Microsoft Certification Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 179 156
Rank change year-on-year +22 -23 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 100 93 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.38% 1.41% 1.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.23% 3.43% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 76 71 108
10th Percentile £21,500 £25,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,250 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £49,063 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,913 2,714 2,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.33% 41.08% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 979 1,181
10th Percentile £25,625 £28,140 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
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 Certification within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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 -4 31 £43,227 -17.66% 6
Staffordshire -12 26 £50,000 +11.73% 4
Worcestershire - 9 £33,500 -
Wolverhampton +14 7 £25,500 -58.87% 2
Warwickshire +44 4 - - 5
Herefordshire -4 4 £27,500 -45.00% 1
Wednesbury - 4 £24,750 -
Solihull +4 2 £62,500 +123.21%
Shropshire -13 1 £14,000 -46.15%
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
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 32 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (26.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (22.00%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (46.00%) Azure
3 27 (27.00%) Entra ID
4 22 (22.00%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 9 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.00%) AWS
7 4 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.00%) GCP
9 2 (2.00%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.00%) Serverless
10 1 (1.00%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.00%) Firewall
2 14 (14.00%) DHCP
2 14 (14.00%) DNS
3 11 (11.00%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (10.00%) VPN
5 7 (7.00%) LAN
5 7 (7.00%) WAN
6 6 (6.00%) Internet
6 6 (6.00%) Intranet
6 6 (6.00%) Network Security
6 6 (6.00%) SAN
7 5 (5.00%) Wireless
8 4 (4.00%) VSAN
9 3 (3.00%) VLAN
10 2 (2.00%) Broadband
10 2 (2.00%) HTTP
10 2 (2.00%) IPv6
10 2 (2.00%) VoIP
11 1 (1.00%) ISDN
11 1 (1.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.00%) Power BI
2 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.00%) MySQL
4 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.00%) Metadata
6 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) MSBuild
General
1 48 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Retail
4 7 (7.00%) Finance
5 6 (6.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.00%) Police
7 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.00%) Local Government
7 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.00%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.00%) Automotive
9 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (31.00%) IT Support
2 20 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 14 (14.00%) Analyst
4 13 (13.00%) Support Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Support Technician
6 11 (11.00%) IT Support Technician
6 11 (11.00%) IT Technician
7 10 (10.00%) Consultant
8 7 (7.00%) Architect
9 6 (6.00%) Functional Consultant
9 6 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Server Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Support Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) DBA
11 4 (4.00%) Help Desk Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) IT Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) SQL DBA
11 4 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.00%) .NET
1 2 (2.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 8 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.00%) Virtual Team
6 5 (5.00%) EPoS
7 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (4.00%) PKI
8 3 (3.00%) CCTV
8 3 (3.00%) Clustering
8 3 (3.00%) iPad
8 3 (3.00%) Media Streaming
8 3 (3.00%) Mobile Computing
8 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.00%) IoT
10 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (1.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 63 (63.00%) Windows
2 33 (33.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.00%) Windows 10
4 9 (9.00%) Linux
5 6 (6.00%) Mac OS
5 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.00%) Unix
8 2 (2.00%) Android
8 2 (2.00%) VMS
8 2 (2.00%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.00%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (19.00%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (18.00%) ITIL
3 18 (18.00%) Presales
4 17 (17.00%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (16.00%) Agile
6 15 (15.00%) Customer Service
7 11 (11.00%) Migration
8 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (10.00%) Software Licensing
9 8 (8.00%) Change Management
10 7 (7.00%) Computer Science
10 7 (7.00%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (7.00%) Roadmaps
10 7 (7.00%) Server Management
10 7 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (6.00%) CI/CD
11 6 (6.00%) DevSecOps
11 6 (6.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.00%) SQL
2 8 (8.00%) C#
3 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.00%) PHP
5 2 (2.00%) Python
5 2 (2.00%) R
6 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 38 (38.00%) Degree
2 29 (29.00%) MCSE
3 22 (22.00%) A+ Certification
4 18 (18.00%) MCP
5 14 (14.00%) CCNA
5 14 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (12.00%) MCSA
7 10 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (9.00%) Azure Certification
8 9 (9.00%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (6.00%) MCITP
9 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
10 5 (5.00%) HND
11 4 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (4.00%) DBS Check
11 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared
11 4 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (4.00%) MCTS
12 3 (3.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) SLA
2 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (59.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (16.00%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.00%) vSphere
5 2 (2.00%) Docker
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.00%) SCCM
2 4 (4.00%) AirWatch
3 3 (3.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.00%) SCOM
4 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (94.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (30.00%) VMware
3 14 (14.00%) Apple
4 10 (10.00%) Adobe
4 10 (10.00%) HP
5 9 (9.00%) Cisco
6 7 (7.00%) Dell
7 6 (6.00%) Citrix
8 5 (5.00%) ConnectWise
9 4 (4.00%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (3.00%) Meraki
10 3 (3.00%) Sage
11 2 (2.00%) Databricks
11 2 (2.00%) EMC
11 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
11 2 (2.00%) Remedy
11 2 (2.00%) SonicWALL
12 1 (1.00%) Nimble Storage
12 1 (1.00%) Ubiquiti
12 1 (1.00%) Zerto