Microsoft Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,301 1,220 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.37% 19.89% 19.59%
As % of the Vendors category 48.53% 45.52% 47.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 813 839
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £58,250 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,900 £77,500 £79,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,681 2,680 2,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 39.93% 43.70% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,894 1,502 1,827
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,341 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -1.32% -3.85%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire 0 587 £47,500 +3.83% 99
Buckinghamshire -2 393 £42,500 +21.43% 106
Oxfordshire +1 321 £42,796 -14.41% 85
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 170 (13.07%) SharePoint
2 156 (11.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (3.23%) IIS
4 31 (2.38%) CMS
5 26 (2.00%) Kentico
6 24 (1.84%) Headless CMS
7 19 (1.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 19 (1.46%) Umbraco
8 18 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2010
9 13 (1.00%) Confluence
10 7 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.54%) WordPress
11 6 (0.46%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.23%) Alfresco
13 3 (0.23%) Documentum
13 3 (0.23%) FileNet
13 3 (0.23%) IBM Domino
14 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
15 1 (0.077%) Apache
Applications
1 196 (15.07%) Microsoft Office
2 173 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.23%) Revit
8 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.077%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 68 (5.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.61%) Primavera
4 7 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.077%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 505 (38.82%) Azure
2 439 (33.74%) Microsoft 365
3 170 (13.07%) Power Platform
4 94 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
5 82 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (5.84%) Entra ID
7 63 (4.84%) OneDrive
8 61 (4.69%) PowerApps
9 59 (4.53%) Power Automate
10 49 (3.77%) AWS
11 39 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (2.92%) SaaS
13 21 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (1.61%) Kontent
14 20 (1.54%) Google Workspace
15 19 (1.46%) Azure Storage
15 19 (1.46%) PaaS
16 15 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (0.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 174 (13.37%) Firewall
2 128 (9.84%) DNS
3 90 (6.92%) DHCP
4 49 (3.77%) Broadband
5 45 (3.46%) WAN
6 39 (3.00%) VPN
7 37 (2.84%) LAN
7 37 (2.84%) TCP/IP
8 34 (2.61%) Wireless
9 33 (2.54%) VLAN
10 32 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.69%) VoIP
12 21 (1.61%) SAN
13 20 (1.54%) Internet
13 20 (1.54%) Network Security
13 20 (1.54%) SNMP
14 18 (1.38%) Intranet
14 18 (1.38%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (14.22%) SQL Server
2 102 (7.84%) Power BI
3 29 (2.23%) Data Lake
4 25 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.08%) Power Query
10 12 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.92%) Tableau
11 10 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.69%) MySQL
12 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 8 (0.61%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (0.46%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.46%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (2.77%) Visual Studio
2 30 (2.31%) JIRA
3 23 (1.77%) Git
4 20 (1.54%) NUnit
5 13 (1.00%) GitLab
5 13 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.46%) Selenium
8 5 (0.38%) Bugzilla
8 5 (0.38%) MSTest
8 5 (0.38%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.31%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.31%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.31%) MSI
10 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (0.23%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.15%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.15%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 496 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 170 (13.07%) Finance
3 149 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
5 72 (5.53%) Law
6 69 (5.30%) Legal
7 61 (4.69%) Retail
8 44 (3.38%) Marketing
9 43 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 33 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.54%) Public Sector
13 31 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.61%) Back Office
16 19 (1.46%) Automotive
17 12 (0.92%) Banking
17 12 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 192 (14.76%) Analyst
2 165 (12.68%) Senior
3 159 (12.22%) Developer
4 139 (10.68%) IT Support
5 118 (9.07%) Support Engineer
6 106 (8.15%) IT Engineer
7 92 (7.07%) .NET Developer
8 88 (6.76%) Consultant
9 81 (6.23%) IT Support Engineer
10 80 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 67 (5.15%) Architect
12 61 (4.69%) C# Developer
13 59 (4.53%) Lead
14 56 (4.30%) C# .NET Developer
15 55 (4.23%) IT Analyst
16 52 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
17 48 (3.69%) 3rd Line Support
18 44 (3.38%) Support Analyst
19 42 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
20 41 (3.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (12.68%) .NET
2 88 (6.76%) ASP.NET
3 82 (6.30%) .NET Framework
4 73 (5.61%) .NET Core
5 65 (5.00%) React
6 57 (4.38%) ASP.NET MVC
7 41 (3.15%) AngularJS
8 38 (2.92%) Entity Framework
9 31 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
10 24 (1.84%) Next.js
10 24 (1.84%) RESTful
10 24 (1.84%) Vue
11 23 (1.77%) CSS
11 23 (1.77%) HTML
11 23 (1.77%) Web Services
12 18 (1.38%) Node.js
13 15 (1.15%) ARM Templates
13 15 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 13 (1.00%) WinForms
15 12 (0.92%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.22%) Self-Motivation
2 59 (4.53%) Data Centre
3 53 (4.07%) Driving Licence
4 38 (2.92%) PKI
5 35 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 24 (1.84%) Replication
8 23 (1.77%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 18 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
9 18 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.23%) Biopharmaceutical
11 15 (1.15%) Social Media
12 14 (1.08%) CMDB
12 14 (1.08%) Educational Technology
12 14 (1.08%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 389 (29.90%) Windows
2 178 (13.68%) Windows Server
3 167 (12.84%) Windows 10
4 110 (8.46%) Linux
5 85 (6.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 81 (6.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 62 (4.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 47 (3.61%) Windows 7
9 40 (3.07%) Android
10 32 (2.46%) Apple iOS
11 20 (1.54%) Unix
12 18 (1.38%) Mac OS
13 16 (1.23%) Windows XP
14 13 (1.00%) Mac OS X
14 13 (1.00%) Windows NT
15 9 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (0.61%) CentOS
16 8 (0.61%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.61%) VMS
17 7 (0.54%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
2 236 (18.14%) Agile
3 232 (17.83%) Customer Service
4 188 (14.45%) ITIL
5 165 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
5 165 (12.68%) DevOps
6 126 (9.68%) CRM
7 114 (8.76%) Project Management
8 105 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
9 98 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 97 (7.46%) Decision-Making
10 97 (7.46%) Mentoring
11 96 (7.38%) Analytics
12 92 (7.07%) Presales
13 86 (6.61%) Service Management
14 72 (5.53%) MVC
15 68 (5.23%) Service Delivery
16 61 (4.69%) Roadmaps
17 57 (4.38%) Computer Science
18 56 (4.30%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 204 (15.68%) SQL
2 185 (14.22%) C#
3 111 (8.53%) JavaScript
4 83 (6.38%) PowerShell
5 69 (5.30%) Python
6 39 (3.00%) T-SQL
7 36 (2.77%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.61%) Fortran
9 31 (2.38%) Bash
10 28 (2.15%) C++
11 25 (1.92%) VB
11 25 (1.92%) VBScript
12 19 (1.46%) Java
13 14 (1.08%) Bicep
13 14 (1.08%) C
14 12 (0.92%) Perl
15 11 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.85%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 304 (23.37%) Degree
2 268 (20.60%) Security Cleared
3 145 (11.15%) DV Cleared
4 139 (10.68%) SC Cleared
5 72 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (4.15%) DBS Check
7 49 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (3.15%) ACCA
8 41 (3.15%) CIMA
9 38 (2.92%) MCP
10 36 (2.77%) CCNA
11 31 (2.38%) Azure Certification
12 29 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (2.23%) NVQ Level 3
13 27 (2.08%) CISSP
13 27 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (2.00%) Master's Degree
15 23 (1.77%) A+ Certification
15 23 (1.77%) CCNP
16 21 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.23%) SLA
2 41 (3.15%) GDPR
3 26 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (2.00%) QA
4 19 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 13 (1.00%) NIST
7 7 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.077%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.077%) COSHH
11 1 (0.077%) GAAP
11 1 (0.077%) IASME
11 1 (0.077%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 354 (27.21%) Active Directory
2 107 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (5.84%) Hyper-V
4 32 (2.46%) Firmware
5 19 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (1.15%) Docker
7 15 (1.15%) KVM
8 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (1.00%) vSphere
10 6 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.31%) XenApp
12 3 (0.23%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.077%) NFS
13 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (8.99%) SCCM
2 111 (8.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 47 (3.61%) SCOM
4 46 (3.54%) WSUS
5 29 (2.23%) Kubernetes
6 27 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (1.46%) NetBackup
8 16 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 14 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (1.00%) Sysprep
11 11 (0.85%) Terraform
12 7 (0.54%) Ansible
13 6 (0.46%) Stealthwatch
14 5 (0.38%) CASB
14 5 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.38%) Puppet
14 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
15 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.31%) PaperCut
15 4 (0.31%) Suricata
Vendors
1 153 (11.76%) VMware
2 69 (5.30%) Apple
3 67 (5.15%) Cisco
3 67 (5.15%) Citrix
4 64 (4.92%) Adobe
5 57 (4.38%) Veeam
6 49 (3.77%) HP
7 40 (3.07%) Google
8 36 (2.77%) Dell
9 26 (2.00%) Oracle
10 23 (1.77%) Juniper
10 23 (1.77%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 19 (1.46%) EMC
12 19 (1.46%) Optimizely
12 19 (1.46%) Sitecore
13 17 (1.31%) Meraki
13 17 (1.31%) SAP
14 15 (1.15%) Databricks