Microsoft Certification Jobs

Microsoft Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 313 347
Rank change year-on-year +85 +34 -60
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1,304 1,098 1,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.11% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.73% 3.37% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 872 1,187
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,750 £46,065
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +3.66% +2.37%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.33% -0.59% +0.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,546 32,627 44,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.29% 33.12% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,214 14,683 19,092
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,573 £42,210 £40,967
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +101 1,195 £45,000 -5.26% 432
UK excluding London +64 956 £40,000 -5.33% 342
Work from Home +76 462 £50,250 -4.29% 132
London +110 300 £62,500 +13.64% 138
North of England +140 272 £40,000 -16.23% 90
South East +24 234 £39,000 +6.85% 74
Midlands +15 164 £38,000 -9.52% 51
North West +30 125 £40,000 -11.11% 50
South West -11 106 £42,500 +0.59% 58
East of England +19 102 £40,000 -5.88% 30
West Midlands +13 100 £38,000 -20.00% 31
Yorkshire +112 83 £41,250 -17.50% 31
East Midlands +20 64 £45,000 +7.14% 18
North East - 64 £32,500 - 9
Scotland -53 41 £57,500 +17.95% 28
Wales +12 25 £27,000 -36.47% 8
Northern Ireland +29 11 £45,000 -37.93% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -

Microsoft Certification
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
1 204 (15.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (14.26%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.23%) SharePoint 2010
3 16 (1.23%) SharePoint 2013
4 13 (1.00%) IIS
5 11 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.77%) CMS
7 9 (0.69%) Apache
8 5 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.23%) Confluence
10 1 (0.077%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.077%) Drupal
10 1 (0.077%) Moodle
10 1 (0.077%) SAS
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 160 (12.27%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.00%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.077%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.077%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.38%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.23%) Maximo
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.15%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.15%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.077%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.077%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.077%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.077%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 825 (63.27%) Azure
2 523 (40.11%) Microsoft 365
3 294 (22.55%) Power Platform
4 145 (11.12%) AWS
5 113 (8.67%) Entra ID
6 102 (7.82%) Dynamics 365
7 98 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
8 87 (6.67%) PowerApps
9 81 (6.21%) Power Automate
10 46 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 40 (3.07%) IaaS
11 40 (3.07%) IBM Cloud
11 40 (3.07%) PaaS
12 38 (2.91%) Serverless
13 33 (2.53%) GCP
13 33 (2.53%) OneDrive
14 30 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 220 (16.87%) Firewall
2 133 (10.20%) DNS
3 124 (9.51%) DHCP
4 111 (8.51%) SAN
5 95 (7.29%) TCP/IP
6 87 (6.67%) Broadband
7 84 (6.44%) VPN
8 82 (6.29%) WAN
9 76 (5.83%) LAN
10 74 (5.67%) Network Security
11 62 (4.75%) VLAN
12 50 (3.83%) Internet
12 50 (3.83%) VoIP
13 40 (3.07%) NAS
14 39 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
14 39 (2.99%) Wireless
15 28 (2.15%) Remote Desktop
16 26 (1.99%) Intranet
17 20 (1.53%) SD-WAN
18 15 (1.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (18.02%) Power BI
2 212 (16.26%) SQL Server
3 117 (8.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 52 (3.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 48 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 42 (3.22%) Data Lake
7 37 (2.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 31 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 27 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 16 (1.23%) Big Data
13 14 (1.07%) Metadata
14 9 (0.69%) QlikView
15 8 (0.61%) MySQL
16 7 (0.54%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.54%) Tableau
17 6 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
17 6 (0.46%) NoSQL
18 5 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (1.53%) JIRA
2 18 (1.38%) Git
3 13 (1.00%) Axure RP
3 13 (1.00%) Balsamiq
4 8 (0.61%) GitLab
5 7 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) Hudson
10 1 (0.077%) AdminStudio
10 1 (0.077%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.077%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.077%) MSI
10 1 (0.077%) Vagrant
General
1 573 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 165 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (10.81%) Finance
4 119 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
7 52 (3.99%) Marketing
7 52 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
8 44 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 38 (2.91%) Legal
10 34 (2.61%) Retail
11 31 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.15%) Law
13 17 (1.30%) Banking
14 14 (1.07%) Automotive
15 13 (1.00%) Billing
16 12 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.77%) Games
17 10 (0.77%) Local Government
18 9 (0.69%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 183 (14.03%) Support Engineer
2 176 (13.50%) IT Support
3 129 (9.89%) Senior
4 124 (9.51%) Architect
5 115 (8.82%) IT Engineer
6 111 (8.51%) DBA
7 102 (7.82%) SQL DBA
8 97 (7.44%) Analyst
9 89 (6.83%) Consultant
10 86 (6.60%) IT Support Engineer
11 81 (6.21%) Developer
12 78 (5.98%) 2nd Line Support
13 77 (5.90%) Lead
14 69 (5.29%) 3rd Line Support
15 65 (4.98%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 64 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 59 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 59 (4.52%) Administrator
18 55 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
19 50 (3.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (4.75%) HTML
2 58 (4.45%) CSS
3 52 (3.99%) .NET
4 27 (2.07%) ARM Templates
5 21 (1.61%) .NET Core
5 21 (1.61%) ASP.NET
6 20 (1.53%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (1.46%) ASP.NET MVC
8 16 (1.23%) Entity Framework
9 15 (1.15%) PySpark
10 11 (0.84%) Web Services
11 10 (0.77%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.77%) jQuery
12 8 (0.61%) ADO
12 8 (0.61%) Middleware
12 8 (0.61%) XML
13 7 (0.54%) REST
14 5 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (0.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 94 (7.21%) Data Centre
2 72 (5.52%) Driving Licence
3 64 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 47 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 45 (3.45%) Replication
7 40 (3.07%) Blockchain
8 34 (2.61%) Private Cloud
9 32 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (2.22%) Cloud Native
11 28 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (2.15%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
13 19 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.23%) NHS
14 16 (1.23%) Product Ownership
14 16 (1.23%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 549 (42.10%) Windows
2 288 (22.09%) Windows Server
3 153 (11.73%) Linux
4 124 (9.51%) Windows 10
5 95 (7.29%) VMS
6 55 (4.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 52 (3.99%) Mac OS
8 50 (3.83%) Debian
9 48 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 47 (3.60%) CentOS
11 40 (3.07%) Alpine Linux
12 37 (2.84%) Apple iOS
13 36 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
14 21 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (1.46%) Android
16 13 (1.00%) Ubuntu
17 12 (0.92%) Windows 8
18 11 (0.84%) Windows 7
19 10 (0.77%) SUSE
20 9 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
2 296 (22.70%) ITIL
3 270 (20.71%) Customer Service
4 240 (18.40%) Business Intelligence
5 168 (12.88%) DevOps
6 165 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
7 150 (11.50%) Computer Science
8 143 (10.97%) Agile
9 141 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 121 (9.28%) Project Management
11 116 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 114 (8.74%) CI/CD
13 113 (8.67%) Collaborative Working
14 107 (8.21%) Artificial Intelligence
15 106 (8.13%) Project Delivery
16 104 (7.98%) Migration
17 98 (7.52%) High Availability
18 97 (7.44%) Performance Tuning
19 87 (6.67%) Presales
20 85 (6.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 303 (23.24%) SQL
2 116 (8.90%) PowerShell
3 111 (8.51%) C#
4 98 (7.52%) T-SQL
5 68 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 44 (3.37%) Python
7 26 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (1.30%) Bash
10 11 (0.84%) Bicep
10 11 (0.84%) U-SQL
11 10 (0.77%) Java
11 10 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.69%) C
13 8 (0.61%) C++
14 7 (0.54%) R
15 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.23%) Go
16 3 (0.23%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 400 (30.67%) Degree
2 308 (23.62%) MCSE
3 242 (18.56%) Azure Certification
4 194 (14.88%) MCSA
5 166 (12.73%) Cisco Certification
6 157 (12.04%) MCP
7 142 (10.89%) A+ Certification
8 136 (10.43%) CCNA
9 124 (9.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 104 (7.98%) Security Cleared
11 88 (6.75%) SC Cleared
12 77 (5.90%) DBS Check
13 75 (5.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 45 (3.45%) MCITP
15 44 (3.37%) Network+ Certification
16 32 (2.45%) CCNP
17 28 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
18 26 (1.99%) AWS Certification
18 26 (1.99%) CISSP
19 22 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.90%) SLA
2 43 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (2.91%) GDPR
4 23 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (1.61%) QA
6 17 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.07%) NIST
8 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.00%) WCAG
9 10 (0.77%) Data Quality
10 9 (0.69%) NCSC
11 5 (0.38%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.38%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.077%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.077%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.077%) PMO
System Software
1 490 (37.58%) Active Directory
2 207 (15.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (11.58%) Hyper-V
4 95 (7.29%) Virtual Machines
5 69 (5.29%) Docker
6 50 (3.83%) vSphere
7 29 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
8 25 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
9 24 (1.84%) XenDesktop
10 15 (1.15%) XenApp
11 10 (0.77%) vCloud
11 10 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.69%) Firmware
13 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.31%) KVM
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
16 2 (0.15%) Terminal Server
17 1 (0.077%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.077%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 130 (9.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 96 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.75%) Terraform
4 81 (6.21%) SCCM
5 19 (1.46%) SCOM
6 13 (1.00%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.84%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.77%) WSUS
9 8 (0.61%) Autotask
10 7 (0.54%) Ansible
10 7 (0.54%) SmoothWall
11 5 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.38%) Grafana
11 5 (0.38%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.31%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.15%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 1,168 (89.57%) Microsoft
2 276 (21.17%) VMware
3 109 (8.36%) Cisco
4 75 (5.75%) HP
5 65 (4.98%) Citrix
6 63 (4.83%) Veeam
7 61 (4.68%) Apple
8 50 (3.83%) Adobe
8 50 (3.83%) Red Hat
9 45 (3.45%) IBM
10 38 (2.91%) Google
11 34 (2.61%) Databricks
12 32 (2.45%) Meraki
13 31 (2.38%) Dell
14 26 (1.99%) Nimble Storage
15 23 (1.76%) SolarWinds
16 17 (1.30%) Oracle
17 15 (1.15%) Commvault
18 14 (1.07%) Symantec
19 13 (1.00%) Sophos