Microsoft Jobs in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,528 2,466 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.12% 17.55% 17.93%
As % of the Vendors category 52.74% 43.58% 46.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,530 1,764 2,359
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,175 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -2.79% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,690 5,658 7,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 38.14% 40.26% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,440 3,418 4,785
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £78,750
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 South East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the South East.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East 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
Thames Valley +2 1,368 £45,000 -1.32% 308
Hampshire +6 754 £45,000 +12.50% 172
Surrey +6 665 £47,500 -9.52% 95
Berkshire +1 616 £48,000 +4.92% 134
Buckinghamshire -2 399 £42,500 +21.43% 95
Oxfordshire +2 353 £43,239 -21.38% 79
Kent +5 295 £42,500 +6.25% 72
East Sussex +3 169 £42,500 -18.62% 37
West Sussex +6 161 £50,000 -14.89% 33
Middlesex +20 79 £38,345 -50.52% 1
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 4
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 390 (11.05%) SharePoint
2 312 (8.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (1.28%) CMS
4 43 (1.22%) IIS
5 27 (0.77%) Kentico
6 24 (0.68%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
7 22 (0.62%) Umbraco
8 21 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
9 14 (0.40%) Confluence
10 11 (0.31%) WordPress
11 9 (0.26%) SAS
12 6 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.11%) TWiki
15 3 (0.085%) Skype for Business
16 2 (0.057%) Apache Spark
16 2 (0.057%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 686 (19.44%) Microsoft Office
2 681 (19.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 130 (3.68%) Microsoft Project
4 108 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.17%) InVision
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (0.11%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Simulink
10 4 (0.11%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.085%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.085%) Revit
12 2 (0.057%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 106 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (1.70%) Primavera
3 18 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.085%) SAP MDM
9 2 (0.057%) assyst
9 2 (0.057%) Magento
9 2 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.057%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,367 (38.75%) Azure
2 1,044 (29.59%) Microsoft 365
3 352 (9.98%) Power Platform
4 278 (7.88%) Entra ID
5 192 (5.44%) AWS
6 166 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
7 139 (3.94%) OneDrive
8 127 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (3.00%) PowerApps
10 103 (2.92%) Power Automate
11 91 (2.58%) SaaS
12 64 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
13 44 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (1.22%) PaaS
15 37 (1.05%) IaaS
16 32 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
17 27 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 25 (0.71%) Azure Storage
18 25 (0.71%) GitHub
18 25 (0.71%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 397 (11.25%) Firewall
2 295 (8.36%) Broadband
3 245 (6.94%) DNS
4 192 (5.44%) DHCP
5 143 (4.05%) VPN
6 123 (3.49%) TCP/IP
7 118 (3.34%) LAN
7 118 (3.34%) Wireless
8 110 (3.12%) WAN
9 80 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
10 77 (2.18%) 5G
11 73 (2.07%) VLAN
12 72 (2.04%) VoIP
13 67 (1.90%) Internet
13 67 (1.90%) Intranet
14 55 (1.56%) Unified Communications
15 53 (1.50%) Network Security
16 52 (1.47%) SAN
17 34 (0.96%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 244 (6.92%) Power BI
3 84 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 82 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 76 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
6 62 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 47 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 44 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 27 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (0.60%) Power Query
14 18 (0.51%) MySQL
15 15 (0.43%) NoSQL
16 13 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 13 (0.37%) Tableau
17 11 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 9 (0.26%) DB2
18 9 (0.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (2.41%) Visual Studio
2 81 (2.30%) JIRA
3 73 (2.07%) Git
4 45 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.05%) GitLab
6 22 (0.62%) Subversion
7 21 (0.60%) NUnit
8 14 (0.40%) Selenium
8 14 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (0.34%) eggPlant
10 11 (0.31%) MSI
11 10 (0.28%) Postman
11 10 (0.28%) Trac
12 9 (0.26%) JMeter
13 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.17%) InstallShield
14 6 (0.17%) MSBuild
14 6 (0.17%) MSTest
General
1 1,372 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 654 (18.54%) Finance
3 598 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (7.26%) Retail
5 217 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
6 198 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
7 151 (4.28%) Legal
8 135 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 127 (3.60%) Marketing
10 119 (3.37%) Telecoms
11 108 (3.06%) Law
12 100 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 89 (2.52%) Public Sector
14 85 (2.41%) Manufacturing
15 62 (1.76%) Games
16 60 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
17 52 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
18 47 (1.33%) Advertising
19 37 (1.05%) Automotive
19 37 (1.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 568 (16.10%) Analyst
2 445 (12.61%) Senior
3 429 (12.16%) Developer
4 325 (9.21%) IT Support
5 273 (7.74%) Support Engineer
6 268 (7.60%) .NET Developer
7 224 (6.35%) IT Engineer
8 196 (5.56%) Lead
9 182 (5.16%) Architect
10 169 (4.79%) IT Support Engineer
11 163 (4.62%) Consultant
12 162 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 156 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
14 143 (4.05%) Administrator
15 123 (3.49%) C# Developer
16 110 (3.12%) IT Analyst
16 110 (3.12%) Support Analyst
17 107 (3.03%) C# .NET Developer
18 105 (2.98%) 2nd Line Support
19 96 (2.72%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (12.64%) .NET
2 259 (7.34%) ASP.NET
3 257 (7.28%) .NET Core
4 220 (6.24%) ASP.NET MVC
5 192 (5.44%) .NET Framework
6 174 (4.93%) AngularJS
6 174 (4.93%) Entity Framework
7 156 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
8 143 (4.05%) React
9 119 (3.37%) HTML
10 93 (2.64%) Node.js
11 92 (2.61%) HTML5
12 82 (2.32%) CSS
13 80 (2.27%) RESTful
14 78 (2.21%) Vue
15 52 (1.47%) CSS3
16 51 (1.45%) LINQ
16 51 (1.45%) Web Services
17 50 (1.42%) Blazor
18 43 (1.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 249 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
2 130 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 114 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 99 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 89 (2.52%) Social Media
6 74 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 67 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 59 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 53 (1.50%) PKI
10 48 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 43 (1.22%) Replication
12 34 (0.96%) Client/Server
12 34 (0.96%) NHS
13 33 (0.94%) IoT
14 30 (0.85%) Mobile App
15 29 (0.82%) PMI
15 29 (0.82%) Public Cloud
16 28 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
17 26 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,012 (28.68%) Windows
2 452 (12.81%) Windows Server
3 350 (9.92%) Windows 10
4 282 (7.99%) Linux
5 121 (3.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 114 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 104 (2.95%) Ubuntu
8 88 (2.49%) Android
9 78 (2.21%) Windows 7
10 76 (2.15%) Apple iOS
11 74 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 45 (1.28%) Mac OS
13 41 (1.16%) Windows 8
14 31 (0.88%) Unix
15 30 (0.85%) VMS
16 24 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
17 23 (0.65%) CentOS
18 16 (0.45%) Windows XP
19 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 14 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (24.23%) Agile
2 825 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
3 540 (15.31%) Customer Service
4 369 (10.46%) ITIL
5 349 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
6 343 (9.72%) Project Management
7 340 (9.64%) Mentoring
8 302 (8.56%) DevOps
9 301 (8.53%) Decision-Making
10 280 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
11 271 (7.68%) CRM
12 251 (7.11%) Actionable Insight
13 248 (7.03%) Full Stack Development
14 246 (6.97%) MVC
15 210 (5.95%) Business Case
16 205 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 201 (5.70%) Budgeting
18 197 (5.58%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 190 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence
20 181 (5.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 487 (13.80%) C#
2 448 (12.70%) SQL
3 327 (9.27%) JavaScript
4 215 (6.09%) PowerShell
5 138 (3.91%) Python
6 122 (3.46%) Bash
7 108 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 80 (2.27%) C++
9 70 (1.98%) C
9 70 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 51 (1.45%) Fortran
11 43 (1.22%) Java
12 35 (0.99%) VB
13 30 (0.85%) VBScript
14 20 (0.57%) Bicep
15 17 (0.48%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.34%) Perl
16 12 (0.34%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.34%) VBA
17 11 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 610 (17.29%) Degree
2 387 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.56%) ACCA
4 195 (5.53%) CIMA
4 195 (5.53%) SC Cleared
5 176 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 164 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 142 (4.02%) DBS Check
8 108 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (2.21%) Azure Certification
10 77 (2.18%) CCNA
11 63 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (1.59%) MCP
13 51 (1.45%) Master's Degree
14 42 (1.19%) CCNP
15 41 (1.16%) A+ Certification
15 41 (1.16%) CISSP
16 40 (1.13%) NVQ Level 3
17 37 (1.05%) PMI Certification
18 32 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (5.07%) SLA
2 108 (3.06%) GDPR
3 79 (2.24%) QA
4 45 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 29 (0.82%) PMO
8 26 (0.74%) NIST
9 21 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
12 14 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) ISO 13485
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) NCSC
17 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 4 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 817 (23.16%) Active Directory
2 231 (6.55%) Hyper-V
3 226 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 58 (1.64%) Docker
6 52 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 45 (1.28%) vSphere
8 42 (1.19%) Firmware
9 36 (1.02%) XenApp
10 29 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
10 29 (0.82%) XenDesktop
11 26 (0.74%) VirtualBox
12 12 (0.34%) KVM
12 12 (0.34%) NFS
12 12 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.31%) pfSense
14 7 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 6 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 273 (7.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 147 (4.17%) SCCM
3 79 (2.24%) Kubernetes
4 71 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
5 63 (1.79%) WSUS
6 55 (1.56%) SCOM
7 35 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 35 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 29 (0.82%) Terraform
9 25 (0.71%) Ansible
10 20 (0.57%) NetBackup
11 19 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
12 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 16 (0.45%) SCDPM
13 15 (0.43%) FortiGate
13 15 (0.43%) Grafana
14 13 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
14 13 (0.37%) ServiceCenter
15 12 (0.34%) Sysprep
16 10 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 339 (9.61%) VMware
2 199 (5.64%) Cisco
3 128 (3.63%) Citrix
4 120 (3.40%) Apple
5 100 (2.83%) Google
6 91 (2.58%) Adobe
6 91 (2.58%) Veeam
7 69 (1.96%) HP
8 67 (1.90%) CyberArk
8 67 (1.90%) Tanium
9 59 (1.67%) Meraki
10 55 (1.56%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.50%) Dell
12 48 (1.36%) Juniper
12 48 (1.36%) Oracle
13 47 (1.33%) Palo Alto
14 42 (1.19%) SAP
15 37 (1.05%) Aruba
15 37 (1.05%) Salesforce
16 33 (0.94%) Red Hat