Microsoft Jobs

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 10 June 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 18,405 17,375 25,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.88% 18.71% 14.59%
As % of the Vendors category 48.90% 45.11% 37.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,436 10,640 14,878
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £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 £85,100 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 37,636 38,513 66,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.52% 41.47% 38.99%
Number of salaries quoted 25,130 23,215 33,232
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 16,771 £47,500 -9.52% 4,539
UK excluding London +2 13,339 £43,500 -3.33% 3,578
Work from Home +3 7,234 £52,500 -4.55% 1,965
London +5 4,344 £60,500 -3.20% 1,146
South East +3 3,650 £45,000 -1.64% 803
North of England -1 3,099 £43,742 -2.80% 980
Midlands +2 2,615 £42,500 -15.00% 673
West Midlands +2 1,677 £45,000 -10.00% 418
South West +2 1,674 £46,000 +12.47% 457
North West -2 1,643 £45,000 -3.23% 535
East of England +2 1,246 £38,000 -5.00% 336
Yorkshire +1 1,021 £42,500 -0.02% 324
East Midlands +1 930 £37,500 -16.67% 254
Scotland -32 572 £45,000 - 278
North East +3 434 £42,500 -0.58% 134
Wales +1 355 £40,000 +5.65% 97
Northern Ireland +4 108 £42,500 -15.00% 60
Isle of Man +5 32 £46,250 -36.21% 4
Channel Islands +3 6 £85,000 -5.56% 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 1,891 (10.27%) SharePoint
2 1,634 (8.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 295 (1.60%) IIS
4 188 (1.02%) Confluence
5 148 (0.80%) CMS
6 89 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 83 (0.45%) Apache
8 69 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 62 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.29%) Kentico
10 53 (0.29%) SAS
11 49 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
12 46 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
12 46 (0.25%) WordPress
13 41 (0.22%) Headless CMS
14 39 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
15 33 (0.18%) Tomcat
16 29 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
17 24 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
18 22 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3,535 (19.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2,705 (14.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 686 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 283 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 131 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 74 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 65 (0.35%) AutoCAD
8 25 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 24 (0.13%) InDesign
10 17 (0.092%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.087%) SPSS
11 16 (0.087%) Trello
12 15 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
14 10 (0.054%) Chatbot
15 9 (0.049%) Acrobat
15 9 (0.049%) InfoPath
16 8 (0.043%) Adobe Captivate
16 8 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 647 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 111 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 90 (0.49%) Primavera
4 65 (0.35%) NEC Housing
5 51 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 32 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 29 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 28 (0.15%) Sage 200
9 27 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 27 (0.15%) Shopify
10 26 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 23 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 22 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
13 18 (0.098%) iTrent
14 17 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
15 16 (0.087%) Elite 3E
15 16 (0.087%) Magento
16 15 (0.081%) Infor SunSystems
16 15 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
17 12 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,362 (40.00%) Azure
2 5,375 (29.20%) Microsoft 365
3 2,396 (13.02%) Power Platform
4 1,467 (7.97%) Entra ID
5 1,426 (7.75%) AWS
6 1,413 (7.68%) Dynamics 365
7 866 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 765 (4.16%) PowerApps
9 710 (3.86%) SaaS
10 703 (3.82%) Power Automate
11 467 (2.54%) OneDrive
12 428 (2.33%) GCP
13 340 (1.85%) PaaS
14 329 (1.79%) IaaS
15 265 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
16 221 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
17 205 (1.11%) Serverless
18 182 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 169 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
20 158 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,627 (8.84%) Firewall
2 1,132 (6.15%) DNS
3 939 (5.10%) WAN
4 832 (4.52%) DHCP
5 809 (4.40%) Broadband
6 791 (4.30%) LAN
7 607 (3.30%) VPN
8 569 (3.09%) TCP/IP
9 513 (2.79%) Wireless
10 495 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
11 472 (2.56%) SAN
12 433 (2.35%) Internet
13 381 (2.07%) Network Security
14 350 (1.90%) VLAN
15 314 (1.71%) VoIP
16 258 (1.40%) SD-WAN
17 221 (1.20%) 5G
18 201 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
19 200 (1.09%) Intranet
20 174 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,657 (14.44%) SQL Server
2 1,501 (8.16%) Power BI
3 472 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 464 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 437 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 340 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 308 (1.67%) MongoDB
8 291 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 266 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 260 (1.41%) Data Lake
11 187 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 155 (0.84%) Tableau
13 138 (0.75%) MySQL
14 121 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 116 (0.63%) Big Data
16 113 (0.61%) NoSQL
16 113 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
17 102 (0.55%) Oracle Database
18 96 (0.52%) MS Access
19 81 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 477 (2.59%) Git
2 427 (2.32%) JIRA
3 372 (2.02%) Visual Studio
4 119 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 110 (0.60%) GitLab
6 97 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 73 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 64 (0.35%) Sourcetree
8 64 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 48 (0.26%) Selenium
10 45 (0.24%) NUnit
11 44 (0.24%) Subversion
12 42 (0.23%) Postman
13 32 (0.17%) Moq
13 32 (0.17%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.15%) Jasmine
14 28 (0.15%) Karma Test Runner
15 25 (0.14%) Cucumber
16 23 (0.12%) MSTest
17 21 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6,498 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 4,029 (21.89%) Finance
3 2,631 (14.30%) Analytical Skills
4 1,240 (6.74%) Retail
5 1,082 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 979 (5.32%) Marketing
7 910 (4.94%) Legal
8 818 (4.44%) Law
9 811 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 750 (4.07%) Public Sector
11 602 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
12 564 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 528 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
14 473 (2.57%) Telecoms
15 387 (2.10%) Banking
16 263 (1.43%) Games
17 246 (1.34%) Local Government
18 236 (1.28%) Advertising
19 219 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
20 174 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,579 (14.01%) Analyst
2 2,540 (13.80%) Developer
3 2,419 (13.14%) Senior
4 1,583 (8.60%) IT Support
5 1,294 (7.03%) Support Engineer
6 1,214 (6.60%) Architect
7 1,034 (5.62%) Lead
8 1,030 (5.60%) IT Engineer
9 1,010 (5.49%) Consultant
10 1,003 (5.45%) .NET Developer
11 872 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 703 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
13 623 (3.38%) Administrator
14 522 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
15 512 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
16 498 (2.71%) 2nd Line Support
17 486 (2.64%) IT Technician
18 485 (2.64%) IT Analyst
19 479 (2.60%) Support Analyst
20 472 (2.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,177 (11.83%) .NET
2 1,070 (5.81%) ASP.NET
3 1,021 (5.55%) .NET Core
4 828 (4.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 803 (4.36%) AngularJS
6 768 (4.17%) HTML
7 741 (4.03%) .NET Framework
8 672 (3.65%) ASP.NET Web API
9 665 (3.61%) Entity Framework
10 532 (2.89%) CSS
11 518 (2.81%) React
12 388 (2.11%) HTML5
13 337 (1.83%) RESTful
14 316 (1.72%) Vue
15 302 (1.64%) Node.js
16 285 (1.55%) Web Services
17 244 (1.33%) REST
18 218 (1.18%) JSON
19 206 (1.12%) Blazor
20 204 (1.11%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 971 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
2 873 (4.74%) Management Information System
3 722 (3.92%) Driving Licence
4 581 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 423 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 371 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 357 (1.94%) Social Media
8 259 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 250 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 245 (1.33%) Product Ownership
11 229 (1.24%) PKI
12 212 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
13 185 (1.01%) Cloud Native
14 172 (0.93%) Replication
15 146 (0.79%) Clustering
16 135 (0.73%) Mobile App
16 135 (0.73%) NHS
17 127 (0.69%) Smartphone
18 125 (0.68%) Low-Code
19 119 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,780 (25.97%) Windows
2 2,039 (11.08%) Windows Server
3 1,377 (7.48%) Windows 10
4 1,250 (6.79%) Linux
5 463 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 462 (2.51%) Android
7 455 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 341 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 315 (1.71%) Apple iOS
10 301 (1.64%) Ubuntu
11 265 (1.44%) Mac OS
12 226 (1.23%) Windows 7
13 166 (0.90%) Unix
14 148 (0.80%) VMS
15 104 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 80 (0.43%) Windows 8
17 75 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 74 (0.40%) CentOS
19 53 (0.29%) Mac OS X
20 34 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,772 (20.49%) Agile
2 3,631 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
3 2,399 (13.03%) Customer Service
4 1,967 (10.69%) ITIL
5 1,781 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
6 1,735 (9.43%) DevOps
7 1,678 (9.12%) Mentoring
8 1,669 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
9 1,533 (8.33%) Project Management
10 1,427 (7.75%) CRM
11 1,155 (6.28%) Decision-Making
12 1,126 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 1,053 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,023 (5.56%) Roadmaps
15 990 (5.38%) Full Stack Development
16 985 (5.35%) MVC
17 976 (5.30%) Migration
18 911 (4.95%) Analytics
19 887 (4.82%) Scrum
20 880 (4.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,874 (15.62%) SQL
2 2,275 (12.36%) C#
3 1,524 (8.28%) JavaScript
4 1,258 (6.84%) PowerShell
5 705 (3.83%) Python
6 564 (3.06%) T-SQL
7 483 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 474 (2.58%) Bash
9 278 (1.51%) Java
10 154 (0.84%) C++
11 131 (0.71%) VB
12 126 (0.68%) VB.NET
13 125 (0.68%) C
14 105 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 101 (0.55%) Bicep
16 84 (0.46%) R
17 70 (0.38%) VBA
18 55 (0.30%) Shell Script
19 54 (0.29%) Fortran
20 47 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,069 (16.67%) Degree
2 1,300 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 1,260 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 761 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 566 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 541 (2.94%) DBS Check
7 513 (2.79%) ACCA
8 492 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 489 (2.66%) CIMA
10 471 (2.56%) Azure Certification
11 376 (2.04%) CCNA
12 293 (1.59%) MCP
13 292 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 266 (1.45%) MCSE
15 249 (1.35%) A+ Certification
15 249 (1.35%) Master's Degree
16 244 (1.33%) CCNP
17 234 (1.27%) CISSP
18 209 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
19 193 (1.05%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 819 (4.45%) SLA
2 524 (2.85%) QA
3 498 (2.71%) GDPR
4 400 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 304 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 229 (1.24%) Data Quality
7 193 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 150 (0.81%) NIST
9 133 (0.72%) PMO
10 121 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 111 (0.60%) ISO 9001
12 50 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 40 (0.22%) GRC
13 40 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 38 (0.21%) IFRS
14 38 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 30 (0.16%) COBIT
15 30 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 29 (0.16%) NCSC
16 29 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4,021 (21.85%) Active Directory
2 1,179 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 871 (4.73%) Hyper-V
4 308 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 299 (1.62%) Docker
6 226 (1.23%) vSphere
7 224 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 157 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 157 (0.85%) XenApp
9 136 (0.74%) XenDesktop
10 83 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
11 74 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
12 59 (0.32%) Firmware
13 57 (0.31%) Terminal Services
14 50 (0.27%) KVM
14 50 (0.27%) RACF
15 42 (0.23%) VMware NSX
16 34 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 24 (0.13%) VirtualBox
18 23 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,325 (7.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 622 (3.38%) SCCM
3 395 (2.15%) Terraform
4 393 (2.14%) Kubernetes
5 279 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
6 165 (0.90%) Ansible
7 162 (0.88%) WSUS
8 129 (0.70%) SCOM
9 123 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 100 (0.54%) vCenter Server
11 96 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 72 (0.39%) AirWatch
13 54 (0.29%) FortiGate
14 45 (0.24%) Puppet
15 43 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
16 42 (0.23%) Grafana
16 42 (0.23%) NetBackup
17 38 (0.21%) Backup Exec
18 37 (0.20%) CASB
18 37 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,771 (9.62%) VMware
2 994 (5.40%) Cisco
3 711 (3.86%) Google
4 579 (3.15%) Citrix
5 534 (2.90%) Apple
6 500 (2.72%) Oracle
7 415 (2.25%) Dell
8 399 (2.17%) Veeam
9 358 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 332 (1.80%) SAP
11 324 (1.76%) HP
12 299 (1.62%) Adobe
13 287 (1.56%) CyberArk
14 240 (1.30%) Meraki
15 211 (1.15%) Tanium
16 198 (1.08%) Databricks
17 196 (1.06%) Salesforce
18 164 (0.89%) Fortinet
19 161 (0.87%) Sophos
20 155 (0.84%) Red Hat