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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,091 6,794 9,746
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.97% 16.47% 14.20%
As % of the Vendors category 50.65% 40.51% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 4,963 6,773
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,999 £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 £69,688
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 13,999 16,772 25,424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.40% 40.67% 37.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,961 11,178 15,109
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,827 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,191 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.94% +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 10 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
1 602 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 523 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 172 (2.43%) IIS
4 92 (1.30%) CMS
5 62 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 49 (0.69%) Kentico
7 48 (0.68%) Confluence
8 43 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
9 37 (0.52%) Apache
10 36 (0.51%) Headless CMS
11 27 (0.38%) 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%) SAS
16 7 (0.099%) Moodle
16 7 (0.099%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 984 (13.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 761 (10.73%) Microsoft Office
3 171 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 14 (0.20%) 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 (0.056%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 282 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.82%) Primavera
3 43 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
4 30 (0.42%) NEC Housing
4 30 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
5 20 (0.28%) PlanetPress Connect
6 13 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 12 (0.17%) Sage 200
8 11 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 11 (0.16%) iTrent
8 11 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
10 9 (0.13%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.099%) Sage 50
12 6 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
13 5 (0.071%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,612 (50.94%) Azure
2 1,718 (24.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1,058 (14.92%) Power Platform
4 725 (10.22%) AWS
5 672 (9.48%) Entra ID
6 615 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
7 448 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 331 (4.67%) SaaS
9 316 (4.46%) PowerApps
10 280 (3.95%) Power Automate
11 225 (3.17%) GCP
12 135 (1.90%) PaaS
13 124 (1.75%) IaaS
14 118 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 110 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 106 (1.49%) OneDrive
17 103 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 95 (1.34%) Serverless
19 74 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
19 74 (1.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 774 (10.92%) Broadband
2 453 (6.39%) Firewall
3 399 (5.63%) DNS
4 325 (4.58%) WAN
5 288 (4.06%) DHCP
6 238 (3.36%) LAN
7 222 (3.13%) 5G
8 179 (2.52%) SAN
9 178 (2.51%) Internet
10 164 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
11 163 (2.30%) VPN
12 139 (1.96%) Wireless
13 133 (1.88%) TCP/IP
14 107 (1.51%) Network Security
15 106 (1.49%) SD-WAN
16 104 (1.47%) VLAN
17 88 (1.24%) VoIP
18 80 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
19 58 (0.82%) Unified Communications
20 43 (0.61%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,686 (23.78%) SQL Server
2 701 (9.89%) Power BI
3 313 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 273 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 263 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 245 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 235 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
8 157 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 155 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 91 (1.28%) Data Lake
11 79 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 55 (0.78%) MySQL
13 51 (0.72%) Oracle Database
14 49 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
15 47 (0.66%) Tableau
16 46 (0.65%) Big Data
17 44 (0.62%) DB2
18 40 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
19 38 (0.54%) NoSQL
20 23 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 189 (2.67%) Git
2 182 (2.57%) JIRA
3 119 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 47 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 45 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 37 (0.52%) GitLab
6 37 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 28 (0.39%) Jasmine
7 28 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
8 26 (0.37%) NUnit
9 21 (0.30%) Postman
10 20 (0.28%) Selenium
11 15 (0.21%) Balsamiq
12 13 (0.18%) Axure RP
12 13 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.14%) gulp
13 10 (0.14%) JMeter
13 10 (0.14%) Moq
13 10 (0.14%) Trac
13 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 2,365 (33.35%) Social Skills
2 1,653 (23.31%) Finance
3 1,207 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 494 (6.97%) Influencing Skills
5 458 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 399 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 350 (4.94%) Retail
8 294 (4.15%) Legal
9 266 (3.75%) Marketing
10 254 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
11 225 (3.17%) Law
12 213 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
13 145 (2.04%) Advertising
14 118 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 101 (1.42%) Banking
15 101 (1.42%) Games
16 92 (1.30%) Manufacturing
17 77 (1.09%) Local Government
18 68 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
19 62 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,574 (22.20%) Developer
2 1,086 (15.32%) Analyst
3 1,024 (14.44%) Senior
4 854 (12.04%) .NET Developer
5 515 (7.26%) Architect
6 477 (6.73%) Consultant
7 411 (5.80%) Lead
8 361 (5.09%) C# Developer
9 317 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 301 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
11 300 (4.23%) C# .NET Developer
12 287 (4.05%) Support Engineer
13 278 (3.92%) IT Support
14 262 (3.69%) IT Engineer
15 216 (3.05%) Technical Specialist
16 210 (2.96%) Linux Specialist
17 191 (2.69%) Administrator
18 183 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
19 173 (2.44%) Project Manager
20 169 (2.38%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,390 (19.60%) .NET
2 886 (12.49%) ASP.NET
3 857 (12.09%) .NET Core
4 769 (10.84%) ASP.NET MVC
5 659 (9.29%) AngularJS
6 581 (8.19%) Entity Framework
7 566 (7.98%) ASP.NET Web API
8 564 (7.95%) HTML
9 548 (7.73%) .NET Framework
10 380 (5.36%) React
11 372 (5.25%) CSS
12 341 (4.81%) HTML5
13 281 (3.96%) RESTful
14 266 (3.75%) Node.js
15 254 (3.58%) Vue
16 178 (2.51%) LINQ
17 175 (2.47%) CSS3
18 174 (2.45%) Blazor
19 165 (2.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 124 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 338 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
2 305 (4.30%) Social Media
3 282 (3.98%) Data Centre
4 274 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 250 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 208 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
7 164 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 148 (2.09%) PKI
9 146 (2.06%) Driving Licence
10 136 (1.92%) Product Ownership
11 111 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 81 (1.14%) Cloud Native
13 79 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 74 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 55 (0.78%) iPhone
16 44 (0.62%) Client/Server
16 44 (0.62%) PMI
17 43 (0.61%) Virtual Team
18 41 (0.58%) Data Structures
19 39 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1,357 (19.14%) Windows
2 703 (9.91%) Windows Server
3 541 (7.63%) Linux
4 339 (4.78%) Windows 10
5 221 (3.12%) Ubuntu
6 154 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 148 (2.09%) Android
8 147 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 108 (1.52%) Apple iOS
10 103 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 90 (1.27%) Unix
12 86 (1.21%) VMS
13 61 (0.86%) Windows 7
14 56 (0.79%) Mac OS
15 34 (0.48%) Windows 8
15 34 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 33 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 24 (0.34%) Solaris
18 16 (0.23%) Mac OS X
19 13 (0.18%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,166 (30.55%) Agile
2 1,061 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
3 841 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
4 837 (11.80%) Mentoring
5 835 (11.78%) DevOps
6 833 (11.75%) MVC
7 792 (11.17%) Full Stack Development
8 739 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
9 716 (10.10%) Microservices
10 694 (9.79%) CRM
11 652 (9.19%) Decision-Making
12 609 (8.59%) Customer Service
13 592 (8.35%) ITIL
14 580 (8.18%) Actionable Insight
15 529 (7.46%) Project Management
16 496 (6.99%) Roadmaps
17 493 (6.95%) Scrum
18 491 (6.92%) Artificial Intelligence
19 485 (6.84%) Business Case
20 478 (6.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,466 (20.67%) C#
2 1,274 (17.97%) SQL
3 1,090 (15.37%) JavaScript
4 460 (6.49%) PowerShell
5 347 (4.89%) TypeScript
6 300 (4.23%) T-SQL
7 278 (3.92%) Bash
8 247 (3.48%) Python
9 97 (1.37%) Java
10 78 (1.10%) VB
11 77 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 62 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 41 (0.58%) Bicep
14 31 (0.44%) VB6
15 30 (0.42%) VBScript
16 29 (0.41%) C++
17 27 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 27 (0.38%) Shell Script
18 26 (0.37%) VBA
19 23 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 947 (13.35%) Degree
2 467 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 464 (6.54%) ACCA
4 461 (6.50%) CIMA
5 438 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 269 (3.79%) SC Cleared
7 183 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 174 (2.45%) DBS Check
9 136 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 134 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 114 (1.61%) CCNA
12 113 (1.59%) DV Cleared
13 81 (1.14%) PMI Certification
14 70 (0.99%) CCNP
15 53 (0.75%) MCP
16 52 (0.73%) CISSP
17 48 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 45 (0.63%) MCSE
19 44 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
20 40 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (2.92%) QA
2 167 (2.36%) SLA
3 153 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 96 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 93 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 91 (1.28%) GDPR
7 89 (1.26%) Data Quality
8 52 (0.73%) PMO
9 44 (0.62%) NIST
10 34 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 22 (0.31%) GRC
13 18 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.25%) WCAG
14 13 (0.18%) ITGC
15 11 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.13%) COBIT
17 9 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,333 (18.80%) Active Directory
2 367 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 274 (3.86%) Hyper-V
4 165 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 129 (1.82%) Docker
6 87 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 62 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 55 (0.78%) vSphere
9 25 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 24 (0.34%) XenApp
11 20 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 17 (0.24%) NFS
13 15 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 14 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
15 13 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 13 (0.18%) VirtualBox
16 10 (0.14%) DFS Replication
16 10 (0.14%) Firmware
16 10 (0.14%) pfSense
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 618 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 218 (3.07%) Jamf Pro
3 180 (2.54%) SCCM
4 149 (2.10%) Kubernetes
5 140 (1.97%) Terraform
6 89 (1.26%) WSUS
7 87 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 78 (1.10%) Ansible
9 56 (0.79%) SCOM
10 52 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.32%) Grafana
12 23 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 22 (0.31%) Stealthwatch
14 20 (0.28%) CASB
15 19 (0.27%) Puppet
16 16 (0.23%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.21%) SCDPM
18 14 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 565 (7.97%) VMware
2 314 (4.43%) Google
3 275 (3.88%) Cisco
4 258 (3.64%) Apple
5 231 (3.26%) CyberArk
6 216 (3.05%) Oracle
7 210 (2.96%) Tanium
8 205 (2.89%) Adobe
9 145 (2.04%) Citrix
10 137 (1.93%) SAP
11 126 (1.78%) HP
12 112 (1.58%) Meraki
13 107 (1.51%) Dell
14 105 (1.48%) ServiceNow
15 100 (1.41%) Veeam
16 84 (1.18%) Facebook
17 83 (1.17%) Fortinet
18 73 (1.03%) Salesforce
19 72 (1.02%) Databricks
20 59 (0.83%) IBM