Microsoft Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1,540 2,647 4,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.16% 13.03% 10.81%
As % of the Vendors category 27.65% 29.37% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,896 3,248
10th Percentile £240 £259 £263
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 104
10th Percentile £12.98 £14.46 £12.49
25th Percentile £20.89 £17.78 £16.64
Median hourly rate £33.75 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -25.00% +98.86%
75th Percentile £63.13 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.63 £66.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £22.52 £18.70
% change year-on-year -24.49% +20.40% +15.43%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,569 9,014 16,926
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 43.98% 44.38% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,397 5,968 11,687
10th Percentile £325 £324 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +9.00%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £731 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 210 233
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.49 £14.30
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.56 £24.38
Median hourly rate £41.57 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +16.67% +87.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.75 £77.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £30.41 £41.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -26.99% +85.11% +15.38%

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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 20 September 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 20 September 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
1 152 (9.87%) SharePoint
2 126 (8.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (2.92%) Confluence
4 15 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.97%) CMS
5 9 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.39%) IIS
8 4 (0.26%) Apache
8 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.19%) Camunda
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.19%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 228 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.71%) Acrobat
8 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.26%) Trello
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.13%) InDesign
12 1 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.065%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.065%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.065%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 65 (4.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.39%) Endur
4 4 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.26%) iTrent
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 4 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.26%) SmartPlant
5 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.19%) Maximo
5 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.19%) SAP PSCD
5 3 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 654 (42.47%) Azure
2 378 (24.55%) Microsoft 365
3 212 (13.77%) Power Platform
4 169 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
5 167 (10.84%) Dynamics 365
6 162 (10.52%) AWS
7 138 (8.96%) Entra ID
8 84 (5.45%) PowerApps
9 82 (5.32%) Power Automate
10 59 (3.83%) GCP
11 55 (3.57%) Serverless
12 47 (3.05%) OneDrive
13 46 (2.99%) GitHub
14 45 (2.92%) Azure Functions
14 45 (2.92%) SaaS
15 44 (2.86%) PaaS
16 42 (2.73%) IaaS
17 40 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
18 37 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 35 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.06%) Firewall
2 60 (3.90%) DNS
3 57 (3.70%) VPN
4 46 (2.99%) DHCP
5 33 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.69%) WAN
7 25 (1.62%) Network Security
8 23 (1.49%) Wireless
9 21 (1.36%) LAN
10 15 (0.97%) HTTP
10 15 (0.97%) SAN
11 14 (0.91%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (0.65%) Skype
13 10 (0.65%) VLAN
14 9 (0.58%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.58%) MPLS
14 9 (0.58%) NAS
15 8 (0.52%) SSL
15 8 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 120 (7.79%) Power BI
3 47 (3.05%) Relational Database
4 41 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 28 (1.82%) MySQL
8 27 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.17%) Big Data
12 15 (0.97%) MongoDB
12 15 (0.97%) RDBMS
13 14 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.91%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (0.78%) Power Query
15 10 (0.65%) Tableau
16 9 (0.58%) GIS
17 8 (0.52%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 82 (5.32%) JIRA
2 60 (3.90%) Git
3 30 (1.95%) GitLab
3 30 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 25 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.49%) Postman
6 14 (0.91%) SpecFlow
6 14 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.65%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.52%) Selenium
9 8 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.39%) Maven
10 6 (0.39%) MSI
10 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.32%) JMeter
11 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 481 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 308 (20.00%) Finance
3 214 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 182 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (4.48%) Banking
6 56 (3.64%) Marketing
7 54 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 47 (3.05%) Retail
9 46 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 40 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.34%) Italian Language
13 35 (2.27%) Legal
14 33 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.49%) Electronics
16 21 (1.36%) Back Office
17 18 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (1.04%) Local Government
19 16 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (13.77%) Developer
2 189 (12.27%) Analyst
3 183 (11.88%) Architect
4 154 (10.00%) Senior
5 105 (6.82%) Consultant
6 70 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 65 (4.22%) Lead
8 63 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
9 55 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 54 (3.51%) Support Engineer
11 47 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
12 39 (2.53%) .NET Developer
13 36 (2.34%) Support Analyst
14 34 (2.21%) Senior Developer
15 33 (2.14%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 32 (2.08%) Administrator
16 32 (2.08%) C# Developer
16 32 (2.08%) Service Analyst
17 31 (2.01%) Business Analyst
17 31 (2.01%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (10.32%) .NET
2 73 (4.74%) HTML
3 67 (4.35%) CSS
4 56 (3.64%) .NET Core
5 52 (3.38%) XML
6 50 (3.25%) .NET Framework
6 50 (3.25%) Web Services
7 47 (3.05%) ASP.NET
8 40 (2.60%) React
8 40 (2.60%) REST
9 36 (2.34%) RESTful
10 34 (2.21%) AngularJS
11 31 (2.01%) Middleware
12 26 (1.69%) ARM Templates
13 24 (1.56%) JSON
14 22 (1.43%) Kafka
15 19 (1.23%) ADO
15 19 (1.23%) Node.js
15 19 (1.23%) SOAP
16 17 (1.10%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 58 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 45 (2.92%) Product Ownership
3 42 (2.73%) PKI
4 35 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 28 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 25 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
7 25 (1.62%) Mobile App
7 25 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 21 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.17%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.17%) Clustering
10 15 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.65%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 355 (23.05%) Windows
2 129 (8.38%) Linux
3 117 (7.60%) Windows Server
4 105 (6.82%) Windows 10
5 38 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 36 (2.34%) Unix
7 27 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 25 (1.62%) Apple iOS
8 25 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.43%) Android
10 15 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (0.52%) VMS
11 8 (0.52%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.32%) CentOS
14 4 (0.26%) Solaris
14 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.065%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (22.08%) Agile
2 292 (18.96%) DevOps
3 234 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (10.26%) Migration
5 156 (10.13%) Project Management
6 153 (9.94%) ITIL
7 142 (9.22%) CI/CD
8 140 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 108 (7.01%) Analytics
10 107 (6.95%) Customer Service
11 94 (6.10%) Project Delivery
11 94 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 93 (6.04%) CRM
13 90 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
14 89 (5.78%) Service Management
15 83 (5.39%) Roadmaps
16 81 (5.26%) Change Management
17 77 (5.00%) Test Automation
18 75 (4.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 74 (4.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 255 (16.56%) SQL
2 191 (12.40%) PowerShell
3 183 (11.88%) C#
4 108 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 99 (6.43%) Python
6 55 (3.57%) Java
7 44 (2.86%) Bicep
8 31 (2.01%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.49%) VB
10 19 (1.23%) C++
11 18 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.10%) VBScript
13 16 (1.04%) Bash
14 15 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (0.97%) PHP
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.65%) R
16 10 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.58%) C
17 9 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 319 (20.71%) Security Cleared
2 262 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 206 (13.38%) Degree
4 88 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 69 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.38%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (1.95%) MCSE
9 27 (1.75%) PMI Certification
10 26 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.43%) PMP
12 21 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (1.30%) CCNA
13 20 (1.30%) CISSP
13 20 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.23%) AWS Certification
15 17 (1.10%) CCNP
16 13 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.83%) QA
2 40 (2.60%) SLA
3 36 (2.34%) NIST
4 30 (1.95%) PMO
5 26 (1.69%) GDPR
6 24 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.97%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.91%) NIST 800
9 14 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.71%) NCSC
11 9 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.39%) WCAG
14 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.19%) HL7
16 2 (0.13%) COBIT
16 2 (0.13%) GAAP
System Software
1 304 (19.74%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (3.25%) Docker
4 36 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 17 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.91%) vSphere
9 12 (0.78%) XenApp
10 11 (0.71%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.65%) XenDesktop
12 7 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.19%) Firmware
15 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.19%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.065%) Citrix Presentation Server
16 1 (0.065%) Snort
Systems Management
1 111 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 93 (6.04%) SCCM
3 81 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 71 (4.61%) Terraform
5 38 (2.47%) Ansible
6 26 (1.69%) WSUS
7 19 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (1.17%) SCOM
9 13 (0.84%) Puppet
9 13 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.52%) AirWatch
12 8 (0.52%) Grafana
12 8 (0.52%) Kibana
13 7 (0.45%) Nessus
14 6 (0.39%) logstash
15 5 (0.32%) Consul
15 5 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 108 (7.01%) VMware
2 95 (6.17%) Oracle
3 70 (4.55%) SAP
4 53 (3.44%) Cisco
5 51 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 48 (3.12%) Google
7 44 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 38 (2.47%) Apple
9 32 (2.08%) Citrix
10 27 (1.75%) Databricks
11 25 (1.62%) CyberArk
12 22 (1.43%) Adobe
13 19 (1.23%) Splunk
14 18 (1.17%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.17%) SolarWinds
15 17 (1.10%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.84%) NetApp
16 13 (0.84%) Okta
16 13 (0.84%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.78%) Zscaler