Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,831 11,933 13,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.21% 20.57% 18.36%
As % of the Vendors category 50.38% 48.44% 46.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,899 6,424 8,539
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,466 24,633 28,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.15% 42.46% 39.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17,298 12,889 16,792
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,828 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £77,500 £76,250
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 3,528 £45,000 -2.54% 800
North of England -1 3,003 £43,621 -3.06% 1,052
Midlands +1 2,383 £42,500 -11.55% 749
South West +3 1,643 £46,000 +13.58% 465
North West -2 1,574 £45,000 -2.17% 578
West Midlands +1 1,552 £45,000 -10.00% 469
East of England +2 1,241 £38,250 -4.38% 411
Yorkshire +2 999 £42,500 -4.49% 350
East Midlands +1 822 £37,500 -14.77% 281
Scotland -34 565 £45,000 -5.26% 231
North East +3 429 £42,500 +4.47% 133
Wales +2 341 £39,000 +1.48% 115
Northern Ireland +5 106 £42,500 -10.53% 64
Isle of Man +6 32 £46,250 -36.21% 1
Channel Islands +3 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,354 (10.55%) SharePoint
2 1,191 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 239 (1.86%) IIS
4 181 (1.41%) Confluence
5 103 (0.80%) CMS
6 64 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 49 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 47 (0.37%) Kentico
9 45 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.32%) Apache
10 41 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 41 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 38 (0.30%) WordPress
12 35 (0.27%) SAS
13 34 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
14 21 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 21 (0.16%) Tomcat
15 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
16 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,513 (19.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1,665 (12.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 436 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 249 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
5 95 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 59 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 54 (0.42%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 12 (0.094%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 9 (0.070%) Chatbot
15 8 (0.062%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.062%) Sketch
16 6 (0.047%) InVision
17 5 (0.039%) Adobe Captivate
17 5 (0.039%) Revit
17 5 (0.039%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 397 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 90 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.64%) Primavera
4 40 (0.31%) NEC Housing
5 31 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 26 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 20 (0.16%) Shopify
9 19 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
10 18 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
11 16 (0.12%) iTrent
12 15 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
13 14 (0.11%) Magento
14 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
14 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
15 11 (0.086%) ResourceLink
16 9 (0.070%) Maximo
16 9 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
16 9 (0.070%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5,030 (39.20%) Azure
2 3,953 (30.81%) Microsoft 365
3 1,542 (12.02%) Power Platform
4 972 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 936 (7.29%) AWS
6 784 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
7 544 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 468 (3.65%) PowerApps
9 425 (3.31%) Power Automate
10 386 (3.01%) SaaS
11 354 (2.76%) OneDrive
12 256 (2.00%) GCP
13 198 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
14 160 (1.25%) PaaS
15 158 (1.23%) IaaS
16 137 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 103 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 96 (0.75%) GitHub
19 93 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
20 79 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,235 (9.63%) Firewall
2 871 (6.79%) DNS
3 672 (5.24%) WAN
4 670 (5.22%) DHCP
5 585 (4.56%) LAN
6 462 (3.60%) TCP/IP
7 442 (3.44%) VPN
8 410 (3.20%) Broadband
9 390 (3.04%) SAN
10 380 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
11 317 (2.47%) Wireless
12 272 (2.12%) Internet
13 266 (2.07%) VLAN
14 259 (2.02%) VoIP
15 198 (1.54%) Network Security
16 165 (1.29%) Intranet
17 154 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
18 138 (1.08%) SD-WAN
19 113 (0.88%) Unified Communications
20 95 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,033 (15.84%) SQL Server
2 1,017 (7.93%) Power BI
3 334 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 333 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 323 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 263 (2.05%) MongoDB
7 215 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
8 206 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 205 (1.60%) Relational Database
10 153 (1.19%) Data Lake
11 119 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 114 (0.89%) MySQL
13 110 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
14 86 (0.67%) NoSQL
15 85 (0.66%) Tableau
16 79 (0.62%) MS Access
17 72 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
18 60 (0.47%) Power Query
19 57 (0.44%) Big Data
20 55 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 386 (3.01%) Git
2 351 (2.74%) JIRA
3 325 (2.53%) Visual Studio
4 103 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 77 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 67 (0.52%) GitLab
7 60 (0.47%) Sourcetree
8 53 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.34%) NUnit
10 40 (0.31%) Selenium
11 39 (0.30%) Subversion
12 38 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 33 (0.26%) Postman
14 30 (0.23%) Moq
15 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.19%) TeamCity
17 22 (0.17%) MSTest
18 21 (0.16%) Cucumber
19 14 (0.11%) JMeter
General
1 4,512 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 2,335 (18.20%) Finance
3 1,526 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 898 (7.00%) Retail
5 585 (4.56%) Legal
6 569 (4.43%) Marketing
7 555 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
8 532 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 531 (4.14%) Public Sector
10 521 (4.06%) Law
11 498 (3.88%) Manufacturing
12 373 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
13 363 (2.83%) Telecoms
14 328 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 223 (1.74%) Games
16 194 (1.51%) Banking
17 178 (1.39%) Local Government
18 167 (1.30%) Advertising
19 150 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
20 116 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,928 (15.03%) Developer
2 1,742 (13.58%) Analyst
3 1,414 (11.02%) Senior
4 1,221 (9.52%) IT Support
5 1,014 (7.90%) Support Engineer
6 840 (6.55%) .NET Developer
7 816 (6.36%) IT Engineer
8 698 (5.44%) Lead
9 688 (5.36%) Architect
10 685 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 606 (4.72%) Consultant
12 553 (4.31%) IT Support Engineer
13 507 (3.95%) Administrator
14 430 (3.35%) IT Technician
15 414 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
16 376 (2.93%) C# Developer
17 351 (2.74%) Support Technician
18 340 (2.65%) IT Analyst
18 340 (2.65%) Support Analyst
19 336 (2.62%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,604 (12.50%) .NET
2 892 (6.95%) ASP.NET
3 846 (6.59%) .NET Core
4 714 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
5 646 (5.03%) AngularJS
6 615 (4.79%) HTML
7 588 (4.58%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.42%) Entity Framework
9 558 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
10 421 (3.28%) CSS
11 404 (3.15%) React
12 335 (2.61%) HTML5
13 275 (2.14%) RESTful
14 260 (2.03%) Vue
15 244 (1.90%) Node.js
16 215 (1.68%) Web Services
17 188 (1.47%) REST
18 184 (1.43%) Blazor
19 176 (1.37%) LINQ
20 168 (1.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 685 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
2 621 (4.84%) Driving Licence
3 566 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 425 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 281 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 241 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 171 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 169 (1.32%) PKI
9 168 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 157 (1.22%) Social Media
11 142 (1.11%) Clustering
11 142 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 133 (1.04%) Replication
13 112 (0.87%) Mobile App
14 108 (0.84%) NHS
15 103 (0.80%) Low-Code
16 99 (0.77%) Cloud Native
17 96 (0.75%) Algorithms
18 94 (0.73%) Smartphone
19 87 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,630 (28.29%) Windows
2 1,637 (12.76%) Windows Server
3 1,029 (8.02%) Windows 10
4 792 (6.17%) Linux
5 389 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 374 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 313 (2.44%) Android
8 292 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 230 (1.79%) Apple iOS
10 198 (1.54%) Windows 7
11 194 (1.51%) Mac OS
12 134 (1.04%) Ubuntu
13 126 (0.98%) VMS
14 106 (0.83%) Unix
15 87 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
16 84 (0.65%) Windows 8
17 71 (0.55%) CentOS
18 41 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.26%) Mac OS X
20 28 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,650 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
2 2,500 (19.48%) Agile
3 1,948 (15.18%) Customer Service
4 1,473 (11.48%) ITIL
5 1,217 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
6 1,160 (9.04%) DevOps
7 1,093 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
8 1,087 (8.47%) Project Management
9 1,043 (8.13%) Mentoring
10 905 (7.05%) CRM
11 868 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 831 (6.48%) MVC
13 819 (6.38%) Full Stack Development
14 798 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 759 (5.92%) Roadmaps
16 697 (5.43%) Decision-Making
17 692 (5.39%) Migration
18 678 (5.28%) Microservices
19 631 (4.92%) ERP
20 612 (4.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,085 (16.25%) SQL
2 1,702 (13.26%) C#
3 1,173 (9.14%) JavaScript
4 854 (6.66%) PowerShell
5 400 (3.12%) T-SQL
6 383 (2.98%) Python
7 376 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 236 (1.84%) Bash
9 188 (1.47%) Java
10 123 (0.96%) VB
11 116 (0.90%) C++
12 114 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 96 (0.75%) C
14 55 (0.43%) R
15 51 (0.40%) Fortran
16 50 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 48 (0.37%) Bicep
18 45 (0.35%) VBA
19 44 (0.34%) Shell Script
19 44 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,051 (15.98%) Degree
2 1,096 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 860 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 649 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 405 (3.16%) DBS Check
6 302 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 290 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 279 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 255 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 248 (1.93%) CCNA
11 243 (1.89%) CIMA
12 242 (1.89%) ACCA
13 209 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 198 (1.54%) MCP
15 195 (1.52%) A+ Certification
16 140 (1.09%) PMI Certification
17 139 (1.08%) MCSE
18 121 (0.94%) CCNP
19 111 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
20 105 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 576 (4.49%) SLA
2 387 (3.02%) GDPR
3 343 (2.67%) QA
4 232 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 224 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 121 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 104 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 96 (0.75%) NIST
9 95 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 94 (0.73%) PMO
11 85 (0.66%) PCI DSS
12 42 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 25 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 23 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
17 16 (0.12%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
18 15 (0.12%) GRC
18 15 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 2,957 (23.05%) Active Directory
2 906 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 776 (6.05%) Hyper-V
4 230 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 192 (1.50%) Docker
6 174 (1.36%) vSphere
7 128 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
8 125 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 73 (0.57%) XenApp
10 60 (0.47%) XenDesktop
11 51 (0.40%) Firmware
12 50 (0.39%) KVM
13 49 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 44 (0.34%) RACF
14 44 (0.34%) Terminal Services
15 41 (0.32%) VMware NSX
16 26 (0.20%) VirtualBox
17 25 (0.19%) VMware Server
18 23 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 19 (0.15%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 896 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 421 (3.28%) SCCM
3 250 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 180 (1.40%) Terraform
5 129 (1.01%) WSUS
6 120 (0.94%) SCOM
7 105 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
8 91 (0.71%) vCenter Server
9 83 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 76 (0.59%) Ansible
11 42 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
12 40 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 35 (0.27%) FortiGate
14 33 (0.26%) NetBackup
15 32 (0.25%) ZABBIX
16 31 (0.24%) Backup Exec
16 31 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 28 (0.22%) Autotask
17 28 (0.22%) CASB
17 28 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 1,396 (10.88%) VMware
2 599 (4.67%) Cisco
3 489 (3.81%) Google
4 401 (3.13%) Citrix
5 393 (3.06%) Apple
6 330 (2.57%) Oracle
7 322 (2.51%) Veeam
8 266 (2.07%) Dell
9 245 (1.91%) HP
10 230 (1.79%) SAP
11 226 (1.76%) Adobe
12 194 (1.51%) ServiceNow
13 193 (1.50%) Meraki
14 144 (1.12%) Sophos
15 137 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 124 (0.97%) Salesforce
17 123 (0.96%) CyberArk
18 111 (0.87%) Red Hat
19 108 (0.84%) Databricks
19 108 (0.84%) Sage