Microsoft Jobs in the South West

Microsoft
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,617 1,315 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.53% 19.01% 17.81%
As % of the Vendors category 54.37% 51.41% 45.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 763 904
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £24,575
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,958 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -5.88% +0.64%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £54,946
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,974 2,558 3,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.23% 36.99% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 1,503 1,976
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,125 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,500 £45,150
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% +0.78% +0.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,650 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £76,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
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 within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +10 366 £36,000 -15.29% 80
Bristol -7 363 £55,000 +24.47% 145
Wiltshire 0 279 £49,500 +10.00% 71
Devon +1 205 £45,000 +28.57% 65
Dorset +2 202 £39,375 -6.57% 30
Somerset +2 144 £40,000 +14.29% 84
Cornwall -6 34 £40,000 +3.23% 20
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
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
1 157 (9.71%) SharePoint
2 150 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 116 (7.17%) Confluence
4 26 (1.61%) CMS
5 25 (1.55%) IIS
6 21 (1.30%) Umbraco
7 19 (1.18%) Kentico
8 16 (0.99%) Headless CMS
8 16 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
9 14 (0.87%) SharePoint 2010
9 14 (0.87%) SharePoint 2013
10 10 (0.62%) Apache
11 8 (0.49%) SAS
12 7 (0.43%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.37%) NServiceBus
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.31%) Moodle
15 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.25%) Site Server
16 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 246 (15.21%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) 1Password
8 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.062%) Solid Edge
8 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (2.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.62%) Maximo
4 6 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.31%) Primavera
6 4 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.062%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.062%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 602 (37.23%) Azure
2 485 (29.99%) Microsoft 365
3 186 (11.50%) Power Platform
4 136 (8.41%) AWS
5 113 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 69 (4.27%) Power Automate
8 68 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
9 66 (4.08%) GCP
9 66 (4.08%) PowerApps
10 52 (3.22%) SaaS
11 48 (2.97%) OneDrive
12 34 (2.10%) PaaS
13 33 (2.04%) IaaS
14 19 (1.18%) Kontent
15 16 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (0.80%) GitHub
16 13 (0.80%) Nutanix
17 12 (0.74%) OCI
18 11 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 100 (6.18%) Firewall
2 79 (4.89%) LAN
3 70 (4.33%) WAN
4 61 (3.77%) DNS
5 51 (3.15%) SAN
6 48 (2.97%) DHCP
7 43 (2.66%) TCP/IP
8 40 (2.47%) VPN
9 38 (2.35%) Wireless
10 30 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
11 29 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (1.55%) Internet
13 24 (1.48%) VoIP
14 21 (1.30%) VLAN
15 18 (1.11%) Network Security
16 17 (1.05%) Broadband
17 13 (0.80%) NAS
17 13 (0.80%) SD-WAN
18 12 (0.74%) WLAN
19 11 (0.68%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 105 (6.49%) Power BI
3 49 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 37 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 22 (1.36%) MySQL
7 20 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.87%) GIS
10 14 (0.87%) Tableau
11 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.43%) Big Data
14 7 (0.43%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (0.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 128 (7.92%) JIRA
2 121 (7.48%) Visual Studio
3 119 (7.36%) Git
4 95 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.65%) Sourcetree
6 17 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
7 14 (0.87%) Subversion
8 13 (0.80%) Selenium
9 10 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.37%) Postman
13 4 (0.25%) Toad
14 3 (0.19%) Moq
14 3 (0.19%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.19%) xUnit.net
15 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
15 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
16 1 (0.062%) JIRA Agile
16 1 (0.062%) WebDriver
General
1 514 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 274 (16.94%) Finance
3 126 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
6 103 (6.37%) Games
7 89 (5.50%) Law
8 80 (4.95%) Marketing
9 75 (4.64%) Retail
10 66 (4.08%) Banking
11 58 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
11 58 (3.59%) Telecoms
12 57 (3.53%) Legal
13 49 (3.03%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.84%) Investment Banking
15 44 (2.72%) Fire and Rescue
16 37 (2.29%) Manufacturing
17 29 (1.79%) Aerospace
18 28 (1.73%) Military
19 19 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 335 (20.72%) Developer
2 234 (14.47%) Senior
3 148 (9.15%) Analyst
4 140 (8.66%) Support Engineer
5 126 (7.79%) IT Support
6 110 (6.80%) Architect
6 110 (6.80%) IT Engineer
7 107 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 96 (5.94%) .NET Developer
9 90 (5.57%) Administrator
9 90 (5.57%) Consultant
10 88 (5.44%) 3D Developer
10 88 (5.44%) Games Developer
10 88 (5.44%) Senior Developer
10 88 (5.44%) Unity 3D Developer
11 76 (4.70%) Lead
12 72 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
13 64 (3.96%) IT Support Engineer
14 58 (3.59%) Applications Developer
15 52 (3.22%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (13.67%) .NET
2 105 (6.49%) ASP.NET
3 89 (5.50%) .NET Core
4 88 (5.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 83 (5.13%) ASP.NET MVC
6 79 (4.89%) AngularJS
7 78 (4.82%) .NET Framework
8 74 (4.58%) CSS
8 74 (4.58%) React
9 71 (4.39%) HTML
10 52 (3.22%) Entity Framework
11 46 (2.84%) Vue
12 45 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
13 34 (2.10%) REST
14 30 (1.86%) jQuery
15 27 (1.67%) Blazor
16 21 (1.30%) RESTful
17 19 (1.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 18 (1.11%) HTML5
19 17 (1.05%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 99 (6.12%) Driving Licence
2 90 (5.57%) Virtual Reality
3 85 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (4.58%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 31 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.30%) Clustering
11 17 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.93%) Fat Client
13 15 (0.93%) Thin Client
14 14 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.80%) iPhone
15 13 (0.80%) PKI
16 12 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
17 11 (0.68%) Smartphone
17 11 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 484 (29.93%) Windows
2 184 (11.38%) Windows Server
3 153 (9.46%) Windows 10
4 123 (7.61%) Linux
5 82 (5.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 70 (4.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 66 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 42 (2.60%) Mac OS
9 32 (1.98%) CentOS
10 30 (1.86%) Apple iOS
11 28 (1.73%) Windows 7
12 24 (1.48%) Android
13 17 (1.05%) AIX
14 16 (0.99%) VMS
15 14 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 6 (0.37%) Unix
18 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
19 3 (0.19%) Solaris
20 2 (0.12%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
2 243 (15.03%) Agile
3 221 (13.67%) Customer Service
3 221 (13.67%) DevOps
4 201 (12.43%) ITIL
5 163 (10.08%) Scrum
6 156 (9.65%) Software Engineering
7 150 (9.28%) Mentoring
8 126 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
9 123 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 121 (7.48%) Design Patterns
10 121 (7.48%) UML
11 119 (7.36%) User Experience
12 117 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (7.05%) Project Delivery
14 112 (6.93%) Service Delivery
15 108 (6.68%) MVC
16 103 (6.37%) Full Stack Development
17 97 (6.00%) Roadmaps
18 94 (5.81%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 273 (16.88%) C#
2 240 (14.84%) SQL
3 170 (10.51%) PowerShell
4 146 (9.03%) JavaScript
5 83 (5.13%) Java
6 78 (4.82%) Python
7 45 (2.78%) Bash
7 45 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 14 (0.87%) PHP
10 12 (0.74%) C++
11 11 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.43%) C
13 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.37%) R
15 5 (0.31%) Ruby
15 5 (0.31%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.25%) VBA
17 3 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 350 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 334 (20.66%) Degree
3 271 (16.76%) SC Cleared
4 136 (8.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 104 (6.43%) DV Cleared
6 98 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 64 (3.96%) DBS Check
8 39 (2.41%) A+ Certification
9 35 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.73%) MCP
12 24 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (1.36%) MCSE
14 21 (1.30%) HNC
15 17 (1.05%) PMI Certification
16 14 (0.87%) CISSP
16 14 (0.87%) PMP
17 12 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
18 11 (0.68%) ISTQB
18 11 (0.68%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.83%) QA
2 61 (3.77%) SLA
3 51 (3.15%) GDPR
4 29 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 22 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.68%) NIST
8 10 (0.62%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.31%) SOC 1
10 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.25%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.19%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.12%) PMO
14 1 (0.062%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.062%) GAMP
14 1 (0.062%) GMP
14 1 (0.062%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 1 (0.062%) NCSC
System Software
1 370 (22.88%) Active Directory
2 146 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.61%) vSphere
6 22 (1.36%) XenApp
7 21 (1.30%) Docker
8 18 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.99%) XenDesktop
10 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.19%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.12%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 109 (6.74%) SCCM
2 97 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.11%) Nagios
4 13 (0.80%) Backup Exec
4 13 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 12 (0.74%) CASB
5 12 (0.74%) NetBackup
5 12 (0.74%) WSUS
6 11 (0.68%) Ansible
7 7 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
7 7 (0.43%) Terraform
8 6 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.37%) Icinga
8 6 (0.37%) ServiceCenter
9 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.31%) OfficeScan
9 5 (0.31%) Rancher
9 5 (0.31%) SCOM
9 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 197 (12.18%) VMware
2 99 (6.12%) Oracle
3 71 (4.39%) Google
4 51 (3.15%) Citrix
5 48 (2.97%) Cisco
6 45 (2.78%) HP
7 44 (2.72%) Red Hat
8 34 (2.10%) Sparx
9 28 (1.73%) Apple
9 28 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.73%) Veeam
10 27 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 25 (1.55%) IBM
12 23 (1.42%) SolarWinds
13 20 (1.24%) Dell
14 16 (0.99%) Optimizely
14 16 (0.99%) Sitecore
15 15 (0.93%) NetApp
15 15 (0.93%) Symantec
16 14 (0.87%) EMC