Microsoft 365 Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 24 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 5,631 3,986 4,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.86% 6.76% 6.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.90% 17.55% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,895 3,245 3,932
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,750 £23,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £36,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +1.39% -5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £38,500 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.23% -2.35% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,559 22,714 28,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.90% 38.52% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 17,428 13,539 19,500
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,298 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the UK excluding London

Microsoft 365
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +13 1,470 £37,500 - 320
North of England +23 1,394 £37,500 -3.85% 322
Midlands +26 1,027 £35,000 -2.78% 227
South West +17 679 £37,500 +7.14% 188
North West +15 651 £40,000 -5.88% 156
West Midlands +23 628 £36,500 -8.75% 132
East of England +15 603 £32,500 -7.14% 147
Yorkshire +38 561 £35,000 +0.72% 132
East Midlands +38 392 £33,500 +4.69% 95
Scotland -36 273 £37,500 - 75
North East +26 182 £37,500 +7.14% 38
Wales +15 109 £28,290 -16.79% 29
Northern Ireland +19 54 £35,000 -17.65% 15
Isle of Man - 20 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,243 (22.07%) SharePoint
2 1,239 (22.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (1.07%) Confluence
4 55 (0.98%) IIS
5 41 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
6 39 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
7 28 (0.50%) WordPress
8 26 (0.46%) CMS
9 18 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
10 12 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 7 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
11 7 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2000
12 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.071%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.071%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.071%) SAS
15 3 (0.053%) Jupyter
16 2 (0.036%) Resin
Applications
1 837 (14.86%) Microsoft Office
2 225 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.16%) Trello
8 8 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.11%) InVision
9 6 (0.11%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.053%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.053%) InDesign
11 2 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.036%) CATIA
11 2 (0.036%) NASTRAN
12 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.018%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 58 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.20%) Epicor Tropos
3 11 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.14%) Magento
4 8 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 6 (0.11%) Maximo
6 6 (0.11%) Shopify
7 5 (0.089%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.089%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.053%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.036%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.036%) Teamcenter
11 1 (0.018%) Sage 300 ERP
11 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.018%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 2,829 (50.24%) Azure
2 959 (17.03%) Entra ID
3 468 (8.31%) Power Platform
4 413 (7.33%) AWS
5 390 (6.93%) OneDrive
6 225 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 195 (3.46%) Power Automate
8 193 (3.43%) SaaS
9 158 (2.81%) GCP
10 126 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
11 122 (2.17%) IaaS
12 113 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 107 (1.90%) PaaS
14 93 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
15 78 (1.39%) Google Workspace
16 72 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
17 67 (1.19%) Mimecast
18 50 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
19 49 (0.87%) WhatsApp
20 36 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,094 (19.43%) Firewall
2 793 (14.08%) DNS
3 595 (10.57%) DHCP
4 560 (9.94%) WAN
5 515 (9.15%) LAN
6 422 (7.49%) VPN
7 395 (7.01%) Wi-Fi
8 372 (6.61%) TCP/IP
9 277 (4.92%) VLAN
10 268 (4.76%) Wireless
11 261 (4.64%) SAN
12 256 (4.55%) VoIP
13 143 (2.54%) Internet
14 142 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
15 122 (2.17%) Network Security
16 104 (1.85%) SD-WAN
17 90 (1.60%) NAS
18 76 (1.35%) Unified Communications
18 76 (1.35%) WLAN
19 74 (1.31%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 248 (4.40%) Power BI
3 97 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 53 (0.94%) MySQL
5 34 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.30%) GIS
8 17 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.27%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
10 14 (0.25%) MariaDB
10 14 (0.25%) Relational Database
11 12 (0.21%) Metadata
12 11 (0.20%) EDMS
13 8 (0.14%) Power Query
14 7 (0.12%) Ingres
15 6 (0.11%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 94 (1.67%) JIRA
2 35 (0.62%) Git
3 10 (0.18%) gulp
3 10 (0.18%) Yeoman
4 7 (0.12%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.089%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.089%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.089%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.071%) Hudson
6 4 (0.071%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.053%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.036%) GitLab
9 1 (0.018%) MSI
9 1 (0.018%) Postman
General
1 1,884 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 562 (9.98%) Finance
3 380 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (4.67%) Manufacturing
5 245 (4.35%) Law
6 215 (3.82%) Retail
7 204 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
8 181 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 173 (3.07%) Legal
10 172 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 156 (2.77%) Public Sector
12 137 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 113 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 105 (1.86%) Marketing
15 61 (1.08%) Local Government
16 60 (1.07%) Fire and Rescue
17 56 (0.99%) Games
18 44 (0.78%) Advertising
19 40 (0.71%) Automotive
20 33 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,226 (21.77%) IT Support
2 974 (17.30%) Support Engineer
3 836 (14.85%) IT Engineer
4 773 (13.73%) Analyst
5 617 (10.96%) IT Support Engineer
6 558 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 486 (8.63%) IT Technician
8 387 (6.87%) 2nd Line Support
9 357 (6.34%) Senior
10 356 (6.32%) Support Technician
11 310 (5.51%) IT Manager
12 295 (5.24%) IT Support Technician
13 277 (4.92%) Support Analyst
14 272 (4.83%) IT Analyst
15 266 (4.72%) Lead
16 261 (4.64%) 1st Line Support
17 243 (4.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 238 (4.23%) Service Analyst
19 227 (4.03%) 3rd Line Support
20 223 (3.96%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.22%) .NET
2 53 (0.94%) HTML
3 47 (0.83%) SPFx
4 36 (0.64%) ARM Templates
4 36 (0.64%) CSS
5 27 (0.48%) JSON
6 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (0.32%) React
8 16 (0.28%) OLE
9 15 (0.27%) ASP.NET
10 14 (0.25%) EDI
10 14 (0.25%) RESTful
10 14 (0.25%) SAML
11 13 (0.23%) REST
12 12 (0.21%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.21%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (0.18%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (0.18%) Entity Framework
13 10 (0.18%) Node.js
13 10 (0.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 378 (6.71%) Driving Licence
2 255 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 241 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
4 186 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 118 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 107 (1.90%) Replication
8 103 (1.83%) PKI
9 65 (1.15%) Smartphone
10 61 (1.08%) CCTV
11 55 (0.98%) Clustering
12 53 (0.94%) Product Ownership
13 47 (0.83%) iPad
13 47 (0.83%) Private Cloud
14 40 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
15 39 (0.69%) iPhone
15 39 (0.69%) NHS
16 38 (0.67%) Low-Code
17 37 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
17 37 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3,077 (54.64%) Windows
2 1,659 (29.46%) Windows Server
3 927 (16.46%) Windows 10
4 306 (5.43%) Linux
5 294 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 271 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 221 (3.92%) Android
8 203 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 186 (3.30%) Apple iOS
10 162 (2.88%) Mac OS
11 158 (2.81%) Windows 7
12 106 (1.88%) Windows 8
13 68 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
14 43 (0.76%) CentOS
14 43 (0.76%) Ubuntu
15 36 (0.64%) Mac OS X
16 33 (0.59%) VMS
17 27 (0.48%) Unix
18 20 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
19 16 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (21.45%) Customer Service
2 1,130 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
3 1,035 (18.38%) ITIL
4 779 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 604 (10.73%) Cybersecurity
6 422 (7.49%) Project Management
7 375 (6.66%) Migration
8 370 (6.57%) Agile
9 337 (5.98%) Service Delivery
10 308 (5.47%) Mentoring
11 301 (5.35%) Service Management
12 282 (5.01%) Project Delivery
13 251 (4.46%) DevOps
14 250 (4.44%) ITSM
15 249 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
16 240 (4.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 239 (4.24%) Disaster Recovery
18 221 (3.92%) Roadmaps
19 206 (3.66%) Presales
20 201 (3.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 528 (9.38%) SQL
2 495 (8.79%) PowerShell
3 80 (1.42%) C#
4 68 (1.21%) Python
5 53 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 52 (0.92%) Bash
7 34 (0.60%) Java
8 29 (0.52%) VB
9 26 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.37%) R
11 20 (0.36%) Bicep
12 18 (0.32%) VBScript
13 17 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.089%) Formula Language
14 5 (0.089%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.089%) Perl
14 5 (0.089%) PHP
14 5 (0.089%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.071%) VBA
Qualifications
1 770 (13.67%) Degree
2 408 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 214 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 178 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
5 161 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 158 (2.81%) DBS Check
7 150 (2.66%) CCNA
8 137 (2.43%) Azure Certification
9 122 (2.17%) MCP
10 110 (1.95%) MCSE
11 101 (1.79%) A+ Certification
12 76 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
13 68 (1.21%) CISSP
14 65 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
14 65 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 62 (1.10%) MCSA
15 62 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
16 56 (0.99%) PMI Certification
17 53 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
18 42 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (7.10%) SLA
2 239 (4.24%) GDPR
3 173 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 158 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (1.19%) NIST
6 62 (1.10%) QA
7 30 (0.53%) PMO
8 27 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 19 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 16 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.27%) GRC
14 13 (0.23%) Data Quality
15 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.12%) NCSC
17 6 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.11%) COBIT
17 6 (0.11%) ISO 14001
17 6 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2,782 (49.41%) Active Directory
2 811 (14.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 791 (14.05%) Hyper-V
4 136 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 132 (2.34%) vSphere
6 131 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 105 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
8 84 (1.49%) XenApp
9 73 (1.30%) XenDesktop
10 43 (0.76%) VirtualBox
11 39 (0.69%) Terminal Services
12 37 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 27 (0.48%) Docker
14 17 (0.30%) VMware Server
15 16 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 15 (0.27%) Firmware
17 10 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
18 8 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 6 (0.11%) NFS
19 6 (0.11%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 953 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 292 (5.19%) SCCM
3 78 (1.39%) Terraform
4 72 (1.28%) Kubernetes
5 68 (1.21%) vCenter Server
6 61 (1.08%) WSUS
7 57 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 42 (0.75%) SCOM
9 37 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
10 34 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
11 33 (0.59%) FortiGate
12 29 (0.52%) CASB
13 27 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
14 26 (0.46%) Ansible
14 26 (0.46%) Nagios
15 25 (0.44%) Autotask
16 22 (0.39%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.37%) SmoothWall
18 18 (0.32%) AirWatch
19 13 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3,946 (70.08%) Microsoft
2 1,274 (22.62%) VMware
3 430 (7.64%) Cisco
4 392 (6.96%) Citrix
5 322 (5.72%) Veeam
6 230 (4.08%) Google
7 223 (3.96%) Apple
8 159 (2.82%) Meraki
9 153 (2.72%) HP
10 142 (2.52%) Sophos
11 138 (2.45%) Dell
12 131 (2.33%) ServiceNow
13 110 (1.95%) Fortinet
14 90 (1.60%) Aruba
15 65 (1.15%) Adobe
16 53 (0.94%) SAP
17 52 (0.92%) SolarWinds
18 51 (0.91%) Draytek
18 51 (0.91%) WatchGuard
19 50 (0.89%) Salesforce