Microsoft Jobs in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,510 2,474 3,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.16% 17.55% 17.94%
As % of the Vendors category 52.69% 43.56% 46.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,531 1,773 2,373
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,800 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,350 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -2.42% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,661 5,679 7,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 38.26% 40.29% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,437 3,437 4,815
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £78,750
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 South East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East 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
Thames Valley +2 1,356 £45,000 -1.32% 313
Hampshire +6 751 £45,000 +12.50% 174
Surrey +6 664 £47,500 -9.52% 98
Berkshire 0 610 £48,000 +4.92% 137
Buckinghamshire -2 396 £42,500 +21.43% 95
Oxfordshire +3 350 £43,239 -21.38% 81
Kent +5 294 £42,500 +6.25% 72
East Sussex +3 168 £42,500 -19.09% 38
West Sussex +5 159 £50,000 -14.89% 37
Middlesex +20 81 £39,190 -49.43% 1
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 5
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 388 (11.05%) SharePoint
2 310 (8.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (1.28%) CMS
4 43 (1.23%) IIS
5 27 (0.77%) Kentico
6 24 (0.68%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
7 22 (0.63%) Umbraco
8 21 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
9 14 (0.40%) Confluence
10 11 (0.31%) WordPress
11 9 (0.26%) SAS
12 6 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.11%) TWiki
15 3 (0.085%) Skype for Business
16 2 (0.057%) Apache
16 2 (0.057%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 680 (19.37%) Microsoft Office
2 672 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 130 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
4 108 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.17%) InVision
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (0.11%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Simulink
10 4 (0.11%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.085%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.085%) Revit
12 2 (0.057%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 107 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (1.71%) Primavera
3 18 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.085%) SAP MDM
9 2 (0.057%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.057%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.057%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.057%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,368 (38.97%) Azure
2 1,040 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
3 351 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 276 (7.86%) Entra ID
5 190 (5.41%) AWS
6 166 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
7 138 (3.93%) OneDrive
8 129 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (2.99%) PowerApps
10 102 (2.91%) Power Automate
11 91 (2.59%) SaaS
12 65 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
13 44 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (1.23%) PaaS
15 37 (1.05%) IaaS
16 32 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
17 27 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 25 (0.71%) Azure Storage
18 25 (0.71%) GitHub
18 25 (0.71%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 397 (11.31%) Firewall
2 295 (8.40%) Broadband
3 244 (6.95%) DNS
4 191 (5.44%) DHCP
5 143 (4.07%) VPN
6 123 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 118 (3.36%) Wireless
8 117 (3.33%) LAN
9 109 (3.11%) WAN
10 79 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 77 (2.19%) 5G
12 73 (2.08%) VLAN
13 72 (2.05%) VoIP
14 67 (1.91%) Internet
14 67 (1.91%) Intranet
15 55 (1.57%) Unified Communications
16 53 (1.51%) Network Security
17 52 (1.48%) SAN
18 34 (0.97%) SD-WAN
19 30 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (13.30%) SQL Server
2 243 (6.92%) Power BI
3 84 (2.39%) MongoDB
4 82 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 76 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 63 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 47 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 44 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 26 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (0.60%) Power Query
14 19 (0.54%) MySQL
15 15 (0.43%) NoSQL
16 13 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 13 (0.37%) Tableau
17 11 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 9 (0.26%) Big Data
18 9 (0.26%) DB2
Development Applications
1 85 (2.42%) Visual Studio
2 81 (2.31%) JIRA
3 73 (2.08%) Git
4 45 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.05%) GitLab
6 22 (0.63%) Subversion
7 21 (0.60%) NUnit
8 14 (0.40%) eggPlant
8 14 (0.40%) Selenium
8 14 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.31%) MSI
10 10 (0.28%) Postman
10 10 (0.28%) Trac
11 9 (0.26%) JMeter
12 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.17%) MSBuild
13 6 (0.17%) Newman
13 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,367 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 646 (18.40%) Finance
3 590 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (7.12%) Retail
5 217 (6.18%) Influencing Skills
6 197 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
7 150 (4.27%) Legal
8 135 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 121 (3.45%) Marketing
10 119 (3.39%) Telecoms
11 107 (3.05%) Law
12 99 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
13 89 (2.54%) Public Sector
14 83 (2.36%) Manufacturing
15 62 (1.77%) Games
16 61 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
17 52 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 47 (1.34%) Advertising
19 37 (1.05%) Automotive
19 37 (1.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 563 (16.04%) Analyst
2 442 (12.59%) Senior
3 428 (12.19%) Developer
4 323 (9.20%) IT Support
5 271 (7.72%) Support Engineer
6 268 (7.64%) .NET Developer
7 224 (6.38%) IT Engineer
8 194 (5.53%) Lead
9 181 (5.16%) Architect
10 168 (4.79%) IT Support Engineer
11 163 (4.64%) Consultant
12 161 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 156 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
14 142 (4.05%) Administrator
15 123 (3.50%) C# Developer
16 109 (3.11%) Support Analyst
17 108 (3.08%) IT Analyst
18 107 (3.05%) C# .NET Developer
19 103 (2.93%) 2nd Line Support
20 96 (2.74%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (12.79%) .NET
2 259 (7.38%) ASP.NET
3 258 (7.35%) .NET Core
4 220 (6.27%) ASP.NET MVC
5 191 (5.44%) .NET Framework
6 175 (4.99%) AngularJS
7 173 (4.93%) Entity Framework
8 155 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
9 145 (4.13%) React
10 120 (3.42%) HTML
11 94 (2.68%) Node.js
12 93 (2.65%) HTML5
13 83 (2.36%) CSS
14 81 (2.31%) RESTful
15 78 (2.22%) Vue
16 52 (1.48%) CSS3
17 51 (1.45%) LINQ
18 50 (1.42%) Blazor
18 50 (1.42%) Web Services
19 43 (1.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 246 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
2 129 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 115 (3.28%) Driving Licence
4 99 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 89 (2.54%) Social Media
6 74 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 69 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 59 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 51 (1.45%) PKI
10 47 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.25%) Replication
12 34 (0.97%) Client/Server
13 33 (0.94%) IoT
13 33 (0.94%) NHS
14 30 (0.85%) Mobile App
15 29 (0.83%) PMI
15 29 (0.83%) Public Cloud
16 28 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
17 26 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,012 (28.83%) Windows
2 450 (12.82%) Windows Server
3 348 (9.91%) Windows 10
4 279 (7.95%) Linux
5 121 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 114 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 104 (2.96%) Ubuntu
8 87 (2.48%) Android
9 78 (2.22%) Windows 7
10 75 (2.14%) Apple iOS
11 74 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 45 (1.28%) Mac OS
13 41 (1.17%) Windows 8
14 30 (0.85%) Unix
14 30 (0.85%) VMS
15 23 (0.66%) CentOS
15 23 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
16 16 (0.46%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 14 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (24.19%) Agile
2 819 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 538 (15.33%) Customer Service
4 368 (10.48%) ITIL
5 345 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
6 341 (9.72%) Project Management
7 340 (9.69%) Mentoring
8 304 (8.66%) DevOps
9 300 (8.55%) Decision-Making
10 279 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
11 271 (7.72%) CRM
12 250 (7.12%) Actionable Insight
13 248 (7.07%) Full Stack Development
14 246 (7.01%) MVC
15 210 (5.98%) Business Case
16 204 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 200 (5.70%) Budgeting
18 197 (5.61%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 189 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence
20 181 (5.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 490 (13.96%) C#
2 448 (12.76%) SQL
3 328 (9.34%) JavaScript
4 215 (6.13%) PowerShell
5 134 (3.82%) Python
6 119 (3.39%) Bash
7 109 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 79 (2.25%) C++
9 71 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 69 (1.97%) C
11 50 (1.42%) Fortran
12 43 (1.23%) Java
13 35 (1.00%) VB
14 30 (0.85%) VBScript
15 20 (0.57%) Bicep
16 17 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.34%) Perl
17 12 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.34%) VBA
18 11 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 605 (17.24%) Degree
2 383 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.58%) ACCA
4 195 (5.56%) CIMA
5 194 (5.53%) SC Cleared
6 175 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 164 (4.67%) DV Cleared
8 141 (4.02%) DBS Check
9 108 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
10 77 (2.19%) Azure Certification
10 77 (2.19%) CCNA
11 63 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (1.60%) MCP
13 49 (1.40%) Master's Degree
14 42 (1.20%) CCNP
15 41 (1.17%) A+ Certification
16 40 (1.14%) CISSP
16 40 (1.14%) NVQ Level 3
17 37 (1.05%) PMI Certification
18 32 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (5.04%) SLA
2 106 (3.02%) GDPR
3 80 (2.28%) QA
4 43 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 29 (0.83%) PMO
8 25 (0.71%) NIST
9 21 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 14 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
11 14 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.23%) ISO 13485
14 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.17%) NCSC
16 4 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 814 (23.19%) Active Directory
2 230 (6.55%) Hyper-V
3 226 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (1.62%) Docker
6 52 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 44 (1.25%) vSphere
8 42 (1.20%) Firmware
9 36 (1.03%) XenApp
10 29 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
10 29 (0.83%) XenDesktop
11 26 (0.74%) VirtualBox
12 12 (0.34%) KVM
12 12 (0.34%) NFS
12 12 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.31%) pfSense
14 7 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 6 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 274 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 147 (4.19%) SCCM
3 79 (2.25%) Kubernetes
4 71 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
5 63 (1.79%) WSUS
6 55 (1.57%) SCOM
7 35 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 35 (1.00%) vCenter Server
8 29 (0.83%) Terraform
9 25 (0.71%) Ansible
10 20 (0.57%) NetBackup
11 19 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
12 16 (0.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 16 (0.46%) SCDPM
13 15 (0.43%) FortiGate
13 15 (0.43%) Grafana
14 13 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
14 13 (0.37%) ServiceCenter
15 12 (0.34%) Sysprep
16 10 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 338 (9.63%) VMware
2 199 (5.67%) Cisco
3 127 (3.62%) Citrix
4 120 (3.42%) Apple
5 100 (2.85%) Google
6 91 (2.59%) Adobe
6 91 (2.59%) Veeam
7 69 (1.97%) HP
8 67 (1.91%) CyberArk
8 67 (1.91%) Tanium
9 59 (1.68%) Meraki
10 55 (1.57%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.51%) Dell
12 48 (1.37%) Juniper
12 48 (1.37%) Oracle
13 47 (1.34%) Palo Alto
14 42 (1.20%) SAP
15 37 (1.05%) Aruba
15 37 (1.05%) Salesforce
16 33 (0.94%) Red Hat