Microsoft 365 Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 628 437 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.51% 6.85% 6.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.86% 18.77% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 557 370 394
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £28,714 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,500 £68,750 £65,700
England median annual salary £39,500 £40,883 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.38% -3.80% -

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,428 2,328 2,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.91% 36.49% 37.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,085 1,529 2,041
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,970
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the West Midlands

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in the West Midlands

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in the West Midlands

Microsoft 365
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Birmingham +12 239 £38,000 -7.38% 34
Staffordshire -8 88 £35,000 +7.69% 23
Worcestershire -3 49 £35,000 -11.51% 15
Warwickshire +53 44 £36,600 -51.20% 21
Shropshire +3 26 £37,000 +42.31% 7
Coventry +26 24 £43,500 +15.23% 8
Solihull -7 19 £27,500 -31.25% 3
Halesowen -4 9 £35,000 +4.48% 1
Walsall +15 8 £26,000 +8.33% 3
Wolverhampton +10 8 £21,500 -46.25% 4
Herefordshire +6 6 £27,500 -35.29% 4
Dudley +11 5 £40,000 +29.03% 2
West Bromwich +3 5 £57,500 +132.32%
Tipton -1 4 £24,000 -26.15%
Wednesbury -2 3 £23,000 -20.69%
Brierley Hill - 3 £32,500 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £24,000 - 1
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 171 (27.23%) SharePoint
2 135 (21.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (3.18%) Confluence
4 4 (0.64%) IBM Notes
5 3 (0.48%) IIS
5 3 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 94 (14.97%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.11%) Trello
5 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.64%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.32%) InDesign
7 2 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 14 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.80%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 297 (47.29%) Azure
2 132 (21.02%) Entra ID
3 87 (13.85%) Power Platform
4 43 (6.85%) PowerApps
5 31 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (4.78%) Power Automate
7 27 (4.30%) OneDrive
8 23 (3.66%) AWS
9 22 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.71%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.75%) PaaS
12 10 (1.59%) IaaS
13 8 (1.27%) Google Workspace
14 7 (1.11%) SaaS
15 6 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (0.80%) GCP
16 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
17 2 (0.32%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 127 (20.22%) Firewall
2 85 (13.54%) DNS
3 74 (11.78%) DHCP
4 53 (8.44%) WAN
5 50 (7.96%) LAN
6 47 (7.48%) VPN
7 44 (7.01%) TCP/IP
7 44 (7.01%) Wi-Fi
8 31 (4.94%) SAN
9 29 (4.62%) Intranet
10 25 (3.98%) VLAN
11 18 (2.87%) PBX
12 17 (2.71%) Network Security
13 16 (2.55%) Wireless
14 13 (2.07%) SMTP
15 12 (1.91%) SNMP
16 11 (1.75%) NGFW
16 11 (1.75%) SD-WAN
17 10 (1.59%) VoIP
18 9 (1.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.28%) Power BI
2 41 (6.53%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.96%) Metadata
5 6 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (0.64%) MySQL
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.55%) JIRA
2 6 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.16%) MSBuild
3 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 208 (33.12%) Social Skills
2 78 (12.42%) Finance
3 62 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.01%) Law
4 44 (7.01%) Retail
5 35 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
5 35 (5.57%) Manufacturing
5 35 (5.57%) Telecoms
6 22 (3.50%) Local Government
7 15 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.07%) Public Sector
9 11 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.75%) Legal
9 11 (1.75%) Marketing
10 6 (0.96%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.80%) Games
11 5 (0.80%) Police
12 4 (0.64%) Advertising
12 4 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
12 4 (0.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 114 (18.15%) IT Support
2 102 (16.24%) Support Engineer
3 100 (15.92%) IT Engineer
4 83 (13.22%) Analyst
5 67 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 61 (9.71%) IT Support Engineer
7 49 (7.80%) Senior
8 43 (6.85%) IT Manager
9 40 (6.37%) IT Technician
10 34 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
11 31 (4.94%) IT Analyst
12 30 (4.78%) 3rd Line Support
12 30 (4.78%) Support Analyst
13 26 (4.14%) 1st Line Support
14 25 (3.98%) Developer
15 23 (3.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 22 (3.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 22 (3.50%) Consultant
17 21 (3.34%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 20 (3.18%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.73%) .NET
2 12 (1.91%) JSON
3 10 (1.59%) ARM Templates
3 10 (1.59%) YAML
4 8 (1.27%) SPFx
5 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.32%) HTML
5 2 (0.32%) RESTful
6 1 (0.16%) CSS
6 1 (0.16%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.92%) Data Centre
2 31 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.98%) Replication
4 24 (3.82%) Driving Licence
5 23 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.18%) Private Cloud
7 18 (2.87%) CCTV
8 17 (2.71%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.23%) Clustering
10 12 (1.91%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.91%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.43%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.27%) EFT
12 8 (1.27%) PKI
13 7 (1.11%) EPoS
14 6 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.96%) iPad
15 5 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 359 (57.17%) Windows
2 192 (30.57%) Windows Server
3 108 (17.20%) Windows 10
4 61 (9.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (5.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (4.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (3.34%) Windows 7
8 15 (2.39%) Linux
9 14 (2.23%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.07%) Windows 8
11 8 (1.27%) Android
12 7 (1.11%) Unix
12 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.80%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.64%) VMS
15 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (18.95%) ITIL
3 101 (16.08%) Customer Service
4 90 (14.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
6 59 (9.39%) Project Delivery
7 55 (8.76%) Service Delivery
8 52 (8.28%) DevOps
9 50 (7.96%) Agile
10 47 (7.48%) Line Management
11 46 (7.32%) Project Management
12 45 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (5.73%) Service Management
14 34 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (5.41%) ERP
15 31 (4.94%) Change Management
16 30 (4.78%) Roadmaps
17 28 (4.46%) Presales
18 26 (4.14%) Digital Strategy
18 26 (4.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (12.74%) SQL
2 67 (10.67%) PowerShell
3 11 (1.75%) Python
4 9 (1.43%) C#
5 8 (1.27%) Bash
6 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.80%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.32%) Bicep
8 2 (0.32%) VB
9 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.16%) PHP
9 1 (0.16%) R
9 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 73 (11.62%) Degree
2 70 (11.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (3.82%) MCSE
4 21 (3.34%) Security Cleared
5 19 (3.03%) DBS Check
5 19 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.87%) A+ Certification
7 16 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.39%) CCNA
8 15 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.07%) MCP
10 12 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (1.11%) MCSA
13 6 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.80%) APMG
14 5 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.80%) PMP
15 4 (0.64%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 35 (5.57%) GDPR
3 26 (4.14%) SLA
4 11 (1.75%) PMO
5 8 (1.27%) QA
6 7 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.64%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 314 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 121 (19.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (18.47%) Hyper-V
4 44 (7.01%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (2.55%) vSphere
7 12 (1.91%) Docker
8 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 10 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.80%) NFS
11 4 (0.64%) pfSense
12 2 (0.32%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.16%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.16%) XenApp
13 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 95 (15.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (9.71%) SCCM
3 29 (4.62%) Terraform
4 13 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.91%) Failover Clustering
6 10 (1.59%) AirWatch
7 9 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.43%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.11%) SCOM
9 4 (0.64%) Autotask
9 4 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.16%) CASB
11 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 473 (75.32%) Microsoft
2 167 (26.59%) VMware
3 53 (8.44%) Veeam
4 48 (7.64%) Cisco
5 44 (7.01%) Citrix
6 38 (6.05%) Sophos
7 30 (4.78%) Apple
7 30 (4.78%) Dell
8 22 (3.50%) HP
9 20 (3.18%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.39%) Adobe
11 14 (2.23%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.07%) Meraki
12 13 (2.07%) Sage
13 12 (1.91%) Salesforce
14 9 (1.43%) EqualLogic
14 9 (1.43%) iManage
14 9 (1.43%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.43%) WatchGuard
15 8 (1.27%) Datto