Microsoft Certification Jobs in England

Microsoft Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 307 338
Rank change year-on-year +97 +31 -56
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1,217 1,014 1,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.43% 1.10% 1.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.01% 3.38% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 817 1,078
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,100 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,311 29,981 34,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.53% 32.51% 26.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15,770 13,605 16,802
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +114 309 £62,500 +13.64% 57
North of England +136 272 £40,000 -12.57% 62
South East +25 251 £38,500 +5.48% 41
Midlands +41 162 £38,000 -8.43% 32
North West +42 120 £40,000 -14.89% 40
East of England +33 107 £40,000 -5.88% 16
West Midlands +21 100 £38,000 -8.43% 20
South West -24 98 £41,250 -2.37% 44
Yorkshire +128 90 £40,000 +14.29% 16
East Midlands +9 62 £44,225 +7.21% 12
North East - 62 £32,500 - 8
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 207 (17.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 188 (15.45%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.99%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (0.99%) SharePoint 2013
4 11 (0.90%) IIS
5 10 (0.82%) CMS
6 9 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.58%) Apache
8 5 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.082%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.082%) Confluence
9 1 (0.082%) Drupal
9 1 (0.082%) SAS
9 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 162 (13.31%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.07%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.082%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.082%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.25%) Maximo
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.082%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.082%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 752 (61.79%) Azure
2 507 (41.66%) Microsoft 365
3 261 (21.45%) Power Platform
4 145 (11.91%) AWS
5 106 (8.71%) Entra ID
6 92 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (6.66%) PowerApps
9 68 (5.59%) Power Automate
10 42 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (3.29%) IaaS
11 40 (3.29%) IBM Cloud
12 37 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 37 (3.04%) PaaS
13 35 (2.88%) Serverless
14 33 (2.71%) OneDrive
15 27 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
16 26 (2.14%) GCP
16 26 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 204 (16.76%) Firewall
2 134 (11.01%) DNS
3 128 (10.52%) DHCP
4 114 (9.37%) SAN
5 92 (7.56%) TCP/IP
6 87 (7.15%) Broadband
6 87 (7.15%) VPN
7 85 (6.98%) WAN
8 81 (6.66%) LAN
9 80 (6.57%) VLAN
10 68 (5.59%) Network Security
11 53 (4.35%) Wireless
12 50 (4.11%) VoIP
13 43 (3.53%) Internet
14 40 (3.29%) NAS
15 28 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
16 27 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
17 26 (2.14%) Intranet
18 17 (1.40%) SD-WAN
19 12 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (17.58%) Power BI
2 196 (16.11%) SQL Server
3 104 (8.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 42 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 39 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (2.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 30 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 14 (1.15%) Big Data
13 12 (0.99%) Metadata
14 9 (0.74%) QlikView
14 9 (0.74%) Tableau
15 8 (0.66%) MySQL
16 6 (0.49%) NoSQL
16 6 (0.49%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (1.56%) JIRA
2 13 (1.07%) Axure RP
2 13 (1.07%) Balsamiq
3 8 (0.66%) Git
3 8 (0.66%) GitLab
4 7 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.49%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.16%) Hudson
9 2 (0.16%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.082%) AdminStudio
10 1 (0.082%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.082%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.082%) MSI
10 1 (0.082%) Vagrant
General
1 550 (45.19%) Social Skills
2 148 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 124 (10.19%) Finance
4 118 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 63 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (5.01%) Organisational Skills
7 54 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 52 (4.27%) Marketing
9 44 (3.62%) Telecoms
10 42 (3.45%) Manufacturing
11 41 (3.37%) Legal
12 35 (2.88%) Retail
13 21 (1.73%) Law
14 15 (1.23%) Banking
14 15 (1.23%) Billing
15 13 (1.07%) Automotive
16 10 (0.82%) Games
16 10 (0.82%) Local Government
17 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 180 (14.79%) Support Engineer
2 173 (14.22%) IT Support
3 117 (9.61%) IT Engineer
4 115 (9.45%) Architect
5 114 (9.37%) Senior
6 105 (8.63%) Analyst
7 94 (7.72%) DBA
8 87 (7.15%) Consultant
9 86 (7.07%) IT Support Engineer
10 85 (6.98%) SQL DBA
11 77 (6.33%) 2nd Line Support
12 73 (6.00%) Lead
13 63 (5.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 63 (5.18%) 3rd Line Support
14 58 (4.77%) Developer
15 56 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 53 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (4.27%) Administrator
18 44 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
19 43 (3.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.62%) HTML
2 42 (3.45%) CSS
3 39 (3.20%) .NET
4 26 (2.14%) ARM Templates
5 24 (1.97%) ASP.NET
6 21 (1.73%) .NET Framework
7 20 (1.64%) ASP.NET MVC
8 16 (1.31%) Entity Framework
9 15 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (1.07%) PySpark
11 9 (0.74%) .NET Core
11 9 (0.74%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.66%) Middleware
13 7 (0.58%) Web Services
14 6 (0.49%) REST
15 5 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (0.41%) MDX
16 4 (0.33%) React
16 4 (0.33%) WinForms
16 4 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 69 (5.67%) Driving Licence
3 54 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 48 (3.94%) Replication
5 47 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 46 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (3.37%) Onboarding
8 40 (3.29%) Blockchain
9 39 (3.20%) Public Cloud
10 35 (2.88%) Private Cloud
11 33 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
12 31 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
13 30 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (2.22%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.97%) Cloud Native
16 23 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
17 18 (1.48%) Low-Code
18 16 (1.31%) NHS
18 16 (1.31%) Product Ownership
18 16 (1.31%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 534 (43.88%) Windows
2 276 (22.68%) Windows Server
3 138 (11.34%) Linux
4 136 (11.18%) Windows 10
5 84 (6.90%) VMS
6 50 (4.11%) Mac OS
7 46 (3.78%) Debian
8 45 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 43 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 41 (3.37%) Apple iOS
10 41 (3.37%) CentOS
11 40 (3.29%) Alpine Linux
12 30 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
13 23 (1.89%) Android
14 19 (1.56%) Windows 8
14 19 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
15 14 (1.15%) Ubuntu
16 13 (1.07%) SUSE
16 13 (1.07%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (22.84%) ITIL
3 258 (21.20%) Customer Service
4 213 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
5 167 (13.72%) Cybersecurity
6 153 (12.57%) DevOps
7 138 (11.34%) Agile
8 133 (10.93%) Computer Science
9 127 (10.44%) Disaster Recovery
10 119 (9.78%) Project Delivery
11 110 (9.04%) Project Management
12 106 (8.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 106 (8.71%) CI/CD
13 105 (8.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 103 (8.46%) Collaborative Working
15 89 (7.31%) Migration
16 87 (7.15%) High Availability
16 87 (7.15%) Performance Tuning
17 81 (6.66%) Presales
18 75 (6.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 276 (22.68%) SQL
2 123 (10.11%) PowerShell
3 95 (7.81%) C#
4 85 (6.98%) T-SQL
5 57 (4.68%) JavaScript
6 37 (3.04%) Python
7 21 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (1.56%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.15%) Bash
10 10 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.74%) Bicep
11 9 (0.74%) U-SQL
12 7 (0.58%) Java
12 7 (0.58%) R
13 6 (0.49%) C
14 5 (0.41%) C++
14 5 (0.41%) PHP
15 3 (0.25%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 366 (30.07%) Degree
2 285 (23.42%) MCSE
3 223 (18.32%) Azure Certification
4 195 (16.02%) MCSA
5 168 (13.80%) Cisco Certification
6 150 (12.33%) MCP
7 140 (11.50%) CCNA
8 138 (11.34%) A+ Certification
9 107 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 93 (7.64%) Security Cleared
11 82 (6.74%) SC Cleared
12 73 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 70 (5.75%) DBS Check
14 57 (4.68%) Network+ Certification
15 48 (3.94%) MCITP
16 27 (2.22%) CISSP
17 25 (2.05%) CCNP
18 24 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
19 23 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 22 (1.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.92%) SLA
2 41 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.88%) GDPR
4 20 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.23%) NIST
7 13 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.07%) QA
7 13 (1.07%) WCAG
8 9 (0.74%) NCSC
9 8 (0.66%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.082%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.082%) PMO
11 1 (0.082%) SOC 2
System Software
1 471 (38.70%) Active Directory
2 197 (16.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (11.26%) Hyper-V
4 86 (7.07%) Virtual Machines
5 63 (5.18%) Docker
6 49 (4.03%) vSphere
7 31 (2.55%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (1.07%) vCloud
10 12 (0.99%) XenDesktop
11 10 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.74%) XenApp
13 7 (0.58%) Firmware
14 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Server
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.082%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.082%) LXC
17 1 (0.082%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 121 (9.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (7.15%) Kubernetes
3 82 (6.74%) SCCM
4 74 (6.08%) Terraform
5 23 (1.89%) SCOM
6 13 (1.07%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.74%) WSUS
9 8 (0.66%) Autotask
10 7 (0.58%) SmoothWall
10 7 (0.58%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.49%) Ansible
12 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.41%) Grafana
12 5 (0.41%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.33%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,081 (88.82%) Microsoft
2 261 (21.45%) VMware
3 117 (9.61%) Cisco
4 77 (6.33%) HP
5 62 (5.09%) Apple
6 61 (5.01%) Veeam
7 50 (4.11%) Adobe
8 47 (3.86%) Citrix
9 46 (3.78%) Red Hat
10 45 (3.70%) IBM
11 32 (2.63%) Databricks
12 30 (2.47%) Google
13 29 (2.38%) Meraki
14 26 (2.14%) SolarWinds
15 25 (2.05%) Dell
16 23 (1.89%) Nimble Storage
17 17 (1.40%) Commvault
17 17 (1.40%) Oracle
18 15 (1.23%) Bloomberg
18 15 (1.23%) Sophos