Microsoft Certification Job Trends in Bolton

Microsoft Certification
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bolton with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 2.74% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31,400 - -
25th Percentile £33,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 - -
75th Percentile £44,875 - -
90th Percentile £47,200 - -
Manchester median annual salary £31,000 £42,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -27.06% +10.39% -9.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bolton

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Bolton.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 48 90 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 65.75% 69.23% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 29 64 12
10th Percentile £37,950 £27,525 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% +47.32%
75th Percentile £53,835 £57,500 £55,183
90th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £64,575
Manchester median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Bolton

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in Bolton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Bolton over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in Bolton

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Trainee
1 1 (50.00%) Trainee Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Ubiquiti