Microsoft Job Trends in Basingstoke

Microsoft
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke 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 3 January 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
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 20 7
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 67 42 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 20.68% 6.81% 17.26%
As % of the Vendors category 38.29% 13.64% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59 33 46
10th Percentile £24,850 £56,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £72,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +120.59% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59,500 £77,500 £46,600
90th Percentile £76,500 £78,750 £63,750
Hampshire median annual salary £40,000 £53,050 £45,000
% change year-on-year -24.60% +17.89% +5.88%

All Vendors
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 175 308 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 54.01% 49.92% 47.88%
Number of salaries quoted 147 254 114
10th Percentile £27,500 - £28,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £34,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +23.87% -6.53%
75th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £60,813
90th Percentile £80,500 - £71,000
Hampshire median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +15.79% -5.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Basingstoke

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 26 (38.81%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (38.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.48%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
2 4 (5.97%) Power Automate
2 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.97%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.49%) Azure
3 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.49%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (34.33%) DHCP
1 23 (34.33%) DNS
2 6 (8.96%) Firewall
3 5 (7.46%) VPN
4 4 (5.97%) SMTP
4 4 (5.97%) X.400
4 4 (5.97%) X.500
5 2 (2.99%) BGP
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.99%) LAN
5 2 (2.99%) Network Security
5 2 (2.99%) OSPF
5 2 (2.99%) WAN
5 2 (2.99%) WLAN
6 1 (1.49%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.49%) IKE
6 1 (1.49%) IPsec
6 1 (1.49%) RIP
6 1 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (38.81%) Oracle Database
1 26 (38.81%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) MSI
General
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.97%) Advertising
4 1 (1.49%) Marketing
4 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 22 (32.84%) Systems Support
3 19 (28.36%) Analyst
4 17 (25.37%) Support Analyst
5 13 (19.40%) IT Analyst
5 13 (19.40%) IT Support
5 13 (19.40%) IT Support Analyst
6 8 (11.94%) Architect
7 6 (8.96%) Junior
7 6 (8.96%) Junior Analyst
7 6 (8.96%) Junior IT Support
7 6 (8.96%) Junior IT Support Analyst
7 6 (8.96%) Junior Support Analyst
8 5 (7.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Coordinator
9 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Management Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Messaging Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) CSS
1 4 (5.97%) HTML
1 4 (5.97%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.97%) Replication
3 3 (4.48%) Life Science
3 3 (4.48%) PKI
3 3 (4.48%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.49%) Social Media
4 1 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (76.12%) Windows
2 26 (38.81%) Solaris
2 26 (38.81%) Unix
2 26 (38.81%) Windows Server 2003
3 25 (37.31%) HPUX
4 22 (32.84%) Windows 7
4 22 (32.84%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (10.45%) Linux
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) Incident Management
2 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (10.45%) Customer Service
3 7 (10.45%) ITSM
4 6 (8.96%) Agile
4 6 (8.96%) Asset Management
4 6 (8.96%) ITIL
4 6 (8.96%) Mathematics
5 5 (7.46%) Data Security
6 4 (5.97%) CRM
6 4 (5.97%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (5.97%) Mentoring
6 4 (5.97%) Problem Management
6 4 (5.97%) Process Improvement
6 4 (5.97%) Project Delivery
6 4 (5.97%) Workflow
7 3 (4.48%) ERP
7 3 (4.48%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (2.99%) Cryptography
8 2 (2.99%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.28%) PowerShell
2 22 (32.84%) Perl
3 4 (5.97%) C#
3 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (64.18%) Security Cleared
2 39 (58.21%) SC Cleared
3 37 (55.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CCNA
5 1 (1.49%) CCNP
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CISSP
5 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (32.84%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (67.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.46%) WMI
2 5 (7.46%) ZABBIX
3 1 (1.49%) Avamar
3 1 (1.49%) SCCM
3 1 (1.49%) SCOM
3 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (38.81%) Oracle
1 26 (38.81%) VMware
2 5 (7.46%) HP
2 5 (7.46%) Splunk
3 3 (4.48%) Sage
3 3 (4.48%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco
4 2 (2.99%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.49%) Adobe
5 1 (1.49%) Citrix
5 1 (1.49%) EMC
5 1 (1.49%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto