Microsoft Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract 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 contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1,698 3,098 4,895
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.58% 12.62% 11.09%
As % of the Vendors category 27.49% 29.04% 28.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 2,267 3,548
10th Percentile £221 £250 £274
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £688 £727 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 83 130
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.06 £18.63 £16.55
Median hourly rate £20.77 £42.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -51.13% +49.60% +53.15%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £57.80 £68.50 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.52 £18.50
% change year-on-year -33.38% +21.70% +8.82%

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,177 10,669 17,426
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.14% 43.47% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,912 7,194 11,888
10th Percentile £325 £325 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 252 249
10th Percentile £13.31 £16.70 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.71 £19.81
Median hourly rate £28.75 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.24% +32.91% +60.31%
75th Percentile £53.19 £66.53 £56.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.23 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% +2.38%

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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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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

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
1 191 (11.25%) SharePoint
2 113 (6.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (2.41%) Confluence
4 17 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
5 16 (0.94%) CMS
6 12 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Drupal
8 5 (0.29%) IIS
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.18%) Apache
10 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.12%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 228 (13.43%) Microsoft Office
2 167 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 97 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.53%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
9 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.29%) InDesign
9 5 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.29%) Trello
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 70 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.88%) Dynamics AX
3 23 (1.35%) Dynamics GP
4 9 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.41%) Shopify
6 6 (0.35%) Endur
6 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
7 5 (0.29%) SmartPlant
8 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.18%) Magento
9 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.12%) Loan IQ
10 2 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.12%) Primavera
10 2 (0.12%) ResourceLink
10 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 693 (40.81%) Azure
2 380 (22.38%) Microsoft 365
3 315 (18.55%) Power Platform
4 209 (12.31%) Dynamics 365
5 170 (10.01%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (7.89%) PowerApps
7 130 (7.66%) Entra ID
8 123 (7.24%) Power Automate
9 121 (7.13%) AWS
10 67 (3.95%) SaaS
11 63 (3.71%) PaaS
12 55 (3.24%) IaaS
13 41 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (2.41%) OneDrive
14 36 (2.12%) GCP
15 34 (2.00%) Serverless
16 33 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.88%) GitHub
18 30 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 28 (1.65%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.48%) Firewall
2 68 (4.00%) DNS
3 49 (2.89%) VPN
4 47 (2.77%) DHCP
5 39 (2.30%) SAN
6 29 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.53%) LAN
8 23 (1.35%) WAN
9 17 (1.00%) Network Security
10 15 (0.88%) BGP
10 15 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.71%) NAS
12 11 (0.65%) Internet
13 10 (0.59%) VoIP
13 10 (0.59%) Wireless
14 9 (0.53%) Intranet
15 8 (0.47%) VLAN
16 7 (0.41%) CTI
16 7 (0.41%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (11.72%) Power BI
2 198 (11.66%) SQL Server
3 54 (3.18%) Data Lake
3 54 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 30 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 26 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (1.24%) Big Data
7 21 (1.24%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.00%) Tableau
10 16 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (0.82%) MySQL
11 14 (0.82%) Power Query
12 10 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 8 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 94 (5.54%) JIRA
2 59 (3.47%) Git
3 23 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 16 (0.94%) SpecFlow
6 15 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.82%) GitLab
8 12 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.65%) Maven
9 11 (0.65%) Selenium
10 8 (0.47%) Postman
10 8 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
11 7 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.29%) MSI
13 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.24%) Gradle
13 4 (0.24%) JMeter
13 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 564 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 329 (19.38%) Finance
3 206 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 70 (4.12%) Retail
6 62 (3.65%) Banking
7 56 (3.30%) Marketing
7 56 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 41 (2.41%) Legal
9 41 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.53%) General Ledger
12 24 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (1.24%) Back Office
13 21 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.88%) Law
16 13 (0.77%) Automotive
16 13 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 258 (15.19%) Developer
2 191 (11.25%) Analyst
3 189 (11.13%) Architect
4 178 (10.48%) Consultant
5 148 (8.72%) Senior
6 82 (4.83%) Lead
7 74 (4.36%) Project Manager
8 61 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
9 58 (3.42%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 49 (2.89%) Business Analyst
11 46 (2.71%) Senior Developer
12 45 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (2.59%) Administrator
14 40 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (2.36%) Microsoft Consultant
15 37 (2.18%) Power Platform Developer
15 37 (2.18%) Support Engineer
15 37 (2.18%) Support Specialist
16 34 (2.00%) Functional Consultant
16 34 (2.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (7.89%) .NET
2 75 (4.42%) XML
3 52 (3.06%) .NET Framework
4 39 (2.30%) .NET Core
5 37 (2.18%) CSS
6 35 (2.06%) ARM Templates
6 35 (2.06%) REST
7 34 (2.00%) HTML
7 34 (2.00%) JSON
8 29 (1.71%) Web Services
9 28 (1.65%) React
10 26 (1.53%) AngularJS
10 26 (1.53%) ASP.NET
11 20 (1.18%) Middleware
11 20 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (1.12%) Kafka
12 19 (1.12%) RESTful
13 13 (0.77%) LDAP
14 12 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
14 12 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 65 (3.83%) Management Information System
2 62 (3.65%) Data Structures
3 54 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 32 (1.88%) PKI
7 30 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 30 (1.77%) NHS
8 23 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 19 (1.12%) Low-Code
10 19 (1.12%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.00%) Clustering
12 16 (0.94%) Private Cloud
13 15 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 335 (19.73%) Windows
2 126 (7.42%) Linux
3 125 (7.36%) Windows Server
4 83 (4.89%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (1.18%) Windows 7
8 19 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (0.94%) Android
9 16 (0.94%) Ubuntu
10 15 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.77%) Unix
12 10 (0.59%) Debian
13 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.41%) VMS
15 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.35%) Solaris
16 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (20.20%) Agile
2 305 (17.96%) DevOps
3 230 (13.55%) Business Intelligence
4 228 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (12.96%) Migration
6 144 (8.48%) ITIL
6 144 (8.48%) Project Management
7 137 (8.07%) Analytics
8 129 (7.60%) CI/CD
9 109 (6.42%) Customer Service
10 103 (6.07%) Data Modelling
11 99 (5.83%) CRM
11 99 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 95 (5.59%) Scrum
13 91 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
14 85 (5.01%) Change Management
15 84 (4.95%) Data Migration
16 83 (4.89%) Service Management
17 81 (4.77%) Roadmaps
18 80 (4.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 261 (15.37%) SQL
2 199 (11.72%) PowerShell
3 181 (10.66%) C#
4 107 (6.30%) Python
5 73 (4.30%) JavaScript
6 51 (3.00%) Bicep
7 50 (2.94%) Java
8 24 (1.41%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.35%) VB
9 23 (1.35%) VBScript
10 19 (1.12%) Bash
10 19 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.71%) C++
15 11 (0.65%) C
16 9 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.47%) Go
17 8 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 309 (18.20%) Security Cleared
2 238 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 223 (13.13%) Degree
4 103 (6.07%) DV Cleared
5 89 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 56 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (1.77%) PMP
9 29 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.12%) APMP
11 19 (1.12%) CISSP
11 19 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 18 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.88%) CISM
14 13 (0.77%) MCSE
15 10 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.77%) SLA
2 59 (3.47%) QA
3 42 (2.47%) PMO
4 36 (2.12%) GDPR
5 30 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.41%) NIST
7 23 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.94%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
13 10 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.59%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.53%) NCSC
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.35%) WCAG
16 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 289 (17.02%) Active Directory
2 62 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (2.30%) Docker
3 39 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.94%) Hyper-V
4 33 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.06%) vSphere
6 12 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.35%) XenApp
11 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.18%) FreeRADIUS
12 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.18%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.12%) Firmware
14 1 (0.059%) Snort
Systems Management
1 83 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (4.71%) SCCM
3 78 (4.59%) Kubernetes
4 61 (3.59%) Terraform
5 38 (2.24%) SCOM
6 27 (1.59%) WSUS
7 26 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.41%) Ansible
9 22 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (1.00%) Grafana
11 16 (0.94%) Prometheus
12 12 (0.71%) Consul
13 9 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.53%) Puppet
14 6 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.35%) Netcool
14 6 (0.35%) Tivoli
14 6 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (0.29%) Nessus
16 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 125 (7.36%) VMware
2 92 (5.42%) Oracle
3 59 (3.47%) SAP
4 55 (3.24%) Google
5 43 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.30%) Cisco
8 37 (2.18%) Qualys
9 32 (1.88%) Splunk
10 31 (1.83%) Citrix
11 28 (1.65%) Adobe
12 27 (1.59%) Atlassian
12 27 (1.59%) Databricks
13 20 (1.18%) NetApp
14 19 (1.12%) HP
15 18 (1.06%) Dell
16 17 (1.00%) Varonis
16 17 (1.00%) Veeam
17 16 (0.94%) Apple
17 16 (0.94%) LogRhythm