Microsoft Certification Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Certification
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 174 192
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 98 99 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 1.43% 1.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 3.49% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 98 91 76
10th Percentile £26,675 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,875 £30,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -0.59% +0.64%
75th Percentile £56,063 £54,375 £51,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £57,931 £56,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,294 2,833 3,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 35.96% 41.02% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,147 1,264 1,601
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £39,759 £37,926 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £76,520
England median annual salary £54,995 £58,193 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.50% +5.81% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the South West

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the South West

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the South West

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Gloucestershire +1 25 £42,500 -22.73% 8
Somerset +4 23 £29,000 -17.14% 5
Bristol -12 17 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Devon +1 16 £40,000 +14.29% 3
Wiltshire -13 10 £46,750 -5.56% 4
Dorset -36 7 £33,500 -20.71% 2
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (22.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (19.39%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.16%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (8.16%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 23 (23.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Maximo
2 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (65.31%) Azure
2 40 (40.82%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (20.41%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.16%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.14%) AWS
5 7 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.10%) GCP
6 5 (5.10%) Nutanix
7 4 (4.08%) WhatsApp
8 3 (3.06%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.02%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.43%) Firewall
2 16 (16.33%) Remote Desktop
3 11 (11.22%) Broadband
3 11 (11.22%) Network Security
4 8 (8.16%) LAN
5 7 (7.14%) NAS
5 7 (7.14%) WAN
6 5 (5.10%) Wireless
7 4 (4.08%) DHCP
7 4 (4.08%) DNS
7 4 (4.08%) SAN
7 4 (4.08%) VoIP
7 4 (4.08%) VPN
8 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (2.04%) Internet
9 2 (2.04%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.04%) VLAN
9 2 (2.04%) WLAN
10 1 (1.02%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.49%) SQL Server
2 20 (20.41%) Power BI
3 13 (13.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (11.22%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.06%) GIS
8 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (1.02%) MSI
General
1 61 (62.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (9.18%) Legal
3 6 (6.12%) Finance
3 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Law
5 4 (4.08%) Banking
5 4 (4.08%) Marketing
6 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.04%) Military
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 17 (17.35%) 2nd Line Support
3 16 (16.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 16 (16.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 16 (16.33%) DBA
3 16 (16.33%) SQL DBA
4 15 (15.31%) IT Support
5 10 (10.20%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 10 (10.20%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Desktop Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Desktop Support
5 10 (10.20%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Field Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Field Support Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) IT Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) 1st Line Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) Developer
6 9 (9.18%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) .NET
2 5 (5.10%) .NET Core
2 5 (5.10%) AngularJS
2 5 (5.10%) CSS
2 5 (5.10%) HTML
3 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET
3 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (3.06%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.06%) Blazor
4 3 (3.06%) REST
5 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (1.02%) OAuth
5 1 (1.02%) React
5 1 (1.02%) Web Services
5 1 (1.02%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Driving Licence
2 10 (10.20%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.08%) iPhone
4 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (36.73%) Windows
2 18 (18.37%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.33%) VMS
4 14 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 12 (12.24%) Mac OS
6 6 (6.12%) Linux
7 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.04%) Windows 2000
8 2 (2.04%) Windows 8
8 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.04%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.92%) Customer Service
2 38 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (29.59%) ITIL
4 24 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (16.33%) Collaborative Working
6 15 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (13.27%) Service Management
8 12 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (11.22%) High Availability
9 11 (11.22%) Service Delivery
10 10 (10.20%) Computer Science
10 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.18%) Agile
11 9 (9.18%) Mentoring
11 9 (9.18%) Migration
12 8 (8.16%) Customer-Centricity
12 8 (8.16%) Problem Management
13 7 (7.14%) ITSM
14 5 (5.10%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.53%) SQL
2 13 (13.27%) T-SQL
3 11 (11.22%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.14%) C#
5 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.02%) Java
7 1 (1.02%) Python
7 1 (1.02%) Scala
7 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (36.73%) Degree
2 26 (26.53%) MCP
3 22 (22.45%) MCSE
4 21 (21.43%) DBS Check
5 15 (15.31%) A+ Certification
6 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
7 10 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (10.20%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (10.20%) MCITP
7 10 (10.20%) SC Cleared
8 8 (8.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 8 (8.16%) MCSA
9 4 (4.08%) CCNA
9 4 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (4.08%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (3.06%) MCPD
11 2 (2.04%) CISSP
11 2 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.04%) MCDST
11 2 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.22%) SLA
2 7 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (38.78%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (16.33%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (11.22%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.16%) XenDesktop
6 4 (4.08%) XenApp
7 3 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (2.04%) Terminal Server
9 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.33%) SCCM
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.04%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.02%) Terraform
4 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (98.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.39%) VMware
3 12 (12.24%) Citrix
4 9 (9.18%) HP
5 5 (5.10%) Cisco
5 5 (5.10%) Dell
5 5 (5.10%) Google
5 5 (5.10%) Symantec
6 4 (4.08%) iManage
7 2 (2.04%) Acronis
7 2 (2.04%) Aruba
7 2 (2.04%) Datto
7 2 (2.04%) Draytek
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle
8 1 (1.02%) CA
8 1 (1.02%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Sophos
8 1 (1.02%) Veeam
8 1 (1.02%) Xamarin