Microsoft Jobs in the North West

Microsoft
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,574 1,921 1,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.32% 25.34% 18.25%
As % of the Vendors category 46.85% 54.96% 48.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 842 1,023
10th Percentile £24,807 £23,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,694 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +8.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
North West

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 advertised in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,360 3,495 3,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.71% 46.11% 38.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,460 1,826 2,053
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,238 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,628 £76,520
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.77%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North West

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North West

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North West

Microsoft
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Manchester -1 792 £50,000 -2.91% 278
Cheshire 0 323 £36,500 -14.12% 119
Merseyside -4 203 £41,000 +2.50% 61
Lancashire -2 202 £38,500 -4.94% 89
Cumbria -3 47 £42,500 -5.56% 26
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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
1 117 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 105 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (2.67%) IIS
4 8 (0.51%) Apache
4 8 (0.51%) CMS
4 8 (0.51%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 5 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.25%) Confluence
7 4 (0.25%) SAS
7 4 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.064%) Documentum
9 1 (0.064%) Site Server
Applications
1 263 (16.71%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (9.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 71 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.44%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.13%) InDesign
6 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.13%) SPSS
6 2 (0.13%) Stata
7 1 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.064%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 71 (4.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 13 (0.83%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (0.83%) iTrent
4 10 (0.64%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.38%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
8 3 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
9 1 (0.064%) BPCS
9 1 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.064%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 639 (40.60%) Azure
2 452 (28.72%) Microsoft 365
3 187 (11.88%) Power Platform
4 154 (9.78%) AWS
5 117 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
6 105 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 90 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (3.11%) Power Automate
8 49 (3.11%) SaaS
9 47 (2.99%) PowerApps
10 46 (2.92%) GCP
11 40 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (1.65%) Google Ads
13 23 (1.46%) GitHub
13 23 (1.46%) IaaS
13 23 (1.46%) PaaS
14 21 (1.33%) Google Analytics
15 19 (1.21%) OneDrive
16 16 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (1.02%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 120 (7.62%) Firewall
2 106 (6.73%) WAN
3 105 (6.67%) DNS
4 86 (5.46%) LAN
5 80 (5.08%) DHCP
6 49 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (2.92%) TCP/IP
8 41 (2.60%) Internet
9 35 (2.22%) SAN
10 32 (2.03%) VoIP
11 31 (1.97%) Wireless
12 29 (1.84%) SD-WAN
13 26 (1.65%) Broadband
13 26 (1.65%) Network Security
14 24 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
14 24 (1.52%) VPN
15 14 (0.89%) Unified Communications
16 12 (0.76%) iSCSI
16 12 (0.76%) NAS
17 11 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (18.11%) SQL Server
2 97 (6.16%) Power BI
3 68 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 63 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 58 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 31 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 29 (1.84%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.27%) MySQL
11 17 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.02%) MS Access
13 15 (0.95%) Looker
13 15 (0.95%) Oracle Database
14 14 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
15 13 (0.83%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.70%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.70%) RDBMS
17 10 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 63 (4.00%) Git
2 25 (1.59%) Visual Studio
3 15 (0.95%) GitLab
4 14 (0.89%) JIRA
5 12 (0.76%) TeamCity
6 11 (0.70%) Jasmine
6 11 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
7 9 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.38%) Dreamweaver
8 6 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.38%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.32%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.32%) JetBrains Rider
9 5 (0.32%) NUnit
10 4 (0.25%) MSTest
10 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.19%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 466 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 296 (18.81%) Finance
3 156 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.32%) Retail
5 120 (7.62%) Legal
6 83 (5.27%) Public Sector
7 73 (4.64%) Marketing
8 64 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (3.43%) Law
10 49 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.73%) Advertising
12 41 (2.60%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.52%) Banking
15 24 (1.52%) Local Government
16 20 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.89%) Brand Awareness
18 13 (0.83%) Police
19 12 (0.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 270 (17.15%) Developer
2 205 (13.02%) Analyst
3 148 (9.40%) Senior
4 121 (7.69%) IT Support
5 116 (7.37%) .NET Developer
6 104 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 102 (6.48%) Lead
8 87 (5.53%) Architect
9 83 (5.27%) Support Engineer
10 81 (5.15%) IT Engineer
11 80 (5.08%) Consultant
12 59 (3.75%) Service Analyst
13 58 (3.68%) IT Manager
14 53 (3.37%) Service Desk Analyst
15 51 (3.24%) C# Developer
16 49 (3.11%) Administrator
17 47 (2.99%) IT Support Engineer
18 44 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
18 44 (2.80%) Project Manager
19 43 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (13.34%) .NET
2 123 (7.81%) ASP.NET
3 113 (7.18%) .NET Core
4 98 (6.23%) HTML
5 96 (6.10%) ASP.NET MVC
6 79 (5.02%) AngularJS
7 76 (4.83%) Entity Framework
8 66 (4.19%) CSS
9 64 (4.07%) ASP.NET Web API
10 63 (4.00%) HTML5
11 57 (3.62%) .NET Framework
12 41 (2.60%) React
13 36 (2.29%) Node.js
14 35 (2.22%) Web Services
15 34 (2.16%) Blazor
16 33 (2.10%) CSS3
17 28 (1.78%) REST
18 26 (1.65%) RESTful
19 25 (1.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 25 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.45%) Driving Licence
2 62 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 57 (3.62%) Management Information System
4 53 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 48 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (2.29%) Smartphone
8 28 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.59%) PKI
10 24 (1.52%) Cloud Native
10 24 (1.52%) PMI
11 19 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.14%) FMCG
13 17 (1.08%) EPoS
14 15 (0.95%) Social Media
15 14 (0.89%) Product Ownership
16 13 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (0.83%) Social Network
17 12 (0.76%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 337 (21.41%) Windows
2 143 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 90 (5.72%) Windows 10
4 82 (5.21%) Linux
5 36 (2.29%) Android
5 36 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 28 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (1.52%) VMS
8 18 (1.14%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.08%) Windows Vista
10 13 (0.83%) Unix
11 9 (0.57%) Windows Phone
12 8 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.51%) Solaris
13 6 (0.38%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.25%) Debian
15 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (18.49%) Agile
1 291 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
2 230 (14.61%) Customer Service
3 199 (12.64%) ITIL
4 156 (9.91%) CRM
5 151 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
5 151 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
6 148 (9.40%) DevOps
7 136 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 135 (8.58%) Project Management
9 133 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 126 (8.01%) Migration
11 116 (7.37%) Disaster Recovery
12 114 (7.24%) Full Stack Development
13 113 (7.18%) Time Management
14 105 (6.67%) MVC
15 104 (6.61%) Mentoring
16 103 (6.54%) ERP
17 95 (6.04%) Microservices
18 93 (5.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 296 (18.81%) SQL
2 235 (14.93%) C#
3 169 (10.74%) JavaScript
4 102 (6.48%) PowerShell
5 67 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 49 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.78%) Python
8 24 (1.52%) VB
9 22 (1.40%) VB.NET
10 17 (1.08%) R
11 15 (0.95%) Bash
12 13 (0.83%) PHP
13 11 (0.70%) Delphi
13 11 (0.70%) VB6
14 10 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.64%) Java
15 9 (0.57%) Bicep
15 9 (0.57%) Swift
16 8 (0.51%) Go
16 8 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 243 (15.44%) Degree
2 119 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 64 (4.07%) Security Cleared
4 48 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (2.60%) CCNA
6 40 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.41%) PMI Certification
7 38 (2.41%) SC Cleared
8 34 (2.16%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.59%) CCNP
9 25 (1.59%) MCP
10 22 (1.40%) A+ Certification
11 20 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.21%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.08%) PMP
14 13 (0.83%) CIMA
14 13 (0.83%) CISSP
15 11 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.07%) SLA
2 37 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 29 (1.84%) QA
5 25 (1.59%) GDPR
6 21 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 17 (1.08%) NIST
9 16 (1.02%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.70%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.57%) PMO
12 7 (0.44%) COSHH
12 7 (0.44%) NEBOSH
13 5 (0.32%) ISO 14001
13 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.25%) GRC
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) GMP
15 2 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 343 (21.79%) Active Directory
2 98 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (5.21%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.27%) Terminal Services
6 15 (0.95%) Docker
7 10 (0.64%) RACF
8 8 (0.51%) vSphere
9 7 (0.44%) KVM
10 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.38%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.13%) Firmware
11 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.064%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.064%) Snort
Systems Management
1 91 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (2.80%) Terraform
3 31 (1.97%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.27%) SCCM
5 18 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.76%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.76%) VxRail
6 12 (0.76%) ZABBIX
7 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.57%) AirWatch
8 9 (0.57%) Stealthwatch
9 7 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 7 (0.44%) WSUS
10 6 (0.38%) Ansible
10 6 (0.38%) CASB
11 4 (0.25%) Autotask
11 4 (0.25%) Grafana
11 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 140 (8.89%) VMware
2 99 (6.29%) Google
3 80 (5.08%) Apple
4 78 (4.96%) Cisco
5 56 (3.56%) Adobe
6 50 (3.18%) Citrix
7 46 (2.92%) SAP
8 37 (2.35%) Dell
9 32 (2.03%) Oracle
10 30 (1.91%) Veeam
11 29 (1.84%) Facebook
12 28 (1.78%) HP
12 28 (1.78%) ServiceNow
13 23 (1.46%) Meraki
14 21 (1.33%) Fortinet
15 20 (1.27%) NetApp
16 17 (1.08%) CyberArk
17 15 (0.95%) SolarWinds
17 15 (0.95%) Sophos
18 14 (0.89%) CA