Microsoft Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Microsoft Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 175 227
Rank change year-on-year +40 +52 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 4 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.21% 0.060% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.062% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £68,000 £90,375 £72,875
25th Percentile £76,250 £90,938 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £93,750 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile - £98,438 £87,813
90th Percentile - £100,125 £90,625
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £93,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +29.31% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,781 3,214 4,384
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 96.14% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 2,532 3,665
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,444
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the City of London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the City of London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the City of London

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) CSOC
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CSOC
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft