Microsoft Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1,142 1,752 3,241
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.52% 11.39% 12.53%
As % of the Vendors category 25.09% 26.83% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 1,180 2,350
10th Percentile £235 £227 £262
25th Percentile £400 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £669 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 97 86
10th Percentile - £12.75 £15.64
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.77 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -58.46% +52.67%
75th Percentile £61.94 £40.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £51.25 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £15.42 £23.50
% change year-on-year +29.70% -34.38% +26.68%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,552 6,531 11,133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.92% 42.47% 43.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,969 4,043 7,492
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 217 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.72 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.75 £16.70 £31.81
Median hourly rate £53.50 £32.12 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.59% -41.07% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £71.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Microsoft trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Microsoft daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Microsoft daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Microsoft hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Microsoft hourly rate 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
1 162 (14.19%) SharePoint
2 84 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (4.12%) Confluence
4 12 (1.05%) IIS
5 9 (0.79%) CMS
6 8 (0.70%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.53%) Apache
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Drupal
8 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.35%) WordPress
9 3 (0.26%) JBoss
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.088%) Appian
11 1 (0.088%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 175 (15.32%) Microsoft Office
2 117 (10.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (5.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (2.98%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.088%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.088%) Notion
Business Applications
1 55 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.35%) CA PPM
3 3 (0.26%) iTrent
3 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.26%) SAP Retail
3 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) SAP CAR
4 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.18%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.088%) Actimize
5 1 (0.088%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.088%) Primavera
5 1 (0.088%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 512 (44.83%) Azure
2 272 (23.82%) Microsoft 365
3 193 (16.90%) Power Platform
4 148 (12.96%) Entra ID
5 114 (9.98%) AWS
6 106 (9.28%) Dynamics 365
7 83 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (7.18%) PowerApps
9 73 (6.39%) Power Automate
10 59 (5.17%) SaaS
11 52 (4.55%) GCP
12 40 (3.50%) PaaS
13 38 (3.33%) OneDrive
14 37 (3.24%) IaaS
15 33 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
16 30 (2.63%) Serverless
17 29 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
18 26 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
18 26 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
19 22 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.65%) Firewall
2 52 (4.55%) DNS
3 40 (3.50%) DHCP
4 37 (3.24%) VPN
5 25 (2.19%) Network Security
6 22 (1.93%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.66%) Internet
8 17 (1.49%) Skype
8 17 (1.49%) WAN
8 17 (1.49%) Wireless
9 16 (1.40%) LAN
10 15 (1.31%) SSL
11 14 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (0.79%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.70%) HTTP
14 8 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.61%) S/MIME
15 7 (0.61%) SAN
16 6 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 99 (8.67%) Power BI
3 28 (2.45%) Data Lake
3 28 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.14%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.88%) Metadata
12 9 (0.79%) MySQL
12 9 (0.79%) Power Query
12 9 (0.79%) Tableau
13 8 (0.70%) Big Data
13 8 (0.70%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.61%) Metadata Repository
14 7 (0.61%) MS Access
14 7 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (7.71%) JIRA
2 45 (3.94%) Git
3 28 (2.45%) Visual Studio
4 19 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.14%) MSI
6 8 (0.70%) GitLab
7 6 (0.53%) Subversion
8 5 (0.44%) Ant
8 5 (0.44%) Maven
8 5 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.35%) Hudson
9 4 (0.35%) JUnit
9 4 (0.35%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.35%) Selenium
9 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 432 (37.83%) Social Skills
2 216 (18.91%) Finance
3 154 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 137 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (5.69%) Banking
6 48 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 32 (2.80%) Marketing
9 29 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 28 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (2.28%) Retail
13 20 (1.75%) Legal
14 14 (1.23%) Local Government
15 13 (1.14%) Back Office
16 11 (0.96%) Electronics
16 11 (0.96%) Front Office
16 11 (0.96%) Military
17 9 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 153 (13.40%) Architect
2 144 (12.61%) Developer
3 126 (11.03%) Analyst
4 88 (7.71%) Senior
5 80 (7.01%) Consultant
6 66 (5.78%) Lead
7 56 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
8 53 (4.64%) Support Engineer
9 39 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (3.24%) Project Manager
11 36 (3.15%) IT Support
12 34 (2.98%) Business Analyst
13 33 (2.89%) Data Engineer
13 33 (2.89%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 29 (2.54%) Technical Architect
15 27 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (2.01%) IT Engineer
16 23 (2.01%) IT Manager
17 22 (1.93%) .NET Developer
17 22 (1.93%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.13%) .NET
2 40 (3.50%) HTML
3 37 (3.24%) CSS
4 30 (2.63%) REST
5 29 (2.54%) Web Services
6 23 (2.01%) Middleware
7 20 (1.75%) SOAP
8 17 (1.49%) .NET Framework
9 16 (1.40%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.31%) React
11 14 (1.23%) SAML
12 13 (1.14%) LDAP
12 13 (1.14%) OAuth
13 12 (1.05%) SailPoint
14 11 (0.96%) PySpark
15 10 (0.88%) JSON
16 9 (0.79%) Node.js
17 8 (0.70%) .NET Core
17 8 (0.70%) ARM Templates
18 7 (0.61%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 41 (3.59%) Onboarding
2 40 (3.50%) Management Information System
3 36 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.98%) PKI
5 33 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 21 (1.84%) Security Posture
8 18 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
10 13 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
11 12 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.05%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.88%) NHS
12 10 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 264 (23.12%) Windows
2 81 (7.09%) Windows Server
3 69 (6.04%) Linux
4 55 (4.82%) Windows 10
5 32 (2.80%) Unix
6 18 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.40%) Android
8 15 (1.31%) Mac OS
9 12 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.53%) AIX
12 6 (0.53%) VMS
13 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.18%) Solaris
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.088%) SUSE
15 1 (0.088%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
2 211 (18.48%) Agile
3 173 (15.15%) Migration
4 157 (13.75%) DevOps
5 104 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
6 102 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 97 (8.49%) ITIL
8 94 (8.23%) Project Management
9 85 (7.44%) CI/CD
10 74 (6.48%) Analytics
11 73 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
11 73 (6.39%) Data Modelling
12 67 (5.87%) Collaborative Working
13 65 (5.69%) CRM
14 61 (5.34%) Customer Service
15 59 (5.17%) Change Management
16 58 (5.08%) Computer Science
16 58 (5.08%) Identity Access Management
17 55 (4.82%) Roadmaps
18 54 (4.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 181 (15.85%) PowerShell
2 178 (15.59%) SQL
3 92 (8.06%) C#
4 76 (6.65%) Python
5 69 (6.04%) JavaScript
6 45 (3.94%) Java
7 22 (1.93%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.66%) Bash
8 19 (1.66%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.23%) Bicep
10 14 (1.23%) Delphi
11 12 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (1.05%) VBA
12 6 (0.53%) C++
12 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.53%) F#
13 5 (0.44%) PHP
13 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 210 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 182 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 131 (11.47%) Degree
4 88 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 71 (6.22%) Azure Certification
6 46 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 28 (2.45%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.66%) CISSP
10 18 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.05%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.88%) CCNA
14 10 (0.88%) MCSE
15 8 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.70%) PMP
16 7 (0.61%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.03%) QA
2 40 (3.50%) SLA
3 38 (3.33%) GDPR
4 28 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.93%) NIST
6 21 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.58%) PMO
8 12 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.35%) HL7
13 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.26%) GRC
13 3 (0.26%) NCSC
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 225 (19.70%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (2.80%) Docker
4 27 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.58%) vSphere
7 14 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.35%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.35%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.26%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.18%) XenApp
14 1 (0.088%) Firmware
14 1 (0.088%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.088%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 100 (8.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (4.55%) Terraform
3 49 (4.29%) SCCM
4 31 (2.71%) Kubernetes
5 22 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (1.84%) Ansible
7 19 (1.66%) WSUS
8 9 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.79%) Puppet
9 8 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.44%) OPNET
10 5 (0.44%) SCOM
11 4 (0.35%) Grafana
11 4 (0.35%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.26%) Kibana
12 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.26%) Perfmon
13 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 73 (6.39%) VMware
2 60 (5.25%) Oracle
3 51 (4.47%) Google
4 43 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 42 (3.68%) SAP
6 33 (2.89%) Databricks
7 32 (2.80%) Cisco
8 21 (1.84%) Citrix
9 19 (1.66%) Apple
9 19 (1.66%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.23%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.05%) Splunk
13 11 (0.96%) IBM
14 8 (0.70%) Adobe
14 8 (0.70%) HP
14 8 (0.70%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.61%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.61%) Dell
15 7 (0.61%) Proofpoint