Hybrid/Remote Microsoft Job Trends

Microsoft
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,764 2,212 7,139
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.25% 14.73% 20.97%
As % of the Vendors category 46.48% 30.92% 53.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,108 1,669 5,183
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £48,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.04% +3.16% -9.52%

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 permanent job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,947 7,154 13,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.67% 47.65% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,982 3,835 9,860
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,848 £31,544
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,931 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,222
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -13.04%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Microsoft
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Microsoft salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 374 (13.53%) SharePoint
2 216 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.12%) IIS
4 24 (0.87%) Confluence
5 9 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.29%) CMS
7 7 (0.25%) WordPress
8 6 (0.22%) Apache
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.14%) Drupal
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.11%) SAS
12 2 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.036%) nginx
13 1 (0.036%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.036%) Umbraco
Applications
1 369 (13.35%) Microsoft Office
2 191 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.14%) CorelDRAW
9 4 (0.14%) Windchill
10 2 (0.072%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.072%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.072%) Trello
11 1 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 93 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.87%) Cloudability
3 11 (0.40%) Magento
4 10 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.25%) Shopify
8 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.18%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.14%) Primavera
11 3 (0.11%) BambooHR
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 2 (0.072%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.072%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.072%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,371 (49.60%) Azure
2 909 (32.89%) Microsoft 365
3 443 (16.03%) Power Platform
4 377 (13.64%) Entra ID
5 329 (11.90%) AWS
6 216 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
7 211 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
8 139 (5.03%) PowerApps
9 138 (4.99%) Power Automate
10 135 (4.88%) SaaS
11 129 (4.67%) Azure AI
12 109 (3.94%) OneDrive
13 101 (3.65%) GitHub
14 93 (3.36%) GCP
15 79 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 79 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 74 (2.68%) Snowflake
17 72 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
18 70 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
19 62 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 237 (8.57%) Firewall
2 188 (6.80%) DNS
3 156 (5.64%) VPN
4 147 (5.32%) DHCP
5 101 (3.65%) WAN
6 99 (3.58%) TCP/IP
7 92 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
8 76 (2.75%) LAN
9 60 (2.17%) VoIP
10 52 (1.88%) VLAN
11 50 (1.81%) Network Security
12 38 (1.37%) Internet
13 34 (1.23%) Unified Communications
14 25 (0.90%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.72%) Wireless
16 17 (0.62%) SAN
17 12 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
17 12 (0.43%) SNMP
18 11 (0.40%) HTTP
19 10 (0.36%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 228 (8.25%) Power BI
3 223 (8.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 164 (5.93%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 42 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 35 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 22 (0.80%) Metadata
12 18 (0.65%) MySQL
12 18 (0.65%) Tableau
13 14 (0.51%) Power Query
14 13 (0.47%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.33%) Star Schema
16 8 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (0.25%) Db2
17 7 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (3.26%) JIRA
2 58 (2.10%) Git
3 19 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.29%) Axure RP
6 8 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 8 (0.29%) Postman
6 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (0.25%) Selenium
8 6 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.22%) GitLab
9 5 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.18%) NUnit
9 5 (0.18%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.14%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.072%) MLflow
11 2 (0.072%) Terragrunt
General
1 974 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 568 (20.55%) Finance
3 251 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (7.38%) Public Sector
5 191 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 153 (5.54%) Legal
7 149 (5.39%) Law
8 144 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
9 139 (5.03%) Marketing
10 112 (4.05%) Retail
11 54 (1.95%) French Language
12 52 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 51 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
14 49 (1.77%) Telecoms
15 48 (1.74%) Advertising
16 47 (1.70%) Banking
17 43 (1.56%) Back Office
18 39 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
19 32 (1.16%) Games
20 28 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 394 (14.25%) Developer
2 353 (12.77%) Senior
3 332 (12.01%) Analyst
4 285 (10.31%) IT Support
5 240 (8.68%) Support Engineer
6 223 (8.07%) Architect
7 199 (7.20%) .NET Developer
8 188 (6.80%) IT Engineer
9 165 (5.97%) Consultant
10 151 (5.46%) IT Support Engineer
11 144 (5.21%) Lead
12 140 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 86 (3.11%) Service Analyst
14 85 (3.08%) Support Analyst
15 84 (3.04%) Support Technician
16 80 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
17 78 (2.82%) Service Desk Analyst
18 76 (2.75%) IT Manager
18 76 (2.75%) IT Technician
19 73 (2.64%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (11.98%) .NET
2 233 (8.43%) .NET Core
3 193 (6.98%) ASP.NET
4 185 (6.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 141 (5.10%) CSS
6 134 (4.85%) HTML
7 109 (3.94%) React
8 99 (3.58%) RESTful
9 81 (2.93%) Entity Framework
10 69 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
11 67 (2.42%) AngularJS
12 66 (2.39%) Blazor
12 66 (2.39%) Node.js
13 60 (2.17%) Vue
14 59 (2.13%) ML.NET
15 44 (1.59%) LINQ
16 41 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
17 38 (1.37%) REST
18 35 (1.27%) .NET Framework
18 35 (1.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 148 (5.35%) Onboarding
2 106 (3.84%) Driving Licence
3 93 (3.36%) Management Information System
4 81 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 78 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 60 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 52 (1.88%) Low-Code
9 50 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 47 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 47 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 47 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 46 (1.66%) Security Posture
12 34 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 30 (1.09%) Replication
15 27 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (0.98%) Social Media
16 25 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 25 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 552 (19.97%) Windows
2 233 (8.43%) Windows Server
3 116 (4.20%) Linux
4 112 (4.05%) Windows 10
5 57 (2.06%) Mac OS
6 52 (1.88%) Android
7 47 (1.70%) Apple iOS
8 37 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 26 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 25 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.51%) Ubuntu
12 13 (0.47%) Unix
13 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.29%) Debian
15 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.14%) CentOS
17 3 (0.11%) VMS
18 1 (0.036%) FreeBSD
18 1 (0.036%) Mac OS X
18 1 (0.036%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (18.78%) Agile
2 518 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
3 457 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 454 (16.43%) AI
5 365 (13.21%) ITIL
6 359 (12.99%) DevOps
7 356 (12.88%) Customer Service
8 344 (12.45%) Cybersecurity
9 286 (10.35%) Mentoring
10 274 (9.91%) Analytics
11 266 (9.62%) CI/CD
12 261 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
13 253 (9.15%) Roadmaps
14 227 (8.21%) Full-Stack Development
15 211 (7.63%) CRM
16 200 (7.24%) Project Management
17 191 (6.91%) Machine Learning
18 183 (6.62%) Decision-Making
19 176 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
20 174 (6.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 561 (20.30%) SQL
2 372 (13.46%) C#
3 259 (9.37%) PowerShell
4 240 (8.68%) Python
5 178 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 116 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 46 (1.66%) Bash
8 41 (1.48%) Bicep
8 41 (1.48%) Java
9 37 (1.34%) T-SQL
10 29 (1.05%) VBA
11 28 (1.01%) PHP
12 25 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 24 (0.87%) R
14 21 (0.76%) C++
15 14 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.40%) VBScript
17 10 (0.36%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.36%) VB
18 7 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 376 (13.60%) Degree
2 253 (9.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 205 (7.42%) Security Cleared
4 174 (6.30%) SC Cleared
5 119 (4.31%) Azure Certification
6 115 (4.16%) AWS Certification
7 85 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 79 (2.86%) MCSE
9 70 (2.53%) DBS Check
10 50 (1.81%) CISSP
11 37 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.16%) CTC Cleared
14 26 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
15 25 (0.90%) CCNA
16 21 (0.76%) ACCA
16 21 (0.76%) DV Cleared
17 18 (0.65%) PMI Certification
18 17 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
19 16 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.32%) QA
2 121 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 100 (3.62%) GDPR
4 83 (3.00%) SLA
5 72 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 71 (2.57%) Data Quality
7 69 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 57 (2.06%) NIST
9 29 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (1.05%) PMO
10 21 (0.76%) GRC
11 18 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.54%) IFRS
13 12 (0.43%) WCAG
14 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.25%) TickIT
16 6 (0.22%) Def Stans
17 4 (0.14%) GAAP
17 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 424 (15.34%) Active Directory
2 107 (3.87%) Hyper-V
2 107 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (3.51%) Docker
4 71 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.98%) vSphere
6 20 (0.72%) Firmware
6 20 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 13 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.40%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.18%) KVM
11 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.14%) ClearTrust
13 3 (0.11%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 229 (8.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 121 (4.38%) Terraform
3 114 (4.12%) Kubernetes
4 51 (1.85%) SCCM
5 44 (1.59%) Ansible
6 34 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (0.72%) Grafana
8 13 (0.47%) Autotask
9 12 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.40%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.36%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.29%) CASB
13 8 (0.29%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.25%) Packer
15 6 (0.22%) Argo
15 6 (0.22%) Graylog
16 5 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 175 (6.33%) Cisco
2 155 (5.61%) ServiceNow
3 140 (5.07%) VMware
4 122 (4.41%) Databricks
5 110 (3.98%) Google
6 93 (3.36%) Apple
7 88 (3.18%) Adobe
8 78 (2.82%) Dell
9 55 (1.99%) SAP
9 55 (1.99%) Veeam
10 53 (1.92%) Oracle
11 48 (1.74%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.41%) Salesforce
13 37 (1.34%) Palo Alto
14 33 (1.19%) Meraki
15 30 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
16 29 (1.05%) HP
17 27 (0.98%) iManage
17 27 (0.98%) Splunk
18 26 (0.94%) SonicWALL