Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 42 56
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,569 6,721 8,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.68% 6.48% 5.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.39% 15.14% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,483 5,505 7,107
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -3.53% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £36,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year +1.39% +1.41% -5.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +19 6,924 £39,747 -1.86% 1,428
UK excluding London +16 5,704 £36,500 +1.39% 1,205
Work from Home +22 2,437 £45,000 -4.26% 554
London +13 1,637 £54,556 +4.32% 342
South East +13 1,514 £36,500 +1.39% 267
North of England +26 1,388 £37,500 -2.60% 298
Midlands +20 1,026 £35,000 -0.61% 211
South West +13 693 £37,500 +7.14% 176
North West +13 646 £40,000 -3.61% 157
West Midlands +20 634 £37,500 -6.25% 128
East of England +14 612 £32,500 -7.14% 147
Yorkshire +38 560 £35,000 +1.45% 113
East Midlands +25 385 £33,500 +6.35% 83
Scotland -36 284 £38,000 +1.33% 84
North East +28 182 £37,500 +7.14% 34
Wales +16 110 £28,290 -24.56% 34
Northern Ireland +26 55 £35,000 -6.67% 21
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands -2 4 £85,000 +136.11%

Microsoft 365
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 1,775 (23.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,648 (21.77%) SharePoint
3 74 (0.98%) IIS
4 70 (0.92%) Confluence
5 46 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
6 43 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
7 41 (0.54%) Skype for Business
8 34 (0.45%) WordPress
9 26 (0.34%) CMS
10 20 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
11 11 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
12 10 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
13 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.11%) SAS
15 6 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.079%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.053%) Alfresco
16 4 (0.053%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.053%) Documentum
16 4 (0.053%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,141 (15.07%) Microsoft Office
2 292 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 7 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.092%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.092%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.079%) InVision
9 6 (0.079%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.079%) Sketch
10 4 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.053%) InDesign
11 3 (0.040%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.040%) SPSS
12 2 (0.026%) 1Password
12 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.026%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 93 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 13 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 12 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
7 9 (0.12%) Maximo
8 8 (0.11%) Magento
9 7 (0.092%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.092%) Sage 200
9 7 (0.092%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.079%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.079%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.079%) Shopify
11 5 (0.066%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.066%) SAP CX
12 4 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.040%) Eikon
13 3 (0.040%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 3,836 (50.68%) Azure
2 1,269 (16.77%) Entra ID
3 723 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 565 (7.46%) AWS
5 502 (6.63%) OneDrive
6 362 (4.78%) PowerApps
7 326 (4.31%) Power Automate
8 307 (4.06%) SaaS
9 233 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
10 204 (2.70%) IaaS
11 199 (2.63%) GCP
12 191 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 185 (2.44%) PaaS
14 129 (1.70%) Mimecast
15 124 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
15 124 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
16 113 (1.49%) Google Workspace
17 83 (1.10%) WhatsApp
18 81 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
18 81 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,405 (18.56%) Firewall
2 1,000 (13.21%) DNS
3 806 (10.65%) WAN
4 741 (9.79%) DHCP
5 679 (8.97%) LAN
6 562 (7.43%) VPN
7 494 (6.53%) Wi-Fi
8 438 (5.79%) Wireless
9 437 (5.77%) TCP/IP
10 365 (4.82%) VLAN
11 329 (4.35%) SAN
12 298 (3.94%) VoIP
13 224 (2.96%) SD-WAN
14 190 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
15 171 (2.26%) Internet
16 161 (2.13%) Network Security
17 152 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
18 123 (1.63%) NAS
19 108 (1.43%) WebEx
20 93 (1.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (5.40%) SQL Server
2 400 (5.28%) Power BI
3 97 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (0.75%) MySQL
6 56 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (0.26%) GIS
11 19 (0.25%) Relational Database
12 16 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.21%) Metadata
13 14 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
13 14 (0.18%) MariaDB
14 13 (0.17%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.15%) EDMS
16 10 (0.13%) Power Query
16 10 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (0.092%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 132 (1.74%) JIRA
2 49 (0.65%) Git
3 22 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 9 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.066%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.066%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.053%) Hudson
9 4 (0.053%) MSI
9 4 (0.053%) Subversion
10 2 (0.026%) GitLab
10 2 (0.026%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.013%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.013%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.013%) Postman
11 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
11 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,501 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 987 (13.04%) Finance
3 571 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 386 (5.10%) Law
5 291 (3.84%) Legal
6 273 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 261 (3.45%) Retail
8 257 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 253 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
10 221 (2.92%) Telecoms
11 217 (2.87%) Public Sector
12 175 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 153 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
14 149 (1.97%) Marketing
15 84 (1.11%) Banking
16 74 (0.98%) Local Government
17 73 (0.96%) Games
18 69 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 68 (0.90%) Automotive
20 60 (0.79%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,571 (20.76%) IT Support
2 1,175 (15.52%) Support Engineer
3 1,095 (14.47%) Analyst
4 993 (13.12%) IT Engineer
5 716 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 702 (9.27%) IT Support Engineer
7 674 (8.90%) Senior
8 532 (7.03%) IT Technician
9 488 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
10 423 (5.59%) IT Analyst
11 401 (5.30%) Lead
12 397 (5.25%) IT Manager
13 395 (5.22%) Support Analyst
14 385 (5.09%) Support Technician
15 361 (4.77%) Architect
16 318 (4.20%) IT Support Technician
17 317 (4.19%) Service Analyst
18 310 (4.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 301 (3.98%) 1st Line Support
20 296 (3.91%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (2.64%) .NET
2 70 (0.92%) HTML
3 69 (0.91%) SPFx
4 57 (0.75%) ARM Templates
5 54 (0.71%) CSS
6 48 (0.63%) JSON
7 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 28 (0.37%) ASP.NET
9 27 (0.36%) React
10 22 (0.29%) EDI
10 22 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
11 20 (0.26%) REST
12 19 (0.25%) RESTful
13 18 (0.24%) .NET Framework
13 18 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (0.22%) Web Services
15 16 (0.21%) OLE
16 15 (0.20%) SAML
16 15 (0.20%) YAML
17 13 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 398 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 348 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 300 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 262 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 226 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 216 (2.85%) Video Conferencing
7 176 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 140 (1.85%) PKI
9 132 (1.74%) Replication
10 105 (1.39%) Wiki
11 83 (1.10%) Clustering
11 83 (1.10%) Smartphone
12 78 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 77 (1.02%) iPad
14 72 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
15 70 (0.92%) CCTV
16 63 (0.83%) Product Ownership
17 59 (0.78%) iPhone
17 59 (0.78%) Private Cloud
18 55 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4,111 (54.31%) Windows
2 2,040 (26.95%) Windows Server
3 1,370 (18.10%) Windows 10
4 379 (5.01%) Android
5 375 (4.95%) Linux
6 352 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 320 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 271 (3.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 254 (3.36%) Apple iOS
10 240 (3.17%) Mac OS
11 199 (2.63%) Windows 7
12 116 (1.53%) Windows 8
13 89 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
14 63 (0.83%) Mac OS X
15 62 (0.82%) Ubuntu
16 42 (0.55%) CentOS
17 41 (0.54%) VMS
18 30 (0.40%) Unix
19 28 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
20 22 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,473 (19.46%) Customer Service
2 1,463 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1,354 (17.89%) ITIL
4 970 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 850 (11.23%) Cybersecurity
6 566 (7.48%) Project Management
7 512 (6.76%) Agile
8 506 (6.69%) Migration
9 474 (6.26%) Service Delivery
10 407 (5.38%) Mentoring
11 398 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
12 388 (5.13%) Service Management
13 379 (5.01%) ITSM
14 371 (4.90%) DevOps
15 370 (4.89%) Project Delivery
16 354 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 336 (4.44%) Information Security
18 331 (4.37%) Roadmaps
19 312 (4.12%) Disaster Recovery
20 307 (4.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 812 (10.73%) PowerShell
2 674 (8.90%) SQL
3 153 (2.02%) C#
4 101 (1.33%) Python
5 92 (1.22%) Bash
6 86 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 42 (0.55%) T-SQL
7 42 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 39 (0.52%) Java
9 31 (0.41%) VB
10 29 (0.38%) Bicep
11 21 (0.28%) R
12 18 (0.24%) VBScript
13 11 (0.15%) PHP
14 9 (0.12%) Perl
14 9 (0.12%) VBA
15 7 (0.092%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.066%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.066%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.066%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,156 (15.27%) Degree
2 541 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 280 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 225 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
5 207 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 202 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 202 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 185 (2.44%) DBS Check
8 171 (2.26%) CCNA
9 153 (2.02%) Master's Degree
10 142 (1.88%) CISSP
11 137 (1.81%) MCSE
12 131 (1.73%) MCP
13 125 (1.65%) A+ Certification
14 111 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
15 95 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 94 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
17 78 (1.03%) MCSA
18 68 (0.90%) PMI Certification
19 57 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 521 (6.88%) SLA
2 283 (3.74%) GDPR
3 246 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 239 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 99 (1.31%) NIST
6 72 (0.95%) QA
7 48 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.46%) Accessibility
10 34 (0.45%) GRC
11 33 (0.44%) PMO
12 32 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 27 (0.36%) Data Quality
14 23 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 18 (0.24%) COBIT
17 17 (0.22%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.20%) NCSC
19 6 (0.079%) Actionable Recommendations
19 6 (0.079%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,712 (49.04%) Active Directory
2 1,035 (13.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 902 (11.92%) Hyper-V
4 282 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
5 193 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 191 (2.52%) XenApp
7 180 (2.38%) vSphere
8 173 (2.29%) XenDesktop
9 124 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
10 103 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 60 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 49 (0.65%) Terminal Services
13 47 (0.62%) VirtualBox
14 30 (0.40%) Docker
15 22 (0.29%) Firmware
16 17 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 16 (0.21%) VMware Server
18 13 (0.17%) vCloud
19 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
19 10 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,300 (17.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 536 (7.08%) SCCM
3 119 (1.57%) AirWatch
4 111 (1.47%) Terraform
5 96 (1.27%) vCenter Server
6 88 (1.16%) WSUS
7 79 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 75 (0.99%) Kubernetes
10 68 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
11 49 (0.65%) FortiGate
12 47 (0.62%) SCOM
13 43 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
14 42 (0.55%) Ansible
15 39 (0.52%) CASB
16 32 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
17 27 (0.36%) Nagios
18 26 (0.34%) Autotask
19 22 (0.29%) SmoothWall
19 22 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5,386 (71.16%) Microsoft
2 1,606 (21.22%) VMware
3 692 (9.14%) Cisco
4 591 (7.81%) Citrix
5 374 (4.94%) Veeam
6 340 (4.49%) Apple
7 298 (3.94%) Google
8 220 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 205 (2.71%) Meraki
10 204 (2.70%) HP
11 171 (2.26%) Dell
12 157 (2.07%) Sophos
13 126 (1.66%) Fortinet
14 109 (1.44%) Aruba
15 99 (1.31%) iManage
16 85 (1.12%) Adobe
17 79 (1.04%) SAP
18 71 (0.94%) SolarWinds
19 64 (0.85%) Salesforce
20 63 (0.83%) Palo Alto