Microsoft Job Trends in Croydon

Microsoft
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 14 January 2026, 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 34 17
Rank change year-on-year +20 -17 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 11 10 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 9.32% 5.81% 20.38%
As % of the Vendors category 28.21% 15.87% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 23
10th Percentile - £27,050 £41,700
25th Percentile £34,250 £28,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -40.91% -
75th Percentile £38,750 £45,625 £66,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £52,750 £76,750
South London median annual salary £42,500 £50,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.84% +12.22% -14.29%

All Vendors
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 39 63 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 33.05% 36.63% 50.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 52
10th Percentile - £31,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £47,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £57,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% -6.12% +4.26%
75th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £66,000 £68,750 £101,750
South London median annual salary £42,500 £53,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.56% +12.63% -9.52%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Croydon

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Croydon over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Croydon

Microsoft
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Coulsdon 0 9 £35,500 -35.45%
Microsoft
South London

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (18.18%) GIS
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Help Desk Manager
1 5 (45.45%) IT Manager
2 4 (36.36%) IT Support
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Onboarding
2 4 (36.36%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (81.82%) CRM
2 9 (81.82%) Customer Service
3 5 (45.45%) AI
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
2 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune