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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 420 505
Rank change year-on-year -129 +85 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 86 100 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.35% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.38% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 73 58
10th Percentile £318 £175 £162
25th Percentile £425 £230 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £583 £500 £488
90th Percentile £628 £621 £579
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £320 £375
% change year-on-year +56.25% -14.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £22.21 - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 44,842 26,406 39,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.30% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,414 17,194 25,665
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.82%
75th Percentile £617 £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 2,942 1,004 2,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.31% -23.38% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.44 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.04% -33.75% -5.88%

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 May 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 23 May 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 -123 85 £500 +21.21% 18
London -69 43 £500 +5.26% 5
UK excluding London -115 43 £500 +56.25% 18
Work from Home -51 26 £500 +21.21% 6
North of England -75 23 £540 +35.00% 1
South East -58 16 £475 +72.73% 4
North West -46 12 £558 +31.18%
Yorkshire -55 10 £500 +157.40% 1
South West -47 2 £550 +29.41% 6
Scotland -1 1 £650 +339.19% 2
East of England -35 1 £320 +42.22% 2
North East - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 86 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 70 (81.40%) Microsoft
3 54 (62.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (44.19%) Active Directory
5 36 (41.86%) Entra ID
6 34 (39.53%) Azure
6 34 (39.53%) SharePoint
7 28 (32.56%) Migration
8 26 (30.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (29.07%) PowerShell
10 22 (25.58%) OneDrive
11 18 (20.93%) Microsoft Office
11 18 (20.93%) Roadmaps
12 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
13 16 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (17.44%) Degree
14 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (17.44%) Windows
15 14 (16.28%) E-Discovery
16 13 (15.12%) Root Cause Analysis
17 12 (13.95%) High Availability
17 12 (13.95%) Power Platform
17 12 (13.95%) Project Delivery
18 11 (12.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 11 (12.79%) Disaster Recovery
19 10 (11.63%) Firewall
19 10 (11.63%) Identity Access Management
19 10 (11.63%) Power Automate
19 10 (11.63%) 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 54 (62.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (39.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (20.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (41.86%) Entra ID
3 34 (39.53%) Azure
4 22 (25.58%) OneDrive
5 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Copilot
5 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Purview
6 12 (13.95%) Power Platform
7 10 (11.63%) Power Automate
7 10 (11.63%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.98%) AWS
9 4 (4.65%) Google Workspace
10 3 (3.49%) IaaS
11 2 (2.33%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (2.33%) GitHub
11 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.33%) SaaS
11 2 (2.33%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) Firewall
2 5 (5.81%) DNS
3 3 (3.49%) DKIM
3 3 (3.49%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.33%) MPLS
4 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.16%) DHCP
5 1 (1.16%) DMARC
5 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (3.49%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.63%) Finance
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Legal
7 3 (3.49%) International Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (3.49%) FIDO
2 3 (3.49%) OAuth
2 3 (3.49%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.49%) OpenID
2 3 (3.49%) SAML
3 2 (2.33%) JSON
3 2 (2.33%) Web Services
4 1 (1.16%) React
4 1 (1.16%) REST
4 1 (1.16%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) BYOD
2 5 (5.81%) Cloud Security Posture
2 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.81%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Social Media
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.44%) Windows
2 6 (6.98%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.56%) Migration
2 18 (20.93%) Roadmaps
3 14 (16.28%) E-Discovery
4 13 (15.12%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (13.95%) High Availability
5 12 (13.95%) Project Delivery
6 11 (12.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (11.63%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (9.30%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.30%) Zero Trust
9 7 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.14%) DevOps
9 7 (8.14%) SIEM
10 6 (6.98%) Contingency Planning
10 6 (6.98%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.98%) PLM
10 6 (6.98%) RBAC
10 6 (6.98%) Service Delivery
10 6 (6.98%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.33%) Python
2 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (17.44%) Degree
4 9 (10.47%) SC Cleared
5 8 (9.30%) DV Cleared
5 8 (9.30%) MCSA
5 8 (9.30%) MCSE
6 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CCNA
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) SLA
2 3 (3.49%) GDPR
2 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.16%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (44.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.33%) Docker
3 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (30.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (12.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (3.49%) Terraform
5 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.33%) QRadar
5 2 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 70 (81.40%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) Cisco
2 5 (5.81%) Proofpoint
3 4 (4.65%) Google
4 3 (3.49%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.33%) Forcepoint
5 2 (2.33%) Qualys
5 2 (2.33%) Varonis
5 2 (2.33%) Verint
6 1 (1.16%) Okta
6 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.16%) VMware