Microsoft Job Trends in Ashton-under-Lyne

Microsoft
Manchester > Ashton-under-Lyne

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Ashton-under-Lyne requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Ashton-under-Lyne 7.69% - 85.71%
As % of the Vendors category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49,000 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 - £37,500
75th Percentile £53,000 - £40,813
90th Percentile - - £45,125
Manchester median annual salary £48,000 £47,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.59% -5.50% -2.91%

All Vendors
Ashton-under-Lyne

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ashton-under-Lyne 7.69% 45.45% 85.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49,000 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 - £37,500
75th Percentile £53,000 - £40,813
90th Percentile - - £45,125
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,253
% change year-on-year +9.09% +9.45% -8.63%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Ashton-under-Lyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Ashton-under-Lyne

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Ashton-under-Lyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ashton-under-Lyne citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ashton-under-Lyne citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ashton-under-Lyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript