Microsoft Engineer Jobs in England

Microsoft Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in England is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 732 820 948
Rank change year-on-year +88 +128 -224
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 90 121 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 86 84 111
10th Percentile £32,625 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +16.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £75,313 £79,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +12.50% +16.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in England

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in England

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in England

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +56 36 £45,000 -
South West -19 20 £50,000 +17.65% 7
London +92 17 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North of England +46 8 £42,250 +11.18% 2
Yorkshire +95 4 £32,500 +14.04%
West Midlands +26 4 £36,000 +26.32%
Midlands +5 4 £36,000 +19.01%
North West +9 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
North East - 1 £50,000 -
Microsoft Engineer
UK

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 60 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (58.89%) Azure
4 34 (37.78%) Active Directory
5 31 (34.44%) Windows
6 29 (32.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 27 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (28.89%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (25.56%) Windows Server
10 22 (24.44%) SharePoint
11 17 (18.89%) OneDrive
12 16 (17.78%) Degree
12 16 (17.78%) Entra ID
13 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
13 13 (14.44%) SCCM
13 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
14 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
14 11 (12.22%) VMware
15 10 (11.11%) Migration
15 10 (11.11%) IaaS
15 10 (11.11%) PaaS
16 9 (10.00%) ITIL
16 9 (10.00%) Zero Trust
17 8 (8.89%) Customer Service
17 8 (8.89%) Roadmaps
18 6 (6.67%) Slack
18 6 (6.67%) BYOD
18 6 (6.67%) Security Operations
18 6 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
18 6 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 26 (28.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (24.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (58.89%) Azure
3 17 (18.89%) OneDrive
4 16 (17.78%) Entra ID
5 10 (11.11%) IaaS
5 10 (11.11%) PaaS
6 6 (6.67%) Slack
6 6 (6.67%) WhatsApp
7 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.33%) Serverless
9 2 (2.22%) GitHub
9 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.11%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) WAN
2 4 (4.44%) DHCP
2 4 (4.44%) DNS
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
3 3 (3.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.33%) VoIP
4 2 (2.22%) LAN
4 2 (2.22%) Network Security
4 2 (2.22%) Skype
5 1 (1.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Git
1 3 (3.33%) GitLab
1 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
1 3 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.56%) Finance
3 3 (3.33%) Law
3 3 (3.33%) Local Government
3 3 (3.33%) Retail
4 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Blackberry
1 6 (6.67%) BYOD
2 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.22%) Blog
4 2 (2.22%) iPad
5 1 (1.11%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.44%) Windows
2 23 (25.56%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.67%) Android
3 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.33%) VMS
7 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
3 10 (11.11%) Migration
4 9 (10.00%) ITIL
4 9 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 8 (8.89%) Customer Service
5 8 (8.89%) Roadmaps
6 6 (6.67%) Application Packaging
6 6 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (6.67%) Security Operations
6 6 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (5.56%) Presales
8 4 (4.44%) Client Onboarding
8 4 (4.44%) DevOps
8 4 (4.44%) ITSM
9 3 (3.33%) Configuration Management
9 3 (3.33%) Data Security
9 3 (3.33%) Open Source
9 3 (3.33%) Service Management
9 3 (3.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.56%) Bash
3 4 (4.44%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.33%) C#
4 3 (3.33%) Go
4 3 (3.33%) Java
4 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.33%) Python
4 3 (3.33%) Ruby
4 3 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (17.78%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.22%) MCSA
3 2 (2.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (37.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.33%) Docker
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (32.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (14.44%) SCCM
3 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.11%) SCOM
4 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.22%) VMware
3 2 (2.22%) Acronis
3 2 (2.22%) Aruba
3 2 (2.22%) WatchGuard
4 1 (1.11%) CA
4 1 (1.11%) Cisco
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle