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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 42 58
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 7,500 6,556 8,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.62% 6.46% 5.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.30% 15.09% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,427 5,406 6,982
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £52,750 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,298 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -0.55% +4.29% -7.89%

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 35,219 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £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 £96,250 £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 7 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 7 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 6,858 £39,500 -2.47% 1,537
UK excluding London +15 5,659 £36,298 -0.55% 1,271
Work from Home +20 2,399 £45,000 -5.26% 590
London +12 1,615 £53,000 +0.95% 370
South East +13 1,486 £36,750 +2.08% 281
North of England +27 1,391 £37,500 -2.60% 311
Midlands +24 1,025 £35,000 -4.11% 229
South West +16 681 £37,500 +7.14% 182
North West +15 647 £40,000 -3.61% 164
West Midlands +24 630 £37,000 -7.50% 138
East of England +16 609 £32,500 -7.14% 159
Yorkshire +40 564 £35,000 - 114
East Midlands +35 388 £33,500 +3.98% 91
Scotland -34 280 £37,750 +0.67% 82
North East +27 180 £37,500 +7.14% 39
Wales +18 110 £28,290 -24.56% 35
Northern Ireland +29 55 £35,000 -16.67% 22
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 3
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 1,746 (23.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1,629 (21.72%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.96%) IIS
4 68 (0.91%) Confluence
5 44 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
5 44 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2013
6 41 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 34 (0.45%) WordPress
8 26 (0.35%) CMS
9 20 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 10 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
12 9 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.11%) SAS
14 6 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2000
14 6 (0.080%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.053%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.053%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.053%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.040%) Apache
Applications
1 1,131 (15.08%) Microsoft Office
2 289 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.12%) Trello
8 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.080%) InVision
10 6 (0.080%) LightWave 3D
10 6 (0.080%) Sketch
11 4 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.053%) InDesign
12 3 (0.040%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.040%) SPSS
13 2 (0.027%) 1Password
13 2 (0.027%) CATIA
13 2 (0.027%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 93 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.44%) 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 8 (0.11%) Magento
7 8 (0.11%) Maximo
8 7 (0.093%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.093%) Sage 200
8 7 (0.093%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.080%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.080%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.080%) Shopify
10 5 (0.067%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.067%) SAP CX
11 4 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.040%) Eikon
12 3 (0.040%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 3,806 (50.75%) Azure
2 1,261 (16.81%) Entra ID
3 716 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 561 (7.48%) AWS
5 505 (6.73%) OneDrive
6 357 (4.76%) PowerApps
7 320 (4.27%) Power Automate
8 306 (4.08%) SaaS
9 230 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
10 201 (2.68%) IaaS
11 199 (2.65%) GCP
12 183 (2.44%) PaaS
13 181 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
14 126 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
14 126 (1.68%) Mimecast
15 120 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
16 114 (1.52%) Google Workspace
17 83 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
18 82 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
19 81 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,382 (18.43%) Firewall
2 988 (13.17%) DNS
3 790 (10.53%) WAN
4 731 (9.75%) DHCP
5 672 (8.96%) LAN
6 553 (7.37%) VPN
7 492 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
8 437 (5.83%) TCP/IP
9 427 (5.69%) Wireless
10 350 (4.67%) VLAN
11 320 (4.27%) SAN
12 292 (3.89%) VoIP
13 217 (2.89%) SD-WAN
14 187 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
15 171 (2.28%) Internet
16 160 (2.13%) Network Security
17 147 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
18 119 (1.59%) NAS
19 105 (1.40%) WebEx
20 95 (1.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 395 (5.27%) Power BI
3 96 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (0.76%) MySQL
6 56 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (0.28%) Relational Database
11 19 (0.25%) GIS
11 19 (0.25%) Metadata
12 17 (0.23%) Data Lake
13 14 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
13 14 (0.19%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.16%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.15%) EDMS
16 10 (0.13%) Power Query
17 7 (0.093%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 130 (1.73%) JIRA
2 49 (0.65%) Git
3 21 (0.28%) Visual Studio
4 18 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.13%) gulp
5 10 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 8 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.067%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.053%) Hudson
8 4 (0.053%) MSI
8 4 (0.053%) Subversion
9 2 (0.027%) GitLab
9 2 (0.027%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.013%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.013%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.013%) Postman
10 1 (0.013%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.013%) Vagrant
General
1 2,480 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 981 (13.08%) Finance
3 567 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (5.09%) Law
5 286 (3.81%) Legal
6 275 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 261 (3.48%) Retail
8 255 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 249 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 217 (2.89%) Public Sector
11 214 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 175 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
13 150 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 148 (1.97%) Marketing
15 82 (1.09%) Banking
16 74 (0.99%) Local Government
17 73 (0.97%) Games
18 69 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 68 (0.91%) Automotive
20 60 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 1,560 (20.80%) IT Support
2 1,169 (15.59%) Support Engineer
3 1,085 (14.47%) Analyst
4 978 (13.04%) IT Engineer
5 701 (9.35%) IT Support Engineer
6 699 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 654 (8.72%) Senior
8 531 (7.08%) IT Technician
9 484 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
10 421 (5.61%) IT Analyst
11 399 (5.32%) Lead
12 396 (5.28%) IT Manager
13 392 (5.23%) Support Analyst
14 385 (5.13%) Support Technician
15 357 (4.76%) Architect
16 318 (4.24%) IT Support Technician
17 314 (4.19%) Service Analyst
18 310 (4.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 299 (3.99%) 1st Line Support
20 295 (3.93%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (2.64%) .NET
2 70 (0.93%) HTML
3 69 (0.92%) SPFx
4 53 (0.71%) ARM Templates
4 53 (0.71%) CSS
5 41 (0.55%) JSON
6 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 27 (0.36%) ASP.NET
7 27 (0.36%) React
8 22 (0.29%) EDI
9 21 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
10 19 (0.25%) REST
10 19 (0.25%) RESTful
11 18 (0.24%) .NET Framework
11 18 (0.24%) Web Services
12 17 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
13 16 (0.21%) OLE
14 15 (0.20%) SAML
15 14 (0.19%) YAML
16 13 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 395 (5.27%) Driving Licence
2 344 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 299 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
4 260 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 224 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 211 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
7 175 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 136 (1.81%) PKI
9 133 (1.77%) Replication
10 100 (1.33%) Wiki
11 83 (1.11%) Smartphone
12 79 (1.05%) Clustering
13 76 (1.01%) iPad
14 75 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 72 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
16 70 (0.93%) CCTV
17 63 (0.84%) Product Ownership
18 61 (0.81%) iPhone
19 57 (0.76%) Private Cloud
20 55 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4,059 (54.12%) Windows
2 2,006 (26.75%) Windows Server
3 1,349 (17.99%) Windows 10
4 374 (4.99%) Android
5 368 (4.91%) Linux
6 347 (4.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 316 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 263 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 252 (3.36%) Apple iOS
10 240 (3.20%) Mac OS
11 195 (2.60%) Windows 7
12 112 (1.49%) Windows 8
13 87 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 62 (0.83%) Mac OS X
14 62 (0.83%) Ubuntu
15 42 (0.56%) CentOS
16 41 (0.55%) VMS
17 30 (0.40%) Unix
18 27 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
19 22 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,468 (19.57%) Customer Service
2 1,460 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
3 1,342 (17.89%) ITIL
4 950 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 842 (11.23%) Cybersecurity
6 561 (7.48%) Project Management
7 500 (6.67%) Agile
8 499 (6.65%) Migration
9 469 (6.25%) Service Delivery
10 402 (5.36%) Mentoring
11 396 (5.28%) Business Intelligence
12 383 (5.11%) Service Management
13 372 (4.96%) ITSM
14 364 (4.85%) Project Delivery
15 362 (4.83%) DevOps
16 348 (4.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 332 (4.43%) Information Security
18 330 (4.40%) Roadmaps
19 309 (4.12%) Disaster Recovery
20 301 (4.01%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 798 (10.64%) PowerShell
2 660 (8.80%) SQL
3 152 (2.03%) C#
4 99 (1.32%) Python
5 90 (1.20%) Bash
6 85 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 43 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 40 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.49%) Java
10 30 (0.40%) VB
11 29 (0.39%) Bicep
12 21 (0.28%) R
13 18 (0.24%) VBScript
14 10 (0.13%) PHP
15 9 (0.12%) Perl
15 9 (0.12%) VBA
16 7 (0.093%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.067%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.067%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.067%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,152 (15.36%) Degree
2 531 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 270 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 220 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
5 202 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 201 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 194 (2.59%) SC Cleared
8 183 (2.44%) DBS Check
9 167 (2.23%) CCNA
10 148 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 142 (1.89%) CISSP
12 137 (1.83%) MCSE
13 133 (1.77%) MCP
14 123 (1.64%) A+ Certification
15 112 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
16 95 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 87 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
18 79 (1.05%) MCSA
19 70 (0.93%) PMI Certification
20 56 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 517 (6.89%) SLA
2 284 (3.79%) GDPR
3 246 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 240 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 98 (1.31%) NIST
6 71 (0.95%) QA
7 47 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 36 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 35 (0.47%) GRC
11 33 (0.44%) PMO
12 32 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 30 (0.40%) Data Quality
14 21 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 18 (0.24%) COBIT
17 17 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.20%) NCSC
19 6 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
19 6 (0.080%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,675 (49.00%) Active Directory
2 1,013 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 885 (11.80%) Hyper-V
4 274 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
5 185 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 185 (2.47%) XenApp
6 172 (2.29%) vSphere
7 167 (2.23%) XenDesktop
8 125 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
9 98 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
10 58 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
11 49 (0.65%) Terminal Services
12 45 (0.60%) VirtualBox
13 29 (0.39%) Docker
14 22 (0.29%) Firmware
15 16 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 16 (0.21%) VMware Server
16 12 (0.16%) vCloud
17 10 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 1,292 (17.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 526 (7.01%) SCCM
3 114 (1.52%) AirWatch
4 110 (1.47%) Terraform
5 96 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 86 (1.15%) WSUS
7 78 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 74 (0.99%) Kubernetes
10 70 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
11 47 (0.63%) FortiGate
11 47 (0.63%) SCOM
12 41 (0.55%) Ansible
13 40 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
14 39 (0.52%) CASB
15 28 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
16 26 (0.35%) Autotask
16 26 (0.35%) Nagios
17 22 (0.29%) SmoothWall
18 21 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5,342 (71.23%) Microsoft
2 1,578 (21.04%) VMware
3 677 (9.03%) Cisco
4 579 (7.72%) Citrix
5 373 (4.97%) Veeam
6 337 (4.49%) Apple
7 299 (3.99%) Google
8 215 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 202 (2.69%) Meraki
10 199 (2.65%) HP
11 171 (2.28%) Dell
12 155 (2.07%) Sophos
13 127 (1.69%) Fortinet
14 107 (1.43%) Aruba
15 99 (1.32%) iManage
16 84 (1.12%) Adobe
17 79 (1.05%) SAP
18 66 (0.88%) SolarWinds
19 63 (0.84%) Salesforce
20 62 (0.83%) Palo Alto