Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,510 12,300 13,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.63% 20.41% 18.45%
As % of the Vendors category 49.74% 48.01% 46.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,909 6,593 8,483
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,050
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £58,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,151 25,622 28,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.45% 42.52% 39.73%
Number of salaries quoted 17,335 13,143 16,850
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +3 3,432 £45,000 - 849
North of England 0 2,939 £43,500 -3.33% 950
Midlands +1 2,265 £42,500 -10.63% 749
South West +3 1,606 £46,000 +15.00% 496
North West -2 1,523 £45,000 - 510
West Midlands +1 1,499 £45,000 -10.00% 472
East of England +2 1,227 £38,500 -3.75% 402
Yorkshire +2 992 £42,500 -4.49% 334
East Midlands +1 757 £37,500 -12.79% 277
Scotland -33 576 £45,000 -10.00% 246
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 113
Wales +1 336 £37,500 - 119
Northern Ireland +7 105 £42,500 -10.53% 66
Isle of Man - 34 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands 0 6 £85,000 +136.11% 3
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 1,363 (10.90%) SharePoint
2 1,196 (9.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 246 (1.97%) IIS
4 198 (1.58%) Confluence
5 101 (0.81%) CMS
6 66 (0.53%) Umbraco
7 47 (0.38%) Kentico
8 46 (0.37%) Skype for Business
9 45 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
10 40 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 40 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 37 (0.30%) Apache
11 37 (0.30%) WordPress
12 35 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
12 35 (0.28%) SAS
13 21 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
15 17 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 14 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
16 14 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,372 (18.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1,517 (12.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 431 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 245 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
5 92 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.39%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 11 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.064%) InfoPath
14 8 (0.064%) Sketch
15 6 (0.048%) Chatbot
15 6 (0.048%) InVision
16 5 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
16 5 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.040%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 394 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 86 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.66%) Primavera
4 34 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 28 (0.22%) NEC Housing
5 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
6 27 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
7 20 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 20 (0.16%) Shopify
8 18 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
9 17 (0.14%) iTrent
10 15 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
10 15 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
11 14 (0.11%) Magento
12 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
13 11 (0.088%) Maximo
14 10 (0.080%) PlanetPress Connect
15 9 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
16 8 (0.064%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5,007 (40.02%) Azure
2 3,966 (31.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1,522 (12.17%) Power Platform
4 933 (7.46%) AWS
5 920 (7.35%) Entra ID
6 747 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
7 544 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 445 (3.56%) PowerApps
9 417 (3.33%) Power Automate
10 390 (3.12%) SaaS
11 343 (2.74%) OneDrive
12 254 (2.03%) GCP
13 204 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
14 168 (1.34%) PaaS
15 161 (1.29%) IaaS
16 136 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
17 100 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 97 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
19 96 (0.77%) GitHub
20 80 (0.64%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1,242 (9.93%) Firewall
2 872 (6.97%) DNS
3 683 (5.46%) WAN
4 665 (5.32%) DHCP
5 600 (4.80%) LAN
6 458 (3.66%) TCP/IP
7 446 (3.57%) VPN
8 418 (3.34%) Broadband
9 379 (3.03%) SAN
10 375 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
11 319 (2.55%) Wireless
12 272 (2.17%) VoIP
13 271 (2.17%) Internet
14 269 (2.15%) VLAN
15 193 (1.54%) Network Security
16 166 (1.33%) Intranet
17 148 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
18 129 (1.03%) SD-WAN
19 121 (0.97%) Unified Communications
20 93 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,039 (16.30%) SQL Server
2 1,002 (8.01%) Power BI
3 339 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 332 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 326 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 256 (2.05%) MongoDB
7 213 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 212 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 205 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 151 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 116 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 112 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
13 111 (0.89%) MySQL
14 92 (0.74%) NoSQL
15 87 (0.70%) Tableau
16 79 (0.63%) MS Access
17 75 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
18 56 (0.45%) Big Data
18 56 (0.45%) Power Query
19 54 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 395 (3.16%) Git
2 369 (2.95%) JIRA
3 335 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 118 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 74 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 64 (0.51%) GitLab
7 60 (0.48%) Sourcetree
8 54 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (0.34%) NUnit
10 39 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 39 (0.31%) Subversion
11 36 (0.29%) Selenium
12 33 (0.26%) Postman
13 29 (0.23%) Moq
14 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
14 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
15 25 (0.20%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.17%) MSTest
17 20 (0.16%) Cucumber
18 14 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4,432 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 2,119 (16.94%) Finance
3 1,407 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 773 (6.18%) Retail
5 552 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
6 543 (4.34%) Public Sector
7 528 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 522 (4.17%) Legal
9 518 (4.14%) Law
10 495 (3.96%) Manufacturing
11 466 (3.73%) Marketing
12 364 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
13 358 (2.86%) Telecoms
14 333 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
15 236 (1.89%) Games
16 164 (1.31%) Local Government
17 162 (1.29%) Advertising
18 160 (1.28%) Banking
19 157 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
20 107 (0.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,913 (15.29%) Developer
2 1,706 (13.64%) Analyst
3 1,325 (10.59%) Senior
4 1,210 (9.67%) IT Support
5 1,008 (8.06%) Support Engineer
6 825 (6.59%) .NET Developer
6 825 (6.59%) IT Engineer
7 681 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 667 (5.33%) Lead
9 631 (5.04%) Architect
10 576 (4.60%) Consultant
11 556 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
12 504 (4.03%) Administrator
13 420 (3.36%) IT Technician
14 417 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
15 365 (2.92%) C# Developer
16 342 (2.73%) Support Analyst
17 341 (2.73%) Support Technician
18 340 (2.72%) IT Analyst
19 330 (2.64%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,588 (12.69%) .NET
2 896 (7.16%) ASP.NET
3 836 (6.68%) .NET Core
4 714 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 645 (5.16%) AngularJS
6 621 (4.96%) HTML
7 584 (4.67%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.53%) Entity Framework
9 551 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
10 430 (3.44%) CSS
11 404 (3.23%) React
12 336 (2.69%) HTML5
13 277 (2.21%) RESTful
14 254 (2.03%) Vue
15 245 (1.96%) Node.js
16 206 (1.65%) Web Services
17 200 (1.60%) REST
18 181 (1.45%) Blazor
19 175 (1.40%) LINQ
20 169 (1.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 686 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 625 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 536 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 416 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 274 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 245 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 169 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 168 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 166 (1.33%) PKI
10 156 (1.25%) Social Media
11 150 (1.20%) Clustering
12 146 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 133 (1.06%) Replication
14 110 (0.88%) Low-Code
15 109 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 105 (0.84%) NHS
17 100 (0.80%) Cloud Native
17 100 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
18 85 (0.68%) Smartphone
19 84 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,616 (28.90%) Windows
2 1,649 (13.18%) Windows Server
3 1,014 (8.11%) Windows 10
4 755 (6.04%) Linux
5 380 (3.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 375 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 301 (2.41%) Android
8 293 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 220 (1.76%) Apple iOS
10 206 (1.65%) Windows 7
11 196 (1.57%) Mac OS
12 131 (1.05%) Ubuntu
13 123 (0.98%) VMS
14 94 (0.75%) Unix
15 92 (0.74%) Windows 8
16 80 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
17 69 (0.55%) CentOS
18 42 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.27%) Mac OS X
20 31 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,641 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
2 2,318 (18.53%) Agile
3 1,932 (15.44%) Customer Service
4 1,474 (11.78%) ITIL
5 1,196 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
6 1,165 (9.31%) DevOps
7 1,062 (8.49%) Project Management
8 1,058 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
9 1,020 (8.15%) Mentoring
10 900 (7.19%) CRM
11 870 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 837 (6.69%) MVC
13 815 (6.51%) Full Stack Development
14 780 (6.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 704 (5.63%) Roadmaps
16 696 (5.56%) Migration
17 678 (5.42%) Decision-Making
18 675 (5.40%) Microservices
19 633 (5.06%) Scrum
20 629 (5.03%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2,036 (16.27%) SQL
2 1,681 (13.44%) C#
3 1,169 (9.34%) JavaScript
4 826 (6.60%) PowerShell
5 402 (3.21%) T-SQL
6 381 (3.05%) TypeScript
7 367 (2.93%) Python
8 224 (1.79%) Bash
9 193 (1.54%) Java
10 119 (0.95%) VB
11 108 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 101 (0.81%) C++
13 86 (0.69%) C
14 57 (0.46%) R
15 45 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 44 (0.35%) Bicep
16 44 (0.35%) VBA
17 43 (0.34%) VBScript
18 40 (0.32%) PHP
19 38 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,977 (15.80%) Degree
2 1,116 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 855 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 669 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 385 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 297 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
7 294 (2.35%) DV Cleared
8 280 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 242 (1.93%) CCNA
10 240 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 239 (1.91%) ACCA
11 239 (1.91%) CIMA
12 227 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 193 (1.54%) A+ Certification
14 192 (1.53%) MCP
15 140 (1.12%) MCSE
16 136 (1.09%) PMI Certification
17 112 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
18 109 (0.87%) CCNP
19 100 (0.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 587 (4.69%) SLA
2 383 (3.06%) GDPR
3 330 (2.64%) QA
4 245 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 236 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 118 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 109 (0.87%) ISO 9001
8 97 (0.78%) PMO
9 92 (0.74%) NIST
10 91 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 85 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 56 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 29 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 26 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 23 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 21 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
18 17 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.13%) GRC
19 16 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,925 (23.38%) Active Directory
2 916 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 792 (6.33%) Hyper-V
4 233 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 188 (1.50%) Docker
6 163 (1.30%) vSphere
7 126 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 118 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 71 (0.57%) XenApp
10 57 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 55 (0.44%) Firmware
12 53 (0.42%) KVM
13 46 (0.37%) VMware NSX
14 45 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 44 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
16 28 (0.22%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.21%) VMware Server
18 20 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 18 (0.14%) pfSense
20 16 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 901 (7.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 423 (3.38%) SCCM
3 239 (1.91%) Kubernetes
4 170 (1.36%) Terraform
5 122 (0.98%) SCOM
6 118 (0.94%) WSUS
7 106 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
8 87 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 76 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 76 (0.61%) Ansible
10 43 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
11 41 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 40 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 37 (0.30%) EnCase
14 32 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 32 (0.26%) NetBackup
15 30 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 29 (0.23%) CASB
17 28 (0.22%) Backup Exec
18 27 (0.22%) Autotask
Vendors
1 1,404 (11.22%) VMware
2 595 (4.76%) Cisco
3 483 (3.86%) Google
4 403 (3.22%) Citrix
5 391 (3.13%) Apple
6 324 (2.59%) Oracle
7 319 (2.55%) Veeam
8 264 (2.11%) Dell
9 254 (2.03%) HP
10 226 (1.81%) Adobe
11 222 (1.77%) SAP
12 205 (1.64%) ServiceNow
13 183 (1.46%) Meraki
14 139 (1.11%) Sophos
15 136 (1.09%) Fortinet
16 127 (1.02%) Salesforce
17 111 (0.89%) Databricks
18 107 (0.86%) Red Hat
19 106 (0.85%) Sage
20 98 (0.78%) NetApp