Microsoft Jobs in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 16,235 16,351 20,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 18.93% 14.61%
As % of the Vendors category 50.60% 45.07% 37.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,186 9,695 12,966
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,744
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,000
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 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 32,087 36,277 54,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.86% 41.99% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 22,635 21,070 28,910
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,118 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £91,250
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +5 4,298 £60,709 -2.87% 1,335
South East +3 3,528 £45,000 -2.54% 812
North of England -1 3,003 £43,621 -3.06% 1,069
Midlands +1 2,383 £42,500 -11.55% 760
South West +3 1,643 £46,000 +13.58% 475
North West -2 1,574 £45,000 -2.17% 582
West Midlands +1 1,552 £45,000 -10.00% 474
East of England +2 1,241 £38,250 -4.38% 411
Yorkshire +2 999 £42,500 -4.49% 361
East Midlands +1 822 £37,500 -14.77% 287
North East +3 429 £42,500 +4.47% 135
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,687 (10.39%) SharePoint
2 1,525 (9.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 275 (1.69%) IIS
4 177 (1.09%) Confluence
5 143 (0.88%) CMS
6 75 (0.46%) Apache
7 73 (0.45%) Skype for Business
8 68 (0.42%) Umbraco
9 59 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.33%) Kentico
11 49 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
12 48 (0.30%) SAS
13 45 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.26%) WordPress
15 41 (0.25%) Headless CMS
16 39 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
17 31 (0.19%) Tomcat
18 25 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
19 22 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
19 22 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3,037 (18.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2,270 (13.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 584 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 252 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 123 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 63 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 54 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 22 (0.14%) InDesign
11 17 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
12 16 (0.099%) Trello
13 13 (0.080%) SPSS
14 12 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
15 9 (0.055%) Chatbot
16 8 (0.049%) Acrobat
16 8 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.049%) Sketch
17 7 (0.043%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 547 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 104 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
3 76 (0.47%) Primavera
4 42 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 38 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 31 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 26 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 26 (0.16%) Sage 200
7 26 (0.16%) Shopify
8 21 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
8 21 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
9 17 (0.10%) iTrent
10 16 (0.099%) Magento
10 16 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
11 15 (0.092%) Elite 3E
11 15 (0.092%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
13 12 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
14 11 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
14 11 (0.068%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 6,577 (40.51%) Azure
2 4,825 (29.72%) Microsoft 365
3 2,091 (12.88%) Power Platform
4 1,298 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 1,267 (7.80%) AWS
6 1,137 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
7 768 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
8 655 (4.03%) PowerApps
9 611 (3.76%) Power Automate
10 602 (3.71%) SaaS
11 409 (2.52%) OneDrive
12 378 (2.33%) GCP
13 291 (1.79%) PaaS
14 282 (1.74%) IaaS
15 225 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
16 197 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 174 (1.07%) Serverless
18 170 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 133 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
19 133 (0.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,486 (9.15%) Firewall
2 1,034 (6.37%) DNS
3 882 (5.43%) WAN
4 796 (4.90%) Broadband
5 774 (4.77%) DHCP
6 737 (4.54%) LAN
7 556 (3.42%) VPN
8 517 (3.18%) TCP/IP
9 460 (2.83%) Wireless
10 458 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
11 441 (2.72%) SAN
12 330 (2.03%) Internet
13 320 (1.97%) VLAN
14 289 (1.78%) Network Security
15 278 (1.71%) VoIP
16 259 (1.60%) SD-WAN
17 221 (1.36%) 5G
18 200 (1.23%) Intranet
19 167 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
20 122 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,431 (14.97%) SQL Server
2 1,349 (8.31%) Power BI
3 427 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 421 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 401 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 308 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 297 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 261 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 254 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 249 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 170 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 129 (0.79%) MySQL
13 128 (0.79%) Tableau
14 114 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
15 113 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
16 99 (0.61%) Big Data
17 96 (0.59%) NoSQL
18 90 (0.55%) MS Access
19 89 (0.55%) Oracle Database
20 71 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 443 (2.73%) Git
2 391 (2.41%) JIRA
3 360 (2.22%) Visual Studio
4 116 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 106 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 101 (0.62%) GitLab
7 70 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 68 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 65 (0.40%) Sourcetree
10 44 (0.27%) NUnit
11 43 (0.26%) Selenium
11 43 (0.26%) Subversion
12 33 (0.20%) Postman
12 33 (0.20%) TeamCity
13 27 (0.17%) Jasmine
13 27 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
14 24 (0.15%) Moq
15 23 (0.14%) Cucumber
16 17 (0.10%) MSTest
17 15 (0.092%) Balsamiq
General
1 5,793 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 3,491 (21.50%) Finance
3 2,324 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 1,027 (6.33%) Retail
5 927 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 798 (4.92%) Legal
7 756 (4.66%) Law
8 729 (4.49%) Marketing
9 679 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
10 631 (3.89%) Public Sector
11 579 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
12 473 (2.91%) Manufacturing
13 458 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
14 391 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 375 (2.31%) Banking
16 246 (1.52%) Games
17 213 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
18 212 (1.31%) Advertising
19 193 (1.19%) Local Government
20 161 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,381 (14.67%) Analyst
2 2,258 (13.91%) Developer
3 2,146 (13.22%) Senior
4 1,407 (8.67%) IT Support
5 1,099 (6.77%) Support Engineer
6 1,031 (6.35%) Architect
7 935 (5.76%) .NET Developer
8 892 (5.49%) Lead
9 884 (5.45%) IT Engineer
10 862 (5.31%) Consultant
11 784 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 592 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
13 588 (3.62%) Administrator
14 476 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
15 452 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
16 448 (2.76%) 2nd Line Support
17 445 (2.74%) IT Analyst
18 435 (2.68%) Support Analyst
19 426 (2.62%) C# Developer
20 420 (2.59%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,952 (12.02%) .NET
2 987 (6.08%) ASP.NET
3 947 (5.83%) .NET Core
4 773 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 730 (4.50%) AngularJS
6 701 (4.32%) HTML
7 678 (4.18%) .NET Framework
8 627 (3.86%) ASP.NET Web API
9 609 (3.75%) Entity Framework
10 491 (3.02%) React
11 479 (2.95%) CSS
12 358 (2.21%) HTML5
13 323 (1.99%) RESTful
14 290 (1.79%) Vue
15 287 (1.77%) Node.js
16 264 (1.63%) Web Services
17 229 (1.41%) REST
18 214 (1.32%) JSON
19 199 (1.23%) Blazor
20 194 (1.19%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 861 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
2 758 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 617 (3.80%) Driving Licence
4 500 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 341 (2.10%) Social Media
6 311 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 294 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 240 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 224 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 223 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
11 209 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 200 (1.23%) PKI
13 161 (0.99%) Cloud Native
14 152 (0.94%) Replication
15 136 (0.84%) Clustering
16 132 (0.81%) NHS
17 130 (0.80%) Mobile App
18 122 (0.75%) Low-Code
19 119 (0.73%) Smartphone
20 99 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,373 (26.94%) Windows
2 1,881 (11.59%) Windows Server
3 1,303 (8.03%) Windows 10
4 1,079 (6.65%) Linux
5 463 (2.85%) Android
6 440 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 436 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 316 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 303 (1.87%) Apple iOS
10 288 (1.77%) Ubuntu
11 238 (1.47%) Mac OS
12 222 (1.37%) Windows 7
13 143 (0.88%) Unix
14 129 (0.79%) VMS
15 98 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
16 84 (0.52%) Windows 8
17 70 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 69 (0.43%) CentOS
19 49 (0.30%) Mac OS X
20 34 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,357 (20.68%) Agile
2 3,174 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
3 2,156 (13.28%) Customer Service
4 1,766 (10.88%) ITIL
5 1,558 (9.60%) DevOps
6 1,548 (9.53%) Cybersecurity
7 1,547 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
8 1,477 (9.10%) Mentoring
9 1,335 (8.22%) Project Management
10 1,278 (7.87%) CRM
11 1,026 (6.32%) Decision-Making
12 1,013 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 924 (5.69%) MVC
13 924 (5.69%) Roadmaps
14 918 (5.65%) Full Stack Development
15 902 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 850 (5.24%) Migration
17 822 (5.06%) Microservices
18 804 (4.95%) Project Delivery
19 803 (4.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,635 (16.23%) SQL
2 2,061 (12.69%) C#
3 1,393 (8.58%) JavaScript
4 1,186 (7.31%) PowerShell
5 648 (3.99%) Python
6 515 (3.17%) T-SQL
7 453 (2.79%) Bash
8 434 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 243 (1.50%) Java
10 137 (0.84%) C++
11 129 (0.79%) VB
12 117 (0.72%) VB.NET
13 116 (0.71%) C
14 99 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 90 (0.55%) Bicep
16 76 (0.47%) R
17 60 (0.37%) VBA
18 54 (0.33%) Shell Script
19 51 (0.31%) Fortran
20 48 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,651 (16.33%) Degree
2 1,174 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 1,081 (6.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 704 (4.34%) SC Cleared
5 493 (3.04%) ACCA
6 489 (3.01%) DBS Check
7 474 (2.92%) CIMA
8 439 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 436 (2.69%) Azure Certification
10 383 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 300 (1.85%) DV Cleared
12 265 (1.63%) CCNA
13 238 (1.47%) Master's Degree
14 222 (1.37%) A+ Certification
15 220 (1.36%) CISSP
16 211 (1.30%) MCP
17 203 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
18 183 (1.13%) MCSE
19 175 (1.08%) PMI Certification
20 163 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 735 (4.53%) SLA
2 453 (2.79%) GDPR
3 442 (2.72%) QA
4 351 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 262 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 204 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 159 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 149 (0.92%) NIST
9 117 (0.72%) PMO
10 112 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 94 (0.58%) ISO 9001
12 42 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 36 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 34 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 34 (0.21%) GRC
15 31 (0.19%) COBIT
16 29 (0.18%) NCSC
17 28 (0.17%) IFRS
18 26 (0.16%) SOC 2
19 24 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 3,758 (23.15%) Active Directory
2 1,069 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 823 (5.07%) Hyper-V
4 277 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 262 (1.61%) Docker
6 234 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
7 207 (1.28%) vSphere
8 165 (1.02%) XenApp
9 144 (0.89%) XenDesktop
10 140 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
11 89 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
12 76 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
13 58 (0.36%) Firmware
14 51 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 45 (0.28%) RACF
16 43 (0.26%) KVM
17 31 (0.19%) VMware NSX
18 29 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 26 (0.16%) VirtualBox
20 25 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,236 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 612 (3.77%) SCCM
3 358 (2.21%) Kubernetes
4 355 (2.19%) Terraform
5 276 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
6 157 (0.97%) WSUS
7 132 (0.81%) Ansible
8 126 (0.78%) SCOM
9 120 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 102 (0.63%) vCenter Server
11 95 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
12 88 (0.54%) AirWatch
13 53 (0.33%) FortiGate
14 45 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
15 42 (0.26%) NetBackup
16 40 (0.25%) Puppet
17 38 (0.23%) Grafana
18 37 (0.23%) CASB
19 36 (0.22%) Backup Exec
20 34 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,622 (9.99%) VMware
2 856 (5.27%) Cisco
3 653 (4.02%) Google
4 572 (3.52%) Citrix
5 498 (3.07%) Apple
6 435 (2.68%) Oracle
7 387 (2.38%) Dell
8 364 (2.24%) Veeam
9 338 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 311 (1.92%) HP
11 287 (1.77%) Adobe
12 282 (1.74%) CyberArk
13 233 (1.44%) SAP
14 211 (1.30%) Tanium
15 205 (1.26%) Meraki
16 181 (1.11%) Databricks
17 165 (1.02%) Salesforce
18 151 (0.93%) Fortinet
19 143 (0.88%) Red Hat
20 134 (0.83%) Sophos