Microsoft Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,077 6,697 9,964
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.90% 16.57% 14.17%
As % of the Vendors category 50.81% 40.81% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,181 4,854 6,830
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,855 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Work from Home

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,928 16,410 26,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.14% 40.61% 37.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,870 10,969 15,194
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +3.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft.

Microsoft salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Microsoft salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 595 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 506 (7.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 178 (2.52%) IIS
4 90 (1.27%) CMS
5 60 (0.85%) Umbraco
6 48 (0.68%) Confluence
7 47 (0.66%) Kentico
8 44 (0.62%) Apache
9 42 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
10 36 (0.51%) Headless CMS
11 33 (0.47%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.24%) Apache Spark
13 16 (0.23%) WordPress
14 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 10 (0.14%) EPiServer
15 8 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
15 8 (0.11%) Moodle
15 8 (0.11%) SAS
16 7 (0.099%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 980 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 751 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
3 170 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 13 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.11%) InDesign
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.099%) Adobe Captivate
9 7 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.099%) Sketch
10 6 (0.085%) InVision
10 6 (0.085%) Trello
11 5 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.071%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.057%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 279 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.82%) Primavera
3 44 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
4 38 (0.54%) NEC Housing
5 30 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
6 16 (0.23%) PlanetPress Connect
7 14 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.17%) Sage 200
9 11 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 11 (0.16%) iTrent
10 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
10 10 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
11 9 (0.13%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
12 7 (0.099%) Sage 50
13 6 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
14 5 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
14 5 (0.071%) Sage CRM
15 4 (0.057%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3,605 (50.94%) Azure
2 1,701 (24.04%) Microsoft 365
3 1,055 (14.91%) Power Platform
4 713 (10.07%) AWS
5 680 (9.61%) Entra ID
6 610 (8.62%) Dynamics 365
7 447 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 326 (4.61%) SaaS
9 313 (4.42%) PowerApps
10 281 (3.97%) Power Automate
11 221 (3.12%) GCP
12 130 (1.84%) PaaS
13 118 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 118 (1.67%) IaaS
14 111 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
15 105 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 104 (1.47%) OneDrive
17 96 (1.36%) Serverless
18 73 (1.03%) GitHub
19 72 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 771 (10.89%) Broadband
2 449 (6.34%) Firewall
3 387 (5.47%) DNS
4 327 (4.62%) WAN
5 278 (3.93%) DHCP
6 237 (3.35%) LAN
7 220 (3.11%) 5G
8 181 (2.56%) Internet
9 176 (2.49%) SAN
10 167 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
11 161 (2.27%) VPN
12 139 (1.96%) Wireless
13 134 (1.89%) TCP/IP
14 109 (1.54%) SD-WAN
15 107 (1.51%) Network Security
16 102 (1.44%) VLAN
17 85 (1.20%) VoIP
18 81 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
19 58 (0.82%) Unified Communications
20 43 (0.61%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,681 (23.75%) SQL Server
2 704 (9.95%) Power BI
3 315 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 268 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
5 262 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 248 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 236 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 157 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 154 (2.18%) Relational Database
10 92 (1.30%) Data Lake
11 78 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 58 (0.82%) MySQL
13 57 (0.81%) Oracle Database
14 48 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 46 (0.65%) Big Data
15 46 (0.65%) Tableau
16 45 (0.64%) DB2
17 41 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
18 40 (0.57%) NoSQL
19 24 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 186 (2.63%) Git
2 175 (2.47%) JIRA
3 118 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 45 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 43 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 40 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 36 (0.51%) GitLab
8 28 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 28 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
9 26 (0.37%) NUnit
10 21 (0.30%) Postman
11 20 (0.28%) Selenium
12 15 (0.21%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.18%) Axure RP
13 13 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.16%) JMeter
15 10 (0.14%) Eclipse
15 10 (0.14%) Moq
15 10 (0.14%) Trac
15 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 2,368 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 1,662 (23.48%) Finance
3 1,211 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 492 (6.95%) Influencing Skills
5 454 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 407 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 352 (4.97%) Retail
8 298 (4.21%) Legal
9 268 (3.79%) Marketing
10 250 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
11 224 (3.17%) Law
12 210 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
13 149 (2.11%) Advertising
14 117 (1.65%) Telecoms
15 113 (1.60%) Banking
16 102 (1.44%) Games
17 91 (1.29%) Manufacturing
18 85 (1.20%) Local Government
19 70 (0.99%) Police
20 67 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,576 (22.27%) Developer
2 1,079 (15.25%) Analyst
3 1,034 (14.61%) Senior
4 859 (12.14%) .NET Developer
5 513 (7.25%) Architect
6 477 (6.74%) Consultant
7 416 (5.88%) Lead
8 361 (5.10%) C# Developer
9 309 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
10 305 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 303 (4.28%) C# .NET Developer
12 282 (3.98%) Support Engineer
13 281 (3.97%) IT Support
14 261 (3.69%) IT Engineer
15 217 (3.07%) Technical Specialist
16 210 (2.97%) Linux Specialist
17 189 (2.67%) Administrator
18 182 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
19 173 (2.44%) Project Manager
20 169 (2.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,389 (19.63%) .NET
2 882 (12.46%) ASP.NET
3 852 (12.04%) .NET Core
4 769 (10.87%) ASP.NET MVC
5 662 (9.35%) AngularJS
6 582 (8.22%) Entity Framework
7 569 (8.04%) ASP.NET Web API
8 560 (7.91%) HTML
9 545 (7.70%) .NET Framework
10 382 (5.40%) React
11 366 (5.17%) CSS
12 343 (4.85%) HTML5
13 281 (3.97%) RESTful
14 267 (3.77%) Node.js
15 258 (3.65%) Vue
16 178 (2.52%) LINQ
17 176 (2.49%) Blazor
17 176 (2.49%) CSS3
18 166 (2.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 129 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 337 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 305 (4.31%) Social Media
3 283 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 279 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 258 (3.65%) Public Cloud
6 209 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
7 166 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 147 (2.08%) Driving Licence
8 147 (2.08%) PKI
9 135 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 110 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 82 (1.16%) Cloud Native
12 80 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 73 (1.03%) Low-Code
14 56 (0.79%) iPhone
15 44 (0.62%) PMI
15 44 (0.62%) Virtual Team
16 43 (0.61%) Client/Server
17 40 (0.57%) Data Structures
17 40 (0.57%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1,344 (18.99%) Windows
2 685 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 552 (7.80%) Linux
4 334 (4.72%) Windows 10
5 221 (3.12%) Ubuntu
6 153 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 149 (2.11%) Android
8 145 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 108 (1.53%) Apple iOS
10 99 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 94 (1.33%) Unix
12 86 (1.22%) VMS
13 58 (0.82%) Windows 7
14 57 (0.81%) Mac OS
15 33 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 33 (0.47%) Windows 8
15 33 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
16 30 (0.42%) Solaris
17 16 (0.23%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,173 (30.71%) Agile
2 1,062 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
3 845 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
4 839 (11.86%) Mentoring
5 836 (11.81%) DevOps
6 830 (11.73%) MVC
7 797 (11.26%) Full Stack Development
8 740 (10.46%) Cybersecurity
9 716 (10.12%) Microservices
10 692 (9.78%) CRM
11 653 (9.23%) Decision-Making
12 606 (8.56%) Customer Service
13 583 (8.24%) ITIL
14 581 (8.21%) Actionable Insight
15 531 (7.50%) Project Management
16 507 (7.16%) Roadmaps
17 497 (7.02%) Scrum
18 493 (6.97%) Artificial Intelligence
19 485 (6.85%) Business Case
20 481 (6.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,469 (20.76%) C#
2 1,274 (18.00%) SQL
3 1,088 (15.37%) JavaScript
4 459 (6.49%) PowerShell
5 348 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 298 (4.21%) T-SQL
7 278 (3.93%) Bash
8 249 (3.52%) Python
9 100 (1.41%) Java
10 78 (1.10%) VB
11 77 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 65 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 41 (0.58%) Bicep
14 33 (0.47%) C++
15 32 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 31 (0.44%) VB6
17 30 (0.42%) VBScript
18 28 (0.40%) VBA
19 27 (0.38%) PL/SQL
20 23 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 951 (13.44%) Degree
2 468 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 464 (6.56%) ACCA
4 461 (6.51%) CIMA
5 437 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 266 (3.76%) SC Cleared
7 183 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 177 (2.50%) DBS Check
9 138 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 135 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
11 115 (1.62%) CCNA
12 112 (1.58%) DV Cleared
13 83 (1.17%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.06%) CCNP
15 54 (0.76%) MCP
16 51 (0.72%) CISSP
17 48 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 46 (0.65%) MCSE
19 44 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
20 42 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (2.90%) QA
2 162 (2.29%) SLA
3 149 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 95 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 89 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 89 (1.26%) GDPR
7 51 (0.72%) PMO
8 42 (0.59%) NIST
9 33 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 22 (0.31%) GRC
12 18 (0.25%) WCAG
13 17 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.18%) ITGC
15 10 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.13%) COBIT
16 9 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,327 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 356 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 270 (3.82%) Hyper-V
4 167 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 128 (1.81%) Docker
6 89 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 61 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 57 (0.81%) vSphere
9 23 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 23 (0.32%) XenApp
10 20 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 18 (0.25%) NFS
12 15 (0.21%) Terminal Services
13 14 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
14 13 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 12 (0.17%) VirtualBox
16 10 (0.14%) Firmware
16 10 (0.14%) pfSense
16 10 (0.14%) RACF
17 9 (0.13%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 613 (8.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 218 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
3 175 (2.47%) SCCM
4 149 (2.11%) Kubernetes
5 139 (1.96%) Terraform
6 86 (1.22%) WSUS
7 85 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 78 (1.10%) Ansible
9 55 (0.78%) SCOM
10 53 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 25 (0.35%) Stealthwatch
13 23 (0.32%) Grafana
13 23 (0.32%) ZABBIX
14 21 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 20 (0.28%) CASB
16 16 (0.23%) Puppet
17 15 (0.21%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.21%) Nessus
18 14 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 553 (7.81%) VMware
2 319 (4.51%) Google
3 277 (3.91%) Cisco
4 259 (3.66%) Apple
5 241 (3.41%) CyberArk
6 222 (3.14%) Oracle
7 210 (2.97%) Tanium
8 208 (2.94%) Adobe
9 139 (1.96%) Citrix
10 133 (1.88%) SAP
11 122 (1.72%) HP
12 114 (1.61%) Meraki
13 105 (1.48%) Dell
14 103 (1.46%) ServiceNow
15 98 (1.38%) Veeam
16 86 (1.22%) Facebook
17 85 (1.20%) Fortinet
18 75 (1.06%) Databricks
19 70 (0.99%) Salesforce
20 58 (0.82%) IBM