 (1.00%) Skype
6 1 (1.00%) VPN
6 1 (1.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.00%) Power BI
2 1 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.00%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.00%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.00%) MSI
4 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Finance
3 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.00%) International Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (5.00%) JSON
3 4 (4.00%) OAuth
3 4 (4.00%) OpenID
3 4 (4.00%) SAML
4 3 (3.00%) FIDO
4 3 (3.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.00%) REST
5 2 (2.00%) SPFx
6 1 (1.00%) .NET
6 1 (1.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.00%) Backbone.js
6 1 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.00%) React
6 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 8 (8.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (5.00%) BYOD
3 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Handset
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Linked Data
6 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.00%) Migration
2 14 (14.00%) Roadmaps
3 13 (13.00%) Zero Trust
4 12 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (11.00%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (10.00%) Change Management
6 10 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 10 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 9 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (9.00%) SIEM
7 9 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (8.00%) AI
8 8 (8.00%) Cloud Security
8 8 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (8.00%) DevOps
8 8 (8.00%) E-Discovery
8 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (8.00%) Threat Detection
9 7 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.00%) Python
3 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.00%) Bicep
4 1 (1.00%) C++
4 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (10.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.00%) MCSA
6 1 (1.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.00%) SLA
2 4 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (39.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (3.00%) Terraform
5 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.00%) SCCM
6 1 (1.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 88 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Proofpoint
3 5 (5.00%) Cisco
3 5 (5.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.00%) F5
5 2 (2.00%) Forcepoint
5 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.00%) Apple
6 1 (1.00%) Okta
6 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Qualys
6 1 (1.00%) Varonis
6 1 (1.00%) Verint
6 1 (1.00%) VMware