Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,778 11,870 13,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.27% 20.43% 18.37%
As % of the Vendors category 50.33% 48.18% 46.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9,912 6,438 8,592
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £61,250 £58,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,388 24,639 29,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.31% 42.42% 39.46%
Number of salaries quoted 17,311 12,921 16,901
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £77,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 3,510 £45,000 -2.91% 826
North of England -1 3,001 £43,500 -3.33% 1,083
Midlands +1 2,362 £42,500 -11.46% 776
South West +3 1,642 £46,000 +13.58% 480
North West -2 1,574 £45,000 -2.17% 587
West Midlands +1 1,544 £45,000 -10.00% 486
East of England +2 1,232 £38,500 -3.75% 402
Yorkshire +2 996 £42,500 -4.49% 369
East Midlands +2 809 £37,500 -12.79% 291
Scotland -32 566 £45,000 -5.26% 248
North East +3 430 £42,500 +4.00% 136
Wales +2 339 £38,500 -1.28% 118
Northern Ireland +4 106 £42,500 -10.53% 67
Isle of Man +6 31 £46,250 -36.21% 1
Channel Islands +2 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,352 (10.58%) SharePoint
2 1,187 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 239 (1.87%) IIS
4 182 (1.42%) Confluence
5 103 (0.81%) CMS
6 64 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 49 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 47 (0.37%) Kentico
9 45 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.32%) Apache
10 41 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 41 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 38 (0.30%) WordPress
12 35 (0.27%) SAS
13 34 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
14 21 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 21 (0.16%) Tomcat
15 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
16 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,491 (19.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1,642 (12.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 435 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 247 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
5 95 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 59 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 51 (0.40%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 11 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 9 (0.070%) Chatbot
15 8 (0.063%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.063%) Sketch
16 6 (0.047%) InVision
17 5 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
17 5 (0.039%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 397 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 90 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.64%) Primavera
4 40 (0.31%) NEC Housing
5 31 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 27 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
8 19 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 19 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
8 19 (0.15%) Shopify
9 17 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 16 (0.13%) iTrent
11 15 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
12 14 (0.11%) Magento
13 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
14 11 (0.086%) ResourceLink
15 9 (0.070%) Maximo
15 9 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
15 9 (0.070%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5,028 (39.35%) Azure
2 3,949 (30.90%) Microsoft 365
3 1,536 (12.02%) Power Platform
4 968 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 931 (7.29%) AWS
6 779 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
7 548 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 462 (3.62%) PowerApps
9 424 (3.32%) Power Automate
10 386 (3.02%) SaaS
11 352 (2.75%) OneDrive
12 256 (2.00%) GCP
13 199 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
14 160 (1.25%) PaaS
15 159 (1.24%) IaaS
16 137 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 103 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 96 (0.75%) GitHub
19 93 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
20 79 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,234 (9.66%) Firewall
2 870 (6.81%) DNS
3 671 (5.25%) WAN
4 666 (5.21%) DHCP
5 586 (4.59%) LAN
6 460 (3.60%) TCP/IP
7 442 (3.46%) VPN
8 410 (3.21%) Broadband
9 389 (3.04%) SAN
10 378 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
11 318 (2.49%) Wireless
12 272 (2.13%) Internet
13 265 (2.07%) VLAN
14 257 (2.01%) VoIP
15 197 (1.54%) Network Security
16 165 (1.29%) Intranet
17 153 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
18 138 (1.08%) SD-WAN
19 120 (0.94%) Unified Communications
20 95 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,025 (15.85%) SQL Server
2 1,015 (7.94%) Power BI
3 333 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 332 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 322 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 263 (2.06%) MongoDB
7 215 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
8 205 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 205 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 152 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 118 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 115 (0.90%) MySQL
12 110 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 86 (0.67%) NoSQL
14 85 (0.67%) Tableau
15 79 (0.62%) MS Access
16 72 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
17 59 (0.46%) Power Query
18 57 (0.45%) Big Data
19 55 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 386 (3.02%) Git
2 352 (2.75%) JIRA
3 325 (2.54%) Visual Studio
4 104 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 77 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 67 (0.52%) GitLab
7 60 (0.47%) Sourcetree
8 53 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.34%) NUnit
10 40 (0.31%) Selenium
11 39 (0.31%) Subversion
12 38 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 33 (0.26%) Postman
14 30 (0.23%) Moq
15 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.20%) TeamCity
17 22 (0.17%) MSTest
18 21 (0.16%) Cucumber
19 14 (0.11%) eggPlant
General
1 4,500 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 2,308 (18.06%) Finance
3 1,504 (11.77%) Analytical Skills
4 882 (6.90%) Retail
5 579 (4.53%) Legal
6 554 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
7 553 (4.33%) Marketing
8 532 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 530 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 518 (4.05%) Law
11 493 (3.86%) Manufacturing
12 370 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 362 (2.83%) Telecoms
14 328 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
15 223 (1.75%) Games
16 201 (1.57%) Banking
17 178 (1.39%) Local Government
18 167 (1.31%) Advertising
19 151 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
20 116 (0.91%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,924 (15.06%) Developer
2 1,740 (13.62%) Analyst
3 1,412 (11.05%) Senior
4 1,216 (9.52%) IT Support
5 1,010 (7.90%) Support Engineer
6 840 (6.57%) .NET Developer
7 817 (6.39%) IT Engineer
8 694 (5.43%) Lead
9 682 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 681 (5.33%) Architect
11 604 (4.73%) Consultant
12 552 (4.32%) IT Support Engineer
13 506 (3.96%) Administrator
14 425 (3.33%) IT Technician
15 412 (3.22%) 2nd Line Support
16 375 (2.93%) C# Developer
17 347 (2.72%) Support Technician
18 342 (2.68%) IT Analyst
19 339 (2.65%) Support Analyst
20 335 (2.62%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,603 (12.54%) .NET
2 892 (6.98%) ASP.NET
3 844 (6.61%) .NET Core
4 715 (5.60%) ASP.NET MVC
5 647 (5.06%) AngularJS
6 617 (4.83%) HTML
7 588 (4.60%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.44%) Entity Framework
9 556 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
10 423 (3.31%) CSS
11 406 (3.18%) React
12 336 (2.63%) HTML5
13 277 (2.17%) RESTful
14 260 (2.03%) Vue
15 245 (1.92%) Node.js
16 214 (1.67%) Web Services
17 190 (1.49%) REST
18 183 (1.43%) Blazor
19 176 (1.38%) LINQ
20 168 (1.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 684 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
2 622 (4.87%) Driving Licence
3 562 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 425 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 280 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 238 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 170 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 170 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 167 (1.31%) PKI
9 156 (1.22%) Social Media
10 143 (1.12%) Clustering
11 142 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 133 (1.04%) Replication
13 111 (0.87%) Mobile App
14 107 (0.84%) NHS
15 103 (0.81%) Low-Code
16 99 (0.77%) Cloud Native
17 95 (0.74%) Algorithms
18 94 (0.74%) Smartphone
19 86 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,627 (28.38%) Windows
2 1,630 (12.76%) Windows Server
3 1,028 (8.05%) Windows 10
4 787 (6.16%) Linux
5 388 (3.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 374 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 308 (2.41%) Android
8 292 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 225 (1.76%) Apple iOS
10 197 (1.54%) Windows 7
11 193 (1.51%) Mac OS
12 133 (1.04%) Ubuntu
13 125 (0.98%) VMS
14 105 (0.82%) Unix
15 86 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
16 84 (0.66%) Windows 8
17 71 (0.56%) CentOS
18 41 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.27%) Mac OS X
20 29 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,643 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
2 2,475 (19.37%) Agile
3 1,939 (15.17%) Customer Service
4 1,472 (11.52%) ITIL
5 1,212 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
6 1,165 (9.12%) DevOps
7 1,087 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
8 1,082 (8.47%) Project Management
9 1,045 (8.18%) Mentoring
10 903 (7.07%) CRM
11 865 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 832 (6.51%) MVC
13 819 (6.41%) Full Stack Development
14 793 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 757 (5.92%) Roadmaps
16 694 (5.43%) Decision-Making
17 693 (5.42%) Migration
18 676 (5.29%) Microservices
19 631 (4.94%) ERP
20 610 (4.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,081 (16.29%) SQL
2 1,699 (13.30%) C#
3 1,174 (9.19%) JavaScript
4 860 (6.73%) PowerShell
5 399 (3.12%) T-SQL
6 380 (2.97%) Python
7 377 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 233 (1.82%) Bash
9 188 (1.47%) Java
10 122 (0.95%) VB
11 114 (0.89%) C++
11 114 (0.89%) VB.NET
12 95 (0.74%) C
13 55 (0.43%) R
14 50 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 50 (0.39%) Fortran
15 48 (0.38%) Bicep
16 45 (0.35%) VBA
17 44 (0.34%) Shell Script
17 44 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,039 (15.96%) Degree
2 1,091 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 857 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 647 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 403 (3.15%) DBS Check
6 303 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
7 289 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 279 (2.18%) Azure Certification
9 254 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 249 (1.95%) CCNA
11 242 (1.89%) CIMA
12 241 (1.89%) ACCA
13 210 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 197 (1.54%) MCP
15 195 (1.53%) A+ Certification
16 140 (1.10%) MCSE
17 139 (1.09%) PMI Certification
18 121 (0.95%) CCNP
19 110 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
20 102 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 571 (4.47%) SLA
2 384 (3.01%) GDPR
3 343 (2.68%) QA
4 231 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 222 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 119 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 104 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 96 (0.75%) ISO 9001
9 94 (0.74%) NIST
9 94 (0.74%) PMO
10 85 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 43 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 25 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 23 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 21 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
16 16 (0.13%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.12%) GRC
17 15 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
18 14 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2,953 (23.11%) Active Directory
2 902 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 776 (6.07%) Hyper-V
4 232 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 190 (1.49%) Docker
6 172 (1.35%) vSphere
7 128 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
8 125 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
9 72 (0.56%) XenApp
10 59 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 51 (0.40%) Firmware
12 50 (0.39%) KVM
13 48 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 44 (0.34%) RACF
14 44 (0.34%) Terminal Services
15 41 (0.32%) VMware NSX
16 26 (0.20%) VirtualBox
17 25 (0.20%) VMware Server
18 22 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 19 (0.15%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 896 (7.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 419 (3.28%) SCCM
3 250 (1.96%) Kubernetes
4 179 (1.40%) Terraform
5 128 (1.00%) WSUS
6 120 (0.94%) SCOM
7 105 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
8 90 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 82 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 76 (0.59%) Ansible
11 42 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
12 40 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 35 (0.27%) FortiGate
14 33 (0.26%) NetBackup
15 32 (0.25%) ZABBIX
16 31 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 30 (0.23%) Backup Exec
18 28 (0.22%) Autotask
18 28 (0.22%) CASB
18 28 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 1,391 (10.89%) VMware
2 605 (4.73%) Cisco
3 488 (3.82%) Google
4 400 (3.13%) Citrix
5 393 (3.08%) Apple
6 329 (2.57%) Oracle
7 320 (2.50%) Veeam
8 265 (2.07%) Dell
9 246 (1.93%) HP
10 231 (1.81%) SAP
11 226 (1.77%) Adobe
12 193 (1.51%) ServiceNow
13 192 (1.50%) Meraki
14 145 (1.13%) Sophos
15 136 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 123 (0.96%) CyberArk
16 123 (0.96%) Salesforce
17 111 (0.87%) Red Hat
18 108 (0.85%) Databricks
18 108 (0.85%) Sage