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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,137 6,677 10,299
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.77% 16.79% 14.05%
As % of the Vendors category 51.20% 41.32% 37.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,178 4,811 6,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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 £66,813 £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 13,939 16,159 27,236
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.57% 40.63% 37.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9,835 10,814 15,446
10th Percentile £31,579 £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 £76,250
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 28 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
1 600 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 503 (7.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 176 (2.47%) IIS
4 90 (1.26%) CMS
5 59 (0.83%) Umbraco
6 47 (0.66%) Confluence
6 47 (0.66%) Kentico
7 44 (0.62%) Apache
8 43 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
9 36 (0.50%) Headless CMS
10 32 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.24%) Apache Spark
12 16 (0.22%) 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 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.084%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 973 (13.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 738 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
3 152 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 13 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.11%) InDesign
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.098%) Adobe Captivate
9 7 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.098%) 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 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.81%) Primavera
3 44 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
4 42 (0.59%) 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
9 10 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.098%) Sage 50
12 5 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
12 5 (0.070%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,631 (50.88%) Azure
2 1,714 (24.02%) Microsoft 365
3 1,059 (14.84%) Power Platform
4 728 (10.20%) Entra ID
5 706 (9.89%) AWS
6 618 (8.66%) Dynamics 365
7 446 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 322 (4.51%) SaaS
9 318 (4.46%) PowerApps
10 287 (4.02%) Power Automate
11 222 (3.11%) GCP
12 131 (1.84%) PaaS
13 120 (1.68%) IaaS
14 113 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 110 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
16 105 (1.47%) OneDrive
17 101 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 94 (1.32%) Serverless
19 76 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
20 71 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 770 (10.79%) Broadband
2 455 (6.38%) Firewall
3 386 (5.41%) DNS
4 327 (4.58%) WAN
5 280 (3.92%) DHCP
6 234 (3.28%) LAN
7 220 (3.08%) 5G
8 185 (2.59%) Internet
9 178 (2.49%) SAN
10 167 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
11 160 (2.24%) VPN
12 142 (1.99%) Wireless
13 137 (1.92%) TCP/IP
14 114 (1.60%) SD-WAN
15 112 (1.57%) Network Security
16 104 (1.46%) VLAN
17 82 (1.15%) VoIP
18 80 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
19 59 (0.83%) Unified Communications
20 44 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,678 (23.51%) SQL Server
2 707 (9.91%) Power BI
3 314 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 263 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
5 259 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 248 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 237 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
8 156 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 153 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 88 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 78 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 58 (0.81%) MySQL
12 58 (0.81%) Oracle Database
13 48 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 46 (0.64%) Big Data
14 46 (0.64%) DB2
15 45 (0.63%) Tableau
16 40 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
17 39 (0.55%) NoSQL
18 23 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 184 (2.58%) Git
2 171 (2.40%) JIRA
3 119 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 48 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 41 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 40 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 33 (0.46%) GitLab
8 28 (0.39%) Jasmine
8 28 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
9 27 (0.38%) NUnit
10 23 (0.32%) Selenium
11 21 (0.29%) Postman
12 15 (0.21%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.18%) Axure RP
14 12 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.17%) JMeter
15 11 (0.15%) Moq
15 11 (0.15%) SpecFlow
16 10 (0.14%) MSTest
16 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 2,361 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 1,714 (24.02%) Finance
3 1,210 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 490 (6.87%) Influencing Skills
5 456 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 410 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 352 (4.93%) Retail
8 344 (4.82%) Legal
9 268 (3.76%) Marketing
10 250 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
11 226 (3.17%) Law
12 209 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
13 150 (2.10%) Advertising
14 144 (2.02%) Banking
15 116 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 103 (1.44%) Games
17 94 (1.32%) Manufacturing
18 91 (1.28%) Local Government
19 73 (1.02%) Police
20 72 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,585 (22.21%) Developer
2 1,119 (15.68%) Analyst
3 1,094 (15.33%) Senior
4 865 (12.12%) .NET Developer
5 524 (7.34%) Architect
6 494 (6.92%) Consultant
7 419 (5.87%) Lead
8 369 (5.17%) C# Developer
9 353 (4.95%) Senior Analyst
10 308 (4.32%) C# .NET Developer
11 305 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 286 (4.01%) IT Support
13 280 (3.92%) Support Engineer
14 263 (3.69%) IT Engineer
15 217 (3.04%) Technical Specialist
16 210 (2.94%) Linux Specialist
17 187 (2.62%) Administrator
18 181 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
19 171 (2.40%) Project Manager
20 170 (2.38%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,392 (19.50%) .NET
2 875 (12.26%) ASP.NET
3 853 (11.95%) .NET Core
4 768 (10.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 663 (9.29%) AngularJS
6 581 (8.14%) Entity Framework
7 569 (7.97%) ASP.NET Web API
8 558 (7.82%) HTML
9 547 (7.66%) .NET Framework
10 382 (5.35%) React
11 364 (5.10%) CSS
12 343 (4.81%) HTML5
13 282 (3.95%) RESTful
14 267 (3.74%) Node.js
15 259 (3.63%) Vue
16 179 (2.51%) LINQ
17 177 (2.48%) Blazor
17 177 (2.48%) CSS3
18 166 (2.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 133 (1.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 327 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
2 313 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 306 (4.29%) Social Media
4 284 (3.98%) Data Centre
5 263 (3.69%) Public Cloud
6 209 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
7 166 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 150 (2.10%) PKI
9 149 (2.09%) Driving Licence
10 139 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 109 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 86 (1.20%) Cloud Native
13 78 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 72 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 58 (0.81%) iPhone
16 44 (0.62%) PMI
16 44 (0.62%) Virtual Team
17 42 (0.59%) Client/Server
18 40 (0.56%) Social Network
19 39 (0.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,341 (18.79%) Windows
2 675 (9.46%) Windows Server
3 561 (7.86%) Linux
4 332 (4.65%) Windows 10
5 222 (3.11%) Ubuntu
6 153 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 151 (2.12%) Android
8 144 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 109 (1.53%) Apple iOS
10 99 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 95 (1.33%) Unix
12 85 (1.19%) VMS
13 58 (0.81%) Windows 7
14 55 (0.77%) Mac OS
15 33 (0.46%) Windows 8
15 33 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
16 31 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 30 (0.42%) Solaris
18 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 14 (0.20%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,224 (31.16%) Agile
2 1,049 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
3 851 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
4 847 (11.87%) Mentoring
5 835 (11.70%) DevOps
6 828 (11.60%) MVC
7 799 (11.20%) Full Stack Development
8 773 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
9 716 (10.03%) Microservices
10 691 (9.68%) CRM
11 634 (8.88%) Decision-Making
12 613 (8.59%) Customer Service
13 589 (8.25%) ITIL
14 577 (8.08%) Actionable Insight
15 552 (7.73%) Roadmaps
16 537 (7.52%) Project Management
17 495 (6.94%) Scrum
18 491 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence
19 486 (6.81%) Business Case
20 484 (6.78%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,487 (20.84%) C#
2 1,321 (18.51%) SQL
3 1,090 (15.27%) JavaScript
4 503 (7.05%) PowerShell
5 349 (4.89%) TypeScript
6 296 (4.15%) T-SQL
7 275 (3.85%) Bash
8 242 (3.39%) Python
9 98 (1.37%) Java
10 84 (1.18%) VB.NET
11 81 (1.13%) VB
12 64 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 45 (0.63%) Bicep
14 34 (0.48%) C++
15 33 (0.46%) VBScript
16 32 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 31 (0.43%) VB6
18 29 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 29 (0.41%) VBA
19 21 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 961 (13.47%) Degree
2 471 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 465 (6.52%) ACCA
4 462 (6.47%) CIMA
5 443 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 269 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 187 (2.62%) Azure Certification
8 184 (2.58%) DBS Check
9 141 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 140 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
11 120 (1.68%) CCNA
12 112 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 84 (1.18%) PMI Certification
14 79 (1.11%) CCNP
15 56 (0.78%) MCP
16 50 (0.70%) CISSP
17 48 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 43 (0.60%) PMP
19 42 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
20 41 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (2.89%) QA
2 152 (2.13%) SLA
3 150 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 107 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 97 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 92 (1.29%) GDPR
7 86 (1.20%) Data Quality
8 50 (0.70%) PMO
9 41 (0.57%) NIST
10 33 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 21 (0.29%) 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 (19.04%) Active Directory
2 360 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 269 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 169 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 125 (1.75%) Docker
6 95 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 62 (0.87%) vSphere
8 60 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (0.70%) RACF
10 23 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 23 (0.32%) XenApp
11 21 (0.29%) XenDesktop
12 19 (0.27%) NFS
13 17 (0.24%) Terminal Services
14 14 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 14 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.17%) VirtualBox
16 11 (0.15%) pfSense
17 10 (0.14%) Firmware
18 9 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 614 (8.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 218 (3.05%) Jamf Pro
3 177 (2.48%) SCCM
4 153 (2.14%) Kubernetes
5 141 (1.98%) Terraform
6 89 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 86 (1.20%) WSUS
8 77 (1.08%) Ansible
9 58 (0.81%) SCOM
10 51 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (0.39%) Stealthwatch
12 27 (0.38%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.32%) Grafana
13 23 (0.32%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 20 (0.28%) CASB
16 15 (0.21%) Nessus
17 14 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
17 14 (0.20%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.20%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 553 (7.75%) VMware
2 324 (4.54%) Google
3 281 (3.94%) CyberArk
4 280 (3.92%) Cisco
5 254 (3.56%) Apple
6 223 (3.12%) Oracle
7 210 (2.94%) Tanium
8 205 (2.87%) Adobe
9 143 (2.00%) Citrix
10 127 (1.78%) SAP
11 123 (1.72%) HP
12 118 (1.65%) Meraki
13 108 (1.51%) Dell
14 100 (1.40%) Veeam
15 98 (1.37%) ServiceNow
16 88 (1.23%) Facebook
17 86 (1.20%) Fortinet
18 70 (0.98%) Databricks
19 69 (0.97%) Salesforce
20 55 (0.77%) IBM