Microsoft Jobs with Work from Home Options

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 26 July 2024, 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
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 5,476 5,818 11,540
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.60% 17.73% 14.70%
As % of the Vendors category 49.81% 44.84% 39.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,570 4,318 7,015
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,206 £38,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

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 10,993 12,976 29,515
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.35% 39.54% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,279 9,661 16,161
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,860 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +1.85%

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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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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.

Microsoft salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Microsoft salary 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
1 513 (9.37%) SharePoint
2 383 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 137 (2.50%) IIS
4 57 (1.04%) CMS
5 53 (0.97%) Confluence
6 39 (0.71%) Apache
7 35 (0.64%) Umbraco
8 34 (0.62%) Kentico
9 30 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
9 30 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 26 (0.47%) Headless CMS
11 17 (0.31%) Apache Spark
12 9 (0.16%) WordPress
13 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
14 4 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2000
14 4 (0.073%) Skype for Business
14 4 (0.073%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.055%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.055%) Moodle
Applications
1 881 (16.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 581 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
3 108 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 97 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 14 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
7 7 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.11%) InDesign
8 6 (0.11%) InVision
8 6 (0.11%) Sketch
9 5 (0.091%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.073%) Trello
11 3 (0.055%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 244 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (1.02%) NEC Housing
2 56 (1.02%) Primavera
3 38 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 30 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
5 17 (0.31%) iTrent
6 16 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 14 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 10 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
9 10 (0.18%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.091%) Sage 50
12 5 (0.091%) Sage CRM
12 5 (0.091%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 2,505 (45.75%) Azure
2 1,423 (25.99%) Microsoft 365
3 749 (13.68%) Power Platform
4 667 (12.18%) Entra ID
5 534 (9.75%) Dynamics 365
6 431 (7.87%) AWS
7 335 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 294 (5.37%) SaaS
9 270 (4.93%) PowerApps
10 244 (4.46%) Power Automate
11 178 (3.25%) GCP
12 122 (2.23%) PaaS
13 112 (2.05%) IaaS
14 92 (1.68%) OneDrive
15 80 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 79 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 79 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
17 77 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
18 72 (1.31%) Serverless
19 58 (1.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 723 (13.20%) Broadband
2 373 (6.81%) Firewall
3 300 (5.48%) DNS
4 267 (4.88%) WAN
5 226 (4.13%) DHCP
6 219 (4.00%) 5G
7 177 (3.23%) LAN
8 147 (2.68%) VPN
9 135 (2.47%) SAN
10 131 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
11 124 (2.26%) TCP/IP
12 123 (2.25%) Wireless
13 104 (1.90%) SD-WAN
14 98 (1.79%) VLAN
15 91 (1.66%) Network Security
16 85 (1.55%) Internet
17 74 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
18 63 (1.15%) VoIP
19 42 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
20 37 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 771 (14.08%) SQL Server
2 446 (8.14%) Power BI
3 163 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 118 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 111 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 110 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 109 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 77 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 75 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 60 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 50 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 46 (0.84%) Oracle Database
13 44 (0.80%) DB2
14 42 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
15 41 (0.75%) MySQL
16 39 (0.71%) Big Data
17 34 (0.62%) Tableau
18 33 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
19 26 (0.47%) NoSQL
20 23 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 140 (2.56%) Git
2 131 (2.39%) JIRA
3 65 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 39 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 33 (0.60%) GitLab
5 33 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 28 (0.51%) Jasmine
6 28 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
7 23 (0.42%) Selenium
8 19 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 18 (0.33%) Postman
10 16 (0.29%) Axure RP
11 15 (0.27%) Balsamiq
12 14 (0.26%) JMeter
12 14 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 13 (0.24%) PowerBuilder
14 10 (0.18%) gulp
14 10 (0.18%) MSBuild
14 10 (0.18%) Yeoman
15 9 (0.16%) Trac
General
1 1,901 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 1,331 (24.31%) Finance
3 1,144 (20.89%) Analytical Skills
4 475 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 474 (8.66%) Influencing Skills
6 298 (5.44%) Legal
6 298 (5.44%) Public Sector
7 232 (4.24%) Retail
8 228 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
9 218 (3.98%) Marketing
10 198 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
11 195 (3.56%) Law
12 117 (2.14%) Banking
13 93 (1.70%) Advertising
14 88 (1.61%) Local Government
14 88 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 75 (1.37%) Manufacturing
16 72 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
17 68 (1.24%) Police
18 60 (1.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,022 (18.66%) Senior
2 949 (17.33%) Analyst
3 840 (15.34%) Developer
4 470 (8.58%) Architect
5 453 (8.27%) Consultant
6 400 (7.30%) Lead
7 343 (6.26%) Senior Analyst
8 320 (5.84%) .NET Developer
9 259 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 216 (3.94%) Technical Specialist
11 210 (3.83%) Linux Specialist
12 196 (3.58%) IT Support
13 184 (3.36%) C# Developer
14 176 (3.21%) IT Engineer
15 164 (2.99%) Support Engineer
16 162 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
17 154 (2.81%) Financial Analyst
18 137 (2.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
18 137 (2.50%) Senior Developer
19 135 (2.47%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (13.18%) .NET
2 311 (5.68%) ASP.NET
3 290 (5.30%) .NET Core
4 268 (4.89%) HTML
5 243 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
6 232 (4.24%) .NET Framework
7 231 (4.22%) AngularJS
8 187 (3.41%) CSS
9 181 (3.31%) Entity Framework
10 176 (3.21%) React
11 165 (3.01%) ASP.NET Web API
12 130 (2.37%) RESTful
13 127 (2.32%) Web Services
14 102 (1.86%) HTML5
15 100 (1.83%) Node.js
16 88 (1.61%) REST
16 88 (1.61%) Vue
17 79 (1.44%) XML
18 65 (1.19%) JSON
19 54 (0.99%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 267 (4.88%) Social Media
2 260 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 255 (4.66%) Data Centre
4 215 (3.93%) Public Cloud
5 212 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 141 (2.57%) PKI
7 116 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 114 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 99 (1.81%) Driving Licence
10 83 (1.52%) Cloud Native
11 81 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 80 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 58 (1.06%) Low-Code
14 47 (0.86%) Mobile App
15 44 (0.80%) Replication
16 41 (0.75%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
18 38 (0.69%) Private Cloud
19 35 (0.64%) PMI
20 34 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1,117 (20.40%) Windows
2 527 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 507 (9.26%) Linux
4 283 (5.17%) Windows 10
5 220 (4.02%) Ubuntu
6 124 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 110 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 105 (1.92%) Android
9 89 (1.63%) Apple iOS
10 74 (1.35%) Unix
11 70 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 59 (1.08%) Mac OS
13 52 (0.95%) VMS
14 48 (0.88%) Windows 7
15 30 (0.55%) Solaris
16 22 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (0.38%) Windows Vista
18 20 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
19 19 (0.35%) Windows 8
20 12 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,444 (26.37%) Agile
2 820 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
3 793 (14.48%) Mentoring
4 695 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
5 619 (11.30%) CRM
6 604 (11.03%) DevOps
7 601 (10.98%) Decision-Making
8 572 (10.45%) Actionable Insight
9 548 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
10 533 (9.73%) Customer Service
11 495 (9.04%) Project Management
12 483 (8.82%) Business Case
13 477 (8.71%) Budgeting
14 450 (8.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
15 440 (8.04%) ITIL
16 420 (7.67%) Presales
17 369 (6.74%) Roadmaps
18 364 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence
19 362 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 344 (6.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 854 (15.60%) SQL
2 840 (15.34%) C#
3 521 (9.51%) JavaScript
4 429 (7.83%) PowerShell
5 267 (4.88%) Bash
6 223 (4.07%) Python
7 181 (3.31%) T-SQL
8 157 (2.87%) TypeScript
9 91 (1.66%) VB.NET
10 64 (1.17%) Java
11 61 (1.11%) VB
12 52 (0.95%) Bicep
13 47 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 34 (0.62%) C++
15 28 (0.51%) VB6
15 28 (0.51%) VBScript
16 27 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 26 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 26 (0.47%) VBA
18 25 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 853 (15.58%) Degree
2 473 (8.64%) ACCA
3 468 (8.55%) CIMA
4 425 (7.76%) Security Cleared
5 398 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 271 (4.95%) SC Cleared
7 185 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 152 (2.78%) DBS Check
9 136 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 117 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
11 112 (2.05%) CCNA
12 86 (1.57%) CCNP
13 77 (1.41%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.37%) DV Cleared
15 57 (1.04%) MCP
16 46 (0.84%) Master's Degree
17 43 (0.79%) PMP
18 38 (0.69%) MCSE
19 36 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
20 34 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (3.05%) QA
2 132 (2.41%) SLA
3 118 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 115 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 97 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 72 (1.31%) GDPR
7 70 (1.28%) Data Quality
8 46 (0.84%) PMO
9 27 (0.49%) NIST
10 22 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.35%) WCAG
12 17 (0.31%) ITGC
13 14 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 13 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 12 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.20%) GRC
17 10 (0.18%) HIPAA
18 9 (0.16%) COBIT
19 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,138 (20.78%) Active Directory
2 330 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 241 (4.40%) Hyper-V
4 122 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 95 (1.73%) Docker
6 76 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 72 (1.31%) vSphere
8 50 (0.91%) RACF
9 47 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
10 25 (0.46%) XenApp
11 23 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 19 (0.35%) NFS
12 19 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 17 (0.31%) Terminal Services
14 14 (0.26%) pfSense
15 10 (0.18%) Firmware
15 10 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
15 10 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 10 (0.18%) VMware NSX
16 8 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 511 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 220 (4.02%) Jamf Pro
3 148 (2.70%) SCCM
4 110 (2.01%) Terraform
5 104 (1.90%) Kubernetes
6 73 (1.33%) Ansible
7 72 (1.31%) WSUS
8 67 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 54 (0.99%) SCOM
10 37 (0.68%) Stealthwatch
11 35 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 18 (0.33%) CASB
13 18 (0.33%) Grafana
13 18 (0.33%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.29%) ZABBIX
15 13 (0.24%) Backup Exec
15 13 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
16 11 (0.20%) Nagios
17 10 (0.18%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 465 (8.49%) VMware
2 279 (5.09%) CyberArk
3 270 (4.93%) Cisco
4 229 (4.18%) Google
5 210 (3.83%) Tanium
6 200 (3.65%) Apple
6 200 (3.65%) Oracle
7 189 (3.45%) Adobe
8 117 (2.14%) Meraki
9 111 (2.03%) Dell
10 109 (1.99%) SAP
11 98 (1.79%) HP
12 97 (1.77%) Citrix
13 92 (1.68%) ServiceNow
14 86 (1.57%) Veeam
15 82 (1.50%) Fortinet
16 76 (1.39%) Databricks
17 63 (1.15%) IBM
18 61 (1.11%) Salesforce
19 57 (1.04%) NEC