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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 451 525
Rank change year-on-year -97 +74 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 96 82 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 58 52
10th Percentile £310 £179 £194
25th Percentile £425 £217 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £323 £386
Median % change year-on-year +55.04% -16.50% -6.36%
75th Percentile £585 £447 £451
90th Percentile £635 £532 £574
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £300 £375
% change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £22.21 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.83% +30.00% +69.49%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% +69.49%

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 46,477 27,381 40,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.25% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,258 17,617 25,961
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,104 1,172 2,957
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.87 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.86 £17.75 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -105 95 £500 +53.85% 33
London -38 53 £500 +53.85% 11
UK excluding London -108 43 £500 +66.67% 28
Work from Home -53 31 £500 +25.00% 20
North of England -65 24 £540 +50.00% 3
South East -48 15 £475 +72.73% 7
North West -44 12 £558 +35.15% 1
Yorkshire -49 11 £500 +157.40% 2
South West -36 2 £550 +33.33% 13
East of England -35 1 £320 +42.22%
Scotland - 1 £650 - 3
North East - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 96 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 79 (82.29%) Microsoft
3 60 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (46.88%) Active Directory
5 43 (44.79%) SharePoint
6 41 (42.71%) Entra ID
7 35 (36.46%) Azure
8 31 (32.29%) Migration
9 30 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (28.13%) PowerShell
11 26 (27.08%) OneDrive
12 20 (20.83%) Security Cleared
13 19 (19.79%) Roadmaps
14 18 (18.75%) Windows
15 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Office
16 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (15.63%) Degree
17 15 (15.63%) E-Discovery
18 14 (14.58%) Root Cause Analysis
19 13 (13.54%) Power Platform
19 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
20 12 (12.50%) Project Delivery
21 11 (11.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
21 11 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
21 11 (11.46%) High Availability
21 11 (11.46%) Identity Access Management
22 10 (10.42%) Power Automate
22 10 (10.42%) PowerApps

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 60 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (44.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (42.71%) Entra ID
3 35 (36.46%) Azure
4 26 (27.08%) OneDrive
5 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 13 (13.54%) Power Platform
7 10 (10.42%) Power Automate
7 10 (10.42%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.21%) AWS
9 4 (4.17%) Google Workspace
9 4 (4.17%) SaaS
9 4 (4.17%) ShareGate
10 3 (3.13%) IaaS
11 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.08%) GitHub
11 2 (2.08%) Mimecast
11 2 (2.08%) Serverless
11 2 (2.08%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Firewall
2 8 (8.33%) DNS
3 4 (4.17%) DKIM
3 4 (4.17%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.08%) DHCP
4 2 (2.08%) MPLS
4 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.04%) DMARC
5 1 (1.04%) LAN
5 1 (1.04%) VPN
5 1 (1.04%) WAN
5 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (3.13%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.08%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.58%) Finance
3 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Banking
6 4 (4.17%) Legal
7 3 (3.13%) International Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
1 4 (4.17%) OAuth
1 4 (4.17%) OpenID
1 4 (4.17%) SAML
2 3 (3.13%) FIDO
2 3 (3.13%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.08%) JSON
3 2 (2.08%) Web Services
4 1 (1.04%) React
4 1 (1.04%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) BYOD
2 6 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.21%) Cloud Security Posture
3 5 (5.21%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Social Media
6 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.75%) Windows
2 7 (7.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.29%) Migration
2 19 (19.79%) Roadmaps
3 15 (15.63%) E-Discovery
4 14 (14.58%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 11 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (11.46%) High Availability
6 11 (11.46%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (9.38%) Data Loss Prevention
7 9 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.38%) Zero Trust
8 8 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (7.29%) DevOps
9 7 (7.29%) RBAC
9 7 (7.29%) Technology Roadmap
10 6 (6.25%) AI
10 6 (6.25%) Contingency Planning
10 6 (6.25%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.25%) Service Delivery
10 6 (6.25%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.13%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.08%) Python
2 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (15.63%) Degree
4 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.33%) MCSA
5 8 (8.33%) MCSE
6 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) SLA
2 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (46.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) Docker
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (3.13%) Terraform
5 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.08%) SCCM
6 1 (1.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 79 (82.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.25%) Proofpoint
3 5 (5.21%) Cisco
3 5 (5.21%) Google
4 3 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.08%) Forcepoint
5 2 (2.08%) Verint
6 1 (1.04%) F5
6 1 (1.04%) Okta
6 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Qualys
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Varonis
6 1 (1.04%) VMware