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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,086 6,838 9,746
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.93% 16.45% 14.19%
As % of the Vendors category 50.50% 40.54% 38.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 4,985 6,779
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 £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 14,032 16,868 25,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.44% 40.57% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,973 11,218 15,143
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £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 £77,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £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 8 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
1 597 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 527 (7.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 170 (2.40%) IIS
4 91 (1.28%) CMS
5 61 (0.86%) Umbraco
6 50 (0.71%) Confluence
7 48 (0.68%) Kentico
8 42 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
9 39 (0.55%) Apache
10 35 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 27 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 18 (0.25%) 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 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 763 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
3 172 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.11%) InDesign
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.099%) Acrobat
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
12 4 (0.056%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.056%) Chatbot
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 42 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
4 30 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
5 29 (0.41%) NEC Housing
6 20 (0.28%) PlanetPress Connect
7 13 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 13 (0.18%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.17%) Sage 200
9 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
9 10 (0.14%) iTrent
9 10 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.13%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.099%) Sage 50
12 6 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
13 5 (0.071%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3,610 (50.95%) Azure
2 1,717 (24.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1,055 (14.89%) Power Platform
4 725 (10.23%) AWS
5 670 (9.46%) Entra ID
6 616 (8.69%) Dynamics 365
7 448 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 332 (4.69%) SaaS
9 313 (4.42%) PowerApps
10 277 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 225 (3.18%) GCP
12 136 (1.92%) PaaS
13 125 (1.76%) IaaS
14 119 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 110 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 106 (1.50%) OneDrive
17 104 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 95 (1.34%) Serverless
19 77 (1.09%) GitHub
20 73 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 777 (10.97%) Broadband
2 455 (6.42%) Firewall
3 400 (5.64%) DNS
4 327 (4.61%) WAN
5 289 (4.08%) DHCP
6 244 (3.44%) LAN
7 223 (3.15%) 5G
8 180 (2.54%) SAN
9 179 (2.53%) Internet
10 166 (2.34%) VPN
11 161 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
12 146 (2.06%) Wireless
13 135 (1.91%) TCP/IP
14 109 (1.54%) VLAN
15 107 (1.51%) Network Security
16 102 (1.44%) SD-WAN
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 1,679 (23.69%) SQL Server
2 696 (9.82%) Power BI
3 313 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 274 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 263 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 244 (3.44%) MongoDB
7 234 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
8 155 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 154 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 91 (1.28%) Data Lake
11 79 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 55 (0.78%) MySQL
13 50 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 49 (0.69%) Oracle Database
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 24 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 191 (2.70%) Git
2 184 (2.60%) JIRA
3 120 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 47 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 45 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 38 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 37 (0.52%) GitLab
8 28 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 28 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
9 26 (0.37%) NUnit
10 21 (0.30%) Postman
11 20 (0.28%) Selenium
12 15 (0.21%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.18%) Axure RP
13 13 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.16%) JMeter
15 10 (0.14%) gulp
15 10 (0.14%) Moq
15 10 (0.14%) Trac
15 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 2,358 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 1,652 (23.31%) Finance
3 1,203 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 494 (6.97%) Influencing Skills
5 455 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 395 (5.57%) Public Sector
7 351 (4.95%) Retail
8 295 (4.16%) Legal
9 267 (3.77%) Marketing
10 253 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 225 (3.18%) Law
12 213 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
13 145 (2.05%) Advertising
14 120 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 103 (1.45%) Banking
16 101 (1.43%) Games
17 92 (1.30%) Manufacturing
18 76 (1.07%) Local Government
19 69 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
20 61 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,570 (22.16%) Developer
2 1,084 (15.30%) Analyst
3 1,020 (14.39%) Senior
4 853 (12.04%) .NET Developer
5 513 (7.24%) Architect
6 475 (6.70%) Consultant
7 410 (5.79%) Lead
8 357 (5.04%) C# Developer
9 317 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 298 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
10 298 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
11 292 (4.12%) Support Engineer
12 279 (3.94%) IT Support
13 265 (3.74%) IT Engineer
14 215 (3.03%) Technical Specialist
15 210 (2.96%) Linux Specialist
16 191 (2.70%) Administrator
17 184 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
18 172 (2.43%) Project Manager
19 170 (2.40%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,386 (19.56%) .NET
2 884 (12.48%) ASP.NET
3 855 (12.07%) .NET Core
4 767 (10.82%) ASP.NET MVC
5 658 (9.29%) AngularJS
6 581 (8.20%) Entity Framework
7 566 (7.99%) ASP.NET Web API
8 564 (7.96%) HTML
9 545 (7.69%) .NET Framework
10 378 (5.33%) React
11 373 (5.26%) CSS
12 342 (4.83%) HTML5
13 280 (3.95%) RESTful
14 266 (3.75%) Node.js
15 253 (3.57%) Vue
16 178 (2.51%) LINQ
17 175 (2.47%) CSS3
18 174 (2.46%) Blazor
19 166 (2.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 124 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 338 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
2 306 (4.32%) Social Media
3 279 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 272 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 252 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 208 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 164 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 148 (2.09%) Driving Licence
9 147 (2.07%) PKI
10 136 (1.92%) Product Ownership
11 111 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 78 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 78 (1.10%) Mobile App
13 74 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 54 (0.76%) iPhone
15 44 (0.62%) Client/Server
15 44 (0.62%) PMI
16 42 (0.59%) Virtual Team
17 41 (0.58%) Data Structures
18 39 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1,362 (19.22%) Windows
2 709 (10.01%) Windows Server
3 536 (7.56%) Linux
4 342 (4.83%) Windows 10
5 220 (3.10%) Ubuntu
6 151 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 149 (2.10%) Android
8 145 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 108 (1.52%) Apple iOS
10 104 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 87 (1.23%) Unix
12 86 (1.21%) VMS
13 63 (0.89%) Windows 7
14 59 (0.83%) 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 14 (0.20%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,167 (30.58%) Agile
2 1,061 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
3 837 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
3 837 (11.81%) DevOps
3 837 (11.81%) Mentoring
4 831 (11.73%) MVC
5 791 (11.16%) Full Stack Development
6 732 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
7 715 (10.09%) Microservices
8 692 (9.77%) CRM
9 653 (9.22%) Decision-Making
10 612 (8.64%) Customer Service
11 595 (8.40%) ITIL
12 581 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
13 526 (7.42%) Project Management
14 496 (7.00%) Roadmaps
15 492 (6.94%) Scrum
16 490 (6.92%) Artificial Intelligence
17 485 (6.84%) Business Case
18 476 (6.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,460 (20.60%) C#
2 1,267 (17.88%) SQL
3 1,087 (15.34%) JavaScript
4 462 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 347 (4.90%) TypeScript
6 301 (4.25%) T-SQL
7 279 (3.94%) Bash
8 248 (3.50%) Python
9 98 (1.38%) Java
10 78 (1.10%) VB
11 77 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 63 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 41 (0.58%) Bicep
14 31 (0.44%) VB6
15 29 (0.41%) VBScript
16 28 (0.40%) C++
17 27 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 27 (0.38%) Shell Script
18 26 (0.37%) VBA
19 23 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 939 (13.25%) Degree
2 466 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 464 (6.55%) ACCA
4 461 (6.51%) CIMA
5 440 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 268 (3.78%) SC Cleared
7 180 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 172 (2.43%) DBS Check
9 135 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 133 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 113 (1.59%) CCNA
11 113 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 80 (1.13%) PMI Certification
13 67 (0.95%) CCNP
14 54 (0.76%) CISSP
15 53 (0.75%) MCP
16 48 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 45 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
18 43 (0.61%) MCSE
19 39 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (2.91%) QA
2 165 (2.33%) SLA
3 150 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 95 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 92 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 90 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 90 (1.27%) GDPR
7 52 (0.73%) PMO
8 44 (0.62%) NIST
9 34 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 22 (0.31%) GRC
12 18 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.25%) WCAG
13 13 (0.18%) ITGC
14 11 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.16%) NCSC
15 9 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.13%) COBIT
15 9 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,339 (18.90%) Active Directory
2 366 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 277 (3.91%) Hyper-V
4 165 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 131 (1.85%) Docker
6 87 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 61 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 54 (0.76%) vSphere
9 24 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 24 (0.34%) XenApp
10 20 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 17 (0.24%) NFS
12 15 (0.21%) Terminal Services
13 14 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
14 13 (0.18%) VirtualBox
15 12 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 10 (0.14%) DFS Replication
16 10 (0.14%) pfSense
17 9 (0.13%) Firmware
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 621 (8.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 221 (3.12%) Jamf Pro
3 182 (2.57%) SCCM
4 150 (2.12%) Kubernetes
5 141 (1.99%) Terraform
6 89 (1.26%) WSUS
7 87 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 78 (1.10%) Ansible
9 55 (0.78%) SCOM
10 51 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.32%) Grafana
12 23 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 20 (0.28%) CASB
15 19 (0.27%) Puppet
15 19 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
16 17 (0.24%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.21%) SCDPM
18 14 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 564 (7.96%) VMware
2 317 (4.47%) Google
3 272 (3.84%) Cisco
4 259 (3.66%) Apple
5 231 (3.26%) CyberArk
6 216 (3.05%) Oracle
7 210 (2.96%) Tanium
8 204 (2.88%) Adobe
9 145 (2.05%) Citrix
10 137 (1.93%) SAP
11 129 (1.82%) HP
12 111 (1.57%) Meraki
13 107 (1.51%) Dell
14 104 (1.47%) ServiceNow
15 100 (1.41%) Veeam
16 85 (1.20%) Facebook
17 82 (1.16%) Fortinet
18 73 (1.03%) Databricks
18 73 (1.03%) Salesforce
19 58 (0.82%) IBM