Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,592 18,620 23,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 18.67% 14.58%
As % of the Vendors category 48.25% 44.40% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,381 10,955 14,720
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,000 £35,750
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 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,227 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,461 41,940 62,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.76% 42.06% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 24,859 23,930 32,879
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +4 15,977 £47,500 -9.52% 4,908
UK excluding London +2 12,533 £43,227 -3.94% 3,830
Work from Home +4 7,069 £52,500 -4.55% 2,311
London +5 4,338 £60,709 -2.87% 1,304
South East +3 3,435 £45,000 -0.55% 861
North of England 0 2,959 £43,500 -3.33% 993
Midlands +1 2,273 £42,500 -10.53% 777
South West +3 1,608 £46,000 +15.00% 498
North West -2 1,540 £45,000 - 533
West Midlands +1 1,496 £45,000 -10.00% 476
East of England +2 1,227 £38,000 -5.00% 407
Yorkshire +2 991 £42,500 -4.49% 339
East Midlands 0 768 £37,500 -11.81% 302
Scotland -33 567 £45,000 -10.00% 228
North East +3 427 £42,500 +6.25% 127
Wales +2 336 £37,750 +0.67% 123
Northern Ireland +5 104 £42,500 -10.53% 58
Isle of Man - 33 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands +1 6 £85,000 +34.92% 1

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,877 (10.67%) SharePoint
2 1,658 (9.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 317 (1.80%) IIS
4 209 (1.19%) Confluence
5 146 (0.83%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 75 (0.43%) Apache
8 71 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 65 (0.37%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.30%) Kentico
10 53 (0.30%) SAS
11 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 45 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.24%) WordPress
14 41 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 40 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
16 32 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 23 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
18 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
19 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3,189 (18.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2,357 (13.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 667 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 272 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 128 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 69 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) InDesign
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.091%) SPSS
12 15 (0.085%) Trello
13 11 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
14 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
15 8 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.045%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.045%) Sketch
16 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 637 (3.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 103 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 57 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 45 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 33 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 26 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
10 25 (0.14%) Shopify
11 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 22 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
13 18 (0.10%) PlanetPress Connect
14 17 (0.097%) Magento
15 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
16 15 (0.085%) Elite 3E
16 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
16 15 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
17 13 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,228 (41.09%) Azure
2 5,322 (30.25%) Microsoft 365
3 2,337 (13.28%) Power Platform
4 1,432 (8.14%) AWS
5 1,372 (7.80%) Entra ID
6 1,320 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
7 861 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
8 734 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 706 (4.01%) SaaS
10 693 (3.94%) Power Automate
11 454 (2.58%) OneDrive
12 431 (2.45%) GCP
13 354 (2.01%) PaaS
14 334 (1.90%) IaaS
15 280 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
16 220 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
17 209 (1.19%) Serverless
18 181 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 157 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
20 156 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,596 (9.07%) Firewall
2 1,132 (6.43%) DNS
3 964 (5.48%) WAN
4 823 (4.68%) DHCP
5 813 (4.62%) Broadband
6 782 (4.45%) LAN
7 609 (3.46%) VPN
8 561 (3.19%) TCP/IP
9 532 (3.02%) Wireless
10 478 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
11 471 (2.68%) SAN
12 358 (2.04%) Internet
13 347 (1.97%) VLAN
14 305 (1.73%) Network Security
15 304 (1.73%) VoIP
16 286 (1.63%) SD-WAN
17 223 (1.27%) 5G
18 208 (1.18%) Intranet
19 196 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
20 143 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,642 (15.02%) SQL Server
2 1,464 (8.32%) Power BI
3 478 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 471 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 437 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 342 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 303 (1.72%) MongoDB
8 281 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 274 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 273 (1.55%) Data Lake
11 179 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 157 (0.89%) Tableau
13 141 (0.80%) MySQL
14 121 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
15 120 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 120 (0.68%) NoSQL
16 114 (0.65%) Big Data
17 92 (0.52%) Oracle Database
18 91 (0.52%) MS Access
19 79 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 496 (2.82%) Git
2 450 (2.56%) JIRA
3 396 (2.25%) Visual Studio
4 123 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 114 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 104 (0.59%) GitLab
7 78 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 70 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 46 (0.26%) NUnit
10 46 (0.26%) Selenium
11 44 (0.25%) Subversion
12 43 (0.24%) Postman
13 38 (0.22%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 17 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,272 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 3,636 (20.67%) Finance
3 2,385 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1,066 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 967 (5.50%) Retail
6 801 (4.55%) Law
7 795 (4.52%) Legal
8 761 (4.33%) Marketing
9 758 (4.31%) Public Sector
10 747 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
11 606 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
12 551 (3.13%) Manufacturing
13 524 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
14 460 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 386 (2.19%) Banking
16 280 (1.59%) Games
17 229 (1.30%) Local Government
18 219 (1.24%) Advertising
19 218 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
20 170 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,520 (14.32%) Analyst
2 2,516 (14.30%) Developer
3 2,312 (13.14%) Senior
4 1,498 (8.52%) IT Support
5 1,206 (6.86%) Support Engineer
6 1,138 (6.47%) Architect
7 998 (5.67%) Lead
8 983 (5.59%) .NET Developer
9 950 (5.40%) IT Engineer
10 920 (5.23%) Consultant
11 838 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 626 (3.56%) IT Support Engineer
13 617 (3.51%) Administrator
14 481 (2.73%) 2nd Line Support
15 469 (2.67%) IT Analyst
15 469 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
15 469 (2.67%) Support Analyst
16 463 (2.63%) IT Technician
17 461 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
18 448 (2.55%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,161 (12.28%) .NET
2 1,082 (6.15%) ASP.NET
3 1,013 (5.76%) .NET Core
4 832 (4.73%) ASP.NET MVC
5 802 (4.56%) AngularJS
6 787 (4.47%) HTML
7 737 (4.19%) .NET Framework
8 674 (3.83%) Entity Framework
9 668 (3.80%) ASP.NET Web API
10 547 (3.11%) CSS
11 516 (2.93%) React
12 394 (2.24%) HTML5
13 348 (1.98%) RESTful
14 305 (1.73%) Vue
15 303 (1.72%) Node.js
16 284 (1.61%) Web Services
17 255 (1.45%) REST
18 242 (1.38%) JSON
19 207 (1.18%) Blazor
20 206 (1.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 960 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
2 818 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 657 (3.73%) Driving Licence
4 566 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 367 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 351 (2.00%) Social Media
7 344 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 258 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 250 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 250 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
10 248 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 232 (1.32%) PKI
12 177 (1.01%) Cloud Native
13 170 (0.97%) Replication
14 155 (0.88%) Clustering
15 134 (0.76%) Mobile App
16 133 (0.76%) NHS
17 130 (0.74%) Low-Code
18 124 (0.70%) Smartphone
19 109 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,685 (26.63%) Windows
2 2,028 (11.53%) Windows Server
3 1,398 (7.95%) Windows 10
4 1,123 (6.38%) Linux
5 492 (2.80%) Android
6 449 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 447 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 337 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 319 (1.81%) Apple iOS
10 292 (1.66%) Ubuntu
11 264 (1.50%) Mac OS
12 236 (1.34%) Windows 7
13 156 (0.89%) Unix
14 142 (0.81%) VMS
15 98 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
16 89 (0.51%) Windows 8
17 73 (0.41%) CentOS
18 71 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 54 (0.31%) Mac OS X
20 35 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,483 (19.80%) Agile
2 3,476 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2,327 (13.23%) Customer Service
4 1,886 (10.72%) ITIL
5 1,751 (9.95%) DevOps
6 1,736 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
7 1,643 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
8 1,594 (9.06%) Mentoring
9 1,508 (8.57%) Project Management
10 1,388 (7.89%) CRM
11 1,097 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,095 (6.22%) Decision-Making
13 1,011 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,000 (5.68%) MVC
15 989 (5.62%) Full Stack Development
16 972 (5.53%) Roadmaps
17 968 (5.50%) Migration
18 900 (5.12%) Scrum
19 883 (5.02%) Analytics
20 878 (4.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,809 (15.97%) SQL
2 2,255 (12.82%) C#
3 1,524 (8.66%) JavaScript
4 1,213 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 666 (3.79%) Python
6 580 (3.30%) T-SQL
7 475 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 445 (2.53%) Bash
9 273 (1.55%) Java
10 138 (0.78%) C++
11 127 (0.72%) VB
12 114 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 111 (0.63%) C
14 96 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 94 (0.53%) Bicep
16 89 (0.51%) R
17 68 (0.39%) VBA
18 53 (0.30%) Shell Script
19 49 (0.28%) PL/SQL
20 46 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,921 (16.60%) Degree
2 1,314 (7.47%) Security Cleared
3 1,177 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 792 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 511 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 505 (2.87%) ACCA
6 505 (2.87%) DBS Check
7 482 (2.74%) CIMA
8 460 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 422 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
10 314 (1.78%) DV Cleared
11 295 (1.68%) CCNA
12 257 (1.46%) Master's Degree
13 233 (1.32%) A+ Certification
14 232 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 226 (1.28%) CISSP
16 211 (1.20%) MCP
17 202 (1.15%) MCSE
18 187 (1.06%) PMI Certification
19 163 (0.93%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 819 (4.66%) SLA
2 493 (2.80%) QA
3 479 (2.72%) GDPR
4 407 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 296 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 234 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 170 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 161 (0.92%) NIST
9 134 (0.76%) PMO
10 127 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 117 (0.67%) ISO 9001
12 49 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 45 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 42 (0.24%) GRC
15 37 (0.21%) IFRS
15 37 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 34 (0.19%) NCSC
17 31 (0.18%) COBIT
17 31 (0.18%) SOC 2
18 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3,987 (22.66%) Active Directory
2 1,158 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 878 (4.99%) Hyper-V
4 310 (1.76%) Docker
5 296 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 255 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
7 209 (1.19%) vSphere
8 176 (1.00%) XenApp
9 153 (0.87%) XenDesktop
10 142 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
11 107 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
12 80 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 60 (0.34%) Firmware
14 54 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 53 (0.30%) KVM
16 46 (0.26%) VMware NSX
17 28 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 27 (0.15%) VirtualBox
19 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
20 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,315 (7.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 660 (3.75%) SCCM
3 386 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 363 (2.06%) Terraform
5 276 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
6 154 (0.88%) WSUS
7 148 (0.84%) Ansible
8 133 (0.76%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 107 (0.61%) AirWatch
11 98 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 98 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 59 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 45 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
14 44 (0.25%) Grafana
15 41 (0.23%) NetBackup
16 39 (0.22%) Nessus
16 39 (0.22%) Puppet
17 37 (0.21%) CASB
18 36 (0.20%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,758 (9.99%) VMware
2 936 (5.32%) Cisco
3 698 (3.97%) Google
4 609 (3.46%) Citrix
5 528 (3.00%) Apple
6 497 (2.83%) Oracle
7 397 (2.26%) Veeam
8 395 (2.25%) Dell
9 362 (2.06%) ServiceNow
10 341 (1.94%) SAP
11 324 (1.84%) HP
12 299 (1.70%) Adobe
13 237 (1.35%) CyberArk
14 216 (1.23%) Meraki
15 210 (1.19%) Tanium
16 200 (1.14%) Databricks
17 187 (1.06%) Salesforce
18 160 (0.91%) Fortinet
19 155 (0.88%) Sophos
20 140 (0.80%) Red Hat