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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 314 340
Rank change year-on-year +110 +26 -62
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1,211 993 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.41% 1.10% 1.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.95% 3.39% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 796 1,060
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.17% +1.18%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £58,813
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,186 £46,283
% change year-on-year -0.41% -2.37% +2.85%

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 24,441 29,265 35,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.46% 32.53% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,778 13,348 16,634
10th Percentile £28,418 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +8.36% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

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 10 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 10 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 +118 307 £62,500 +13.64% 56
North of England +147 278 £40,000 -15.79% 60
South East +28 240 £39,000 +6.85% 37
Midlands +17 163 £38,000 -7.32% 35
North West +31 124 £40,000 -14.89% 39
East of England +28 106 £40,000 -5.88% 18
West Midlands +9 99 £38,000 -7.32% 21
South West -21 99 £40,000 -5.33% 43
Yorkshire +123 90 £40,000 -15.79% 14
East Midlands +9 64 £44,612 +10.15% 14
North East - 64 £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
1 206 (17.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (15.36%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.16%) SharePoint 2010
3 14 (1.16%) SharePoint 2013
4 11 (0.91%) IIS
5 10 (0.83%) CMS
6 9 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.58%) Apache
8 5 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.083%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.083%) Confluence
9 1 (0.083%) Drupal
9 1 (0.083%) SAS
9 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 156 (12.88%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.07%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.083%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.083%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.083%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.25%) Maximo
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.17%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.17%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.083%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.083%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 756 (62.43%) Azure
2 501 (41.37%) Microsoft 365
3 261 (21.55%) Power Platform
4 145 (11.97%) AWS
5 106 (8.75%) Entra ID
6 92 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (6.69%) PowerApps
9 67 (5.53%) Power Automate
10 44 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 41 (3.39%) IaaS
12 40 (3.30%) IBM Cloud
13 39 (3.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 38 (3.14%) PaaS
15 34 (2.81%) OneDrive
15 34 (2.81%) Serverless
16 30 (2.48%) GCP
17 26 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
18 25 (2.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 202 (16.68%) Firewall
2 128 (10.57%) DNS
3 122 (10.07%) DHCP
4 112 (9.25%) SAN
5 89 (7.35%) TCP/IP
6 84 (6.94%) VPN
7 78 (6.44%) Broadband
8 77 (6.36%) WAN
9 72 (5.95%) LAN
10 68 (5.62%) Network Security
10 68 (5.62%) VLAN
11 50 (4.13%) VoIP
12 42 (3.47%) Internet
13 41 (3.39%) Wireless
14 40 (3.30%) NAS
15 28 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
16 27 (2.23%) Remote Desktop
17 26 (2.15%) Intranet
18 17 (1.40%) SD-WAN
19 12 (0.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (17.75%) Power BI
2 195 (16.10%) SQL Server
3 106 (8.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (3.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 44 (3.63%) Data Lake
6 40 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (2.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 32 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 14 (1.16%) Big Data
13 13 (1.07%) Metadata
14 9 (0.74%) QlikView
14 9 (0.74%) Tableau
15 7 (0.58%) MySQL
15 7 (0.58%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.50%) NoSQL
17 5 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (1.57%) 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 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.17%) Hudson
9 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.083%) AdminStudio
10 1 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.083%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.083%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.083%) MSI
10 1 (0.083%) Vagrant
General
1 541 (44.67%) Social Skills
2 152 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (10.57%) Finance
4 119 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 62 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
7 54 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (4.21%) Marketing
9 42 (3.47%) Legal
9 42 (3.47%) Manufacturing
10 35 (2.89%) Retail
11 33 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 25 (2.06%) Law
13 15 (1.24%) Banking
14 14 (1.16%) Billing
15 13 (1.07%) Automotive
16 10 (0.83%) Games
16 10 (0.83%) Local Government
17 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 173 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 167 (13.79%) IT Support
3 118 (9.74%) Architect
4 116 (9.58%) Senior
5 113 (9.33%) IT Engineer
6 99 (8.18%) Analyst
7 94 (7.76%) DBA
8 86 (7.10%) Consultant
9 85 (7.02%) SQL DBA
10 83 (6.85%) IT Support Engineer
11 75 (6.19%) 2nd Line Support
12 72 (5.95%) Lead
13 64 (5.28%) 3rd Line Support
14 63 (5.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 57 (4.71%) Developer
16 56 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 52 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 51 (4.21%) Administrator
19 46 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
20 44 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.55%) HTML
2 41 (3.39%) CSS
3 37 (3.06%) .NET
4 27 (2.23%) ARM Templates
5 22 (1.82%) ASP.NET
6 20 (1.65%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.57%) ASP.NET MVC
8 15 (1.24%) Entity Framework
9 14 (1.16%) 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 (0.50%) 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 88 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 70 (5.78%) Driving Licence
3 54 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 47 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 46 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (3.80%) Replication
6 40 (3.30%) Blockchain
6 40 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 39 (3.22%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.81%) Private Cloud
9 32 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (2.23%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.98%) Cloud Native
13 24 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
14 17 (1.40%) Low-Code
15 16 (1.32%) NHS
15 16 (1.32%) Smartphone
16 15 (1.24%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 527 (43.52%) Windows
2 277 (22.87%) Windows Server
3 136 (11.23%) Linux
4 124 (10.24%) Windows 10
5 85 (7.02%) VMS
6 48 (3.96%) Mac OS
7 46 (3.80%) Debian
8 44 (3.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 43 (3.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 41 (3.39%) CentOS
11 40 (3.30%) Alpine Linux
11 40 (3.30%) Apple iOS
12 31 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
13 21 (1.73%) Android
14 18 (1.49%) Windows 8
14 18 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
15 13 (1.07%) Ubuntu
16 12 (0.99%) SUSE
16 12 (0.99%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (22.96%) ITIL
3 249 (20.56%) Customer Service
4 215 (17.75%) Business Intelligence
5 167 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 154 (12.72%) DevOps
7 137 (11.31%) Agile
8 135 (11.15%) Computer Science
9 127 (10.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 118 (9.74%) Project Delivery
11 113 (9.33%) Project Management
12 107 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
12 107 (8.84%) CI/CD
13 105 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 103 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
15 88 (7.27%) Migration
16 87 (7.18%) Performance Tuning
17 86 (7.10%) High Availability
18 80 (6.61%) Presales
19 75 (6.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 280 (23.12%) SQL
2 119 (9.83%) PowerShell
3 94 (7.76%) C#
4 86 (7.10%) T-SQL
5 56 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 38 (3.14%) Python
7 22 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.24%) Bash
10 10 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (0.83%) U-SQL
11 9 (0.74%) Bicep
12 7 (0.58%) Java
12 7 (0.58%) R
13 6 (0.50%) C
14 5 (0.41%) C++
15 4 (0.33%) PHP
16 3 (0.25%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 370 (30.55%) Degree
2 289 (23.86%) MCSE
3 227 (18.74%) Azure Certification
4 197 (16.27%) MCSA
5 161 (13.29%) Cisco Certification
6 153 (12.63%) MCP
7 139 (11.48%) A+ Certification
8 133 (10.98%) CCNA
9 108 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 95 (7.84%) Security Cleared
11 83 (6.85%) SC Cleared
12 75 (6.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 70 (5.78%) DBS Check
14 47 (3.88%) Network+ Certification
15 43 (3.55%) MCITP
16 27 (2.23%) CISSP
17 25 (2.06%) CCNP
17 25 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (1.90%) AWS Certification
18 23 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.86%) SLA
2 43 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (3.06%) GDPR
4 21 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.32%) NIST
7 13 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.07%) QA
7 13 (1.07%) WCAG
8 9 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.74%) NCSC
9 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.083%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.083%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.083%) PMO
10 1 (0.083%) SOC 2
System Software
1 472 (38.98%) Active Directory
2 199 (16.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (11.48%) Hyper-V
4 86 (7.10%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (5.28%) Docker
6 51 (4.21%) vSphere
7 31 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
8 19 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.32%) XenDesktop
10 13 (1.07%) XenApp
11 12 (0.99%) vCloud
12 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.66%) Firmware
14 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
16 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
16 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.083%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.083%) LXC
17 1 (0.083%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 121 (9.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 83 (6.85%) SCCM
4 76 (6.28%) Terraform
5 24 (1.98%) SCOM
6 12 (0.99%) FortiGate
7 11 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.74%) WSUS
9 8 (0.66%) Autotask
9 8 (0.66%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.58%) SmoothWall
11 6 (0.50%) 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%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.25%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.25%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 1,080 (89.18%) Microsoft
2 262 (21.64%) VMware
3 107 (8.84%) Cisco
4 78 (6.44%) HP
5 61 (5.04%) Apple
6 58 (4.79%) Veeam
7 51 (4.21%) Citrix
8 50 (4.13%) Adobe
9 46 (3.80%) Red Hat
10 45 (3.72%) IBM
11 34 (2.81%) Databricks
11 34 (2.81%) Google
12 29 (2.39%) Dell
12 29 (2.39%) Meraki
13 25 (2.06%) SolarWinds
14 22 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
15 18 (1.49%) Oracle
16 17 (1.40%) Commvault
17 15 (1.24%) Sophos
18 14 (1.16%) Bloomberg