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 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 4 6 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,782 18,124 24,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.33% 18.62% 14.42%
As % of the Vendors category 48.42% 44.51% 37.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13,377 10,804 14,927
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,000 £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 £86,000 £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 36,727 40,716 64,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.79% 41.82% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 24,890 23,574 33,282
10th Percentile £26,700 £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 28 May 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 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
England +4 16,171 £47,500 -9.52% 5,046
UK excluding London +2 12,778 £43,500 -3.33% 3,887
Work from Home +3 7,137 £52,500 -4.55% 2,213
London +5 4,286 £60,709 -2.87% 1,341
South East +3 3,510 £45,000 -2.91% 830
North of England -1 3,001 £43,500 -3.33% 1,081
Midlands +1 2,362 £42,500 -11.46% 771
South West +3 1,642 £46,000 +13.58% 478
North West -2 1,574 £45,000 -2.17% 588
West Midlands +1 1,544 £45,000 -10.00% 482
East of England +2 1,232 £38,500 -3.75% 408
Yorkshire +2 996 £42,500 -4.49% 367
East Midlands +2 809 £37,500 -12.79% 290
Scotland -32 566 £45,000 -5.26% 244
North East +3 430 £42,500 +4.00% 135
Wales +2 339 £38,500 -1.28% 119
Northern Ireland +4 106 £42,500 -10.53% 70
Isle of Man +6 31 £46,250 -36.21% 1
Channel Islands +2 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 1,867 (10.50%) SharePoint
2 1,634 (9.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 310 (1.74%) IIS
4 203 (1.14%) Confluence
5 148 (0.83%) CMS
6 87 (0.49%) Skype for Business
7 83 (0.47%) Apache
8 69 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 64 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.30%) Kentico
10 53 (0.30%) SAS
11 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 46 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.24%) WordPress
14 41 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 39 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 34 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 25 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
18 22 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
18 22 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3,253 (18.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2,433 (13.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 653 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 275 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 130 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 70 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 59 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.14%) InDesign
10 24 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 17 (0.096%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
12 16 (0.090%) SPSS
12 16 (0.090%) Trello
13 11 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
14 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
14 9 (0.051%) Chatbot
15 8 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.045%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.045%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 634 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 106 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.50%) Primavera
4 54 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 54 (0.30%) NEC Housing
5 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 31 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 27 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 26 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 25 (0.14%) Shopify
11 23 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 18 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
13 17 (0.096%) iTrent
14 16 (0.090%) Elite 3E
14 16 (0.090%) Magento
15 15 (0.084%) Infor SunSystems
16 14 (0.079%) PlanetPress Connect
16 14 (0.079%) Remedy ITSM
17 13 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7,247 (40.75%) Azure
2 5,290 (29.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2,358 (13.26%) Power Platform
4 1,428 (8.03%) Entra ID
5 1,416 (7.96%) AWS
6 1,350 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
7 859 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 747 (4.20%) PowerApps
9 698 (3.93%) Power Automate
10 691 (3.89%) SaaS
11 457 (2.57%) OneDrive
12 432 (2.43%) GCP
13 343 (1.93%) PaaS
14 328 (1.84%) IaaS
15 276 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 215 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 206 (1.16%) Serverless
18 182 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 160 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
20 155 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,595 (8.97%) Firewall
2 1,127 (6.34%) DNS
3 943 (5.30%) WAN
4 820 (4.61%) DHCP
5 808 (4.54%) Broadband
6 771 (4.34%) LAN
7 600 (3.37%) VPN
8 560 (3.15%) TCP/IP
9 514 (2.89%) Wireless
10 481 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
11 473 (2.66%) SAN
12 357 (2.01%) Internet
13 345 (1.94%) VLAN
14 310 (1.74%) Network Security
15 300 (1.69%) VoIP
16 274 (1.54%) SD-WAN
17 221 (1.24%) 5G
18 208 (1.17%) Intranet
19 201 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
20 139 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,627 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 1,478 (8.31%) Power BI
3 470 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 467 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 432 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 340 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 308 (1.73%) MongoDB
8 286 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 270 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 266 (1.50%) Data Lake
11 185 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 152 (0.85%) Tableau
13 138 (0.78%) MySQL
14 119 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
15 117 (0.66%) NoSQL
16 115 (0.65%) Big Data
17 114 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
18 100 (0.56%) Oracle Database
19 91 (0.51%) MS Access
20 80 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 488 (2.74%) Git
2 436 (2.45%) JIRA
3 389 (2.19%) Visual Studio
4 120 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 113 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 108 (0.61%) GitLab
7 75 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 70 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 49 (0.28%) Selenium
11 46 (0.26%) NUnit
12 43 (0.24%) Postman
12 43 (0.24%) Subversion
13 34 (0.19%) TeamCity
14 33 (0.19%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 24 (0.13%) MSTest
18 17 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,290 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 3,802 (21.38%) Finance
3 2,450 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1,066 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,055 (5.93%) Retail
6 853 (4.80%) Legal
7 831 (4.67%) Marketing
8 809 (4.55%) Law
9 745 (4.19%) Public Sector
10 743 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
11 599 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
12 547 (3.08%) Manufacturing
13 523 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
14 460 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 413 (2.32%) Banking
16 274 (1.54%) Games
17 239 (1.34%) Local Government
18 223 (1.25%) Advertising
19 220 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
20 174 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,542 (14.30%) Analyst
2 2,523 (14.19%) Developer
3 2,388 (13.43%) Senior
4 1,500 (8.44%) IT Support
5 1,215 (6.83%) Support Engineer
6 1,174 (6.60%) Architect
7 1,015 (5.71%) Lead
8 991 (5.57%) .NET Developer
9 955 (5.37%) Consultant
10 952 (5.35%) IT Engineer
11 844 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 630 (3.54%) IT Support Engineer
13 625 (3.51%) Administrator
14 518 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
15 486 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
16 482 (2.71%) 2nd Line Support
17 475 (2.67%) IT Analyst
18 469 (2.64%) Support Analyst
19 467 (2.63%) IT Technician
20 449 (2.53%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,152 (12.10%) .NET
2 1,067 (6.00%) ASP.NET
3 1,013 (5.70%) .NET Core
4 830 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 802 (4.51%) AngularJS
6 773 (4.35%) HTML
7 737 (4.14%) .NET Framework
8 669 (3.76%) Entity Framework
9 664 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
10 538 (3.03%) CSS
11 514 (2.89%) React
12 391 (2.20%) HTML5
13 341 (1.92%) RESTful
14 310 (1.74%) Vue
15 303 (1.70%) Node.js
16 286 (1.61%) Web Services
17 249 (1.40%) REST
18 225 (1.27%) JSON
19 208 (1.17%) Blazor
20 206 (1.16%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 934 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
2 858 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 654 (3.68%) Driving Licence
4 572 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 376 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 352 (1.98%) Social Media
7 335 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 258 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 247 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 246 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 237 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
12 230 (1.29%) PKI
13 183 (1.03%) Cloud Native
14 167 (0.94%) Replication
15 155 (0.87%) Clustering
16 134 (0.75%) Mobile App
17 133 (0.75%) NHS
18 127 (0.71%) Smartphone
19 126 (0.71%) Low-Code
20 111 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,670 (26.26%) Windows
2 2,011 (11.31%) Windows Server
3 1,377 (7.74%) Windows 10
4 1,153 (6.48%) Linux
5 473 (2.66%) Android
6 459 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 451 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 339 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 312 (1.75%) Apple iOS
10 292 (1.64%) Ubuntu
11 260 (1.46%) Mac OS
12 227 (1.28%) Windows 7
13 170 (0.96%) Unix
14 143 (0.80%) VMS
15 101 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 84 (0.47%) Windows 8
17 75 (0.42%) CentOS
18 73 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 51 (0.29%) Mac OS X
20 35 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,618 (20.35%) Agile
2 3,462 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
3 2,349 (13.21%) Customer Service
4 1,881 (10.58%) ITIL
5 1,750 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
6 1,741 (9.79%) DevOps
7 1,662 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
8 1,612 (9.07%) Mentoring
9 1,520 (8.55%) Project Management
10 1,386 (7.79%) CRM
11 1,098 (6.17%) Decision-Making
12 1,096 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 1,017 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,017 (5.72%) Roadmaps
14 989 (5.56%) MVC
15 987 (5.55%) Full Stack Development
16 968 (5.44%) Migration
17 890 (5.01%) Analytics
18 883 (4.97%) Scrum
19 875 (4.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,859 (16.08%) SQL
2 2,255 (12.68%) C#
3 1,515 (8.52%) JavaScript
4 1,265 (7.11%) PowerShell
5 675 (3.80%) Python
6 571 (3.21%) T-SQL
7 477 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 460 (2.59%) Bash
9 275 (1.55%) Java
10 145 (0.82%) C++
11 129 (0.73%) VB
12 122 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 120 (0.67%) C
14 101 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 97 (0.55%) Bicep
16 85 (0.48%) R
17 68 (0.38%) VBA
18 57 (0.32%) Shell Script
19 50 (0.28%) Fortran
19 50 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,934 (16.50%) Degree
2 1,312 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 1,174 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 781 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 519 (2.92%) DBS Check
6 506 (2.85%) ACCA
7 500 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 483 (2.72%) CIMA
9 461 (2.59%) Azure Certification
10 424 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
11 311 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 301 (1.69%) CCNA
13 252 (1.42%) Master's Degree
14 240 (1.35%) A+ Certification
15 231 (1.30%) CISSP
16 221 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
17 216 (1.21%) MCP
18 199 (1.12%) MCSE
19 190 (1.07%) PMI Certification
20 169 (0.95%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 796 (4.48%) SLA
2 497 (2.79%) QA
3 482 (2.71%) GDPR
4 394 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 288 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 229 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 181 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 158 (0.89%) NIST
9 132 (0.74%) PMO
10 124 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 111 (0.62%) ISO 9001
12 43 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 43 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 41 (0.23%) GRC
14 37 (0.21%) IFRS
14 37 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 32 (0.18%) NCSC
16 31 (0.17%) COBIT
17 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3,995 (22.47%) Active Directory
2 1,147 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 864 (4.86%) Hyper-V
4 302 (1.70%) Docker
4 302 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 238 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 216 (1.21%) vSphere
7 166 (0.93%) XenApp
8 150 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 145 (0.82%) XenDesktop
10 93 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
11 78 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
12 58 (0.33%) Firmware
13 54 (0.30%) Terminal Services
14 51 (0.29%) KVM
15 50 (0.28%) RACF
16 45 (0.25%) VMware NSX
17 29 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 26 (0.15%) VirtualBox
19 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,313 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 639 (3.59%) SCCM
3 394 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 382 (2.15%) Terraform
5 276 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
6 157 (0.88%) WSUS
7 155 (0.87%) Ansible
8 133 (0.75%) SCOM
9 122 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 101 (0.57%) vCenter Server
11 97 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 90 (0.51%) AirWatch
13 54 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 46 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
15 42 (0.24%) Grafana
15 42 (0.24%) NetBackup
16 41 (0.23%) Puppet
17 39 (0.22%) Nessus
18 38 (0.21%) Backup Exec
19 37 (0.21%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,742 (9.80%) VMware
2 927 (5.21%) Cisco
3 704 (3.96%) Google
4 594 (3.34%) Citrix
5 525 (2.95%) Apple
6 503 (2.83%) Oracle
7 403 (2.27%) Dell
8 393 (2.21%) Veeam
9 357 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 336 (1.89%) SAP
11 320 (1.80%) HP
12 298 (1.68%) Adobe
13 287 (1.61%) CyberArk
14 225 (1.27%) Meraki
15 210 (1.18%) Tanium
16 194 (1.09%) Databricks
17 188 (1.06%) Salesforce
18 160 (0.90%) Fortinet
19 158 (0.89%) Sophos
20 147 (0.83%) Red Hat