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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,051 6,838 9,746
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.96% 16.45% 14.19%
As % of the Vendors category 50.56% 40.54% 38.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,200 4,985 6,779
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 £70,000
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 13,945 16,868 25,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.45% 40.57% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,925 11,218 15,143
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,191 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.94% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,125
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 7 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
1 594 (8.42%) SharePoint
2 526 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 162 (2.30%) IIS
4 91 (1.29%) CMS
5 61 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 49 (0.69%) Confluence
7 48 (0.68%) Kentico
8 42 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
9 35 (0.50%) Headless CMS
10 32 (0.45%) Apache
11 20 (0.28%) 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%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 981 (13.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 762 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
3 172 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.43%) 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 (0.057%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.057%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 281 (3.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.82%) Primavera
3 42 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
4 30 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
5 21 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 20 (0.28%) PlanetPress Connect
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%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3,590 (50.91%) Azure
2 1,713 (24.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1,051 (14.91%) Power Platform
4 718 (10.18%) AWS
5 668 (9.47%) Entra ID
6 614 (8.71%) Dynamics 365
7 446 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
8 331 (4.69%) SaaS
9 312 (4.42%) PowerApps
10 276 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 221 (3.13%) GCP
12 134 (1.90%) PaaS
13 123 (1.74%) IaaS
14 117 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 110 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
16 106 (1.50%) OneDrive
17 102 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 95 (1.35%) Serverless
19 77 (1.09%) GitHub
20 72 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 777 (11.02%) Broadband
2 455 (6.45%) Firewall
3 399 (5.66%) DNS
4 327 (4.64%) WAN
5 288 (4.08%) DHCP
6 244 (3.46%) LAN
7 223 (3.16%) 5G
8 179 (2.54%) SAN
9 178 (2.52%) Internet
10 166 (2.35%) VPN
11 161 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
12 146 (2.07%) Wireless
13 135 (1.91%) TCP/IP
14 109 (1.55%) VLAN
15 106 (1.50%) Network Security
16 101 (1.43%) SD-WAN
17 88 (1.25%) VoIP
18 80 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
19 58 (0.82%) Unified Communications
20 43 (0.61%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,674 (23.74%) SQL Server
2 693 (9.83%) Power BI
3 310 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 273 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 263 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 242 (3.43%) MongoDB
7 233 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
8 154 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 153 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 88 (1.25%) Data Lake
11 79 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 54 (0.77%) MySQL
13 50 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 46 (0.65%) Tableau
15 45 (0.64%) Big Data
16 44 (0.62%) DB2
17 42 (0.60%) Oracle Database
18 40 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
19 38 (0.54%) NoSQL
20 24 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 190 (2.69%) Git
2 183 (2.60%) JIRA
3 120 (1.70%) Visual Studio
4 47 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 45 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 37 (0.52%) GitLab
6 37 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 28 (0.40%) Jasmine
7 28 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
8 26 (0.37%) 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 2,348 (33.30%) Social Skills
2 1,637 (23.22%) Finance
3 1,194 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 494 (7.01%) Influencing Skills
5 454 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 387 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 351 (4.98%) Retail
8 294 (4.17%) Legal
9 267 (3.79%) Marketing
10 253 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
11 223 (3.16%) Law
12 213 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 145 (2.06%) Advertising
14 120 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 101 (1.43%) Games
16 100 (1.42%) Banking
17 91 (1.29%) Manufacturing
18 69 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
19 68 (0.96%) Local Government
20 53 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,566 (22.21%) Developer
2 1,077 (15.27%) Analyst
3 1,016 (14.41%) Senior
4 850 (12.06%) .NET Developer
5 510 (7.23%) Architect
6 473 (6.71%) Consultant
7 410 (5.81%) Lead
8 356 (5.05%) C# Developer
9 316 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 297 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
10 297 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
11 291 (4.13%) Support Engineer
12 278 (3.94%) IT Support
13 263 (3.73%) IT Engineer
14 215 (3.05%) Technical Specialist
15 210 (2.98%) Linux Specialist
16 190 (2.69%) Administrator
17 181 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
18 172 (2.44%) Project Manager
19 169 (2.40%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,378 (19.54%) .NET
2 881 (12.49%) ASP.NET
3 852 (12.08%) .NET Core
4 764 (10.84%) ASP.NET MVC
5 655 (9.29%) AngularJS
6 579 (8.21%) Entity Framework
7 563 (7.98%) ASP.NET Web API
7 563 (7.98%) HTML
8 542 (7.69%) .NET Framework
9 376 (5.33%) React
10 373 (5.29%) CSS
11 341 (4.84%) HTML5
12 279 (3.96%) RESTful
13 265 (3.76%) Node.js
14 252 (3.57%) Vue
15 177 (2.51%) LINQ
16 175 (2.48%) CSS3
17 174 (2.47%) Blazor
18 165 (2.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 115 (1.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 338 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
2 306 (4.34%) Social Media
3 278 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 271 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 241 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 207 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 163 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 147 (2.08%) Driving Licence
8 147 (2.08%) PKI
9 136 (1.93%) Product Ownership
10 110 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 78 (1.11%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 74 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 54 (0.77%) iPhone
14 44 (0.62%) Client/Server
15 43 (0.61%) PMI
16 42 (0.60%) Virtual Team
17 41 (0.58%) Data Structures
18 39 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1,351 (19.16%) Windows
2 706 (10.01%) Windows Server
3 528 (7.49%) Linux
4 342 (4.85%) Windows 10
5 220 (3.12%) Ubuntu
6 151 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 149 (2.11%) Android
8 145 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 108 (1.53%) Apple iOS
10 103 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 85 (1.21%) VMS
12 80 (1.13%) Unix
13 63 (0.89%) Windows 7
14 59 (0.84%) Mac OS
15 34 (0.48%) Windows 8
15 34 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 33 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 17 (0.24%) Solaris
18 16 (0.23%) Mac OS X
19 14 (0.20%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,156 (30.58%) Agile
2 1,055 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
3 834 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
3 834 (11.83%) DevOps
4 833 (11.81%) Mentoring
5 828 (11.74%) MVC
6 788 (11.18%) Full Stack Development
7 731 (10.37%) Cybersecurity
8 709 (10.06%) Microservices
9 691 (9.80%) CRM
10 653 (9.26%) Decision-Making
11 608 (8.62%) Customer Service
12 593 (8.41%) ITIL
13 580 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
14 525 (7.45%) Project Management
15 493 (6.99%) Roadmaps
16 489 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence
16 489 (6.94%) Scrum
17 485 (6.88%) Business Case
18 474 (6.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,452 (20.59%) C#
2 1,259 (17.86%) SQL
3 1,084 (15.37%) JavaScript
4 458 (6.50%) PowerShell
5 346 (4.91%) TypeScript
6 301 (4.27%) T-SQL
7 277 (3.93%) Bash
8 244 (3.46%) Python
9 98 (1.39%) Java
10 78 (1.11%) VB
11 75 (1.06%) VB.NET
12 61 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 41 (0.58%) Bicep
14 31 (0.44%) VB6
15 29 (0.41%) VBScript
16 28 (0.40%) C++
17 25 (0.35%) PL/SQL
17 25 (0.35%) VBA
18 23 (0.33%) R
19 20 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 929 (13.18%) Degree
2 462 (6.55%) ACCA
3 461 (6.54%) CIMA
4 456 (6.47%) Security Cleared
5 437 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 267 (3.79%) SC Cleared
7 179 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 172 (2.44%) DBS Check
9 135 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 133 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 113 (1.60%) CCNA
11 113 (1.60%) DV Cleared
12 79 (1.12%) PMI Certification
13 67 (0.95%) CCNP
14 54 (0.77%) CISSP
15 53 (0.75%) MCP
16 48 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 45 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
18 43 (0.61%) MCSE
19 39 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (2.92%) QA
2 164 (2.33%) SLA
3 149 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 95 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 90 (1.28%) GDPR
6 89 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 84 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 52 (0.74%) PMO
9 44 (0.62%) NIST
10 34 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 22 (0.31%) GRC
13 18 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.26%) WCAG
14 13 (0.18%) ITGC
15 11 (0.16%) 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 1,334 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 364 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 276 (3.91%) Hyper-V
4 165 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 129 (1.83%) Docker
6 87 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 61 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
8 54 (0.77%) vSphere
9 24 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 24 (0.34%) XenApp
10 20 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 17 (0.24%) NFS
12 15 (0.21%) Terminal Services
13 14 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
14 13 (0.18%) VirtualBox
15 12 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 10 (0.14%) DFS Replication
16 10 (0.14%) pfSense
17 9 (0.13%) Firmware
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 621 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 221 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
3 182 (2.58%) SCCM
4 148 (2.10%) Kubernetes
5 139 (1.97%) Terraform
6 89 (1.26%) WSUS
7 87 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 77 (1.09%) Ansible
9 55 (0.78%) SCOM
10 51 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.33%) Grafana
12 23 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 20 (0.28%) CASB
15 19 (0.27%) Puppet
15 19 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
16 17 (0.24%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.21%) SCDPM
18 14 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 562 (7.97%) VMware
2 314 (4.45%) Google
3 271 (3.84%) Cisco
4 259 (3.67%) Apple
5 231 (3.28%) CyberArk
6 210 (2.98%) Tanium
7 206 (2.92%) Oracle
8 204 (2.89%) Adobe
9 145 (2.06%) Citrix
10 137 (1.94%) SAP
11 129 (1.83%) HP
12 111 (1.57%) Meraki
13 106 (1.50%) Dell
14 104 (1.47%) ServiceNow
15 100 (1.42%) Veeam
16 85 (1.21%) Facebook
17 82 (1.16%) Fortinet
18 73 (1.04%) Salesforce
19 70 (0.99%) Databricks
20 58 (0.82%) IBM