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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 1,887 3,053 4,400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.43% 5.36% 5.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.61% 14.60% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 2,226 3,187
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 £511 £550 £513
90th Percentile £638 £675 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £325 £290
% change year-on-year -23.08% +12.07% -10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 134 218
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.08
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.97 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +8.37% +12.00%
75th Percentile £21.37 £28.94 £22.25
90th Percentile £22.70 £66.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.28
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.51% +1.73%

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 13,862 20,912 33,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 36.72% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 15,137 24,583
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 333 406
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.49% +34.38% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 1,620 £350 -9.68% 1,540
UK excluding London -7 997 £250 -23.08% 1,292
London +1 749 £400 -5.88% 372
Work from Home -4 542 £450 -5.26% 631
North of England +3 227 £258 -16.60% 323
South East -11 219 £275 -21.43% 321
Midlands -2 162 £260 -30.67% 227
North West +3 146 £282 -29.63% 156
Scotland +6 137 £350 +27.85% 77
South West -16 128 £194 -46.54% 188
West Midlands -2 113 £350 -12.50% 132
East of England -8 95 £250 -16.67% 149
Yorkshire -11 72 £240 -8.57% 133
East Midlands -4 49 £194 -22.28% 95
Wales +1 25 £145 -42.00% 29
North East +15 9 £190 - 38
Northern Ireland -14 6 £525 +208.82% 16

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
1 456 (24.17%) SharePoint
2 384 (20.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (1.91%) Skype for Business
4 24 (1.27%) Confluence
5 16 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) IBM Notes
14 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
15 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
17 1 (0.053%) Apache
Applications
1 273 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.26%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.16%) SPSS
10 2 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.053%) InVision
11 1 (0.053%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.26%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.053%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.053%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.053%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.053%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.053%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.053%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 706 (37.41%) Azure
2 259 (13.73%) Entra ID
3 210 (11.13%) Power Platform
4 164 (8.69%) OneDrive
5 116 (6.15%) PowerApps
6 104 (5.51%) AWS
7 95 (5.03%) Power Automate
8 80 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.33%) SaaS
10 41 (2.17%) IaaS
11 40 (2.12%) Mimecast
12 38 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
14 30 (1.59%) GitHub
15 29 (1.54%) Slack
16 28 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
17 27 (1.43%) PaaS
18 25 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
19 23 (1.22%) Azure Storage
19 23 (1.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 163 (8.64%) Firewall
2 147 (7.79%) DNS
3 96 (5.09%) Wi-Fi
4 92 (4.88%) DHCP
5 85 (4.50%) VPN
6 70 (3.71%) LAN
7 59 (3.13%) WAN
8 52 (2.76%) Wireless
9 51 (2.70%) VoIP
10 46 (2.44%) 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 16 (0.85%) MPLS
19 15 (0.79%) Internet
20 14 (0.74%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.14%) Power BI
2 85 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.37%) Metadata
9 6 (0.32%) Power Query
10 4 (0.21%) GIS
10 4 (0.21%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.21%) QGIS
11 3 (0.16%) BusinessObjects XI
11 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.11%) DTS
12 2 (0.11%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (2.97%) JIRA
2 17 (0.90%) GitLab
3 12 (0.64%) Hudson
4 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.32%) Git
6 5 (0.26%) 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
1 621 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 251 (13.30%) Finance
3 216 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (3.71%) Legal
6 69 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.13%) Retail
8 54 (2.86%) Banking
9 48 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 47 (2.49%) Marketing
11 38 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.43%) Electronics
14 27 (1.43%) Law
15 22 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.90%) French Language
19 15 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 310 (16.43%) Analyst
2 251 (13.30%) Support Engineer
3 202 (10.70%) IT Support
4 161 (8.53%) Architect
5 143 (7.58%) Service Analyst
6 141 (7.47%) Service Desk Analyst
7 122 (6.47%) IT Engineer
8 108 (5.72%) Senior
9 105 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
9 105 (5.56%) Desktop Support
10 101 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 86 (4.56%) Developer
11 86 (4.56%) IT Support Engineer
12 83 (4.40%) Consultant
13 82 (4.35%) Support Analyst
14 72 (3.82%) Desktop Engineer
15 70 (3.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 66 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 63 (3.34%) IT Analyst
18 58 (3.07%) 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
4 17 (0.90%) CSS
5 14 (0.74%) React
6 13 (0.69%) JSON
6 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 11 (0.58%) SPFx
8 9 (0.48%) HTML
8 9 (0.48%) HTML5 Canvas
9 7 (0.37%) jQuery
10 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.26%) LDAP
10 5 (0.26%) OAuth
11 4 (0.21%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.21%) RESTful
11 4 (0.21%) SAML
11 4 (0.21%) SOAP
12 3 (0.16%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 55 (2.91%) Management Information System
1 55 (2.91%) PKI
2 49 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
3 47 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 37 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.64%) Video Editing
7 30 (1.59%) iPhone
8 28 (1.48%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.48%) NHS
9 22 (1.17%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.17%) iPad
10 20 (1.06%) CMDB
10 20 (1.06%) Smartphone
11 19 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.01%) Digital Signage
12 18 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 17 (0.90%) EPoS
14 16 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 929 (49.23%) Windows
2 452 (23.95%) Windows 10
3 287 (15.21%) Windows Server
4 115 (6.09%) Apple iOS
5 89 (4.72%) Android
6 77 (4.08%) Linux
7 75 (3.97%) Mac OS
8 74 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 71 (3.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 67 (3.55%) Windows 7
11 64 (3.39%) 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%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (16.96%) Customer Service
2 304 (16.11%) ITIL
3 279 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
4 225 (11.92%) Migration
5 187 (9.91%) Agile
6 143 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 118 (6.25%) Project Management
8 116 (6.15%) Change Management
9 112 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
10 110 (5.83%) DevOps
11 91 (4.82%) Service Delivery
12 85 (4.50%) Incident Management
13 84 (4.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 81 (4.29%) Cybersecurity
14 81 (4.29%) Service Management
15 78 (4.13%) Mobile Device Management
16 77 (4.08%) ITSM
17 70 (3.71%) Information Security
18 65 (3.44%) Roadmaps
19 63 (3.34%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 260 (13.78%) PowerShell
2 75 (3.97%) SQL
3 51 (2.70%) C#
4 35 (1.85%) 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
1 258 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 226 (11.98%) Degree
3 214 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 135 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 52 (2.76%) MCSA
6 49 (2.60%) A+ Certification
6 49 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
9 32 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.32%) MCSE
12 24 (1.27%) CCNA
12 24 (1.27%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (0.90%) MCP
15 16 (0.85%) CISSP
16 13 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.64%) CISM
18 11 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.47%) SLA
2 24 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.17%) QA
4 18 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.95%) NIST
5 17 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 15 (0.79%) GDPR
7 9 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.37%) GRC
8 7 (0.37%) PMO
9 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.11%) COBIT
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 871 (46.16%) Active Directory
2 95 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (3.50%) Hyper-V
4 48 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 41 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.11%) vSphere
7 15 (0.79%) BitLocker
8 14 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.58%) XenApp
10 10 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.42%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.32%) Firmware
14 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
17 2 (0.11%) Docker
18 1 (0.053%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 309 (16.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 253 (13.41%) SCCM
3 45 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
4 42 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 39 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (1.59%) 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%) McAfee ePO
16 3 (0.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,209 (64.07%) Microsoft
2 185 (9.80%) VMware
3 169 (8.96%) Citrix
4 161 (8.53%) ServiceNow
5 137 (7.26%) Apple
6 86 (4.56%) Cisco
7 43 (2.28%) Veeam
8 39 (2.07%) Google
8 39 (2.07%) SAP
9 35 (1.85%) Adobe
10 33 (1.75%) HP
10 33 (1.75%) Oracle
11 30 (1.59%) NetApp
12 26 (1.38%) Dell
13 19 (1.01%) Sophos
14 17 (0.90%) CA
14 17 (0.90%) MobileIron
14 17 (0.90%) Palo Alto
15 15 (0.79%) Bloomberg
15 15 (0.79%) Okta