Microsoft Jobs in Central London

Microsoft
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 30 April 2025, 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 596 719 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 23.46% 19.01% 19.57%
As % of the Vendors category 51.83% 48.00% 48.73%
Number of salaries quoted 438 549 773
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £83,438 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
London median annual salary £62,500 £60,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% +4.17%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,150 1,498 2,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 45.28% 39.60% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 787 1,135 1,659
10th Percentile £39,050 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Central London.

Salary trend for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
City of London +3 521 £62,500 -3.85% 103
City of Westminster +9 75 £62,500 - 4
Camden -5 26 £55,000 -21.43% 2
West End of London -13 8 £50,000 -31.03% 11
Southwark -5 7 £52,242 +9.98% 1
Lambeth -6 1 - -
Microsoft
London

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 83 (13.93%) SharePoint
2 80 (13.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (4.19%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.18%) CMS
5 9 (1.51%) OpenEdge
6 5 (0.84%) SAS
7 4 (0.67%) WordPress
8 2 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.34%) Liferay
8 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Confluence
9 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 107 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (6.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.50%) InDesign
6 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.34%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (7.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.67%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.17%) Eikon
5 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) PlanetPress Connect
5 1 (0.17%) Primavera
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 296 (49.66%) Azure
2 191 (32.05%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (16.95%) Power Platform
4 70 (11.74%) Entra ID
5 66 (11.07%) Dynamics 365
6 46 (7.72%) AWS
7 44 (7.38%) SaaS
8 39 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (5.54%) OneDrive
10 28 (4.70%) PowerApps
11 26 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 26 (4.36%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (3.86%) GitHub
13 22 (3.69%) Power Automate
14 20 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (3.02%) IaaS
15 18 (3.02%) PaaS
16 17 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
17 16 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
17 16 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.70%) Firewall
2 27 (4.53%) LAN
3 25 (4.19%) DNS
3 25 (4.19%) WAN
4 23 (3.86%) DHCP
5 22 (3.69%) HTTP
6 20 (3.36%) TCP/IP
7 16 (2.68%) VLAN
8 14 (2.35%) VPN
8 14 (2.35%) WebEx
9 12 (2.01%) Internet
9 12 (2.01%) Wireless
10 11 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (1.68%) Network Security
12 9 (1.51%) IPsec
13 8 (1.34%) SSL
14 7 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (1.17%) VoIP
15 5 (0.84%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.58%) SQL Server
2 45 (7.55%) Power BI
3 26 (4.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (2.85%) DB2
5 17 (2.85%) Metadata
6 16 (2.68%) Tableau
7 9 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.51%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.84%) IBM InfoSphere
10 4 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.67%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.50%) Big Data
11 3 (0.50%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.50%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 18 (3.02%) Git
2 15 (2.52%) JIRA
3 5 (0.84%) Selenium
4 4 (0.67%) NUnit
4 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.34%) MSTest
5 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.17%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 255 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 198 (33.22%) Finance
3 89 (14.93%) Law
4 70 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (8.05%) Legal
7 41 (6.88%) Marketing
8 40 (6.71%) Retail
9 34 (5.70%) Advertising
10 27 (4.53%) Games
11 24 (4.03%) Banking
12 23 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (3.19%) Telecoms
14 13 (2.18%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.68%) Local Government
16 9 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.01%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.84%) Back Office
19 4 (0.67%) Humanities
19 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (24.66%) Analyst
2 104 (17.45%) Senior
3 76 (12.75%) Support Analyst
4 64 (10.74%) IT Support
5 56 (9.40%) Architect
6 48 (8.05%) Developer
7 46 (7.72%) Lead
8 40 (6.71%) IT Analyst
9 36 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (5.70%) IT Support Analyst
11 31 (5.20%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 26 (4.36%) IT Manager
14 25 (4.19%) Applications Support
14 25 (4.19%) Support Specialist
15 24 (4.03%) Applications Support Analyst
15 24 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
16 23 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (3.69%) Senior Support Analyst
18 21 (3.52%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.90%) .NET
2 26 (4.36%) Kafka
3 20 (3.36%) HTML
3 20 (3.36%) React
4 16 (2.68%) CSS
5 14 (2.35%) .NET Framework
6 12 (2.01%) JSON
7 8 (1.34%) XML
8 7 (1.17%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (1.01%) Entity Framework
9 6 (1.01%) LDAP
9 6 (1.01%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.84%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.84%) EDI
10 5 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.84%) OAuth
10 5 (0.84%) OpenID
10 5 (0.84%) SAML
10 5 (0.84%) WCF
11 4 (0.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 29 (4.87%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.69%) Video Conferencing
6 21 (3.52%) Social Media
7 17 (2.85%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.85%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.18%) iPhone
10 10 (1.68%) CSOC
10 10 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.34%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.34%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.17%) e-Learning
13 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 176 (29.53%) Windows
2 65 (10.91%) Windows 10
3 60 (10.07%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.19%) Linux
5 16 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.68%) Android
9 9 (1.51%) Apple iOS
10 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
10 7 (1.17%) Unix
11 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.50%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.50%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.34%) Rocky
13 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (18.46%) Agile
3 106 (17.79%) ITIL
4 90 (15.10%) Mentoring
5 86 (14.43%) DevOps
6 61 (10.23%) Analytics
7 60 (10.07%) Computer Science
8 55 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (9.23%) Project Management
9 54 (9.06%) CRM
9 54 (9.06%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (8.89%) Roadmaps
11 49 (8.22%) Software Engineering
12 48 (8.05%) Customer Service
13 44 (7.38%) CI/CD
14 43 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
14 43 (7.21%) Disaster Recovery
15 42 (7.05%) Migration
16 34 (5.70%) Data Management
16 34 (5.70%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 89 (14.93%) SQL
2 82 (13.76%) Python
3 68 (11.41%) PowerShell
4 56 (9.40%) C#
5 52 (8.72%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.03%) Scala
7 17 (2.85%) PL/SQL
7 17 (2.85%) VB.NET
8 10 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.51%) Java
10 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.84%) Bash
11 5 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.67%) Perl
13 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.17%) Cypher
14 1 (0.17%) F#
14 1 (0.17%) R
14 1 (0.17%) Ruby
14 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (23.99%) Degree
2 59 (9.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (6.04%) Azure Certification
4 30 (5.03%) Security Cleared
5 28 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.85%) A+ Certification
7 15 (2.52%) SC Cleared
8 13 (2.18%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.85%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.68%) MCSA
11 9 (1.51%) CISSP
12 8 (1.34%) CISM
13 7 (1.17%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (1.01%) PMP
15 5 (0.84%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.84%) CompTIA CySA+
15 5 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.84%) GIAC
15 5 (0.84%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.52%) Accessibility
1 21 (3.52%) SLA
2 20 (3.36%) GDPR
2 20 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.68%) NIST
4 10 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.17%) NCSC
6 6 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.84%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.84%) QA
8 3 (0.50%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.50%) PMO
8 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.34%) GAAP
9 2 (0.34%) IFRS
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (21.48%) Active Directory
2 39 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.68%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.84%) Docker
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.34%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.17%) XenApp
9 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (12.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (4.70%) Terraform
3 26 (4.36%) SCCM
4 19 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (2.85%) Kubernetes
6 15 (2.52%) QRadar
7 8 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.84%) Ansible
9 4 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.50%) Grafana
10 3 (0.50%) SCOM
10 3 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.50%) WSUS
11 2 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.34%) Nagios
12 1 (0.17%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.17%) Cisco UCCX
12 1 (0.17%) DameWare
12 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (9.73%) Google
2 53 (8.89%) VMware
3 36 (6.04%) Apple
4 35 (5.87%) Cisco
5 33 (5.54%) ServiceNow
6 28 (4.70%) Databricks
7 18 (3.02%) Citrix
8 16 (2.68%) HP
8 16 (2.68%) iManage
9 8 (1.34%) Meraki
9 8 (1.34%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.34%) SAP
10 7 (1.17%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.17%) Informatica
10 7 (1.17%) Okta
10 7 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.17%) Splunk
11 6 (1.01%) Intapp
11 6 (1.01%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.01%) Workday