Microsoft Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 422 588
Rank change year-on-year +111 +166 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 30 35 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.15% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.15% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 25
10th Percentile £365 £309 £285
25th Percentile £456 £328 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £506 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +10.05% +15.00%
75th Percentile £522 £565 £525
90th Percentile £525 £659 £573
UK median daily rate £451 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.44% +2.63% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £78.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Microsoft Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Microsoft Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft Engineer over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Microsoft Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Microsoft Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Microsoft Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (73.33%) Windows
3 19 (63.33%) Social Skills
4 18 (60.00%) Firewall
4 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
5 16 (53.33%) Service Management
5 16 (53.33%) ITIL
6 15 (50.00%) Azure
7 13 (43.33%) Confluence
7 13 (43.33%) Network Management
7 13 (43.33%) Capacity Management
7 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
7 13 (43.33%) Private Cloud
7 13 (43.33%) Government Security Classifications
7 13 (43.33%) Security Monitoring
7 13 (43.33%) BGP
7 13 (43.33%) ITSM
7 13 (43.33%) SharePoint
7 13 (43.33%) Atlassian
7 13 (43.33%) SCOM
7 13 (43.33%) SharePoint Server
7 13 (43.33%) JIRA
7 13 (43.33%) Azure Stack
8 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
8 7 (23.33%) SLA
8 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
9 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
9 5 (16.67%) VMware

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 13 (43.33%) Confluence
1 13 (43.33%) SharePoint
1 13 (43.33%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) Azure Stack
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (60.00%) Firewall
2 13 (43.33%) BGP
3 2 (6.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) JIRA
General
1 19 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 22 (73.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) ITIL
1 16 (53.33%) Service Management
2 13 (43.33%) Capacity Management
2 13 (43.33%) ITSM
2 13 (43.33%) Network Management
2 13 (43.33%) Security Monitoring
3 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
4 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (6.67%) Agile
5 2 (6.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (6.67%) Business Strategy
5 2 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (6.67%) DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Information Security
5 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (3.33%) Coaching
6 1 (3.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) CEH
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) MCTS
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (23.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) SCOM
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.67%) SCCM
2 2 (6.67%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (43.33%) Atlassian
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) Veeam