Microsoft Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,544 1,573 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.76% 25.90% 20.74%
As % of the Vendors category 54.71% 56.40% 49.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 839 1,096
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £62,200 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £70,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,822 2,789 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.11% 45.92% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,190 1,559 2,061
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,375 £35,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% -1.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +1 539 £50,000 -9.09% 162
Staffordshire 0 218 £40,000 -11.11% 82
Warwickshire +9 205 £45,000 -14.29% 74
Worcestershire 0 119 £36,298 -8.97% 31
Coventry +1 59 £52,500 +9.26% 38
Solihull +3 56 £62,500 +42.86% 9
Shropshire +15 54 £41,500 +0.61% 24
Wolverhampton -4 33 £26,500 -47.00% 11
Dudley 0 16 £25,000 -58.33% 14
Herefordshire +6 13 £35,000 -9.86% 10
Tipton - 11 £25,000 - 2
Wednesbury -1 9 £30,000 -11.11% 1
Walsall -5 9 £26,000 +23.81% 7
Halesowen - 7 £38,000 - 6
Stourbridge - 3 £55,000 - 2
Brierley Hill - 3 £32,500 - 1
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 - 3
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England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 191 (12.37%) SharePoint
2 138 (8.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (3.11%) IIS
4 17 (1.10%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.04%) Confluence
6 11 (0.71%) Apache
7 8 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.32%) WordPress
9 4 (0.26%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (0.19%) CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.13%) Liferay
11 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 336 (21.76%) Microsoft Office
2 196 (12.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.91%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.58%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.45%) Trello
8 6 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.26%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.065%) Blender
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 74 (4.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.71%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.26%) Magento
5 4 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.13%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.13%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.065%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 572 (37.05%) Azure
2 474 (30.70%) Microsoft 365
3 291 (18.85%) Power Platform
4 174 (11.27%) Dynamics 365
5 112 (7.25%) Entra ID
6 97 (6.28%) PowerApps
7 89 (5.76%) AWS
8 85 (5.51%) Power Automate
9 69 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (2.20%) SaaS
12 26 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (1.68%) Azure Stack
12 26 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (1.68%) IaaS
13 25 (1.62%) PaaS
14 22 (1.42%) OneDrive
15 14 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.84%) Serverless
17 10 (0.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 125 (8.10%) Firewall
2 115 (7.45%) WAN
3 108 (6.99%) DNS
4 96 (6.22%) DHCP
5 77 (4.99%) LAN
6 61 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
7 60 (3.89%) TCP/IP
8 47 (3.04%) SAN
9 43 (2.78%) VPN
10 32 (2.07%) Intranet
11 28 (1.81%) SD-WAN
11 28 (1.81%) Wireless
12 27 (1.75%) VLAN
13 25 (1.62%) Network Security
14 19 (1.23%) VoIP
15 17 (1.10%) Skype
16 16 (1.04%) Unified Communications
17 12 (0.78%) HTTP
17 12 (0.78%) Internet
17 12 (0.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (16.77%) SQL Server
2 210 (13.60%) Power BI
3 63 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 49 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 37 (2.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 36 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.10%) Metadata
11 15 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.91%) Tableau
13 13 (0.84%) MySQL
14 11 (0.71%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.65%) NoSQL
16 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 9 (0.58%) Power Query
17 8 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 44 (2.85%) Git
2 35 (2.27%) Visual Studio
3 34 (2.20%) JIRA
4 7 (0.45%) Postman
4 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.32%) Jasmine
6 5 (0.32%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (0.32%) MSTest
6 5 (0.32%) SoapUI
6 5 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.26%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.19%) GitLab
8 3 (0.19%) Moq
9 2 (0.13%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.13%) Bower
9 2 (0.13%) CANoe
9 2 (0.13%) gulp
10 1 (0.065%) CMake
General
1 521 (33.74%) Social Skills
2 313 (20.27%) Finance
3 167 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (9.07%) Retail
5 103 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 81 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (5.25%) Law
7 80 (5.18%) Marketing
8 71 (4.60%) Public Sector
9 63 (4.08%) Legal
10 52 (3.37%) Local Government
11 48 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
12 38 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.36%) Police
15 19 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.17%) Advertising
16 18 (1.17%) Banking
17 16 (1.04%) Back Office
18 14 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 242 (15.67%) Developer
2 227 (14.70%) Analyst
3 169 (10.95%) Senior
4 146 (9.46%) IT Support
5 105 (6.80%) Consultant
6 100 (6.48%) Architect
7 95 (6.15%) Support Engineer
8 85 (5.51%) IT Engineer
9 73 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 66 (4.27%) .NET Developer
11 62 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
12 58 (3.76%) Lead
13 55 (3.56%) IT Support Engineer
14 49 (3.17%) Support Analyst
15 47 (3.04%) Power Platform Developer
16 43 (2.78%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.72%) IT Manager
17 42 (2.72%) IT Technician
18 40 (2.59%) Senior Architect
19 39 (2.53%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (11.66%) .NET
2 76 (4.92%) HTML
3 70 (4.53%) ASP.NET
4 60 (3.89%) .NET Core
5 56 (3.63%) AngularJS
6 53 (3.43%) ASP.NET Web API
7 52 (3.37%) Entity Framework
8 50 (3.24%) ASP.NET MVC
9 46 (2.98%) REST
10 45 (2.91%) CSS
11 40 (2.59%) .NET Framework
12 33 (2.14%) React
13 31 (2.01%) RESTful
13 31 (2.01%) Web Services
14 27 (1.75%) JSON
15 26 (1.68%) Vue
16 24 (1.55%) HTML5
17 21 (1.36%) Node.js
17 21 (1.36%) XML
18 17 (1.10%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 98 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
2 77 (4.99%) Driving Licence
3 72 (4.66%) Data Centre
4 59 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 37 (2.40%) Clustering
7 27 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 24 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 23 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.49%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (1.30%) NHS
11 20 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.23%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.17%) Cloud Native
13 18 (1.17%) PKI
14 17 (1.10%) CCTV
15 16 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 436 (28.24%) Windows
2 196 (12.69%) Windows Server
3 114 (7.38%) Windows 10
4 61 (3.95%) Linux
5 43 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 38 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 34 (2.20%) Windows 7
9 26 (1.68%) Android
10 21 (1.36%) Apple iOS
11 16 (1.04%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.97%) Unix
13 13 (0.84%) Windows 8
14 9 (0.58%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.52%) Solaris
15 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.39%) VMS
17 5 (0.32%) CentOS
17 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
2 261 (16.90%) Agile
3 216 (13.99%) Customer Service
4 214 (13.86%) Business Intelligence
5 204 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
6 163 (10.56%) DevOps
7 159 (10.30%) ITIL
8 135 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 115 (7.45%) ERP
10 114 (7.38%) CRM
11 110 (7.12%) Roadmaps
12 103 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 99 (6.41%) Project Management
14 96 (6.22%) Analytics
15 86 (5.57%) Decision-Making
16 81 (5.25%) CI/CD
17 80 (5.18%) Time Management
18 77 (4.99%) Line Management
18 77 (4.99%) Logistics
18 77 (4.99%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 294 (19.04%) SQL
2 166 (10.75%) C#
3 118 (7.64%) JavaScript
4 86 (5.57%) PowerShell
5 61 (3.95%) T-SQL
6 49 (3.17%) Python
7 35 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 24 (1.55%) VB
8 24 (1.55%) VB.NET
9 20 (1.30%) Bash
9 20 (1.30%) Java
10 13 (0.84%) Bicep
11 12 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.65%) C++
12 10 (0.65%) R
13 9 (0.58%) C
14 8 (0.52%) ActionScript
14 8 (0.52%) ActionScript 2.0
14 8 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 245 (15.87%) Degree
2 108 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 47 (3.04%) DBS Check
6 30 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (1.88%) CCNA
8 27 (1.75%) A+ Certification
9 24 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 24 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.49%) CCNP
10 23 (1.49%) MCSE
11 21 (1.36%) MCP
12 14 (0.91%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.84%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.65%) HND
16 10 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.58%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.92%) GDPR
2 72 (4.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 42 (2.72%) QA
4 35 (2.27%) SLA
5 33 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 29 (1.88%) ISO 9001
7 24 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 22 (1.42%) PMO
9 14 (0.91%) NIST
10 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.26%) GRC
12 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
13 2 (0.13%) COSHH
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.13%) SOX 404
System Software
1 318 (20.60%) Active Directory
2 114 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (6.15%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.75%) Docker
5 20 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.30%) VMware NSX
6 17 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
6 17 (1.10%) vSphere
7 15 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.39%) pfSense
10 5 (0.32%) NFS
10 5 (0.32%) RACF
10 5 (0.32%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.26%) XenApp
11 4 (0.26%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.065%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (3.43%) Terraform
3 42 (2.72%) SCCM
4 24 (1.55%) Kubernetes
5 23 (1.49%) EnCase
6 12 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (0.58%) AirWatch
9 9 (0.58%) Stealthwatch
10 6 (0.39%) SCOM
11 5 (0.32%) Ansible
11 5 (0.32%) Backup Exec
11 5 (0.32%) CASB
12 4 (0.26%) Autotask
12 4 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 179 (11.59%) VMware
2 74 (4.79%) Cisco
3 52 (3.37%) Apple
4 46 (2.98%) Dell
5 44 (2.85%) Veeam
6 42 (2.72%) Adobe
6 42 (2.72%) Sophos
7 41 (2.66%) Citrix
7 41 (2.66%) Databricks
8 34 (2.20%) Oracle
9 33 (2.14%) HP
10 27 (1.75%) ServiceNow
11 25 (1.62%) Meraki
11 25 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.55%) Sage
13 19 (1.23%) SAP
14 17 (1.10%) CheckPoint
14 17 (1.10%) Facebook
14 17 (1.10%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.10%) Google