Microsoft Certification Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 317 342
Rank change year-on-year +90 +25 -86
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 463 408 724
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.37% 1.01% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.85% 3.92% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 389 350 533
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £30,100
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,552 10,403 16,413
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.25% 25.64% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,899 6,318 8,788
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Microsoft Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Microsoft Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
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 Certification.

Microsoft Certification salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft Certification over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Microsoft Certification salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
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 52 (11.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (7.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.43%) Apache
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) Moodle
4 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.81%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.43%) Trello
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.43%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.43%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.22%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 341 (73.65%) Azure
2 175 (37.80%) Power Platform
3 153 (33.05%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (14.47%) AWS
5 40 (8.64%) Entra ID
6 33 (7.13%) PowerApps
7 29 (6.26%) Power Automate
8 26 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (2.38%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 11 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (2.38%) OneDrive
11 11 (2.38%) Serverless
11 11 (2.38%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.73%) GCP
12 8 (1.73%) IaaS
13 7 (1.51%) Azure AKS
13 7 (1.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (16.20%) Broadband
2 48 (10.37%) SAN
3 47 (10.15%) Firewall
4 36 (7.78%) DNS
5 31 (6.70%) DHCP
6 29 (6.26%) TCP/IP
7 26 (5.62%) VLAN
8 20 (4.32%) Network Security
9 19 (4.10%) VPN
10 16 (3.46%) WAN
11 15 (3.24%) NAS
12 14 (3.02%) Wireless
13 13 (2.81%) VoIP
14 11 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (2.16%) LAN
16 6 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (1.30%) SD-WAN
16 6 (1.30%) VSAN
17 5 (1.08%) Internet
17 5 (1.08%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (35.85%) Power BI
2 138 (29.81%) SQL Server
3 94 (20.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 36 (7.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (6.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (6.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 27 (5.83%) Data Lake
8 25 (5.40%) Relational Database
9 21 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (1.73%) Metadata
13 6 (1.30%) Big Data
13 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.30%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.08%) MySQL
14 5 (1.08%) QlikView
14 5 (1.08%) Redis
14 5 (1.08%) Tableau
15 3 (0.65%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (2.81%) Axure RP
1 13 (2.81%) Balsamiq
2 9 (1.94%) JIRA
3 8 (1.73%) Git
4 2 (0.43%) GitLab
4 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (44.06%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 48 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.29%) Finance
5 36 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (6.91%) Marketing
7 30 (6.48%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (3.89%) Law
10 12 (2.59%) Legal
11 9 (1.94%) Banking
12 5 (1.08%) Retail
13 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.86%) Police
14 3 (0.65%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.43%) Back Office
15 2 (0.43%) Billing
15 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (21.60%) DBA
1 100 (21.60%) SQL DBA
2 56 (12.10%) Support Engineer
3 54 (11.66%) IT Support
4 53 (11.45%) Architect
5 45 (9.72%) IT Engineer
6 43 (9.29%) Senior
7 39 (8.42%) Analyst
7 39 (8.42%) IT Support Engineer
8 35 (7.56%) Administrator
8 35 (7.56%) Consultant
9 34 (7.34%) 3rd Line Support
10 32 (6.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 31 (6.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 22 (4.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 21 (4.54%) Developer
13 21 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (4.32%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
14 20 (4.32%) Platform Architect
14 20 (4.32%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.18%) CSS
1 24 (5.18%) HTML
2 13 (2.81%) .NET
3 9 (1.94%) .NET Core
4 8 (1.73%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.73%) Middleware
5 6 (1.30%) jQuery
6 5 (1.08%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.86%) React
8 2 (0.43%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (0.43%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.43%) PySpark
9 1 (0.22%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.22%) JSON
9 1 (0.22%) MDX
9 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.50%) Data Centre
2 36 (7.78%) Driving Licence
3 26 (5.62%) Private Cloud
4 25 (5.40%) Enterprise Storage
5 24 (5.18%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.32%) Public Cloud
7 14 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.30%) PKI
11 5 (1.08%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.86%) iPhone
12 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.65%) Clustering
13 3 (0.65%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.65%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.65%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 146 (31.53%) Windows
2 75 (16.20%) VMS
3 62 (13.39%) Windows Server
4 47 (10.15%) Windows 10
5 28 (6.05%) Linux
6 11 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (2.16%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.51%) Unix
9 7 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.08%) Android
11 4 (0.86%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.43%) Debian
12 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.22%) AIX
13 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (37.15%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (21.81%) ITIL
3 99 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (20.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 85 (18.36%) Collaborative Working
6 79 (17.06%) High Availability
7 75 (16.20%) Performance Tuning
8 72 (15.55%) Customer Service
9 61 (13.17%) Migration
10 58 (12.53%) Cybersecurity
11 54 (11.66%) Agile
11 54 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 46 (9.94%) Computer Science
13 45 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 43 (9.29%) Presales
15 41 (8.86%) DevOps
16 35 (7.56%) Roadmaps
17 34 (7.34%) Data Modelling
18 33 (7.13%) Project Delivery
19 32 (6.91%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 170 (36.72%) SQL
2 86 (18.57%) T-SQL
3 43 (9.29%) C#
4 28 (6.05%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.40%) Python
6 22 (4.75%) PowerShell
7 21 (4.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (2.38%) U-SQL
9 7 (1.51%) Bicep
9 7 (1.51%) R
10 6 (1.30%) Bash
11 4 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.65%) Go
12 3 (0.65%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.43%) Java
14 1 (0.22%) C
14 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 124 (26.78%) Degree
2 84 (18.14%) Azure Certification
3 67 (14.47%) MCSE
4 46 (9.94%) MCP
5 45 (9.72%) Security Cleared
6 44 (9.50%) SC Cleared
7 41 (8.86%) CCNA
7 41 (8.86%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (8.64%) DBS Check
9 32 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (4.75%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (3.24%) MCITP
11 15 (3.24%) MCSA
12 14 (3.02%) A+ Certification
13 10 (2.16%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.16%) CISSP
13 10 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (1.30%) Citrix Certification
14 6 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.30%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.89%) GDPR
2 17 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.81%) WCAG
4 11 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.16%) SLA
6 8 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.08%) QA
8 4 (0.86%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.65%) NIST
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 134 (28.94%) Active Directory
2 78 (16.85%) Virtual Machines
3 51 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (10.80%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.38%) vSphere
6 7 (1.51%) Docker
6 7 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (1.51%) XenDesktop
7 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.86%) XenApp
9 2 (0.43%) Firmware
9 2 (0.43%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.43%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 38 (8.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (6.70%) SCCM
3 21 (4.54%) Terraform
4 13 (2.81%) Kubernetes
5 11 (2.38%) SCOM
6 5 (1.08%) Grafana
6 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.86%) Autotask
7 4 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.65%) WSUS
9 2 (0.43%) Ansible
9 2 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.22%) OfficeScan
10 1 (0.22%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 439 (94.82%) Microsoft
2 69 (14.90%) VMware
3 46 (9.94%) Adobe
4 38 (8.21%) Apple
5 18 (3.89%) Citrix
5 18 (3.89%) Databricks
6 13 (2.81%) Cisco
7 11 (2.38%) HP
7 11 (2.38%) Meraki
8 8 (1.73%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.51%) Dell
9 7 (1.51%) Google
9 7 (1.51%) Oracle
9 7 (1.51%) Veeam
10 5 (1.08%) Datto
11 4 (0.86%) IBM
11 4 (0.86%) iManage
11 4 (0.86%) Sophos
12 3 (0.65%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow