Microsoft Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent 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 salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,082 6,981 9,749
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.96% 16.47% 14.33%
As % of the Vendors category 50.32% 40.68% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,224 5,085 6,831
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,999 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £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 is in the Vendor Products and Services 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 knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,073 17,160 25,228
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.65% 40.48% 37.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,034 11,423 15,234
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,585 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +3.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

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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 5 May 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
1 609 (8.60%) SharePoint
2 532 (7.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 163 (2.30%) IIS
4 91 (1.28%) CMS
5 61 (0.86%) Umbraco
6 51 (0.72%) Confluence
7 48 (0.68%) Kentico
8 42 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
9 35 (0.49%) Headless CMS
10 32 (0.45%) Apache
11 21 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.24%) Apache Spark
13 16 (0.23%) WordPress
14 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 10 (0.14%) EPiServer
15 8 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
15 8 (0.11%) SAS
16 7 (0.099%) Moodle
16 7 (0.099%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 984 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 768 (10.84%) Microsoft Office
3 174 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.11%) InDesign
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.099%) Acrobat
9 7 (0.099%) Adobe Captivate
9 7 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.099%) Sketch
10 6 (0.085%) InVision
10 6 (0.085%) Trello
11 5 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.056%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.056%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 274 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.82%) Primavera
3 44 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
5 22 (0.31%) PlanetPress Connect
6 21 (0.30%) NEC Housing
7 13 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 13 (0.18%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.17%) Sage 200
9 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
9 10 (0.14%) iTrent
10 9 (0.13%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.099%) Sage 50
12 6 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
13 5 (0.071%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 5 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3,596 (50.78%) Azure
2 1,731 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
3 1,061 (14.98%) Power Platform
4 718 (10.14%) AWS
5 675 (9.53%) Entra ID
6 608 (8.59%) Dynamics 365
7 447 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
8 332 (4.69%) SaaS
9 317 (4.48%) PowerApps
10 279 (3.94%) Power Automate
11 221 (3.12%) GCP
12 135 (1.91%) PaaS
13 125 (1.77%) IaaS
14 116 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 110 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 106 (1.50%) OneDrive
17 101 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 97 (1.37%) Serverless
19 79 (1.12%) GitHub
20 75 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 779 (11.00%) Broadband
2 463 (6.54%) Firewall
3 402 (5.68%) DNS
4 333 (4.70%) WAN
5 291 (4.11%) DHCP
6 250 (3.53%) LAN
7 223 (3.15%) 5G
8 182 (2.57%) SAN
9 178 (2.51%) Internet
10 172 (2.43%) VPN
11 163 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
12 150 (2.12%) Wireless
13 134 (1.89%) TCP/IP
14 114 (1.61%) VLAN
15 107 (1.51%) Network Security
16 102 (1.44%) SD-WAN
17 89 (1.26%) VoIP
18 81 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
19 58 (0.82%) Unified Communications
20 45 (0.64%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,676 (23.67%) SQL Server
2 702 (9.91%) Power BI
3 305 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 274 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 266 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 238 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 230 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
8 157 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 151 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 88 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 78 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 53 (0.75%) MySQL
13 50 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 46 (0.65%) Big Data
14 46 (0.65%) Tableau
15 44 (0.62%) DB2
16 42 (0.59%) Oracle Database
17 39 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
18 38 (0.54%) NoSQL
19 24 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 191 (2.70%) Git
2 188 (2.65%) JIRA
3 121 (1.71%) Visual Studio
4 49 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 45 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 39 (0.55%) GitLab
6 39 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 28 (0.40%) Jasmine
7 28 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
8 27 (0.38%) NUnit
9 21 (0.30%) Postman
10 19 (0.27%) Selenium
11 15 (0.21%) Balsamiq
12 13 (0.18%) Axure RP
13 12 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.14%) gulp
14 10 (0.14%) JMeter
14 10 (0.14%) Moq
14 10 (0.14%) Trac
14 10 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 2,362 (33.35%) Social Skills
2 1,648 (23.27%) Finance
3 1,199 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 494 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
5 459 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 390 (5.51%) Public Sector
7 351 (4.96%) Retail
8 297 (4.19%) Legal
9 268 (3.78%) Marketing
10 256 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
11 225 (3.18%) Law
12 213 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
13 144 (2.03%) Advertising
14 122 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 104 (1.47%) Banking
16 101 (1.43%) Games
17 90 (1.27%) Manufacturing
18 69 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
19 68 (0.96%) Local Government
20 54 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,565 (22.10%) Developer
2 1,090 (15.39%) Analyst
3 1,024 (14.46%) Senior
4 842 (11.89%) .NET Developer
5 506 (7.14%) Architect
6 475 (6.71%) Consultant
7 400 (5.65%) Lead
8 355 (5.01%) C# Developer
9 326 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 298 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
11 296 (4.18%) C# .NET Developer
12 295 (4.17%) Support Engineer
13 282 (3.98%) IT Support
14 265 (3.74%) IT Engineer
15 215 (3.04%) Technical Specialist
16 210 (2.97%) Linux Specialist
17 189 (2.67%) Administrator
18 180 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
19 173 (2.44%) Project Manager
20 169 (2.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,374 (19.40%) .NET
2 875 (12.36%) ASP.NET
3 845 (11.93%) .NET Core
4 756 (10.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 653 (9.22%) AngularJS
6 571 (8.06%) Entity Framework
7 559 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
8 558 (7.88%) HTML
9 539 (7.61%) .NET Framework
10 373 (5.27%) React
11 369 (5.21%) CSS
12 336 (4.74%) HTML5
13 277 (3.91%) RESTful
14 262 (3.70%) Node.js
15 249 (3.52%) Vue
16 177 (2.50%) LINQ
17 171 (2.41%) CSS3
18 169 (2.39%) Blazor
19 165 (2.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 115 (1.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 338 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
2 306 (4.32%) Social Media
3 278 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 273 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 241 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 204 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 163 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 150 (2.12%) PKI
9 147 (2.08%) Driving Licence
10 137 (1.93%) Product Ownership
11 111 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 80 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 79 (1.12%) Cloud Native
14 74 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 54 (0.76%) iPhone
16 44 (0.62%) Client/Server
17 43 (0.61%) PMI
18 42 (0.59%) Data Structures
19 41 (0.58%) Virtual Team
20 39 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1,382 (19.51%) Windows
2 723 (10.21%) Windows Server
3 533 (7.53%) Linux
4 349 (4.93%) Windows 10
5 220 (3.11%) Ubuntu
6 154 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 152 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 148 (2.09%) Android
9 110 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 108 (1.52%) Apple iOS
11 86 (1.21%) VMS
12 81 (1.14%) Unix
13 64 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 61 (0.86%) Mac OS
15 35 (0.49%) Windows 8
16 34 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.24%) Solaris
18 16 (0.23%) Mac OS X
19 15 (0.21%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,158 (30.47%) Agile
2 1,062 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 838 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
4 836 (11.80%) DevOps
5 835 (11.79%) Mentoring
6 820 (11.58%) MVC
7 781 (11.03%) Full Stack Development
8 736 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
9 703 (9.93%) Microservices
10 684 (9.66%) CRM
11 654 (9.23%) Decision-Making
12 613 (8.66%) Customer Service
13 603 (8.51%) ITIL
14 580 (8.19%) Actionable Insight
15 527 (7.44%) Project Management
16 494 (6.98%) Roadmaps
17 491 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence
18 487 (6.88%) Scrum
19 485 (6.85%) Business Case
20 474 (6.69%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 1,445 (20.40%) C#
2 1,264 (17.85%) SQL
3 1,077 (15.21%) JavaScript
4 461 (6.51%) PowerShell
5 343 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 304 (4.29%) T-SQL
7 279 (3.94%) Bash
8 248 (3.50%) Python
9 101 (1.43%) Java
10 78 (1.10%) VB
11 75 (1.06%) VB.NET
12 61 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 41 (0.58%) Bicep
14 31 (0.44%) VB6
15 29 (0.41%) C++
15 29 (0.41%) VBScript
16 26 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 25 (0.35%) VBA
18 23 (0.32%) R
19 20 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 939 (13.26%) Degree
2 466 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 462 (6.52%) ACCA
4 461 (6.51%) CIMA
5 441 (6.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 274 (3.87%) SC Cleared
7 180 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 172 (2.43%) DBS Check
9 136 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 136 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 118 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 116 (1.64%) CCNA
12 78 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 67 (0.95%) CCNP
14 54 (0.76%) CISSP
15 52 (0.73%) MCP
16 48 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 44 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
18 43 (0.61%) MCSE
19 38 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (2.94%) QA
2 167 (2.36%) SLA
3 154 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 96 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 88 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 88 (1.24%) GDPR
6 84 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 53 (0.75%) PMO
8 46 (0.65%) NIST
9 34 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 22 (0.31%) GRC
12 18 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.25%) WCAG
13 14 (0.20%) ITGC
14 12 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.16%) NCSC
16 9 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.13%) COBIT
16 9 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,353 (19.10%) Active Directory
2 377 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 284 (4.01%) Hyper-V
4 167 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 132 (1.86%) Docker
6 88 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 63 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
8 57 (0.80%) vSphere
9 25 (0.35%) XenApp
10 24 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 21 (0.30%) XenDesktop
12 17 (0.24%) NFS
13 15 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 14 (0.20%) VirtualBox
14 14 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 10 (0.14%) DFS Replication
16 10 (0.14%) Firmware
16 10 (0.14%) pfSense
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 623 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 221 (3.12%) Jamf Pro
3 186 (2.63%) SCCM
4 150 (2.12%) Kubernetes
5 141 (1.99%) Terraform
6 92 (1.30%) WSUS
7 86 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 79 (1.12%) Ansible
9 55 (0.78%) SCOM
10 51 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 25 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 24 (0.34%) Grafana
12 24 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.31%) CASB
13 22 (0.31%) Puppet
14 19 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
15 17 (0.24%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.21%) SCDPM
17 14 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 575 (8.12%) VMware
2 315 (4.45%) Google
3 278 (3.93%) Cisco
4 260 (3.67%) Apple
5 231 (3.26%) CyberArk
6 210 (2.97%) Tanium
7 209 (2.95%) Oracle
8 204 (2.88%) Adobe
9 148 (2.09%) Citrix
10 138 (1.95%) SAP
11 130 (1.84%) HP
12 111 (1.57%) Meraki
13 108 (1.52%) ServiceNow
14 105 (1.48%) Dell
15 100 (1.41%) Veeam
16 85 (1.20%) Facebook
17 81 (1.14%) Fortinet
18 73 (1.03%) Salesforce
19 70 (0.99%) Databricks
20 58 (0.82%) IBM