Microsoft Jobs in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 15,929 17,305 19,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.69% 18.78% 14.90%
As % of the Vendors category 50.07% 44.85% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,232 10,269 13,037
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,207
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 median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
England

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 advertised in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 31,812 38,587 51,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.33% 41.88% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 22,829 22,129 29,227
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,924 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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 +6 4,358 £60,709 -2.87% 1,515
South East +3 3,440 £45,000 - 931
North of England 0 2,892 £43,500 -3.33% 977
Midlands +2 2,265 £42,500 -10.73% 751
South West +3 1,617 £46,958 +17.39% 529
North West -2 1,499 £45,000 - 530
West Midlands +2 1,494 £45,000 -10.00% 469
East of England +2 1,219 £38,000 -5.00% 419
Yorkshire +2 977 £41,605 -6.51% 332
East Midlands +1 762 £37,500 -12.79% 280
North East +3 415 £42,500 +6.25% 123
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 1,703 (10.69%) SharePoint
2 1,581 (9.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 279 (1.75%) IIS
4 189 (1.19%) Confluence
5 142 (0.89%) CMS
6 71 (0.45%) Skype for Business
7 70 (0.44%) Umbraco
8 61 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 59 (0.37%) Apache
10 53 (0.33%) Kentico
11 50 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
12 49 (0.31%) SAS
13 44 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
13 44 (0.28%) WordPress
14 40 (0.25%) Headless CMS
15 38 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
16 22 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
17 21 (0.13%) Tomcat
18 20 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
19 18 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,899 (18.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2,106 (13.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 586 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 249 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 120 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 62 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 50 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 24 (0.15%) InDesign
10 18 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 17 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 15 (0.094%) Trello
13 13 (0.082%) SPSS
14 11 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
15 9 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.050%) Acrobat
16 8 (0.050%) Sketch
17 7 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
18 6 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 545 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 99 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 76 (0.48%) Primavera
4 45 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 34 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 26 (0.16%) Shopify
7 24 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 23 (0.14%) NEC Housing
9 22 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
10 21 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 18 (0.11%) iTrent
11 18 (0.11%) Magento
12 15 (0.094%) Elite 3E
12 15 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
13 14 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
14 13 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
15 12 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
16 11 (0.069%) Maximo
16 11 (0.069%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 6,531 (41.00%) Azure
2 4,887 (30.68%) Microsoft 365
3 2,067 (12.98%) Power Platform
4 1,269 (7.97%) AWS
5 1,235 (7.75%) Entra ID
6 1,097 (6.89%) Dynamics 365
7 770 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 636 (3.99%) PowerApps
9 619 (3.89%) SaaS
10 602 (3.78%) Power Automate
11 403 (2.53%) OneDrive
12 370 (2.32%) GCP
13 311 (1.95%) PaaS
14 295 (1.85%) IaaS
15 223 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
16 202 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 182 (1.14%) Serverless
18 161 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 139 (0.87%) GitHub
20 134 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,504 (9.44%) Firewall
2 1,058 (6.64%) DNS
3 930 (5.84%) WAN
4 805 (5.05%) Broadband
5 791 (4.97%) DHCP
6 767 (4.82%) LAN
7 579 (3.63%) VPN
8 519 (3.26%) TCP/IP
9 497 (3.12%) Wireless
10 453 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
11 448 (2.81%) SAN
12 343 (2.15%) VLAN
13 321 (2.02%) Internet
14 287 (1.80%) VoIP
15 279 (1.75%) Network Security
15 279 (1.75%) SD-WAN
16 224 (1.41%) 5G
17 194 (1.22%) Intranet
18 159 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
19 153 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,438 (15.31%) SQL Server
2 1,335 (8.38%) Power BI
3 426 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 426 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 398 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 307 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 283 (1.78%) MongoDB
7 256 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 253 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 248 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 159 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 135 (0.85%) Tableau
12 126 (0.79%) MySQL
13 125 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
14 116 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
15 99 (0.62%) NoSQL
16 97 (0.61%) Big Data
17 87 (0.55%) MS Access
18 67 (0.42%) Power Query
19 65 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 455 (2.86%) Git
2 405 (2.54%) JIRA
3 368 (2.31%) Visual Studio
4 121 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 108 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 97 (0.61%) GitLab
7 71 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 69 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.41%) Sourcetree
10 45 (0.28%) NUnit
11 44 (0.28%) Subversion
12 40 (0.25%) Selenium
13 39 (0.24%) TeamCity
14 33 (0.21%) Postman
15 27 (0.17%) Jasmine
15 27 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
16 23 (0.14%) Moq
17 22 (0.14%) Cucumber
18 16 (0.10%) MSTest
19 15 (0.094%) Balsamiq
General
1 5,712 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 3,248 (20.39%) Finance
3 2,192 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 926 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 881 (5.53%) Retail
6 747 (4.69%) Law
7 715 (4.49%) Legal
8 664 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 642 (4.03%) Public Sector
10 640 (4.02%) Marketing
11 588 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
12 472 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 459 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
14 390 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 363 (2.28%) Banking
16 260 (1.63%) Games
17 215 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
18 206 (1.29%) Advertising
19 172 (1.08%) Local Government
20 158 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,362 (14.83%) Analyst
2 2,264 (14.21%) Developer
3 2,087 (13.10%) Senior
4 1,415 (8.88%) IT Support
5 1,097 (6.89%) Support Engineer
6 984 (6.18%) Architect
7 913 (5.73%) .NET Developer
8 898 (5.64%) IT Engineer
9 842 (5.29%) Lead
10 823 (5.17%) Consultant
11 789 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 589 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
13 574 (3.60%) Administrator
14 457 (2.87%) 2nd Line Support
15 441 (2.77%) IT Analyst
16 437 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
17 436 (2.74%) Support Analyst
18 420 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
19 415 (2.61%) C# Developer
20 413 (2.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,953 (12.26%) .NET
2 996 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 939 (5.89%) .NET Core
4 766 (4.81%) ASP.NET MVC
5 739 (4.64%) AngularJS
6 723 (4.54%) HTML
7 677 (4.25%) .NET Framework
8 621 (3.90%) ASP.NET Web API
9 605 (3.80%) Entity Framework
10 503 (3.16%) React
11 501 (3.15%) CSS
12 367 (2.30%) HTML5
13 334 (2.10%) RESTful
14 296 (1.86%) Node.js
15 283 (1.78%) Vue
16 250 (1.57%) Web Services
17 243 (1.53%) JSON
18 239 (1.50%) REST
19 201 (1.26%) XML
20 193 (1.21%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 882 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
2 715 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 617 (3.87%) Driving Licence
4 492 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 340 (2.13%) Social Media
6 299 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 290 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 252 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
9 237 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 225 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 213 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 206 (1.29%) PKI
13 154 (0.97%) Cloud Native
14 153 (0.96%) Replication
15 143 (0.90%) Clustering
16 132 (0.83%) Mobile App
17 130 (0.82%) Low-Code
18 127 (0.80%) NHS
19 116 (0.73%) Smartphone
20 109 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,424 (27.77%) Windows
2 1,939 (12.17%) Windows Server
3 1,338 (8.40%) Windows 10
4 1,027 (6.45%) Linux
5 481 (3.02%) Android
6 441 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 434 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 328 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
9 304 (1.91%) Apple iOS
10 289 (1.81%) Ubuntu
11 246 (1.54%) Mac OS
12 232 (1.46%) Windows 7
13 128 (0.80%) VMS
14 116 (0.73%) Unix
15 94 (0.59%) Windows 8
15 94 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
16 70 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 64 (0.40%) CentOS
18 54 (0.34%) Mac OS X
19 38 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,175 (19.93%) Agile
2 3,166 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
3 2,120 (13.31%) Customer Service
4 1,763 (11.07%) ITIL
5 1,574 (9.88%) DevOps
6 1,523 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
7 1,522 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
8 1,447 (9.08%) Mentoring
9 1,301 (8.17%) Project Management
10 1,269 (7.97%) CRM
11 1,027 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,001 (6.28%) Decision-Making
13 926 (5.81%) MVC
14 925 (5.81%) Full Stack Development
15 886 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 878 (5.51%) Roadmaps
17 860 (5.40%) Migration
18 815 (5.12%) Scrum
19 812 (5.10%) Microservices
20 804 (5.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,595 (16.29%) SQL
2 2,050 (12.87%) C#
3 1,401 (8.80%) JavaScript
4 1,155 (7.25%) PowerShell
5 653 (4.10%) Python
6 524 (3.29%) T-SQL
7 437 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 430 (2.70%) Bash
9 238 (1.49%) Java
10 136 (0.85%) VB
11 127 (0.80%) C++
12 107 (0.67%) VB.NET
13 104 (0.65%) C
14 95 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 84 (0.53%) Bicep
16 81 (0.51%) R
17 60 (0.38%) VBA
18 57 (0.36%) PHP
19 46 (0.29%) VBScript
20 43 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,609 (16.38%) Degree
2 1,183 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 1,081 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 734 (4.61%) SC Cleared
5 489 (3.07%) ACCA
6 467 (2.93%) DBS Check
7 465 (2.92%) CIMA
8 456 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 426 (2.67%) Azure Certification
10 384 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 312 (1.96%) DV Cleared
12 261 (1.64%) CCNA
13 249 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 222 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
15 220 (1.38%) A+ Certification
16 210 (1.32%) CISSP
17 204 (1.28%) MCP
18 183 (1.15%) MCSE
19 168 (1.05%) PMI Certification
20 153 (0.96%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 753 (4.73%) SLA
2 443 (2.78%) GDPR
3 440 (2.76%) QA
4 367 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 274 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 198 (1.24%) Data Quality
7 146 (0.92%) NIST
8 135 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 117 (0.73%) PMO
10 111 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 108 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 56 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 37 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 35 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 34 (0.21%) GRC
16 31 (0.19%) NCSC
17 30 (0.19%) COBIT
18 29 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
19 27 (0.17%) IFRS
20 26 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3,794 (23.82%) Active Directory
2 1,113 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 862 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 274 (1.72%) Docker
5 271 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 259 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
7 201 (1.26%) vSphere
8 181 (1.14%) XenApp
9 158 (0.99%) XenDesktop
10 134 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 114 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
12 77 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
13 63 (0.40%) Firmware
14 49 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 45 (0.28%) KVM
16 34 (0.21%) VMware NSX
17 29 (0.18%) VirtualBox
18 26 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 25 (0.16%) VMware Server
20 20 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,245 (7.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 651 (4.09%) SCCM
3 349 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 324 (2.03%) Terraform
5 274 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
6 154 (0.97%) WSUS
7 130 (0.82%) SCOM
8 120 (0.75%) Ansible
9 119 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 116 (0.73%) AirWatch
11 97 (0.61%) vCenter Server
12 96 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 62 (0.39%) FortiGate
14 50 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (0.27%) Puppet
16 42 (0.26%) Grafana
17 39 (0.24%) NetBackup
18 37 (0.23%) EnCase
19 36 (0.23%) CASB
19 36 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1,667 (10.47%) VMware
2 879 (5.52%) Cisco
3 647 (4.06%) Google
4 599 (3.76%) Citrix
5 502 (3.15%) Apple
6 403 (2.53%) Oracle
7 366 (2.30%) Dell
8 362 (2.27%) Veeam
9 342 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 327 (2.05%) HP
11 290 (1.82%) Adobe
12 239 (1.50%) CyberArk
13 235 (1.48%) SAP
14 210 (1.32%) Tanium
15 192 (1.21%) Meraki
16 185 (1.16%) Databricks
17 162 (1.02%) Salesforce
18 146 (0.92%) Fortinet
19 138 (0.87%) Red Hat
20 133 (0.83%) Sophos