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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,229 6,560 10,644
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.49% 17.38% 14.10%
As % of the Vendors category 51.47% 43.28% 37.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,170 4,713 6,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,813 £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 £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 14,045 15,158 28,152
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.81% 40.16% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,836 10,589 15,580
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,887 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £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 £71,222 £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 9 June 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
1 624 (8.63%) SharePoint
2 503 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 175 (2.42%) IIS
4 89 (1.23%) CMS
5 58 (0.80%) Umbraco
6 48 (0.66%) Confluence
7 47 (0.65%) Kentico
8 44 (0.61%) Apache
9 43 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
10 36 (0.50%) Headless CMS
11 31 (0.43%) Tomcat
12 18 (0.25%) WordPress
13 17 (0.24%) Apache Spark
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 (0.097%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.083%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 990 (13.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 763 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.22%) Adobe XD
6 16 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.11%) Acrobat
7 8 (0.11%) InDesign
7 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.097%) Adobe Captivate
8 7 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.097%) Sketch
9 6 (0.083%) InVision
9 6 (0.083%) Trello
10 5 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.069%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.069%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.041%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 282 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.80%) Primavera
3 51 (0.71%) NEC Housing
4 46 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
5 28 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
6 14 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.17%) Sage 200
8 11 (0.15%) iTrent
8 11 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
9 10 (0.14%) NetSuite
9 10 (0.14%) PlanetPress Connect
10 7 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
10 7 (0.097%) Sage 50
11 6 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 5 (0.069%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,670 (50.77%) Azure
2 1,762 (24.37%) Microsoft 365
3 1,066 (14.75%) Power Platform
4 741 (10.25%) Entra ID
5 698 (9.66%) AWS
6 634 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
7 443 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
8 331 (4.58%) PowerApps
9 323 (4.47%) SaaS
10 297 (4.11%) Power Automate
11 218 (3.02%) GCP
12 130 (1.80%) PaaS
13 121 (1.67%) IaaS
14 113 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 107 (1.48%) OneDrive
16 103 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
17 100 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 93 (1.29%) Serverless
19 84 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
20 70 (0.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 771 (10.67%) Broadband
2 467 (6.46%) Firewall
3 386 (5.34%) DNS
4 340 (4.70%) WAN
5 286 (3.96%) DHCP
6 238 (3.29%) LAN
7 220 (3.04%) 5G
8 191 (2.64%) Internet
9 175 (2.42%) SAN
10 168 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
11 163 (2.25%) VPN
12 149 (2.06%) Wireless
13 141 (1.95%) TCP/IP
14 119 (1.65%) SD-WAN
15 115 (1.59%) Network Security
16 107 (1.48%) VLAN
17 85 (1.18%) VoIP
18 77 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
19 59 (0.82%) Unified Communications
20 47 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,685 (23.31%) SQL Server
2 704 (9.74%) Power BI
3 316 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 260 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 255 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
6 248 (3.43%) MongoDB
7 237 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
8 159 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 155 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 85 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 78 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 57 (0.79%) MySQL
13 56 (0.77%) Oracle Database
14 50 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
15 47 (0.65%) DB2
16 46 (0.64%) Big Data
17 41 (0.57%) Tableau
18 40 (0.55%) NoSQL
18 40 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
19 24 (0.33%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 186 (2.57%) Git
2 169 (2.34%) JIRA
3 116 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 50 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 40 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 35 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 33 (0.46%) GitLab
8 28 (0.39%) Jasmine
8 28 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
9 26 (0.36%) NUnit
10 23 (0.32%) Selenium
11 21 (0.29%) Postman
12 15 (0.21%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.18%) Axure RP
14 12 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.17%) JMeter
15 11 (0.15%) Moq
15 11 (0.15%) SpecFlow
16 10 (0.14%) MSTest
16 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 2,409 (33.32%) Social Skills
2 1,735 (24.00%) Finance
3 1,223 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 489 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
5 462 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 419 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 356 (4.92%) Retail
8 355 (4.91%) Legal
9 276 (3.82%) Marketing
10 254 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
11 228 (3.15%) Law
12 216 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 154 (2.13%) Advertising
14 134 (1.85%) Banking
15 115 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 103 (1.42%) Games
17 95 (1.31%) Local Government
17 95 (1.31%) Manufacturing
18 80 (1.11%) Police
19 74 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,607 (22.23%) Developer
2 1,117 (15.45%) Analyst
3 1,113 (15.40%) Senior
4 870 (12.03%) .NET Developer
5 547 (7.57%) Architect
6 519 (7.18%) Consultant
7 425 (5.88%) Lead
8 374 (5.17%) C# Developer
9 355 (4.91%) Senior Analyst
10 310 (4.29%) C# .NET Developer
11 306 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 287 (3.97%) IT Support
13 276 (3.82%) Support Engineer
14 264 (3.65%) IT Engineer
15 217 (3.00%) Technical Specialist
16 210 (2.90%) Linux Specialist
17 189 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
18 178 (2.46%) Administrator
18 178 (2.46%) Senior Developer
19 172 (2.38%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,405 (19.44%) .NET
2 874 (12.09%) ASP.NET
3 856 (11.84%) .NET Core
4 769 (10.64%) ASP.NET MVC
5 659 (9.12%) AngularJS
6 580 (8.02%) Entity Framework
7 568 (7.86%) ASP.NET Web API
8 564 (7.80%) HTML
9 556 (7.69%) .NET Framework
10 382 (5.28%) React
11 363 (5.02%) CSS
12 342 (4.73%) HTML5
13 283 (3.91%) RESTful
14 266 (3.68%) Node.js
15 258 (3.57%) Vue
16 178 (2.46%) LINQ
17 177 (2.45%) CSS3
18 175 (2.42%) Blazor
19 166 (2.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 135 (1.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 326 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
2 307 (4.25%) Management Information System
2 307 (4.25%) Social Media
3 287 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 265 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 206 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
6 167 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 151 (2.09%) PKI
8 150 (2.07%) Driving Licence
9 139 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 116 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 91 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 77 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 70 (0.97%) Low-Code
14 60 (0.83%) iPhone
15 44 (0.61%) PMI
15 44 (0.61%) Virtual Team
16 42 (0.58%) Client/Server
17 40 (0.55%) NHS
17 40 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,359 (18.80%) Windows
2 683 (9.45%) Windows Server
3 567 (7.84%) Linux
4 333 (4.61%) Windows 10
5 224 (3.10%) Ubuntu
6 160 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 151 (2.09%) Android
8 148 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 108 (1.49%) Apple iOS
10 101 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 90 (1.24%) Unix
12 86 (1.19%) VMS
13 58 (0.80%) Windows 7
14 56 (0.77%) Mac OS
15 33 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
16 32 (0.44%) Windows 8
17 30 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 30 (0.41%) Solaris
18 19 (0.26%) Windows Vista
19 16 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,233 (30.89%) Agile
2 1,069 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
3 854 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
4 852 (11.79%) Mentoring
5 828 (11.45%) MVC
6 827 (11.44%) DevOps
7 798 (11.04%) Full Stack Development
8 775 (10.72%) Cybersecurity
9 716 (9.90%) Microservices
10 703 (9.72%) CRM
11 646 (8.94%) Customer Service
12 635 (8.78%) Decision-Making
13 591 (8.18%) ITIL
14 577 (7.98%) Actionable Insight
15 563 (7.79%) Roadmaps
16 549 (7.59%) Project Management
17 501 (6.93%) Scrum
18 487 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence
18 487 (6.74%) Business Case
18 487 (6.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,508 (20.86%) C#
2 1,334 (18.45%) SQL
3 1,101 (15.23%) JavaScript
4 498 (6.89%) PowerShell
5 347 (4.80%) TypeScript
6 297 (4.11%) T-SQL
7 277 (3.83%) Bash
8 243 (3.36%) Python
9 101 (1.40%) Java
10 88 (1.22%) VB.NET
11 82 (1.13%) VB
12 64 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 51 (0.71%) Bicep
14 37 (0.51%) C++
15 34 (0.47%) VBScript
16 32 (0.44%) VBA
17 31 (0.43%) VB6
18 30 (0.41%) Shell Script
19 26 (0.36%) PL/SQL
20 19 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 1,000 (13.83%) Degree
2 478 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 472 (6.53%) ACCA
4 468 (6.47%) CIMA
5 458 (6.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 272 (3.76%) SC Cleared
7 198 (2.74%) DBS Check
8 195 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 154 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 144 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
11 126 (1.74%) CCNA
12 106 (1.47%) DV Cleared
13 86 (1.19%) CCNP
14 83 (1.15%) PMI Certification
15 60 (0.83%) MCP
16 47 (0.65%) CISSP
16 47 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 43 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 42 (0.58%) PMP
19 40 (0.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (2.88%) QA
2 155 (2.14%) SLA
3 149 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 118 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 105 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 100 (1.38%) GDPR
7 84 (1.16%) Data Quality
8 49 (0.68%) PMO
9 35 (0.48%) NIST
10 30 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 20 (0.28%) GRC
13 18 (0.25%) WCAG
14 16 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 13 (0.18%) ITGC
16 12 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.12%) COBIT
18 7 (0.097%) NCSC
19 6 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,362 (18.84%) Active Directory
2 372 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 278 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 169 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 126 (1.74%) Docker
6 99 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 68 (0.94%) vSphere
8 60 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (0.69%) RACF
10 26 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 23 (0.32%) XenApp
12 21 (0.29%) XenDesktop
13 20 (0.28%) NFS
14 19 (0.26%) Terminal Services
15 15 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 14 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
17 12 (0.17%) pfSense
18 11 (0.15%) Firmware
18 11 (0.15%) VirtualBox
19 9 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 613 (8.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 218 (3.02%) Jamf Pro
3 179 (2.48%) SCCM
4 154 (2.13%) Kubernetes
5 141 (1.95%) Terraform
6 88 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 85 (1.18%) WSUS
8 77 (1.07%) Ansible
9 59 (0.82%) SCOM
10 49 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (0.47%) Stealthwatch
12 24 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.32%) Grafana
13 23 (0.32%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 20 (0.28%) CASB
16 15 (0.21%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
17 14 (0.19%) Nessus
17 14 (0.19%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 558 (7.72%) VMware
2 325 (4.50%) Google
3 295 (4.08%) Cisco
4 281 (3.89%) CyberArk
5 255 (3.53%) Apple
6 223 (3.08%) Oracle
7 210 (2.90%) Tanium
8 205 (2.84%) Adobe
9 138 (1.91%) Citrix
10 127 (1.76%) Meraki
11 121 (1.67%) HP
12 117 (1.62%) SAP
13 111 (1.54%) Dell
14 106 (1.47%) Veeam
15 96 (1.33%) ServiceNow
16 93 (1.29%) Facebook
17 89 (1.23%) Fortinet
18 73 (1.01%) Databricks
19 66 (0.91%) Salesforce
20 58 (0.80%) IBM