Microsoft 365 Architect Contracts

Microsoft 365 Architect (M365 Architect)
UK

The median Microsoft 365 Architect (M365 Architect) daily rate in the UK is £606, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 605 776
Rank change year-on-year +55 +171 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Architect 37 82 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.15% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.16% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 60 58
10th Percentile £500 £506 £486
25th Percentile £518 £578 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £730 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% +21.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £672 £743 £700
90th Percentile £813 £810 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 40,372 52,578 83,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 94.46% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,931 36,522 59,135
10th Percentile £281 £313 £319
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £639
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -1.40% +4.28% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,874 1,517 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.86 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +75.44% +18.32%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.10 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%

Microsoft 365 Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft 365 Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK

Microsoft 365 Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK

Microsoft 365 Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect over the 6 months to 28 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK

Microsoft 365 Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 Architect in the UK

Microsoft 365 Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +50 34 £625 -15.54% 9
London +46 20 £576 -22.44% 3
Work from Home +54 14 £544 -26.52% 6
UK excluding London +43 12 £625 -5.66% 6
Midlands - 6 £520 -
West Midlands - 6 £520 -
South East +15 3 £625 -7.41% 2
North of England +28 2 £450 -30.77% 2
North West +19 2 £450 -30.77% 2
South West +8 2 £450 - 2
East of England - 1 £625 -

Microsoft 365 Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 June 2024, Microsoft 365 Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Microsoft 365 Architect in the job title.

1 36 (97.30%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (86.49%) Microsoft
3 29 (78.38%) Azure
4 26 (70.27%) SharePoint
5 19 (51.35%) Migration
6 17 (45.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (43.24%) OneDrive
8 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
9 14 (37.84%) Entra ID
10 13 (35.14%) PowerShell
11 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
11 11 (29.73%) Power Platform
12 10 (27.03%) Public Sector
12 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
13 9 (24.32%) Data Loss Prevention
13 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
14 8 (21.62%) Finance
14 8 (21.62%) Degree
14 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (21.62%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (18.92%) Change Management
15 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
16 6 (16.22%) Low-Code
16 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
16 6 (16.22%) Relational Database
16 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
17 5 (13.51%) E-Discovery
17 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree

Microsoft 365 Architect Skill Set
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 26 (70.27%) SharePoint
2 17 (45.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (97.30%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (78.38%) Azure
3 16 (43.24%) OneDrive
4 14 (37.84%) Entra ID
5 11 (29.73%) Power Platform
6 8 (21.62%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (10.81%) Yammer
8 2 (5.41%) SaaS
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) MPLS
1 3 (8.11%) PBX
1 3 (8.11%) PSTN
1 3 (8.11%) SNMP
1 3 (8.11%) VoIP
1 3 (8.11%) Wireshark
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 2 (5.41%) SSL
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) Metadata
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Public Sector
3 8 (21.62%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Legal
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) OAuth
1 2 (5.41%) OpenID
1 2 (5.41%) SAML
1 2 (5.41%) SPML
2 1 (2.70%) CAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) PKI
2 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
1 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Migration
2 9 (24.32%) Data Loss Prevention
3 7 (18.92%) Change Management
4 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
4 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
5 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
5 5 (13.51%) E-Discovery
5 5 (13.51%) ITIL
5 5 (13.51%) PRINCE2
5 5 (13.51%) Project Management
5 5 (13.51%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (10.81%) Identity Management
6 4 (10.81%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (10.81%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.62%) Degree
4 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (13.51%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.41%) CISA
7 2 (5.41%) CISM
7 2 (5.41%) CISSP
8 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (13.51%) PingFederate
3 4 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (86.49%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) CA