Microsoft 365 Contracts

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,886 3,068 4,426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.43% 5.36% 5.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.63% 14.58% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 2,236 3,208
10th Percentile £150 £160 £150
25th Percentile £200 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £513
90th Percentile £638 £675 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £325 £293
% change year-on-year -23.08% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 134 222
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.94 £18.97 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% +8.37% +12.90%
75th Percentile £21.37 £28.94 £22.25
90th Percentile £23.75 £66.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.28
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.51% +5.02%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK

Microsoft 365
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 1,619 £350 -9.39% 1,585
UK excluding London -7 1,001 £250 -23.08% 1,308
London 0 743 £400 -5.88% 385
Work from Home -7 542 £450 -5.26% 627
North of England +2 228 £251 -18.29% 330
South East -12 223 £275 -21.43% 324
Midlands -4 163 £265 -29.33% 240
North West +2 147 £265 -33.75% 161
Scotland +6 135 £350 +27.85% 78
South West -16 128 £195 -42.22% 187
West Midlands -3 112 £350 -12.50% 138
East of England -7 94 £250 -16.67% 145
Yorkshire -8 72 £240 -8.57% 136
East Midlands 0 51 £200 -20.00% 102
Wales +4 25 £145 -42.00% 28
North East +15 9 £190 - 37
Northern Ireland -14 7 £363 +113.24% 13

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
1 451 (23.91%) SharePoint
2 383 (20.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (1.91%) Skype for Business
4 22 (1.17%) Confluence
5 16 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.80%) CMS
7 14 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
8 13 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
9 12 (0.64%) IIS
9 12 (0.64%) WordPress
10 11 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2003
11 10 (0.53%) Drupal
12 7 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
13 6 (0.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 5 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
15 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.21%) IBM Notes
16 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
16 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
Applications
1 274 (14.53%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Trello
8 3 (0.16%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.16%) SPSS
9 2 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.053%) InVision
10 1 (0.053%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.27%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Eikon
5 2 (0.11%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Relativity
5 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.053%) assyst
6 1 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.053%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.053%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.053%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.053%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 700 (37.12%) Azure
2 256 (13.57%) Entra ID
3 206 (10.92%) Power Platform
4 164 (8.70%) OneDrive
5 114 (6.04%) PowerApps
6 102 (5.41%) AWS
7 93 (4.93%) Power Automate
8 80 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.33%) SaaS
10 40 (2.12%) IaaS
10 40 (2.12%) Mimecast
11 39 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 29 (1.54%) GitHub
13 29 (1.54%) Slack
14 28 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (1.43%) PaaS
16 25 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
17 23 (1.22%) Azure Storage
17 23 (1.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 162 (8.59%) Firewall
2 145 (7.69%) DNS
3 97 (5.14%) Wi-Fi
4 92 (4.88%) DHCP
5 85 (4.51%) VPN
6 70 (3.71%) LAN
7 59 (3.13%) WAN
8 52 (2.76%) Wireless
9 51 (2.70%) VoIP
10 45 (2.39%) TCP/IP
11 42 (2.23%) Skype
12 38 (2.01%) Intranet
13 29 (1.54%) SAN
14 27 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
15 24 (1.27%) Network Security
16 18 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
17 17 (0.90%) VLAN
18 15 (0.80%) Internet
18 15 (0.80%) MPLS
19 14 (0.74%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (4.98%) Power BI
2 84 (4.45%) SQL Server
3 18 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.53%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.32%) Metadata
8 6 (0.32%) Power Query
9 4 (0.21%) GIS
9 4 (0.21%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.21%) QGIS
10 3 (0.16%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.11%) DTS
11 2 (0.11%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (2.86%) JIRA
2 16 (0.85%) GitLab
3 12 (0.64%) Hudson
4 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.32%) Git
6 5 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.11%) Subversion
10 1 (0.053%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.053%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.053%) MSI
10 1 (0.053%) TestRail
General
1 622 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 248 (13.15%) Finance
3 218 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 145 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (3.66%) Legal
5 69 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
6 59 (3.13%) Retail
7 53 (2.81%) Banking
8 48 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.49%) Marketing
10 38 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 37 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (1.43%) Electronics
13 27 (1.43%) Law
14 21 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (0.90%) French Language
17 15 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 307 (16.28%) Analyst
2 251 (13.31%) Support Engineer
3 202 (10.71%) IT Support
4 162 (8.59%) Architect
5 143 (7.58%) Service Analyst
6 141 (7.48%) Service Desk Analyst
7 124 (6.57%) IT Engineer
8 110 (5.83%) Senior
9 104 (5.51%) 2nd Line Support
9 104 (5.51%) Desktop Support
10 101 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 86 (4.56%) IT Support Engineer
12 85 (4.51%) Developer
13 83 (4.40%) Consultant
14 82 (4.35%) Support Analyst
15 72 (3.82%) Desktop Engineer
16 69 (3.66%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 66 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 63 (3.34%) IT Analyst
19 58 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.43%) .NET
2 19 (1.01%) REST
3 18 (0.95%) XML
4 17 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 16 (0.85%) CSS
6 14 (0.74%) React
7 13 (0.69%) JSON
7 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
8 10 (0.53%) SPFx
9 9 (0.48%) HTML5 Canvas
10 8 (0.42%) HTML
11 6 (0.32%) jQuery
12 5 (0.27%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.27%) LDAP
12 5 (0.27%) OAuth
13 4 (0.21%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.21%) RESTful
13 4 (0.21%) SAML
13 4 (0.21%) SOAP
14 3 (0.16%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 56 (2.97%) Management Information System
2 55 (2.92%) PKI
3 49 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
4 47 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 37 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.64%) Video Editing
8 30 (1.59%) iPhone
9 28 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 28 (1.48%) NHS
10 22 (1.17%) iPad
11 21 (1.11%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.06%) CMDB
12 20 (1.06%) Smartphone
13 19 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.01%) Digital Signage
14 18 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.90%) EPoS
16 16 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 931 (49.36%) Windows
2 456 (24.18%) Windows 10
3 287 (15.22%) Windows Server
4 115 (6.10%) Apple iOS
5 89 (4.72%) Android
6 76 (4.03%) Linux
7 75 (3.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 74 (3.92%) Mac OS
9 72 (3.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 67 (3.55%) Windows 7
11 65 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 26 (1.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 18 (0.95%) Mac OS X
14 16 (0.85%) VMS
15 14 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.37%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.32%) Unix
18 3 (0.16%) Debian
19 1 (0.053%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (16.91%) Customer Service
2 302 (16.01%) ITIL
3 280 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (12.04%) Migration
5 187 (9.92%) Agile
6 143 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 118 (6.26%) Change Management
7 118 (6.26%) Project Management
8 111 (5.89%) Business Intelligence
9 110 (5.83%) DevOps
10 91 (4.83%) Service Delivery
11 86 (4.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 85 (4.51%) Incident Management
13 81 (4.29%) Service Management
14 80 (4.24%) Cybersecurity
15 78 (4.14%) Mobile Device Management
16 76 (4.03%) ITSM
17 71 (3.76%) Information Security
18 68 (3.61%) Roadmaps
19 63 (3.34%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 260 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 75 (3.98%) SQL
3 51 (2.70%) C#
4 35 (1.86%) Python
5 32 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.95%) Bicep
6 18 (0.95%) VB
6 18 (0.95%) VBScript
7 10 (0.53%) C
8 9 (0.48%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.42%) Swift
10 7 (0.37%) Bash
11 3 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.16%) Java
11 3 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 259 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 226 (11.98%) Degree
3 213 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 135 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 52 (2.76%) MCSA
6 51 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 49 (2.60%) A+ Certification
8 47 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 38 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
10 32 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (1.33%) MCSE
13 24 (1.27%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.22%) CCNA
14 23 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (0.85%) CISSP
15 16 (0.85%) MCP
16 13 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.69%) CISM
17 10 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.47%) SLA
2 23 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.17%) QA
4 18 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 17 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (0.90%) NIST
6 15 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (0.74%) GDPR
8 9 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.37%) PMO
10 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.32%) GRC
11 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.11%) COBIT
14 2 (0.11%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 870 (46.13%) Active Directory
2 97 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 50 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 42 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.11%) vSphere
7 15 (0.80%) BitLocker
8 14 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.58%) XenApp
10 9 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.32%) Firmware
13 5 (0.27%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 2 (0.11%) Docker
17 1 (0.053%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 312 (16.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 252 (13.36%) SCCM
3 45 (2.39%) Jamf Pro
4 42 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 39 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.64%) SCOM
7 28 (1.48%) WSUS
8 22 (1.17%) Kubernetes
9 16 (0.85%) Terraform
10 12 (0.64%) Ansible
11 11 (0.58%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.53%) Autotask
12 10 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 8 (0.42%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.42%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.32%) AirWatch
15 6 (0.32%) Packer
16 3 (0.16%) AppManager
16 3 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1,213 (64.32%) Microsoft
2 187 (9.92%) VMware
3 170 (9.01%) Citrix
4 161 (8.54%) ServiceNow
5 136 (7.21%) Apple
6 85 (4.51%) Cisco
7 43 (2.28%) Veeam
8 40 (2.12%) Google
9 39 (2.07%) SAP
10 35 (1.86%) Adobe
11 33 (1.75%) HP
12 32 (1.70%) Oracle
13 30 (1.59%) NetApp
14 26 (1.38%) Dell
15 19 (1.01%) Sophos
16 17 (0.90%) CA
16 17 (0.90%) MobileIron
16 17 (0.90%) Palo Alto
17 15 (0.80%) Bloomberg
17 15 (0.80%) Okta