Microsoft Certification Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 276 227
Rank change year-on-year +70 -49 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 969 729 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 1.21% 1.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.97% 3.33% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 798 600 770
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -2.35% +3.66%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £66,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,100 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.22% +0.22% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,486 21,880 22,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.48% 36.38% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,231 8,108 10,239
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,029 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +149 278 £40,000 -14.89% 77
South East +17 242 £38,500 +5.48% 47
Midlands +19 164 £39,000 -4.88% 49
North West +44 124 £40,000 -14.89% 48
East of England +31 106 £40,000 -5.88% 27
West Midlands +19 100 £38,000 -7.32% 31
South West -21 99 £40,000 -5.33% 53
Yorkshire +130 90 £40,000 -5.88% 20
East Midlands +8 64 £44,612 +10.15% 18
North East - 64 £32,500 - 10
Scotland -59 42 £57,500 +27.78% 20
Wales +11 25 £27,000 -40.66% 11
Northern Ireland +31 12 £45,000 -27.71% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 163 (16.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (13.83%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.03%) CMS
3 10 (1.03%) SharePoint 2010
3 10 (1.03%) SharePoint 2013
4 8 (0.83%) IIS
5 4 (0.41%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) Apache
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 127 (13.11%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Trello
5 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.10%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Maximo
3 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 2 (0.21%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 603 (62.23%) Azure
2 419 (43.24%) Microsoft 365
3 200 (20.64%) Power Platform
4 98 (10.11%) Entra ID
5 78 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (7.74%) AWS
7 56 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
8 43 (4.44%) PowerApps
9 40 (4.13%) IBM Cloud
10 39 (4.02%) Power Automate
11 32 (3.30%) OneDrive
12 20 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.96%) GCP
14 18 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (1.65%) Serverless
15 16 (1.65%) WhatsApp
16 12 (1.24%) SaaS
17 11 (1.14%) Azure Functions
17 11 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 167 (17.23%) Firewall
2 94 (9.70%) DNS
3 92 (9.49%) Broadband
4 88 (9.08%) DHCP
5 79 (8.15%) SAN
6 72 (7.43%) TCP/IP
7 69 (7.12%) WAN
8 67 (6.91%) VPN
9 66 (6.81%) LAN
10 56 (5.78%) VLAN
11 51 (5.26%) Network Security
12 50 (5.16%) VoIP
13 41 (4.23%) Internet
14 39 (4.02%) NAS
15 33 (3.41%) Wireless
16 31 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
17 30 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
18 22 (2.27%) Intranet
19 14 (1.44%) MPLS
20 12 (1.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (19.50%) SQL Server
2 169 (17.44%) Power BI
3 99 (10.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 42 (4.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 39 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (3.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 27 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.83%) MySQL
11 6 (0.62%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.62%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.52%) Power Query
12 5 (0.52%) Redis
13 4 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.41%) QlikView
14 3 (0.31%) GIS
14 3 (0.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (1.75%) Git
2 10 (1.03%) JIRA
3 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.31%) GitLab
3 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.21%) Hudson
4 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.21%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.10%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.10%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.10%) MSI
General
1 444 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 113 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (7.12%) Finance
4 63 (6.50%) Public Sector
5 55 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 31 (3.20%) Legal
8 30 (3.10%) Retail
9 27 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.58%) Law
11 19 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.44%) Marketing
14 10 (1.03%) Banking
14 10 (1.03%) Games
14 10 (1.03%) Local Government
15 9 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.83%) Police
17 7 (0.72%) General Ledger
18 6 (0.62%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 174 (17.96%) Support Engineer
2 151 (15.58%) IT Support
3 112 (11.56%) IT Engineer
4 108 (11.15%) DBA
5 100 (10.32%) SQL DBA
6 82 (8.46%) IT Support Engineer
7 79 (8.15%) Analyst
8 72 (7.43%) 2nd Line Support
9 67 (6.91%) 3rd Line Support
10 62 (6.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 60 (6.19%) Developer
12 59 (6.09%) Senior
13 56 (5.78%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 53 (5.47%) Lead
15 49 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 47 (4.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 45 (4.64%) Administrator
17 45 (4.64%) IT Technician
18 40 (4.13%) Architect
19 39 (4.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.54%) CSS
2 43 (4.44%) HTML
3 40 (4.13%) .NET
4 22 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 20 (2.06%) .NET Core
5 20 (2.06%) .NET Framework
5 20 (2.06%) ASP.NET MVC
6 19 (1.96%) HTML5 Canvas
7 17 (1.75%) Entity Framework
8 10 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 10 (1.03%) jQuery
9 8 (0.83%) ADO
10 7 (0.72%) PySpark
10 7 (0.72%) REST
11 6 (0.62%) Middleware
11 6 (0.62%) React
12 5 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.52%) Web Services
13 4 (0.41%) ARM Templates
13 4 (0.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.53%) Data Centre
2 68 (7.02%) Driving Licence
3 46 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 40 (4.13%) Blockchain
6 37 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.51%) Private Cloud
8 29 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
10 24 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.65%) Replication
11 16 (1.65%) Smartphone
12 15 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.55%) NHS
13 14 (1.44%) Cloud Native
13 14 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 447 (46.13%) Windows
2 230 (23.74%) Windows Server
3 129 (13.31%) Linux
4 110 (11.35%) Windows 10
5 90 (9.29%) VMS
6 49 (5.06%) Debian
7 45 (4.64%) CentOS
7 45 (4.64%) Mac OS
8 40 (4.13%) Alpine Linux
9 35 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 32 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (2.68%) Apple iOS
12 23 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 17 (1.75%) Windows 8
14 14 (1.44%) Android
15 13 (1.34%) Windows 7
16 8 (0.83%) Unix
17 7 (0.72%) Windows Vista
18 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
19 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (31.89%) Problem-Solving
2 250 (25.80%) Customer Service
3 237 (24.46%) ITIL
4 166 (17.13%) Business Intelligence
5 117 (12.07%) DevOps
6 114 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 112 (11.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 97 (10.01%) Collaborative Working
9 94 (9.70%) High Availability
10 90 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
11 86 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 81 (8.36%) Migration
13 80 (8.26%) CI/CD
14 79 (8.15%) Agile
14 79 (8.15%) Project Management
15 77 (7.95%) Computer Science
16 60 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
17 54 (5.57%) Mentoring
18 53 (5.47%) Software Engineering
19 52 (5.37%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 229 (23.63%) SQL
2 89 (9.18%) T-SQL
3 63 (6.50%) C#
4 52 (5.37%) PowerShell
5 42 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 28 (2.89%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.06%) Python
8 10 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (0.93%) Bash
10 8 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.52%) Java
11 5 (0.52%) PHP
12 4 (0.41%) Bicep
12 4 (0.41%) C
12 4 (0.41%) R
13 3 (0.31%) C++
13 3 (0.31%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.21%) Go
15 1 (0.10%) Swift
15 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 243 (25.08%) MCSE
2 238 (24.56%) Degree
3 176 (18.16%) Azure Certification
4 148 (15.27%) Cisco Certification
5 142 (14.65%) MCSA
6 139 (14.34%) MCP
7 132 (13.62%) CCNA
8 126 (13.00%) A+ Certification
9 74 (7.64%) DBS Check
10 58 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 54 (5.57%) Security Cleared
12 48 (4.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 47 (4.85%) SC Cleared
14 46 (4.75%) Network+ Certification
15 38 (3.92%) MCITP
16 27 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
17 24 (2.48%) CCNP
17 24 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 17 (1.75%) DV Cleared
19 16 (1.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.43%) SLA
2 30 (3.10%) GDPR
3 18 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.24%) QA
5 6 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 411 (42.41%) Active Directory
2 146 (15.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (13.93%) Hyper-V
4 86 (8.88%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (5.47%) Docker
6 34 (3.51%) vSphere
7 19 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (1.86%) XenDesktop
9 13 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.93%) XenApp
11 8 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.52%) Firmware
12 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.31%) KVM
14 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.21%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (9.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.50%) SCCM
4 62 (6.40%) Terraform
5 19 (1.96%) SCOM
6 11 (1.14%) FortiGate
7 10 (1.03%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.83%) Autotask
9 7 (0.72%) SmoothWall
9 7 (0.72%) WSUS
10 5 (0.52%) Grafana
10 5 (0.52%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.41%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.21%) Ansible
13 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 856 (88.34%) Microsoft
2 206 (21.26%) VMware
3 76 (7.84%) Cisco
4 51 (5.26%) Apple
5 49 (5.06%) Citrix
6 48 (4.95%) Red Hat
7 43 (4.44%) IBM
8 40 (4.13%) HP
9 36 (3.72%) Veeam
10 34 (3.51%) Adobe
11 26 (2.68%) Meraki
12 22 (2.27%) Dell
13 21 (2.17%) Google
13 21 (2.17%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.34%) ConnectWise
14 13 (1.34%) Datto
14 13 (1.34%) Nimble Storage
14 13 (1.34%) Oracle
14 13 (1.34%) Sophos
15 12 (1.24%) Draytek