Microsoft Jobs in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,439 2,619 3,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.61% 17.55% 18.25%
As % of the Vendors category 51.81% 43.30% 46.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,550 1,888 2,424
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,638 6,049 7,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.77% 40.53% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,536 3,654 4,970
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £35,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £78,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +3.77%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the South East.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East 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
Thames Valley +2 1,297 £45,000 - 297
Hampshire +6 755 £45,000 +12.50% 192
Surrey +7 648 £47,500 - 85
Berkshire 0 584 £47,500 +3.83% 101
Buckinghamshire -2 393 £42,500 +21.43% 108
Oxfordshire +1 320 £42,750 -14.93% 88
Kent +5 304 £42,500 +6.25% 86
West Sussex +6 160 £50,000 -16.67% 46
East Sussex +2 159 £40,000 -25.23% 36
Middlesex +23 81 £39,190 -49.43% 1
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 2
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 392 (11.40%) SharePoint
2 310 (9.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (1.42%) IIS
4 43 (1.25%) CMS
5 27 (0.79%) Kentico
6 24 (0.70%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.64%) Umbraco
8 21 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
9 20 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
10 15 (0.44%) Confluence
11 10 (0.29%) WordPress
12 9 (0.26%) SAS
13 7 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
14 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
16 4 (0.12%) TWiki
17 3 (0.087%) IBM Domino
17 3 (0.087%) Skype for Business
18 2 (0.058%) Apache
Applications
1 654 (19.02%) Microsoft Office
2 612 (17.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 131 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
4 110 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.17%) InVision
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.12%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.12%) Simulink
10 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.087%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.087%) Revit
12 2 (0.058%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 106 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (1.74%) Primavera
3 18 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.15%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.087%) SAP MDM
8 2 (0.058%) assyst
8 2 (0.058%) Magento
8 2 (0.058%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,376 (40.01%) Azure
2 1,062 (30.88%) Microsoft 365
3 345 (10.03%) Power Platform
4 271 (7.88%) Entra ID
5 188 (5.47%) AWS
6 157 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
7 134 (3.90%) OneDrive
8 124 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (3.00%) PowerApps
10 100 (2.91%) Power Automate
11 88 (2.56%) SaaS
12 62 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
13 45 (1.31%) PaaS
14 39 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
15 36 (1.05%) IaaS
16 32 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
17 29 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 26 (0.76%) Mimecast
19 25 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
19 25 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 399 (11.60%) Firewall
2 303 (8.81%) Broadband
3 251 (7.30%) DNS
4 199 (5.79%) DHCP
5 149 (4.33%) VPN
6 135 (3.93%) LAN
7 131 (3.81%) TCP/IP
8 123 (3.58%) WAN
9 122 (3.55%) Wireless
10 90 (2.62%) VLAN
11 79 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
12 77 (2.24%) 5G
13 74 (2.15%) VoIP
14 68 (1.98%) Intranet
15 67 (1.95%) Internet
16 55 (1.60%) Unified Communications
17 50 (1.45%) SAN
18 48 (1.40%) Network Security
19 32 (0.93%) SD-WAN
20 30 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 238 (6.92%) Power BI
3 84 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 79 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 76 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
6 66 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 51 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 43 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 29 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
12 22 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.64%) Power Query
13 18 (0.52%) MySQL
14 14 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 14 (0.41%) Tableau
15 13 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 12 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 11 (0.32%) Oracle Database
18 9 (0.26%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 81 (2.36%) JIRA
2 79 (2.30%) Visual Studio
3 70 (2.04%) Git
4 48 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.93%) GitLab
6 22 (0.64%) NUnit
7 21 (0.61%) Subversion
8 12 (0.35%) Selenium
8 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.29%) Postman
9 10 (0.29%) Trac
10 9 (0.26%) eggPlant
10 9 (0.26%) JMeter
10 9 (0.26%) MSI
11 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.17%) Newman
12 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.15%) MSBuild
General
1 1,351 (39.28%) Social Skills
2 598 (17.39%) Finance
3 560 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (6.48%) Influencing Skills
5 215 (6.25%) Retail
6 199 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
7 148 (4.30%) Legal
8 131 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 123 (3.58%) Telecoms
10 110 (3.20%) Law
11 92 (2.68%) Marketing
12 91 (2.65%) Public Sector
13 84 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 81 (2.36%) Manufacturing
15 66 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
16 58 (1.69%) Games
17 52 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.40%) Advertising
19 40 (1.16%) Automotive
20 39 (1.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 570 (16.57%) Analyst
2 431 (12.53%) Developer
2 431 (12.53%) Senior
3 327 (9.51%) IT Support
4 281 (8.17%) Support Engineer
5 267 (7.76%) .NET Developer
6 235 (6.83%) IT Engineer
7 176 (5.12%) Lead
8 170 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
9 162 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 160 (4.65%) Consultant
11 156 (4.54%) Senior Analyst
12 154 (4.48%) Architect
13 138 (4.01%) Administrator
14 122 (3.55%) C# Developer
15 110 (3.20%) IT Analyst
15 110 (3.20%) Support Analyst
16 109 (3.17%) 2nd Line Support
17 108 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
18 98 (2.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (13.06%) .NET
2 261 (7.59%) ASP.NET
3 253 (7.36%) .NET Core
4 215 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
5 190 (5.52%) .NET Framework
6 176 (5.12%) AngularJS
7 170 (4.94%) Entity Framework
8 152 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
9 146 (4.25%) React
10 121 (3.52%) HTML
11 94 (2.73%) Node.js
12 90 (2.62%) HTML5
13 85 (2.47%) CSS
14 79 (2.30%) RESTful
15 78 (2.27%) Vue
16 51 (1.48%) CSS3
17 49 (1.42%) LINQ
18 48 (1.40%) Blazor
19 44 (1.28%) Web Services
20 43 (1.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 233 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
2 124 (3.61%) Management Information System
3 119 (3.46%) Driving Licence
4 94 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 90 (2.62%) Social Media
6 80 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 68 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 54 (1.57%) PKI
8 54 (1.57%) Product Ownership
9 44 (1.28%) Replication
10 38 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.02%) IoT
12 34 (0.99%) Client/Server
12 34 (0.99%) NHS
13 31 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 31 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 29 (0.84%) PMI
15 28 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (0.81%) Low-Code
16 27 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1,038 (30.18%) Windows
2 465 (13.52%) Windows Server
3 355 (10.32%) Windows 10
4 262 (7.62%) Linux
5 126 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 119 (3.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 103 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 89 (2.59%) Android
9 85 (2.47%) Windows 7
10 81 (2.36%) Apple iOS
11 76 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
12 49 (1.42%) Mac OS
13 47 (1.37%) Windows 8
14 30 (0.87%) VMS
15 23 (0.67%) CentOS
16 20 (0.58%) Unix
17 17 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.49%) Windows XP
18 16 (0.47%) Mac OS X
18 16 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
2 805 (23.41%) Agile
3 543 (15.79%) Customer Service
4 368 (10.70%) ITIL
5 342 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
6 328 (9.54%) Mentoring
7 325 (9.45%) Project Management
8 307 (8.93%) DevOps
9 297 (8.64%) Decision-Making
10 276 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
11 269 (7.82%) CRM
12 249 (7.24%) Actionable Insight
13 247 (7.18%) Full Stack Development
14 242 (7.04%) MVC
15 210 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 209 (6.08%) Business Case
17 201 (5.84%) Budgeting
18 197 (5.73%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 190 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
20 183 (5.32%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 469 (13.64%) C#
2 453 (13.17%) SQL
3 323 (9.39%) JavaScript
4 215 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 125 (3.63%) Python
6 112 (3.26%) Bash
7 108 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 75 (2.18%) T-SQL
9 69 (2.01%) C++
10 59 (1.72%) C
11 44 (1.28%) Java
12 34 (0.99%) Fortran
13 30 (0.87%) VB
14 29 (0.84%) VBScript
15 17 (0.49%) Bicep
16 12 (0.35%) Perl
17 11 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (0.32%) MATLAB
17 11 (0.32%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 557 (16.20%) Degree
2 380 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 202 (5.87%) SC Cleared
4 196 (5.70%) ACCA
5 195 (5.67%) CIMA
6 186 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 167 (4.86%) DV Cleared
8 141 (4.10%) DBS Check
9 115 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
10 84 (2.44%) CCNA
11 74 (2.15%) Azure Certification
12 63 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
13 55 (1.60%) MCP
14 41 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
15 40 (1.16%) A+ Certification
15 40 (1.16%) Master's Degree
15 40 (1.16%) NVQ Level 3
16 39 (1.13%) CCNP
17 37 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 36 (1.05%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.06%) SLA
2 104 (3.02%) GDPR
3 73 (2.12%) QA
4 42 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 26 (0.76%) PMO
8 22 (0.64%) NIST
9 21 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 14 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 9 (0.26%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) ISO 13485
17 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.15%) NCSC
19 4 (0.12%) Automotive SPICE
19 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 836 (24.31%) Active Directory
2 245 (7.12%) Hyper-V
3 238 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (1.63%) Docker
6 48 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 46 (1.34%) Firmware
8 41 (1.19%) vSphere
9 40 (1.16%) XenApp
10 33 (0.96%) XenDesktop
11 32 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
12 29 (0.84%) VirtualBox
13 15 (0.44%) KVM
14 11 (0.32%) NFS
15 10 (0.29%) pfSense
15 10 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
16 8 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.15%) Terminal Services
18 4 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 283 (8.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 142 (4.13%) SCCM
3 75 (2.18%) Kubernetes
4 73 (2.12%) Jamf Pro
5 59 (1.72%) WSUS
6 55 (1.60%) SCOM
7 34 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 33 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 30 (0.87%) Terraform
10 27 (0.79%) Ansible
11 19 (0.55%) NetBackup
12 18 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.47%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.44%) Grafana
15 13 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
15 13 (0.38%) ServiceCenter
15 13 (0.38%) Sysprep
16 11 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 347 (10.09%) VMware
2 200 (5.82%) Cisco
3 128 (3.72%) Citrix
4 122 (3.55%) Apple
5 101 (2.94%) Google
6 93 (2.70%) Adobe
7 90 (2.62%) Veeam
8 73 (2.12%) HP
9 67 (1.95%) CyberArk
9 67 (1.95%) Tanium
10 58 (1.69%) Meraki
11 56 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 55 (1.60%) Dell
13 50 (1.45%) Oracle
14 48 (1.40%) Juniper
15 46 (1.34%) Palo Alto
16 41 (1.19%) SAP
17 40 (1.16%) Salesforce
18 36 (1.05%) Aruba
19 33 (0.96%) Red Hat