Microsoft 365 Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
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 Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 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 30 50 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 2,363 2,326 3,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.99% 5.73% 4.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.13% 11.87% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,981 2,001 2,617
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.23% -2.35% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,653 19,603 37,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.34% 48.31% 52.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,910 14,302 21,927
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +11.12%
75th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Microsoft 365
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft 365 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
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 365.

Microsoft 365 salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Microsoft 365 salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft 365
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
1 555 (23.49%) SharePoint
2 534 (22.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.40%) Confluence
4 32 (1.35%) IIS
5 12 (0.51%) WordPress
6 11 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
7 7 (0.30%) CMS
8 6 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2000
9 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.17%) SAS
10 3 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.085%) Moodle
11 2 (0.085%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.042%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.042%) Documentum
12 1 (0.042%) FileNet
12 1 (0.042%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 247 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.25%) InVision
6 6 (0.25%) Sketch
7 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.085%) 1Password
8 2 (0.085%) CATIA
8 2 (0.085%) NASTRAN
8 2 (0.085%) Trello
9 1 (0.042%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.042%) InDesign
9 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
3 9 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.085%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.085%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.085%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.042%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.042%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.042%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,423 (60.22%) Azure
2 450 (19.04%) Entra ID
3 264 (11.17%) Power Platform
4 250 (10.58%) AWS
5 168 (7.11%) PowerApps
6 158 (6.69%) SaaS
7 151 (6.39%) Power Automate
8 135 (5.71%) GCP
9 128 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
10 112 (4.74%) OneDrive
11 80 (3.39%) IaaS
12 70 (2.96%) PaaS
13 63 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
14 56 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
15 53 (2.24%) Azure Sentinel
16 47 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 46 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (1.65%) WhatsApp
19 30 (1.27%) Azure Storage
20 24 (1.02%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 400 (16.93%) Firewall
2 332 (14.05%) DNS
3 243 (10.28%) WAN
4 219 (9.27%) DHCP
5 204 (8.63%) LAN
6 157 (6.64%) Wi-Fi
7 139 (5.88%) VPN
8 129 (5.46%) TCP/IP
9 108 (4.57%) SAN
10 100 (4.23%) Wireless
11 94 (3.98%) VLAN
12 80 (3.39%) VoIP
13 75 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
14 74 (3.13%) Internet
15 62 (2.62%) SD-WAN
16 60 (2.54%) Network Security
17 41 (1.74%) NAS
18 38 (1.61%) Unified Communications
19 37 (1.57%) DKIM
19 37 (1.57%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (6.86%) Power BI
2 120 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (0.76%) MySQL
6 16 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.30%) Power Query
10 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.21%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.21%) EDMS
12 4 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.17%) GIS
12 4 (0.17%) Metadata
13 3 (0.13%) Big Data
13 3 (0.13%) EDRMS
13 3 (0.13%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 65 (2.75%) JIRA
2 30 (1.27%) Git
3 10 (0.42%) gulp
3 10 (0.42%) Yeoman
4 6 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.13%) Subversion
6 2 (0.085%) GitLab
7 1 (0.042%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.042%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.042%) MSI
7 1 (0.042%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 736 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 333 (14.09%) Finance
3 147 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (5.42%) Law
5 120 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
6 103 (4.36%) Legal
7 102 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 93 (3.94%) Public Sector
9 73 (3.09%) Retail
10 70 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 45 (1.90%) Fire and Rescue
13 38 (1.61%) Marketing
14 37 (1.57%) Banking
15 35 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.10%) Games
18 23 (0.97%) Advertising
19 17 (0.72%) Local Government
20 11 (0.47%) French Language
Job Titles
1 362 (15.32%) IT Support
2 311 (13.16%) Analyst
3 268 (11.34%) Support Engineer
4 252 (10.66%) IT Engineer
5 232 (9.82%) Senior
6 231 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 167 (7.07%) Developer
8 166 (7.02%) Architect
9 163 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
10 155 (6.56%) Lead
11 134 (5.67%) IT Analyst
12 133 (5.63%) IT Technician
13 123 (5.21%) Support Technician
14 118 (4.99%) Consultant
15 115 (4.87%) 3rd Line Support
16 105 (4.44%) IT Support Technician
17 104 (4.40%) IT Manager
18 100 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
19 92 (3.89%) Support Analyst
20 88 (3.72%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (2.96%) .NET
2 64 (2.71%) SPFx
3 36 (1.52%) ARM Templates
4 28 (1.18%) HTML
4 28 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
5 27 (1.14%) CSS
6 22 (0.93%) React
7 18 (0.76%) RESTful
8 15 (0.63%) JSON
9 11 (0.47%) Node.js
10 10 (0.42%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.38%) YAML
12 8 (0.34%) OAuth
13 6 (0.25%) ASP.NET
13 6 (0.25%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (0.25%) LDAP
13 6 (0.25%) Middleware
14 5 (0.21%) .NET Core
15 4 (0.17%) ASP.NET Web API
15 4 (0.17%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 145 (6.14%) Public Cloud
2 128 (5.42%) Data Centre
3 111 (4.70%) PKI
4 109 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
5 103 (4.36%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.75%) Driving Licence
7 64 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 43 (1.82%) Cyberattack
8 43 (1.82%) Private Cloud
9 41 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
11 31 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
12 28 (1.18%) Clustering
13 27 (1.14%) Replication
14 26 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.06%) iPad
15 25 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 25 (1.06%) Product Ownership
16 20 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
17 19 (0.80%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1,099 (46.51%) Windows
2 599 (25.35%) Windows Server
3 383 (16.21%) Windows 10
4 121 (5.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 118 (4.99%) Linux
6 111 (4.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 85 (3.60%) Android
8 80 (3.39%) Apple iOS
9 75 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 71 (3.00%) Windows 7
11 47 (1.99%) Windows 8
12 46 (1.95%) Mac OS
13 25 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
14 18 (0.76%) Unix
15 13 (0.55%) Mac OS X
16 11 (0.47%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.34%) CentOS
17 8 (0.34%) Windows XP
18 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
19 4 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (17.14%) Customer Service
2 396 (16.76%) ITIL
3 341 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
4 328 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 312 (13.20%) Cybersecurity
6 254 (10.75%) Project Management
7 250 (10.58%) Agile
8 219 (9.27%) Migration
9 169 (7.15%) DevOps
10 165 (6.98%) Presales
11 153 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
12 150 (6.35%) Information Security
12 150 (6.35%) Service Delivery
13 143 (6.05%) Service Management
14 142 (6.01%) Roadmaps
15 141 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 134 (5.67%) Mentoring
16 134 (5.67%) Project Delivery
17 123 (5.21%) Configuration Management
18 111 (4.70%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 287 (12.15%) PowerShell
2 197 (8.34%) SQL
3 81 (3.43%) C#
4 40 (1.69%) Bash
5 33 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 33 (1.40%) Python
6 28 (1.18%) Java
7 26 (1.10%) Bicep
8 17 (0.72%) T-SQL
8 17 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.59%) VB
9 14 (0.59%) VBScript
10 5 (0.21%) Formula Language
10 5 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.17%) PHP
11 4 (0.17%) VBA
12 3 (0.13%) AWK
12 3 (0.13%) sed
13 1 (0.042%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.042%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 340 (14.39%) Degree
2 153 (6.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 97 (4.10%) Security Cleared
4 85 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 70 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
6 67 (2.84%) SC Cleared
7 54 (2.29%) CCNA
8 44 (1.86%) MCP
9 42 (1.78%) PMI Certification
10 40 (1.69%) CISSP
11 39 (1.65%) MCSE
12 38 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 34 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 32 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
15 27 (1.14%) CEH
16 25 (1.06%) PMP
17 24 (1.02%) DBS Check
18 21 (0.89%) CCNP
19 18 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
20 17 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 108 (4.57%) SLA
3 88 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 51 (2.16%) GDPR
5 37 (1.57%) NIST
6 30 (1.27%) QA
7 29 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 20 (0.85%) GRC
9 17 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.51%) Data Quality
11 11 (0.47%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 9 (0.38%) PMO
13 8 (0.34%) NCSC
14 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.085%) GLP
17 2 (0.085%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 1,038 (43.93%) Active Directory
2 355 (15.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 243 (10.28%) Hyper-V
4 111 (4.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 75 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
6 52 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (2.20%) vSphere
7 37 (1.57%) XenDesktop
8 36 (1.52%) XenApp
9 28 (1.18%) VirtualBox
10 22 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
11 19 (0.80%) Docker
12 11 (0.47%) Terminal Services
13 9 (0.38%) VMware Server
14 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.25%) NFS
16 4 (0.17%) DFS Replication
16 4 (0.17%) Firmware
17 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
17 3 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 471 (19.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 139 (5.88%) SCCM
3 57 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 53 (2.24%) WSUS
5 50 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
6 48 (2.03%) Terraform
7 40 (1.69%) vCenter Server
8 31 (1.31%) CASB
8 31 (1.31%) Kubernetes
9 28 (1.18%) SCOM
10 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Clustering
11 17 (0.72%) Ansible
11 17 (0.72%) Nagios
12 14 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
13 13 (0.55%) Nmap
13 13 (0.55%) ServiceCenter
14 12 (0.51%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.51%) VxRail
14 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.42%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,700 (71.94%) Microsoft
2 527 (22.30%) VMware
3 209 (8.84%) Cisco
4 139 (5.88%) Citrix
5 123 (5.21%) Google
6 97 (4.10%) Apple
7 92 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 89 (3.77%) Meraki
9 81 (3.43%) Veeam
10 72 (3.05%) HP
11 69 (2.92%) Fortinet
12 59 (2.50%) Dell
13 53 (2.24%) Adobe
14 47 (1.99%) iManage
15 40 (1.69%) Sophos
16 36 (1.52%) Qualys
16 36 (1.52%) Salesforce
17 35 (1.48%) Commvault
18 31 (1.31%) Aruba
19 27 (1.14%) SolarWinds