Microsoft Certification Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 163 204 182
Rank change year-on-year +41 -22 -44
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 162 134 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.38% 1.41% 1.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.61% 3.56% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 127 112 144
10th Percentile £24,450 £25,500 £26,325
25th Percentile £28,000 £30,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -2.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,250 £62,251 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,886 3,767 3,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.65% 39.62% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,858 1,277 1,698
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +21 100 £38,000 -8.43% 20
East Midlands +9 62 £44,225 +7.21% 12
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 35 (21.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (17.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (19.75%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.23%) Trello
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (54.32%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (51.85%) Azure
3 38 (23.46%) Power Platform
4 29 (17.90%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.64%) AWS
5 14 (8.64%) PowerApps
6 13 (8.02%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.47%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.85%) GCP
9 3 (1.85%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.85%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.23%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.23%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.23%) Serverless
10 2 (1.23%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.67%) Firewall
2 20 (12.35%) DNS
3 18 (11.11%) DHCP
4 17 (10.49%) SAN
5 12 (7.41%) Network Security
5 12 (7.41%) VPN
6 11 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (6.17%) Internet
8 9 (5.56%) LAN
8 9 (5.56%) WAN
9 8 (4.94%) Intranet
10 6 (3.70%) Broadband
10 6 (3.70%) VLAN
10 6 (3.70%) VSAN
11 5 (3.09%) Wireless
12 4 (2.47%) NAS
13 3 (1.85%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (1.85%) WLAN
14 2 (1.23%) HTTP
14 2 (1.23%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.37%) Power BI
2 22 (13.58%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (4.94%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (3.70%) MySQL
6 6 (3.70%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.23%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.23%) Metadata
7 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.23%) Power Query
7 2 (1.23%) QlikView
7 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.23%) Tableau
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.62%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) MSBuild
General
1 85 (52.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.02%) Finance
4 10 (6.17%) Retail
5 8 (4.94%) Legal
6 6 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.09%) Police
8 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.47%) Local Government
9 3 (1.85%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Automotive
11 1 (0.62%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (24.07%) IT Support
2 27 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 23 (14.20%) IT Engineer
4 17 (10.49%) Analyst
4 17 (10.49%) DBA
5 15 (9.26%) Support Technician
6 14 (8.64%) IT Support Technician
6 14 (8.64%) IT Technician
7 13 (8.02%) Architect
7 13 (8.02%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) Administrator
8 11 (6.79%) SQL DBA
8 11 (6.79%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Consultant
9 10 (6.17%) Lead
9 10 (6.17%) Senior
10 8 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support
10 8 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Support Analyst
11 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.70%) .NET
2 4 (2.47%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.23%) MDX
3 2 (1.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.35%) Data Centre
2 13 (8.02%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.17%) Private Cloud
3 10 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.70%) PKI
4 6 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.09%) EPoS
5 5 (3.09%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.47%) Clustering
6 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.85%) CCTV
7 3 (1.85%) iPad
7 3 (1.85%) Media Streaming
7 3 (1.85%) Mobile Computing
7 3 (1.85%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.23%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 91 (56.17%) Windows
2 51 (31.48%) Windows Server
3 19 (11.73%) Linux
4 18 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 14 (8.64%) Mac OS
6 8 (4.94%) VMS
6 8 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (4.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (3.70%) Android
9 3 (1.85%) Unix
10 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.23%) Debian
10 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.23%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.62%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (19.75%) Customer Service
3 31 (19.14%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (19.14%) ITIL
4 25 (15.43%) Computer Science
4 25 (15.43%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (14.81%) Agile
6 23 (14.20%) DevOps
6 23 (14.20%) Migration
7 22 (13.58%) Software Engineering
8 19 (11.73%) Presales
9 16 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (9.26%) Project Management
11 14 (8.64%) CI/CD
12 13 (8.02%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (6.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (6.79%) High Availability
15 10 (6.17%) Change Management
15 10 (6.17%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 46 (28.40%) SQL
2 12 (7.41%) C#
3 11 (6.79%) T-SQL
4 8 (4.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.47%) Python
6 3 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.23%) PHP
7 2 (1.23%) R
7 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (37.04%) Degree
2 41 (25.31%) MCSE
3 30 (18.52%) A+ Certification
4 26 (16.05%) MCP
5 21 (12.96%) Azure Certification
6 20 (12.35%) CCNA
6 20 (12.35%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (11.11%) MCSA
8 17 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (8.02%) DBS Check
10 12 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (6.17%) SC Cleared
11 10 (6.17%) Security Cleared
12 9 (5.56%) MCITP
12 9 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (4.32%) AWS Certification
14 6 (3.70%) OCP
14 6 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (3.09%) HND
16 4 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.02%) SLA
2 6 (3.70%) GDPR
3 5 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (48.77%) Active Directory
2 30 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.73%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.79%) vSphere
5 10 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.70%) Docker
7 4 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (4.94%) SCCM
2 6 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.09%) FortiGate
3 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.09%) SCOM
4 4 (2.47%) AirWatch
4 4 (2.47%) Terraform
5 3 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 153 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 48 (29.63%) VMware
3 17 (10.49%) HP
4 16 (9.88%) Apple
5 13 (8.02%) Cisco
6 10 (6.17%) Adobe
6 10 (6.17%) Veeam
7 8 (4.94%) Nimble Storage
8 7 (4.32%) Dell
9 6 (3.70%) Citrix
9 6 (3.70%) Oracle
10 5 (3.09%) ConnectWise
10 5 (3.09%) Meraki
11 4 (2.47%) Ruckus Wireless
12 3 (1.85%) Google
12 3 (1.85%) Sage
13 2 (1.23%) EMC
13 2 (1.23%) IBM
13 2 (1.23%) Intel
13 2 (1.23%) SonicWALL