Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,564 18,845 23,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.71% 18.56% 14.65%
As % of the Vendors category 48.05% 44.32% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,424 11,168 14,755
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,227 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,555 42,516 61,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.86% 41.86% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 25,011 24,257 32,962
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK 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
England +4 15,944 £47,500 -9.52% 4,848
UK excluding London +2 12,510 £43,227 -3.94% 3,735
Work from Home +4 7,086 £52,500 -4.55% 2,166
London +6 4,345 £60,250 -3.60% 1,366
South East +3 3,432 £45,000 - 842
North of England 0 2,939 £43,500 -3.33% 941
Midlands +1 2,265 £42,500 -10.63% 742
South West +3 1,606 £46,000 +15.00% 493
North West -2 1,523 £45,000 - 505
West Midlands +1 1,499 £45,000 -10.00% 466
East of England +2 1,227 £38,500 -3.75% 399
Yorkshire +2 992 £42,500 -4.49% 331
East Midlands +1 757 £37,500 -12.79% 276
Scotland -33 576 £45,000 -10.00% 245
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 112
Wales +1 336 £37,500 - 117
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,879 (10.70%) SharePoint
2 1,681 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 321 (1.83%) IIS
4 218 (1.24%) Confluence
5 149 (0.85%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 72 (0.41%) Apache
8 71 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 66 (0.38%) Apache Spark
10 54 (0.31%) Kentico
11 53 (0.30%) SAS
12 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
13 45 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 44 (0.25%) WordPress
15 40 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
15 40 (0.23%) Headless CMS
16 29 (0.17%) Tomcat
17 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
18 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
19 20 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3,154 (17.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2,319 (13.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 668 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 272 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 126 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 68 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.15%) InDesign
8 27 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 18 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.091%) SPSS
13 15 (0.085%) Trello
14 11 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
15 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
15 9 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.046%) InfoPath
16 8 (0.046%) Sketch
17 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 640 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 100 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 59 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 39 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 26 (0.15%) Shopify
9 25 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
10 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 23 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 20 (0.11%) PlanetPress Connect
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
13 18 (0.10%) Magento
14 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
15 15 (0.085%) Elite 3E
15 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
15 15 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
16 13 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,232 (41.18%) Azure
2 5,353 (30.48%) Microsoft 365
3 2,333 (13.28%) Power Platform
4 1,433 (8.16%) AWS
5 1,371 (7.81%) Entra ID
6 1,320 (7.52%) Dynamics 365
7 861 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 731 (4.16%) PowerApps
9 713 (4.06%) SaaS
10 688 (3.92%) Power Automate
11 458 (2.61%) OneDrive
12 428 (2.44%) GCP
13 365 (2.08%) PaaS
14 344 (1.96%) IaaS
15 281 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
16 223 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 209 (1.19%) Serverless
18 179 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 159 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
20 158 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,603 (9.13%) Firewall
2 1,145 (6.52%) DNS
3 977 (5.56%) WAN
4 833 (4.74%) DHCP
5 815 (4.64%) Broadband
6 787 (4.48%) LAN
7 620 (3.53%) VPN
8 565 (3.22%) TCP/IP
9 541 (3.08%) Wireless
10 476 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
11 475 (2.70%) SAN
12 357 (2.03%) VLAN
13 356 (2.03%) Internet
14 310 (1.76%) VoIP
15 306 (1.74%) Network Security
16 289 (1.65%) SD-WAN
17 224 (1.28%) 5G
18 207 (1.18%) Intranet
19 193 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
20 150 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,643 (15.05%) SQL Server
2 1,459 (8.31%) Power BI
3 481 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 468 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 440 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 338 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 301 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 283 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 273 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 272 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 176 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 157 (0.89%) Tableau
13 138 (0.79%) MySQL
14 124 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
15 122 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
15 122 (0.69%) NoSQL
16 114 (0.65%) Big Data
17 90 (0.51%) MS Access
18 84 (0.48%) Oracle Database
19 77 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 502 (2.86%) Git
2 458 (2.61%) JIRA
3 398 (2.27%) Visual Studio
4 129 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 114 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 105 (0.60%) GitLab
7 81 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 69 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 46 (0.26%) NUnit
10 46 (0.26%) Selenium
11 44 (0.25%) Subversion
12 43 (0.24%) Postman
13 39 (0.22%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 24 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 17 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,232 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 3,613 (20.57%) Finance
3 2,365 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1,065 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 941 (5.36%) Retail
6 803 (4.57%) Law
7 783 (4.46%) Legal
8 758 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 748 (4.26%) Marketing
10 731 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
11 607 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 551 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 530 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
14 456 (2.60%) Telecoms
15 389 (2.21%) Banking
16 286 (1.63%) Games
17 222 (1.26%) Local Government
18 221 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
19 219 (1.25%) Advertising
20 168 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,529 (14.40%) Analyst
2 2,518 (14.34%) Developer
3 2,305 (13.12%) Senior
4 1,506 (8.57%) IT Support
5 1,214 (6.91%) Support Engineer
6 1,141 (6.50%) Architect
7 982 (5.59%) Lead
8 976 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 960 (5.47%) IT Engineer
10 918 (5.23%) Consultant
11 847 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 630 (3.59%) IT Support Engineer
13 621 (3.54%) Administrator
14 491 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
15 474 (2.70%) Support Analyst
16 470 (2.68%) IT Analyst
17 466 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
18 465 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
19 461 (2.62%) IT Technician
20 446 (2.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,161 (12.30%) .NET
2 1,083 (6.17%) ASP.NET
3 1,014 (5.77%) .NET Core
4 832 (4.74%) ASP.NET MVC
5 800 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 792 (4.51%) HTML
7 738 (4.20%) .NET Framework
8 672 (3.83%) Entity Framework
9 664 (3.78%) ASP.NET Web API
10 553 (3.15%) CSS
11 513 (2.92%) React
12 394 (2.24%) HTML5
13 350 (1.99%) RESTful
14 303 (1.73%) Node.js
14 303 (1.73%) Vue
15 282 (1.61%) Web Services
16 261 (1.49%) REST
17 247 (1.41%) JSON
18 206 (1.17%) LINQ
19 205 (1.17%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 948 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
2 814 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 657 (3.74%) Driving Licence
4 565 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 368 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 353 (2.01%) Social Media
7 348 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 257 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 255 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
10 250 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 248 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 233 (1.33%) PKI
13 176 (1.00%) Cloud Native
14 171 (0.97%) Replication
15 162 (0.92%) Clustering
16 133 (0.76%) Mobile App
17 132 (0.75%) Low-Code
18 131 (0.75%) NHS
19 123 (0.70%) Smartphone
20 109 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,707 (26.80%) Windows
2 2,057 (11.71%) Windows Server
3 1,404 (7.99%) Windows 10
4 1,110 (6.32%) Linux
5 493 (2.81%) Android
6 453 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 452 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 345 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 317 (1.80%) Apple iOS
10 293 (1.67%) Ubuntu
11 269 (1.53%) Mac OS
12 238 (1.36%) Windows 7
13 152 (0.87%) Unix
14 143 (0.81%) VMS
15 97 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
16 92 (0.52%) Windows 8
17 73 (0.42%) CentOS
18 72 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 56 (0.32%) Mac OS X
20 37 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,466 (19.73%) Agile
1 3,466 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
2 2,335 (13.29%) Customer Service
3 1,884 (10.73%) ITIL
4 1,755 (9.99%) DevOps
5 1,727 (9.83%) Business Intelligence
6 1,642 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
7 1,589 (9.05%) Mentoring
8 1,494 (8.51%) Project Management
9 1,387 (7.90%) CRM
10 1,103 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 1,085 (6.18%) Decision-Making
12 1,010 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,001 (5.70%) MVC
14 985 (5.61%) Full Stack Development
15 974 (5.55%) Migration
16 965 (5.49%) Roadmaps
17 898 (5.11%) Scrum
18 877 (4.99%) Analytics
19 876 (4.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,823 (16.07%) SQL
2 2,258 (12.86%) C#
3 1,524 (8.68%) JavaScript
4 1,231 (7.01%) PowerShell
5 663 (3.77%) Python
6 578 (3.29%) T-SQL
7 479 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 447 (2.54%) Bash
9 272 (1.55%) Java
10 132 (0.75%) C++
11 126 (0.72%) VB
12 114 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 110 (0.63%) C
14 96 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 93 (0.53%) Bicep
16 89 (0.51%) R
17 68 (0.39%) VBA
18 49 (0.28%) Shell Script
19 48 (0.27%) PL/SQL
20 46 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2,894 (16.48%) Degree
2 1,338 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 1,176 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 806 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 505 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 504 (2.87%) ACCA
7 497 (2.83%) DBS Check
8 480 (2.73%) CIMA
9 458 (2.61%) Azure Certification
10 422 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
11 318 (1.81%) DV Cleared
12 294 (1.67%) CCNA
13 260 (1.48%) Master's Degree
14 239 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 237 (1.35%) A+ Certification
16 226 (1.29%) CISSP
17 211 (1.20%) MCP
18 198 (1.13%) MCSE
19 184 (1.05%) PMI Certification
20 160 (0.91%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 825 (4.70%) SLA
2 484 (2.76%) QA
3 478 (2.72%) GDPR
4 414 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 305 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 234 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 163 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 160 (0.91%) NIST
9 135 (0.77%) PMO
10 127 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 124 (0.71%) ISO 9001
12 56 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 45 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 42 (0.24%) GRC
15 37 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 36 (0.20%) IFRS
16 36 (0.20%) NCSC
17 30 (0.17%) COBIT
17 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4,017 (22.87%) Active Directory
2 1,178 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 891 (5.07%) Hyper-V
4 312 (1.78%) Docker
5 297 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 257 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
7 209 (1.19%) vSphere
8 178 (1.01%) XenApp
9 154 (0.88%) XenDesktop
10 141 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
11 112 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
12 78 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
13 63 (0.36%) Firmware
14 54 (0.31%) KVM
15 53 (0.30%) Terminal Services
16 50 (0.28%) VMware NSX
17 28 (0.16%) VirtualBox
18 26 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 26 (0.15%) VMware Server
19 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,321 (7.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 668 (3.80%) SCCM
3 388 (2.21%) Kubernetes
4 361 (2.06%) Terraform
5 277 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
6 151 (0.86%) WSUS
7 147 (0.84%) Ansible
8 135 (0.77%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 113 (0.64%) AirWatch
11 97 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 96 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
13 62 (0.35%) FortiGate
14 47 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (0.24%) Grafana
16 42 (0.24%) Nessus
17 41 (0.23%) Puppet
18 39 (0.22%) NetBackup
19 37 (0.21%) EnCase
20 36 (0.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,776 (10.11%) VMware
2 939 (5.35%) Cisco
3 694 (3.95%) Google
4 615 (3.50%) Citrix
5 530 (3.02%) Apple
6 482 (2.74%) Oracle
7 395 (2.25%) Veeam
8 390 (2.22%) Dell
9 366 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 334 (1.90%) SAP
11 333 (1.90%) HP
12 300 (1.71%) Adobe
13 237 (1.35%) CyberArk
14 215 (1.22%) Meraki
15 210 (1.20%) Tanium
16 202 (1.15%) Databricks
17 188 (1.07%) Salesforce
18 158 (0.90%) Fortinet
19 155 (0.88%) Sophos
20 142 (0.81%) Red Hat