Microsoft Jobs

Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,977 17,713 24,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.08% 18.69% 14.41%
As % of the Vendors category 48.51% 44.99% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,383 10,724 14,897
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,700 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Vendors
UK

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 requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37,055 39,374 65,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.21% 41.54% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,982 23,486 33,183
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +4 16,363 £47,500 -9.52% 4,792
UK excluding London +2 12,941 £43,500 -3.33% 3,697
Work from Home +3 7,179 £52,500 -4.55% 2,024
London +5 4,317 £60,000 -3.23% 1,298
South East +3 3,561 £45,000 -2.17% 845
North of England -1 3,034 £43,500 -3.33% 1,006
Midlands +1 2,416 £42,500 -15.00% 715
South West +2 1,650 £46,000 +13.58% 447
North West -2 1,594 £45,000 -2.17% 556
West Midlands +2 1,567 £45,000 -10.00% 461
East of England +2 1,245 £38,500 -3.75% 371
Yorkshire +2 1,007 £42,500 -2.30% 344
East Midlands +1 841 £37,500 -16.67% 254
Scotland -36 563 £45,000 -3.23% 260
North East +3 432 £42,500 +4.94% 118
Wales +1 345 £40,000 +5.65% 105
Northern Ireland +2 107 £42,500 -15.00% 67
Isle of Man +6 32 £46,250 -36.21%
Channel Islands +3 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,886 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 1,624 (9.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 303 (1.69%) IIS
4 199 (1.11%) Confluence
5 149 (0.83%) CMS
6 87 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 83 (0.46%) Apache
8 69 (0.38%) Umbraco
9 65 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.29%) Kentico
10 53 (0.29%) SAS
11 49 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
12 46 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 45 (0.25%) WordPress
14 41 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 39 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 34 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 26 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
18 23 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
19 22 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3,339 (18.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2,524 (14.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 655 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 279 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 130 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 70 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 63 (0.35%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.14%) InDesign
10 24 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 17 (0.095%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
12 16 (0.089%) SPSS
12 16 (0.089%) Trello
13 11 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
14 9 (0.050%) Acrobat
14 9 (0.050%) Chatbot
15 8 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.045%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.045%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 633 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 107 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.50%) Primavera
4 55 (0.31%) NEC Housing
5 54 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 32 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
7 30 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 27 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
10 26 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 26 (0.14%) Shopify
11 23 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 20 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
14 16 (0.089%) Elite 3E
14 16 (0.089%) Magento
15 15 (0.083%) Infor SunSystems
15 15 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
16 13 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
17 12 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,282 (40.51%) Azure
2 5,308 (29.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2,368 (13.17%) Power Platform
4 1,442 (8.02%) Entra ID
5 1,422 (7.91%) AWS
6 1,371 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
7 859 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
8 755 (4.20%) PowerApps
9 697 (3.88%) Power Automate
10 692 (3.85%) SaaS
11 465 (2.59%) OneDrive
12 432 (2.40%) GCP
13 339 (1.89%) PaaS
14 324 (1.80%) IaaS
15 268 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
16 217 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 206 (1.15%) Serverless
18 184 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 162 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
20 158 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,606 (8.93%) Firewall
2 1,128 (6.27%) DNS
3 939 (5.22%) WAN
4 827 (4.60%) DHCP
5 808 (4.49%) Broadband
6 779 (4.33%) LAN
7 601 (3.34%) VPN
8 564 (3.14%) TCP/IP
9 505 (2.81%) Wireless
10 485 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
11 474 (2.64%) SAN
12 363 (2.02%) Internet
13 346 (1.92%) VLAN
14 311 (1.73%) Network Security
15 308 (1.71%) VoIP
16 264 (1.47%) SD-WAN
17 221 (1.23%) 5G
18 209 (1.16%) Intranet
19 203 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
20 130 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,636 (14.66%) SQL Server
2 1,491 (8.29%) Power BI
3 469 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 465 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 435 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 339 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 308 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 286 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 269 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
10 268 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 185 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 150 (0.83%) Tableau
13 136 (0.76%) MySQL
14 119 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 117 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
16 116 (0.65%) Big Data
17 115 (0.64%) NoSQL
18 100 (0.56%) Oracle Database
19 94 (0.52%) MS Access
20 82 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 482 (2.68%) Git
2 433 (2.41%) JIRA
3 381 (2.12%) Visual Studio
4 121 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 111 (0.62%) GitLab
6 107 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 71 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 69 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 65 (0.36%) Sourcetree
10 48 (0.27%) Selenium
11 46 (0.26%) NUnit
12 43 (0.24%) Postman
12 43 (0.24%) Subversion
13 34 (0.19%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 18 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6,356 (35.36%) Social Skills
2 3,865 (21.50%) Finance
3 2,510 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1,114 (6.20%) Retail
5 1,070 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 869 (4.83%) Legal
7 867 (4.82%) Marketing
8 808 (4.49%) Law
9 775 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
10 735 (4.09%) Public Sector
11 599 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
12 553 (3.08%) Manufacturing
13 529 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
14 465 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 401 (2.23%) Banking
16 272 (1.51%) Games
17 236 (1.31%) Local Government
18 226 (1.26%) Advertising
19 217 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
20 174 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,546 (14.16%) Analyst
2 2,533 (14.09%) Developer
3 2,402 (13.36%) Senior
4 1,502 (8.36%) IT Support
5 1,221 (6.79%) Support Engineer
6 1,196 (6.65%) Architect
7 1,025 (5.70%) Lead
8 996 (5.54%) .NET Developer
9 976 (5.43%) Consultant
10 957 (5.32%) IT Engineer
11 858 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 632 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
13 630 (3.50%) Administrator
14 514 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
15 505 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
16 490 (2.73%) 2nd Line Support
17 477 (2.65%) IT Analyst
17 477 (2.65%) IT Technician
18 470 (2.61%) Support Analyst
19 454 (2.53%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,157 (12.00%) .NET
2 1,068 (5.94%) ASP.NET
3 1,017 (5.66%) .NET Core
4 828 (4.61%) ASP.NET MVC
5 800 (4.45%) AngularJS
6 773 (4.30%) HTML
7 740 (4.12%) .NET Framework
8 668 (3.72%) ASP.NET Web API
9 667 (3.71%) Entity Framework
10 535 (2.98%) CSS
11 515 (2.86%) React
12 389 (2.16%) HTML5
13 339 (1.89%) RESTful
14 312 (1.74%) Vue
15 302 (1.68%) Node.js
16 284 (1.58%) Web Services
17 248 (1.38%) REST
18 224 (1.25%) JSON
19 207 (1.15%) Blazor
20 205 (1.14%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 947 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
2 872 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 655 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 579 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 375 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 353 (1.96%) Social Media
7 346 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 258 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
9 246 (1.37%) Product Ownership
10 245 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 231 (1.28%) PKI
12 221 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
13 184 (1.02%) Cloud Native
14 167 (0.93%) Replication
15 149 (0.83%) Clustering
16 136 (0.76%) Mobile App
17 135 (0.75%) NHS
18 126 (0.70%) Low-Code
19 124 (0.69%) Smartphone
20 114 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,678 (26.02%) Windows
2 2,026 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 1,373 (7.64%) Windows 10
4 1,164 (6.47%) Linux
5 472 (2.63%) Android
6 463 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 452 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 337 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 319 (1.77%) Apple iOS
10 294 (1.64%) Ubuntu
11 259 (1.44%) Mac OS
12 229 (1.27%) Windows 7
13 171 (0.95%) Unix
14 145 (0.81%) VMS
15 102 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 83 (0.46%) Windows 8
17 76 (0.42%) CentOS
18 75 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 52 (0.29%) Mac OS X
20 34 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,665 (20.39%) Agile
2 3,502 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
3 2,377 (13.22%) Customer Service
4 1,887 (10.50%) ITIL
5 1,759 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
6 1,735 (9.65%) DevOps
7 1,669 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
8 1,609 (8.95%) Mentoring
9 1,524 (8.48%) Project Management
10 1,394 (7.75%) CRM
11 1,112 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,109 (6.17%) Decision-Making
13 1,028 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,016 (5.65%) Roadmaps
15 987 (5.49%) Full Stack Development
15 987 (5.49%) MVC
16 968 (5.38%) Migration
17 900 (5.01%) Analytics
18 885 (4.92%) Scrum
19 877 (4.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,866 (15.94%) SQL
2 2,257 (12.55%) C#
3 1,515 (8.43%) JavaScript
4 1,255 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 685 (3.81%) Python
6 570 (3.17%) T-SQL
7 476 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 465 (2.59%) Bash
9 278 (1.55%) Java
10 151 (0.84%) C++
11 130 (0.72%) VB
12 124 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 122 (0.68%) C
14 102 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 100 (0.56%) Bicep
16 85 (0.47%) R
17 70 (0.39%) VBA
18 56 (0.31%) Shell Script
19 52 (0.29%) Fortran
20 49 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,964 (16.49%) Degree
2 1,312 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 1,181 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 774 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 524 (2.91%) DBS Check
6 510 (2.84%) ACCA
7 498 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 487 (2.71%) CIMA
9 463 (2.58%) Azure Certification
10 426 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 312 (1.74%) DV Cleared
12 306 (1.70%) CCNA
13 245 (1.36%) Master's Degree
14 243 (1.35%) A+ Certification
15 234 (1.30%) CISSP
16 218 (1.21%) MCP
17 217 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
18 198 (1.10%) MCSE
19 191 (1.06%) PMI Certification
20 173 (0.96%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 806 (4.48%) SLA
2 506 (2.81%) QA
3 490 (2.73%) GDPR
4 399 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 295 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 230 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 181 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 155 (0.86%) NIST
9 131 (0.73%) PMO
10 124 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 111 (0.62%) ISO 9001
12 46 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 42 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 41 (0.23%) GRC
15 37 (0.21%) IFRS
15 37 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 32 (0.18%) NCSC
17 30 (0.17%) COBIT
17 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4,001 (22.26%) Active Directory
2 1,162 (6.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 870 (4.84%) Hyper-V
4 305 (1.70%) Docker
5 304 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 229 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 218 (1.21%) vSphere
8 161 (0.90%) XenApp
9 152 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 140 (0.78%) XenDesktop
11 80 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
11 80 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
12 58 (0.32%) Firmware
13 56 (0.31%) Terminal Services
14 51 (0.28%) KVM
15 50 (0.28%) RACF
16 43 (0.24%) VMware NSX
17 32 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 26 (0.14%) VirtualBox
19 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,322 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 629 (3.50%) SCCM
3 394 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 386 (2.15%) Terraform
5 276 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
6 160 (0.89%) Ansible
7 158 (0.88%) WSUS
8 129 (0.72%) SCOM
9 119 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 100 (0.56%) vCenter Server
11 96 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 80 (0.45%) AirWatch
13 54 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 45 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (0.24%) Puppet
16 42 (0.23%) Grafana
16 42 (0.23%) NetBackup
17 39 (0.22%) Backup Exec
17 39 (0.22%) Nessus
18 37 (0.21%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,756 (9.77%) VMware
2 917 (5.10%) Cisco
3 709 (3.94%) Google
4 586 (3.26%) Citrix
5 527 (2.93%) Apple
6 505 (2.81%) Oracle
7 407 (2.26%) Dell
8 394 (2.19%) Veeam
9 357 (1.99%) ServiceNow
10 330 (1.84%) SAP
11 322 (1.79%) HP
12 300 (1.67%) Adobe
13 287 (1.60%) CyberArk
14 231 (1.28%) Meraki
15 211 (1.17%) Tanium
16 195 (1.08%) Databricks
17 192 (1.07%) Salesforce
18 158 (0.88%) Fortinet
18 158 (0.88%) Sophos
19 150 (0.83%) Red Hat