Microsoft Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,003 3,751 3,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.36% 22.70% 18.84%
As % of the Vendors category 49.33% 48.85% 47.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 1,633 2,149
10th Percentile £24,830 £25,170 £24,450
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,200 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,621 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +5.88% -1.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,088 7,679 7,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.16% 46.47% 39.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,482 3,591 4,130
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,191
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,530 £73,750
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North of 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
North West -2 1,574 £45,000 -2.17% 582
Yorkshire +2 999 £42,500 -4.49% 359
North East +3 429 £42,500 +4.47% 135
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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
1 260 (8.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 258 (8.59%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.86%) IIS
4 19 (0.63%) Confluence
5 15 (0.50%) WordPress
6 12 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.37%) CMS
8 10 (0.33%) Apache
9 9 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.27%) SAS
10 8 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.13%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.067%) Resin
15 1 (0.033%) Jupyter
15 1 (0.033%) Moodle
15 1 (0.033%) Site Server
Applications
1 516 (17.18%) Microsoft Office
2 238 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.13%) InDesign
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.13%) Solid Edge
10 3 (0.100%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.067%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.067%) SPSS
11 2 (0.067%) Stata
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 114 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
3 17 (0.57%) NEC Housing
4 15 (0.50%) Sage 200
5 13 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.43%) iTrent
6 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.27%) Magento
7 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.17%) Sage 50
9 5 (0.17%) Sage CRM
9 5 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
11 3 (0.100%) Epicor Tropos
11 3 (0.100%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.100%) Shopify
12 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,289 (42.92%) Azure
2 946 (31.50%) Microsoft 365
3 365 (12.15%) Power Platform
4 260 (8.66%) AWS
5 251 (8.36%) Entra ID
6 223 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
7 158 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 122 (4.06%) PowerApps
9 112 (3.73%) Power Automate
10 110 (3.66%) SaaS
11 95 (3.16%) GCP
12 59 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
13 57 (1.90%) OneDrive
14 46 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
15 42 (1.40%) IaaS
16 41 (1.37%) PaaS
17 33 (1.10%) Google Workspace
18 32 (1.07%) GitHub
19 29 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
20 27 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 274 (9.12%) Firewall
2 216 (7.19%) WAN
3 205 (6.83%) DNS
4 183 (6.09%) LAN
5 162 (5.39%) DHCP
6 116 (3.86%) SAN
7 108 (3.60%) TCP/IP
8 105 (3.50%) VPN
9 87 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
10 80 (2.66%) Internet
11 73 (2.43%) Network Security
12 71 (2.36%) VoIP
13 65 (2.16%) Wireless
14 52 (1.73%) VLAN
15 44 (1.47%) Broadband
16 41 (1.37%) SD-WAN
17 40 (1.33%) NAS
18 36 (1.20%) WLAN
19 29 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
20 18 (0.60%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 541 (18.02%) SQL Server
2 201 (6.69%) Power BI
3 109 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 98 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 64 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 59 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 46 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 42 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 30 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (0.90%) MySQL
13 24 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 23 (0.77%) NoSQL
15 21 (0.70%) MS Access
16 20 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 17 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
18 16 (0.53%) DB2
19 15 (0.50%) DynamoDB
19 15 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 101 (3.36%) Git
2 51 (1.70%) JIRA
3 28 (0.93%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.80%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.53%) Jasmine
6 16 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
7 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.30%) JUnit
9 9 (0.30%) Selenium
10 8 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.20%) Dreamweaver
11 6 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.20%) NUnit
11 6 (0.20%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.17%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 974 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 527 (17.55%) Finance
3 302 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (6.53%) Retail
5 190 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 184 (6.13%) Legal
7 162 (5.39%) Law
8 130 (4.33%) Marketing
9 119 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
10 101 (3.36%) Manufacturing
11 60 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 58 (1.93%) Advertising
13 55 (1.83%) Banking
13 55 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 49 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.53%) Local Government
16 38 (1.27%) Police
17 28 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (0.93%) Games
18 18 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 495 (16.48%) Developer
2 419 (13.95%) Analyst
3 285 (9.49%) Senior
4 259 (8.62%) IT Support
5 205 (6.83%) .NET Developer
6 196 (6.53%) Lead
7 183 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 180 (5.99%) IT Engineer
8 180 (5.99%) Support Engineer
9 166 (5.53%) Architect
10 153 (5.09%) Consultant
11 135 (4.50%) Service Analyst
12 131 (4.36%) IT Manager
13 126 (4.20%) Service Desk Analyst
14 104 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
15 95 (3.16%) C# Developer
16 94 (3.13%) Administrator
17 92 (3.06%) IT Analyst
18 88 (2.93%) 2nd Line Support
18 88 (2.93%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (12.35%) .NET
2 218 (7.26%) ASP.NET
3 210 (6.99%) .NET Core
4 170 (5.66%) ASP.NET MVC
5 163 (5.43%) HTML
6 149 (4.96%) AngularJS
7 141 (4.70%) ASP.NET Web API
8 139 (4.63%) Entity Framework
9 120 (4.00%) .NET Framework
10 99 (3.30%) CSS
11 98 (3.26%) HTML5
12 77 (2.56%) React
13 67 (2.23%) RESTful
14 56 (1.86%) Web Services
15 55 (1.83%) Node.js
16 54 (1.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 52 (1.73%) Blazor
18 48 (1.60%) JSON
18 48 (1.60%) REST
19 47 (1.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (4.93%) Driving Licence
2 144 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 100 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 100 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 79 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
6 50 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 39 (1.30%) PKI
8 37 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 36 (1.20%) Smartphone
10 34 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.07%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
12 31 (1.03%) PMI
13 30 (1.00%) Clustering
14 29 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (0.97%) Low-Code
14 29 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 29 (0.97%) NHS
15 25 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 758 (25.24%) Windows
2 337 (11.22%) Windows Server
3 196 (6.53%) Windows 10
4 134 (4.46%) Linux
5 78 (2.60%) Android
6 71 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 54 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 52 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 46 (1.53%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.23%) VMS
11 31 (1.03%) Mac OS
12 28 (0.93%) Windows 7
13 25 (0.83%) Unix
14 18 (0.60%) Windows Vista
15 13 (0.43%) Windows 8
16 12 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 9 (0.30%) Windows Phone
19 8 (0.27%) Solaris
20 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
2 575 (19.15%) Agile
3 448 (14.92%) Customer Service
4 396 (13.19%) ITIL
5 286 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 285 (9.49%) DevOps
7 260 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
7 260 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 252 (8.39%) CRM
9 239 (7.96%) Project Management
10 232 (7.73%) Roadmaps
11 229 (7.63%) Migration
12 228 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 215 (7.16%) Mentoring
14 202 (6.73%) Full Stack Development
15 197 (6.56%) Microservices
16 195 (6.49%) ERP
17 190 (6.33%) Coaching
18 188 (6.26%) MVC
19 168 (5.59%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 574 (19.11%) SQL
2 400 (13.32%) C#
3 294 (9.79%) JavaScript
4 219 (7.29%) PowerShell
5 124 (4.13%) T-SQL
6 82 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 72 (2.40%) Python
8 33 (1.10%) VB.NET
9 31 (1.03%) VB
10 27 (0.90%) Bash
11 18 (0.60%) R
12 16 (0.53%) VB6
13 14 (0.47%) PHP
14 13 (0.43%) VBScript
15 11 (0.37%) Delphi
15 11 (0.37%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.33%) Java
16 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 392 (13.05%) Degree
2 255 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 111 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 106 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 88 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
6 80 (2.66%) DBS Check
7 69 (2.30%) CCNA
8 61 (2.03%) SC Cleared
9 58 (1.93%) PMI Certification
10 50 (1.67%) MCP
11 48 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (1.57%) CCNP
13 41 (1.37%) A+ Certification
14 31 (1.03%) CISSP
15 30 (1.00%) PMP
16 28 (0.93%) MCSE
17 26 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.77%) AWS Certification
19 21 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 21 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (5.09%) SLA
2 86 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (2.50%) GDPR
4 66 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 57 (1.90%) QA
6 34 (1.13%) NIST
7 30 (1.00%) Data Quality
8 28 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 23 (0.77%) PMO
11 17 (0.57%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.27%) GRC
13 8 (0.27%) PSD2
14 7 (0.23%) COSHH
14 7 (0.23%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.23%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.17%) COBIT
15 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 742 (24.71%) Active Directory
2 181 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 178 (5.93%) Hyper-V
4 60 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (0.93%) vSphere
7 27 (0.90%) Docker
8 25 (0.83%) Terminal Services
9 24 (0.80%) RACF
10 19 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (0.50%) VMware Server
12 9 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.23%) KVM
14 6 (0.20%) XenApp
14 6 (0.20%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.13%) Firmware
15 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.067%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 240 (7.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 77 (2.56%) SCCM
3 70 (2.33%) Kubernetes
4 56 (1.86%) Terraform
5 29 (0.97%) SCOM
6 27 (0.90%) WSUS
7 24 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
10 16 (0.53%) Autotask
10 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.50%) Ansible
12 14 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 12 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.40%) VxRail
14 11 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.30%) Grafana
15 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
15 9 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 335 (11.16%) VMware
2 194 (6.46%) Google
3 159 (5.29%) Cisco
4 115 (3.83%) Apple
5 98 (3.26%) Citrix
6 79 (2.63%) Oracle
7 74 (2.46%) SAP
8 66 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 65 (2.16%) Adobe
10 61 (2.03%) Dell
11 59 (1.96%) Veeam
12 45 (1.50%) SolarWinds
13 42 (1.40%) HP
14 40 (1.33%) Fortinet
15 37 (1.23%) Facebook
16 36 (1.20%) CyberArk
17 34 (1.13%) NetApp
17 34 (1.13%) Sophos
18 31 (1.03%) Datto
19 27 (0.90%) Meraki