Microsoft Certification Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 323 339
Rank change year-on-year +97 +16 -96
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 475 412 684
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.41% 0.96% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.02% 3.78% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 403 365 500
10th Percentile £28,600 £25,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £47,250
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.59% +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,464 10,892 15,280
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.03% 25.46% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,909 6,657 8,611
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £59,732
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.45% +8.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

Microsoft Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
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 Certification.

Microsoft Certification salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft Certification over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Microsoft Certification salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Certification
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 60 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.42%) Apache
3 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.74%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.42%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.42%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.21%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 328 (69.05%) Azure
2 173 (36.42%) Power Platform
3 163 (34.32%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (15.79%) AWS
5 41 (8.63%) Entra ID
6 30 (6.32%) PowerApps
7 26 (5.47%) Power Automate
8 25 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.32%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.11%) Serverless
14 9 (1.89%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 9 (1.89%) IaaS
14 9 (1.89%) OneDrive
15 7 (1.47%) GCP
15 7 (1.47%) PaaS
15 7 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 90 (18.95%) Broadband
2 50 (10.53%) SAN
3 45 (9.47%) Firewall
4 41 (8.63%) VLAN
5 39 (8.21%) DNS
6 37 (7.79%) DHCP
7 33 (6.95%) WAN
8 31 (6.53%) TCP/IP
8 31 (6.53%) Wireless
9 28 (5.89%) LAN
10 21 (4.42%) VPN
11 19 (4.00%) Network Security
12 16 (3.37%) ADSL
13 15 (3.16%) NAS
14 14 (2.95%) VoIP
15 8 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
17 6 (1.26%) Internet
17 6 (1.26%) SD-WAN
17 6 (1.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (33.89%) Power BI
2 138 (29.05%) SQL Server
3 91 (19.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (7.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 29 (6.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 29 (6.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 25 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 21 (4.42%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.11%) Metadata
9 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 6 (1.26%) Big Data
10 6 (1.26%) MySQL
10 6 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.26%) Tableau
11 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.05%) QlikView
11 5 (1.05%) Redis
12 4 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 13 (2.74%) Axure RP
1 13 (2.74%) Balsamiq
2 9 (1.89%) JIRA
3 7 (1.47%) Git
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
4 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.42%) MSBuild
General
1 212 (44.63%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 48 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.42%) Finance
5 39 (8.21%) Marketing
6 34 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 16 (3.37%) Law
11 13 (2.74%) Legal
12 9 (1.89%) Banking
13 5 (1.05%) Retail
14 4 (0.84%) Police
15 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.63%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.42%) Billing
16 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 1 (0.21%) Front Office
17 1 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (21.05%) DBA
1 100 (21.05%) SQL DBA
2 65 (13.68%) Support Engineer
3 54 (11.37%) Architect
3 54 (11.37%) IT Support
4 50 (10.53%) Analyst
5 42 (8.84%) IT Engineer
6 41 (8.63%) Senior
7 37 (7.79%) Consultant
8 36 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 35 (7.37%) Administrator
10 31 (6.53%) 3rd Line Support
11 29 (6.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 28 (5.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 19 (4.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 19 (4.00%) Developer
13 19 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (4.00%) Support Analyst
14 17 (3.58%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
14 17 (3.58%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.84%) CSS
1 23 (4.84%) HTML
2 14 (2.95%) .NET
3 9 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 8 (1.68%) Middleware
5 7 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.26%) jQuery
7 5 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.84%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.84%) React
9 2 (0.42%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (0.42%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.42%) PySpark
10 1 (0.21%) MDX
10 1 (0.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.63%) Data Centre
2 33 (6.95%) Driving Licence
3 28 (5.89%) Private Cloud
4 23 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 22 (4.63%) Enterprise Storage
6 18 (3.79%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.16%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.05%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.05%) PKI
10 5 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.84%) iPhone
12 3 (0.63%) Clustering
12 3 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.63%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.63%) Replication
12 3 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 159 (33.47%) Windows
2 74 (15.58%) VMS
3 66 (13.89%) Windows 10
4 61 (12.84%) Windows Server
5 28 (5.89%) Linux
6 10 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.89%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.47%) Unix
9 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.05%) Android
11 4 (0.84%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.42%) Debian
12 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.42%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.21%) AIX
13 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (34.74%) Business Intelligence
2 104 (21.89%) ITIL
3 99 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (18.95%) Customer Service
5 89 (18.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 86 (18.11%) Collaborative Working
7 81 (17.05%) High Availability
8 76 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
9 58 (12.21%) Cybersecurity
10 57 (12.00%) Migration
11 55 (11.58%) Agile
12 52 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 42 (8.84%) Presales
14 41 (8.63%) Computer Science
15 39 (8.21%) Project Delivery
16 36 (7.58%) DevOps
17 35 (7.37%) Roadmaps
18 34 (7.16%) Data Modelling
19 32 (6.74%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 162 (34.11%) SQL
2 84 (17.68%) T-SQL
3 40 (8.42%) C#
4 26 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 23 (4.84%) Python
6 19 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (1.89%) U-SQL
8 8 (1.68%) R
9 7 (1.47%) Bicep
10 4 (0.84%) Bash
10 4 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.63%) Go
11 3 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.42%) Java
12 2 (0.42%) PHP
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 123 (25.89%) Degree
2 76 (16.00%) Azure Certification
3 65 (13.68%) MCSE
4 58 (12.21%) CCNA
4 58 (12.21%) Cisco Certification
5 46 (9.68%) MCP
6 44 (9.26%) SC Cleared
6 44 (9.26%) Security Cleared
7 38 (8.00%) DBS Check
8 30 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (5.89%) MCITP
10 21 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (4.21%) Network+ Certification
12 18 (3.79%) MCSA
13 16 (3.37%) A+ Certification
14 10 (2.11%) CISSP
15 9 (1.89%) AWS Certification
16 8 (1.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (1.26%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.58%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.16%) GDPR
3 14 (2.95%) SLA
4 13 (2.74%) WCAG
5 10 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.26%) QA
8 4 (0.84%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.84%) NIST
8 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 132 (27.79%) Active Directory
2 76 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 53 (11.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (9.89%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.68%) vSphere
6 7 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.05%) Docker
7 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.84%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.42%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.42%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.42%) XenApp
11 1 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 37 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (6.32%) SCCM
3 18 (3.79%) Terraform
4 11 (2.32%) SCOM
5 10 (2.11%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.05%) Grafana
6 5 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.84%) Autotask
8 3 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.63%) WSUS
9 2 (0.42%) Ansible
9 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.42%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.21%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.21%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.21%) OfficeScan
10 1 (0.21%) SCDPM
10 1 (0.21%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 445 (93.68%) Microsoft
2 71 (14.95%) VMware
3 46 (9.68%) Adobe
4 38 (8.00%) Apple
5 32 (6.74%) Cisco
6 17 (3.58%) Citrix
7 16 (3.37%) Databricks
8 14 (2.95%) HP
9 11 (2.32%) Meraki
9 11 (2.32%) Veeam
10 9 (1.89%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.26%) Datto
11 6 (1.26%) Dell
11 6 (1.26%) Oracle
11 6 (1.26%) Sophos
12 5 (1.05%) Google
13 4 (0.84%) IBM
13 4 (0.84%) iManage
14 3 (0.63%) ConnectWise
14 3 (0.63%) Draytek