MCSD Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for MCSD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 344 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Contract jobs citing MCSD 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.007% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.036% 0.024% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
UK median daily rate £525 £625 -
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

MCSD falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MCSD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MCSD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MCSD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MCSD.

MCSD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MCSD
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Autofac
1 1 (100.00%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) StructureMap
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCPD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification