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 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,105 6,626 10,158
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.83% 16.63% 14.10%
As % of the Vendors category 51.12% 41.03% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,176 4,759 6,884
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 £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
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 13,898 16,150 26,799
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.74% 40.54% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 10,802 15,339
10th Percentile £31,551 £33,000 £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 £71,250 £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 25 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
1 596 (8.39%) SharePoint
2 503 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 177 (2.49%) IIS
4 89 (1.25%) CMS
5 59 (0.83%) Umbraco
6 47 (0.66%) Confluence
6 47 (0.66%) Kentico
7 44 (0.62%) Apache
8 42 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
9 36 (0.51%) Headless CMS
10 33 (0.46%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.24%) Apache Spark
12 16 (0.23%) WordPress
13 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 10 (0.14%) EPiServer
14 8 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
14 8 (0.11%) Moodle
14 8 (0.11%) SAS
15 7 (0.099%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.084%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 968 (13.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 732 (10.30%) Microsoft Office
3 149 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 13 (0.18%) 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 (0.084%) InVision
10 6 (0.084%) Trello
11 5 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.070%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.056%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 276 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.82%) Primavera
3 44 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
4 39 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 30 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
6 14 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.20%) PlanetPress Connect
7 12 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 12 (0.17%) Sage 200
8 11 (0.15%) iTrent
8 11 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
9 10 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.099%) Sage 50
12 5 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
12 5 (0.070%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,615 (50.88%) Azure
2 1,701 (23.94%) Microsoft 365
3 1,051 (14.79%) Power Platform
4 723 (10.18%) Entra ID
5 706 (9.94%) AWS
6 614 (8.64%) Dynamics 365
7 447 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
8 322 (4.53%) SaaS
9 315 (4.43%) PowerApps
10 283 (3.98%) Power Automate
11 220 (3.10%) GCP
12 131 (1.84%) PaaS
13 119 (1.67%) IaaS
14 114 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 110 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 104 (1.46%) OneDrive
17 102 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 94 (1.32%) Serverless
19 73 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
20 71 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 770 (10.84%) Broadband
2 453 (6.38%) Firewall
3 388 (5.46%) DNS
4 331 (4.66%) WAN
5 281 (3.95%) DHCP
6 237 (3.34%) LAN
7 220 (3.10%) 5G
8 182 (2.56%) Internet
9 177 (2.49%) SAN
10 166 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
11 163 (2.29%) VPN
12 141 (1.98%) Wireless
13 137 (1.93%) TCP/IP
14 114 (1.60%) SD-WAN
15 110 (1.55%) Network Security
16 104 (1.46%) VLAN
17 83 (1.17%) VoIP
18 81 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
19 59 (0.83%) Unified Communications
20 44 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,678 (23.62%) SQL Server
2 702 (9.88%) Power BI
3 314 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 263 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 259 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 248 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 237 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
8 155 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 153 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 90 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 78 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 58 (0.82%) MySQL
12 58 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 47 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 46 (0.65%) Big Data
14 46 (0.65%) DB2
15 43 (0.61%) Tableau
16 40 (0.56%) NoSQL
16 40 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
17 24 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 183 (2.58%) Git
2 171 (2.41%) JIRA
3 118 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 47 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
5 41 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 40 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 34 (0.48%) GitLab
8 28 (0.39%) Jasmine
8 28 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
9 27 (0.38%) NUnit
10 21 (0.30%) Postman
10 21 (0.30%) Selenium
11 15 (0.21%) Balsamiq
12 13 (0.18%) Axure RP
13 12 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.17%) JMeter
14 10 (0.14%) Eclipse
14 10 (0.14%) Moq
14 10 (0.14%) SpecFlow
14 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 2,350 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 1,705 (24.00%) Finance
3 1,209 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 490 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 455 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 405 (5.70%) Public Sector
7 352 (4.95%) Retail
8 342 (4.81%) Legal
9 266 (3.74%) Marketing
10 249 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
11 224 (3.15%) Law
12 209 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 150 (2.11%) Advertising
14 146 (2.05%) Banking
15 116 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 101 (1.42%) Games
17 93 (1.31%) Manufacturing
18 87 (1.22%) Local Government
19 70 (0.99%) Police
20 69 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,581 (22.25%) Developer
2 1,118 (15.74%) Analyst
3 1,086 (15.29%) Senior
4 863 (12.15%) .NET Developer
5 515 (7.25%) Architect
6 486 (6.84%) Consultant
7 416 (5.86%) Lead
8 369 (5.19%) C# Developer
9 351 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
10 308 (4.33%) C# .NET Developer
11 306 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 287 (4.04%) IT Support
13 277 (3.90%) Support Engineer
14 264 (3.72%) IT Engineer
15 217 (3.05%) Technical Specialist
16 210 (2.96%) Linux Specialist
17 187 (2.63%) Administrator
18 178 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
19 173 (2.43%) Project Manager
20 170 (2.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,389 (19.55%) .NET
2 879 (12.37%) ASP.NET
3 852 (11.99%) .NET Core
4 769 (10.82%) ASP.NET MVC
5 661 (9.30%) AngularJS
6 581 (8.18%) Entity Framework
7 570 (8.02%) ASP.NET Web API
8 560 (7.88%) HTML
9 548 (7.71%) .NET Framework
10 381 (5.36%) React
11 366 (5.15%) CSS
12 343 (4.83%) HTML5
13 282 (3.97%) RESTful
14 267 (3.76%) Node.js
15 259 (3.65%) Vue
16 178 (2.51%) LINQ
17 177 (2.49%) Blazor
17 177 (2.49%) CSS3
18 166 (2.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 131 (1.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 324 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
2 311 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 306 (4.31%) Social Media
4 282 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 258 (3.63%) Public Cloud
6 210 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 167 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 149 (2.10%) Driving Licence
9 148 (2.08%) PKI
10 137 (1.93%) Product Ownership
11 107 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 84 (1.18%) Cloud Native
13 78 (1.10%) Mobile App
14 73 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 58 (0.82%) iPhone
16 44 (0.62%) PMI
17 43 (0.61%) Virtual Team
18 42 (0.59%) Client/Server
19 40 (0.56%) Data Structures
19 40 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1,336 (18.80%) Windows
2 676 (9.51%) Windows Server
3 558 (7.85%) Linux
4 332 (4.67%) Windows 10
5 222 (3.12%) Ubuntu
6 153 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 151 (2.13%) Android
8 142 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 110 (1.55%) Apple iOS
10 100 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 95 (1.34%) Unix
12 85 (1.20%) VMS
13 58 (0.82%) Windows 7
14 55 (0.77%) Mac OS
15 33 (0.46%) Windows 8
15 33 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
16 32 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 30 (0.42%) Solaris
18 15 (0.21%) Mac OS X
19 13 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,216 (31.19%) Agile
2 1,047 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
3 842 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
4 841 (11.84%) Mentoring
5 837 (11.78%) DevOps
6 830 (11.68%) MVC
7 799 (11.25%) Full Stack Development
8 774 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
9 713 (10.04%) Microservices
10 690 (9.71%) CRM
11 634 (8.92%) Decision-Making
12 606 (8.53%) Customer Service
13 591 (8.32%) ITIL
14 577 (8.12%) Actionable Insight
15 551 (7.76%) Roadmaps
16 534 (7.52%) Project Management
17 495 (6.97%) Scrum
18 493 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence
19 485 (6.83%) Business Case
20 484 (6.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,477 (20.79%) C#
2 1,312 (18.47%) SQL
3 1,089 (15.33%) JavaScript
4 498 (7.01%) PowerShell
5 349 (4.91%) TypeScript
6 299 (4.21%) T-SQL
7 277 (3.90%) Bash
8 245 (3.45%) Python
9 99 (1.39%) Java
10 81 (1.14%) VB.NET
11 79 (1.11%) VB
12 65 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 42 (0.59%) Bicep
14 34 (0.48%) C++
15 32 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 31 (0.44%) VB6
16 31 (0.44%) VBScript
17 28 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.39%) VBA
18 22 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 956 (13.46%) Degree
2 466 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 464 (6.53%) ACCA
4 461 (6.49%) CIMA
5 438 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 263 (3.70%) SC Cleared
7 186 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 180 (2.53%) DBS Check
9 142 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 140 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
11 120 (1.69%) CCNA
12 111 (1.56%) DV Cleared
13 84 (1.18%) PMI Certification
14 79 (1.11%) CCNP
15 55 (0.77%) MCP
16 50 (0.70%) CISSP
17 48 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 43 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
18 43 (0.61%) PMP
19 41 (0.58%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (2.87%) QA
2 154 (2.17%) SLA
3 150 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 104 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 96 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 89 (1.25%) GDPR
7 86 (1.21%) Data Quality
8 50 (0.70%) PMO
9 41 (0.58%) NIST
10 33 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 22 (0.31%) GRC
13 18 (0.25%) WCAG
14 17 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.18%) ITGC
16 10 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.13%) COBIT
17 9 (0.13%) NCSC
18 6 (0.084%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1,359 (19.13%) Active Directory
2 355 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 270 (3.80%) Hyper-V
4 167 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
5 128 (1.80%) Docker
6 93 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 60 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 59 (0.83%) vSphere
9 50 (0.70%) RACF
10 24 (0.34%) XenApp
11 22 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
12 21 (0.30%) XenDesktop
13 19 (0.27%) NFS
14 17 (0.24%) Terminal Services
15 14 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
16 13 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 12 (0.17%) VirtualBox
18 11 (0.15%) Firmware
18 11 (0.15%) pfSense
19 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 611 (8.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 218 (3.07%) Jamf Pro
3 173 (2.43%) SCCM
4 153 (2.15%) Kubernetes
5 140 (1.97%) Terraform
6 86 (1.21%) WSUS
7 85 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 78 (1.10%) Ansible
9 55 (0.77%) SCOM
10 51 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (0.39%) Stealthwatch
12 26 (0.37%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.32%) Grafana
13 23 (0.32%) ZABBIX
14 21 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 20 (0.28%) CASB
16 15 (0.21%) Nessus
16 15 (0.21%) Puppet
17 14 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
17 14 (0.20%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 550 (7.74%) VMware
2 322 (4.53%) Google
3 281 (3.95%) Cisco
3 281 (3.95%) CyberArk
4 255 (3.59%) Apple
5 222 (3.12%) Oracle
6 210 (2.96%) Tanium
7 205 (2.89%) Adobe
8 142 (2.00%) Citrix
9 128 (1.80%) SAP
10 122 (1.72%) HP
11 118 (1.66%) Meraki
12 107 (1.51%) Dell
13 101 (1.42%) ServiceNow
14 99 (1.39%) Veeam
15 88 (1.24%) Facebook
16 86 (1.21%) Fortinet
17 70 (0.99%) Databricks
18 69 (0.97%) Salesforce
19 55 (0.77%) IBM