Microsoft Jobs in the City of London

Microsoft
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 457 627 834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 23.36% 18.74% 18.63%
As % of the Vendors category 49.51% 47.79% 47.74%
Number of salaries quoted 354 493 614
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £42,111
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 923 1,312 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 47.19% 39.21% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 676 982 1,375
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,084 £36,450
25th Percentile £49,000 £48,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £106,250 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the City of London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the City of London

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Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the City of London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
London Bridge -4 1 £120,000 +242.86%
Microsoft
Central London

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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 67 (14.66%) SharePoint
2 51 (11.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (4.16%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.88%) CMS
5 3 (0.66%) Confluence
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.44%) Liferay
6 2 (0.44%) Moodle
7 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 98 (21.44%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (16.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (7.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 26 (5.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.88%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.66%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.22%) Eikon
5 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 210 (45.95%) Azure
2 150 (32.82%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (17.72%) Power Platform
4 45 (9.85%) Dynamics 365
5 40 (8.75%) Entra ID
6 35 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (7.66%) SaaS
7 30 (6.56%) PowerApps
8 25 (5.47%) AWS
9 24 (5.25%) OneDrive
10 23 (5.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (4.38%) GitHub
11 20 (4.38%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 18 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (3.50%) IaaS
14 16 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
14 16 (3.50%) PaaS
15 15 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.25%) Firewall
2 16 (3.50%) HTTP
3 14 (3.06%) DHCP
3 14 (3.06%) DNS
3 14 (3.06%) VPN
3 14 (3.06%) WebEx
4 13 (2.84%) VLAN
4 13 (2.84%) WAN
5 12 (2.63%) LAN
5 12 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.41%) SSL
6 11 (2.41%) Wireless
7 10 (2.19%) Network Security
8 9 (1.97%) IPsec
9 7 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.31%) Internet
11 5 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (1.09%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (0.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.16%) SQL Server
2 48 (10.50%) Power BI
3 20 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (3.06%) Metadata
6 13 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (2.84%) Tableau
7 10 (2.19%) DB2
8 8 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.09%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.66%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.72%) Git
2 16 (3.50%) JIRA
3 4 (0.88%) NUnit
3 4 (0.88%) Selenium
4 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.44%) MSTest
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.22%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 222 (48.58%) Social Skills
2 148 (32.39%) Finance
3 84 (18.38%) Law
4 65 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (9.19%) Legal
7 35 (7.66%) Marketing
8 26 (5.69%) Telecoms
9 25 (5.47%) Advertising
10 24 (5.25%) Retail
11 19 (4.16%) Banking
12 18 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (3.72%) Games
14 16 (3.50%) Public Sector
15 10 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.31%) Local Government
16 6 (1.31%) Military
17 4 (0.88%) Back Office
17 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 105 (22.98%) Analyst
2 82 (17.94%) Senior
3 62 (13.57%) IT Support
4 54 (11.82%) Support Analyst
5 40 (8.75%) Architect
5 40 (8.75%) Lead
6 36 (7.88%) IT Analyst
7 34 (7.44%) Developer
8 28 (6.13%) IT Support Analyst
9 25 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (5.47%) Support Specialist
10 22 (4.81%) IT Support Specialist
11 21 (4.60%) IT Manager
12 20 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
12 20 (4.38%) Software Engineer
13 17 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (3.50%) Service Analyst
15 15 (3.28%) Applications Support
15 15 (3.28%) Applications Support Analyst
15 15 (3.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.85%) .NET
2 20 (4.38%) Kafka
3 16 (3.50%) HTML
4 12 (2.63%) CSS
4 12 (2.63%) React
5 11 (2.41%) JSON
6 9 (1.97%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.75%) XML
8 6 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (1.31%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (1.09%) LDAP
9 5 (1.09%) OAuth
9 5 (1.09%) OpenID
9 5 (1.09%) SAML
10 4 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.88%) EDI
10 4 (0.88%) LINQ
10 4 (0.88%) RESTful
10 4 (0.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 21 (4.60%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.60%) Video Conferencing
3 16 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (2.19%) Social Media
8 8 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.75%) iPhone
9 7 (1.53%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.31%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.09%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.09%) FMCG
11 5 (1.09%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 136 (29.76%) Windows
2 46 (10.07%) Windows 10
3 37 (8.10%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.60%) Linux
5 11 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.31%) Unix
9 4 (0.88%) Android
10 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.44%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.44%) Rocky
11 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.22%) CentOS
12 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (16.85%) Agile
3 73 (15.97%) ITIL
4 61 (13.35%) Mentoring
5 57 (12.47%) DevOps
6 55 (12.04%) Project Management
7 49 (10.72%) Analytics
8 47 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
9 42 (9.19%) Customer Service
10 41 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (8.75%) Computer Science
12 38 (8.32%) Migration
13 37 (8.10%) CI/CD
13 37 (8.10%) Data Management
13 37 (8.10%) Roadmaps
14 36 (7.88%) CRM
15 35 (7.66%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (6.78%) Service Management
17 30 (6.56%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.41%) SQL
2 61 (13.35%) Python
3 46 (10.07%) C#
4 40 (8.75%) PowerShell
5 38 (8.32%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.94%) Scala
7 11 (2.41%) Java
8 10 (2.19%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.19%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.97%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.09%) Bash
12 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.22%) C++
13 1 (0.22%) Cypher
13 1 (0.22%) R
13 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 125 (27.35%) Degree
2 48 (10.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (5.47%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.94%) A+ Certification
5 16 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.84%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.19%) MCSA
8 7 (1.53%) CISSP
8 7 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.53%) SC Cleared
9 6 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.31%) CISM
9 6 (1.31%) PMP
10 5 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.09%) GIAC
11 4 (0.88%) CCNA
11 4 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.81%) GDPR
2 17 (3.72%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.72%) SLA
3 13 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.97%) QA
6 7 (1.53%) NCSC
7 6 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.31%) NIST
8 5 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.66%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.44%) GAAP
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS
10 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.22%) PSD2
11 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 98 (21.44%) Active Directory
2 32 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.44%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.44%) Docker
6 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) XenApp
7 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (9.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (4.60%) Terraform
3 18 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (3.50%) Kubernetes
5 15 (3.28%) SCCM
6 8 (1.75%) QRadar
7 6 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.09%) Ansible
9 4 (0.88%) SCOM
10 3 (0.66%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.44%) Grafana
12 1 (0.22%) CASB
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco UCCX
12 1 (0.22%) DameWare
12 1 (0.22%) Plesk
Vendors
1 45 (9.85%) Google
2 36 (7.88%) VMware
3 31 (6.78%) Apple
4 29 (6.35%) Cisco
5 22 (4.81%) Databricks
6 21 (4.60%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.28%) HP
8 11 (2.41%) Meraki
9 10 (2.19%) Citrix
10 9 (1.97%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.75%) SAP
11 8 (1.75%) Workday
12 7 (1.53%) iManage
12 7 (1.53%) Informatica
13 6 (1.31%) Bloomberg
14 5 (1.09%) Guidewire
14 5 (1.09%) IBM
14 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.09%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.09%) Splunk