Microsoft Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 704 745
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 -112
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 64 44 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.089% 0.075% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.084% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 63 31 41
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £37,775
25th Percentile £37,999 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +4.35% +11.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +22 31 £45,000 +5.88%
South West -14 20 £50,000 +25.00% 5
North of England +49 8 £42,250 +11.18% 3
Yorkshire +72 4 £32,500 +14.04% 1
West Midlands +14 3 £36,000 +27.43%
North West -1 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Midlands -8 3 £36,000 +26.32%
Scotland - 2 £66,500 -
North East - 1 £50,000 -
Microsoft Engineer
UK

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 41 (64.06%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (53.13%) Azure
4 25 (39.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (39.06%) Active Directory
5 17 (26.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (25.00%) Windows Server
6 16 (25.00%) Windows
7 14 (21.88%) Degree
8 13 (20.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (17.19%) SCCM
10 9 (14.06%) VMware
11 8 (12.50%) Entra ID
11 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 7 (10.94%) OneDrive
12 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
12 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
12 7 (10.94%) SharePoint
13 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (9.38%) PaaS
13 6 (9.38%) IaaS
14 5 (7.81%) Presales
14 5 (7.81%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (7.81%) ITIL
14 5 (7.81%) SQL
14 5 (7.81%) WAN
15 4 (6.25%) DHCP
15 4 (6.25%) DNS
15 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
15 4 (6.25%) Firewall

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 13 (20.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (64.06%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (53.13%) Azure
3 8 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.94%) OneDrive
5 6 (9.38%) IaaS
5 6 (9.38%) PaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) WAN
2 4 (6.25%) DHCP
2 4 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (6.25%) Firewall
3 3 (4.69%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.69%) VoIP
4 2 (3.13%) LAN
4 2 (3.13%) Skype
5 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.56%) Power BI
General
1 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.69%) Local Government
2 3 (4.69%) Retail
3 2 (3.13%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.56%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Windows
1 16 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
4 5 (7.81%) ITIL
4 5 (7.81%) Presales
5 4 (6.25%) Application Packaging
5 4 (6.25%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (6.25%) ITSM
5 4 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (6.25%) Security Operations
5 4 (6.25%) Zero Trust
6 3 (4.69%) Data Security
6 3 (4.69%) Roadmaps
7 2 (3.13%) Analytics
7 2 (3.13%) Change Control
7 2 (3.13%) Data Engineering
7 2 (3.13%) Data Governance
7 2 (3.13%) Data Management
7 2 (3.13%) Data Science
7 2 (3.13%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.81%) SQL
2 4 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) MCSA
4 2 (3.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 25 (39.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (26.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (17.19%) SCCM
3 1 (1.56%) SCOM
3 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) VMware
3 2 (3.13%) Acronis
3 2 (3.13%) Aruba
3 2 (3.13%) Databricks
3 2 (3.13%) WatchGuard
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle