Microsoft Certification Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 87 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 -25 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 12 8 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.93% 0.86% 1.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.73% 2.24% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £32,500 - £48,800
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -10.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £74,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £34,500 £45,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +32.35% -20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 440 357 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 34.06% 38.43% 29.30%
Number of salaries quoted 215 100 134
10th Percentile £20,000 £35,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £31,875 £46,250 £42,574
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,386 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £90,000 £76,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £53,260
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.65% +2.42%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Milton Keynes 0 5 £65,000 +4.00% 17
Princes Risborough - 5 £35,000 -
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) IT Support
1 5 (41.67%) IT Support Technician
1 5 (41.67%) IT Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (25.00%) React
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (25.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Customer Service
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) MVC
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) MCSE
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) VMware