Microsoft Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract 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 contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 10 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1,748 3,216 4,952
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.41% 12.50% 11.11%
As % of the Vendors category 26.84% 28.99% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 2,327 3,582
10th Percentile £217 £259 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £720 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 87 130
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.72 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £20.00 £17.31
Median hourly rate £20.77 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -58.46% +52.67% +63.75%
75th Percentile £40.31 £65.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £51.25 £68.75 £63.53
UK median hourly rate £15.42 £23.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -34.38% +26.68% +6.00%

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,512 11,093 17,427
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.51% 43.11% 39.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,027 7,459 11,865
10th Percentile £325 £330 £342
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 262 258
10th Percentile £13.99 £18.08 £13.32
25th Percentile £17.00 £31.81 £18.75
Median hourly rate £32.12 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +57.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.44 £52.44
90th Percentile £72.25 £80.25 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.75 £21.02
% change year-on-year -49.54% +108.14% -6.24%

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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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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft.

Microsoft daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Microsoft daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft.

Microsoft hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Microsoft hourly rate 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
1 199 (11.38%) SharePoint
2 121 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (2.40%) Confluence
4 19 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
5 14 (0.80%) CMS
6 12 (0.69%) IIS
7 7 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.40%) Apache
7 7 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.34%) Drupal
8 6 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.17%) Moodle
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 247 (14.13%) Microsoft Office
2 177 (10.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 103 (5.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.29%) InDesign
8 5 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.29%) Trello
9 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.057%) InVision
11 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.057%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 74 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.83%) Dynamics AX
3 24 (1.37%) Dynamics GP
4 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.34%) Shopify
7 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
7 5 (0.29%) Endur
7 5 (0.29%) SmartPlant
7 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.23%) SAP GTS
9 3 (0.17%) Magento
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.11%) Primavera
10 2 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 719 (41.13%) Azure
2 397 (22.71%) Microsoft 365
3 325 (18.59%) Power Platform
4 208 (11.90%) Dynamics 365
5 170 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
6 136 (7.78%) PowerApps
7 135 (7.72%) Entra ID
8 120 (6.86%) Power Automate
9 116 (6.64%) AWS
10 72 (4.12%) SaaS
11 68 (3.89%) PaaS
12 55 (3.15%) IaaS
13 45 (2.57%) OneDrive
14 41 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
16 33 (1.89%) Serverless
17 29 (1.66%) GitHub
18 28 (1.60%) Azure Functions
18 28 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 27 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 114 (6.52%) Firewall
2 71 (4.06%) DNS
3 56 (3.20%) VPN
4 50 (2.86%) SAN
5 47 (2.69%) DHCP
6 41 (2.35%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.83%) LAN
8 28 (1.60%) WAN
9 21 (1.20%) Network Security
10 17 (0.97%) BGP
11 16 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.74%) Internet
13 12 (0.69%) HTTP
13 12 (0.69%) NAS
14 9 (0.51%) VLAN
15 8 (0.46%) Intranet
15 8 (0.46%) MPLS
15 8 (0.46%) Wireless
16 7 (0.40%) Kerberos
16 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (12.01%) SQL Server
2 200 (11.44%) Power BI
3 57 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 36 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 33 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.14%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.09%) Tableau
10 18 (1.03%) MongoDB
11 16 (0.92%) MySQL
12 15 (0.86%) Big Data
13 14 (0.80%) Power Query
14 13 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
17 9 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 106 (6.06%) JIRA
2 62 (3.55%) Git
3 25 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.37%) Visual Studio
5 18 (1.03%) SpecFlow
6 17 (0.97%) GitLab
6 17 (0.97%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.74%) Selenium
8 12 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.57%) Maven
10 8 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
11 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.34%) Postman
13 5 (0.29%) Gradle
14 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.23%) MSI
14 4 (0.23%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.17%) ERwin
15 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 563 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 338 (19.34%) Finance
3 214 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 63 (3.60%) Retail
6 62 (3.55%) Banking
6 62 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.38%) Marketing
8 55 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.80%) Legal
10 45 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (2.52%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (1.43%) General Ledger
14 22 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.14%) Law
16 18 (1.03%) Back Office
17 17 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (0.97%) Local Government
18 16 (0.92%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 266 (15.22%) Developer
2 210 (12.01%) Analyst
3 190 (10.87%) Architect
4 178 (10.18%) Consultant
5 146 (8.35%) Senior
6 89 (5.09%) Lead
7 79 (4.52%) Project Manager
8 58 (3.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 56 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
10 54 (3.09%) Business Analyst
11 49 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 49 (2.80%) Senior Developer
12 47 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
13 46 (2.63%) Support Engineer
14 43 (2.46%) Administrator
15 42 (2.40%) Service Analyst
16 40 (2.29%) Microsoft Consultant
17 36 (2.06%) IT Support
17 36 (2.06%) Service Desk Analyst
17 36 (2.06%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.61%) .NET
2 73 (4.18%) XML
3 52 (2.97%) .NET Framework
4 37 (2.12%) JSON
4 37 (2.12%) REST
5 35 (2.00%) .NET Core
6 34 (1.95%) ARM Templates
7 31 (1.77%) CSS
8 27 (1.54%) HTML
9 24 (1.37%) AngularJS
9 24 (1.37%) ASP.NET
9 24 (1.37%) React
10 23 (1.32%) Web Services
11 19 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (0.86%) Entity Framework
12 15 (0.86%) RESTful
13 14 (0.80%) Kafka
13 14 (0.80%) LDAP
13 14 (0.80%) SOAP
14 11 (0.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.95%) Management Information System
2 58 (3.32%) Data Structures
3 57 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 32 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 32 (1.83%) NHS
7 28 (1.60%) PKI
8 25 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 19 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 19 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.03%) Clustering
11 17 (0.97%) Public Cloud
12 14 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.80%) Replication
12 14 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 358 (20.48%) Windows
2 130 (7.44%) Linux
3 125 (7.15%) Windows Server
4 99 (5.66%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (1.37%) Windows 7
7 22 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (1.03%) Apple iOS
9 18 (1.03%) Unix
10 17 (0.97%) Debian
10 17 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.86%) Android
12 11 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.57%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.46%) Solaris
15 7 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.23%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.23%) VMS
17 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (19.85%) Agile
2 300 (17.16%) DevOps
3 237 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
4 232 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
5 228 (13.04%) Migration
6 157 (8.98%) ITIL
7 153 (8.75%) Project Management
8 133 (7.61%) Analytics
9 130 (7.44%) CI/CD
10 125 (7.15%) Customer Service
11 107 (6.12%) Data Modelling
12 104 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 100 (5.72%) Cybersecurity
14 99 (5.66%) CRM
15 93 (5.32%) Scrum
16 90 (5.15%) Change Management
17 86 (4.92%) Project Delivery
18 84 (4.81%) Data Migration
19 82 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 81 (4.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 262 (14.99%) SQL
2 199 (11.38%) PowerShell
3 181 (10.35%) C#
4 124 (7.09%) Python
5 66 (3.78%) JavaScript
6 48 (2.75%) Java
7 41 (2.35%) Bicep
8 28 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.32%) Bash
10 20 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.09%) VBScript
12 17 (0.97%) VB
13 16 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.86%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.63%) C++
17 10 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.51%) C
19 8 (0.46%) R
19 8 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 313 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 245 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 229 (13.10%) Degree
4 108 (6.18%) DV Cleared
5 79 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.77%) CISSP
9 30 (1.72%) PMP
10 29 (1.66%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.26%) CISM
13 20 (1.14%) APMP
14 19 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.86%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.74%) AWS Certification
17 12 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.63%) MCSE
19 10 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.72%) SLA
2 59 (3.38%) QA
3 49 (2.80%) PMO
4 31 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.72%) GDPR
6 25 (1.43%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.37%) NIST
8 18 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
10 16 (0.92%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.74%) NCSC
12 12 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.40%) WCAG
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 304 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 69 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.35%) Docker
4 34 (1.95%) Hyper-V
4 34 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.97%) vSphere
7 14 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 9 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.40%) XenApp
11 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.17%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.11%) Firmware
14 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.057%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 93 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (4.81%) SCCM
3 74 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 64 (3.66%) Terraform
5 37 (2.12%) SCOM
6 29 (1.66%) Ansible
7 26 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (1.32%) WSUS
10 18 (1.03%) Grafana
10 18 (1.03%) Prometheus
11 11 (0.63%) Consul
11 11 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.51%) Puppet
13 7 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (0.40%) Nagios
13 7 (0.40%) Netcool
13 7 (0.40%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 142 (8.12%) VMware
2 96 (5.49%) Oracle
3 69 (3.95%) SAP
4 51 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 46 (2.63%) Google
5 46 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.29%) Citrix
7 37 (2.12%) Qualys
8 36 (2.06%) Splunk
9 35 (2.00%) Cisco
10 32 (1.83%) Atlassian
11 29 (1.66%) Adobe
12 28 (1.60%) Databricks
13 22 (1.26%) Red Hat
14 20 (1.14%) Dell
14 20 (1.14%) HP
14 20 (1.14%) Veeam
15 17 (0.97%) NetApp
15 17 (0.97%) Varonis
16 16 (0.92%) LogRhythm