Microsoft Jobs in the East Midlands

Microsoft
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 320 764 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.08% 17.37% 24.66%
As % of the Vendors category 39.41% 51.07% 59.61%
Number of salaries quoted 249 608 340
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,088 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £37,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -12.79% +1.18%
75th Percentile £50,250 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,250 £65,000 £71,550
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 812 1,496 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.64% 34.01% 41.36%
Number of salaries quoted 469 1,013 598
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £60,800
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +3.64%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the East Midlands

Microsoft
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Northamptonshire -22 92 £32,500 +6.56% 43
Nottinghamshire 0 68 £35,000 -20.86% 76
Derbyshire -1 67 £38,000 +5.56% 51
Leicestershire -13 67 £48,500 +21.25% 44
Lincolnshire -10 23 £32,500 -2.99% 52
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 55 (17.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (16.56%) SharePoint
3 15 (4.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 71 (22.19%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.50%) Chatbot
3 8 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.25%) Trello
6 1 (0.31%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.94%) Magento
2 3 (0.94%) Shopify
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 134 (41.88%) Azure
2 132 (41.25%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 25 (7.81%) OneDrive
5 20 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (4.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (3.75%) IaaS
9 11 (3.44%) AWS
10 8 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.19%) SaaS
11 7 (2.19%) Serverless
12 6 (1.88%) Mimecast
13 5 (1.56%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.25%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.25%) GCP
15 3 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 3 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.31%) Firewall
2 27 (8.44%) DNS
2 27 (8.44%) VoIP
3 26 (8.13%) DHCP
4 18 (5.63%) Remote Desktop
4 18 (5.63%) VPN
5 17 (5.31%) Network Security
6 13 (4.06%) SAN
7 9 (2.81%) Internet
7 9 (2.81%) WAN
8 8 (2.50%) LAN
8 8 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.19%) Ethernet
10 6 (1.88%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.56%) WLAN
12 4 (1.25%) VLAN
12 4 (1.25%) Wireless
13 3 (0.94%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.63%) Intranet
14 2 (0.63%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 12 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (3.13%) Power BI
6 4 (1.25%) MS Access
7 3 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (3.75%) Visual Studio
2 6 (1.88%) JIRA
3 4 (1.25%) Postman
3 4 (1.25%) Subversion
4 3 (0.94%) TortoiseSVN
5 2 (0.63%) Git
6 1 (0.31%) gulp
6 1 (0.31%) Yeoman
General
1 138 (43.13%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 44 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.50%) Law
5 33 (10.31%) Manufacturing
6 31 (9.69%) Finance
7 27 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (5.94%) Retail
9 10 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.50%) Games
11 6 (1.88%) Marketing
12 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Electronics
13 4 (1.25%) Legal
14 3 (0.94%) Automotive
14 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.31%) Back Office
16 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (24.06%) IT Support
2 51 (15.94%) Analyst
3 43 (13.44%) 2nd Line Support
4 40 (12.50%) Senior
5 31 (9.69%) Support Engineer
6 25 (7.81%) Electrical Engineer
6 25 (7.81%) Safety Engineer
6 25 (7.81%) Test Engineer
7 24 (7.50%) 1st Line Support
7 24 (7.50%) IT Engineer
8 20 (6.25%) Developer
9 16 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (4.38%) Project Engineer
11 14 (4.38%) SOC Analyst
12 12 (3.75%) 3rd Line Support
12 12 (3.75%) Lead
12 12 (3.75%) Support Analyst
13 11 (3.44%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.31%) .NET
2 7 (2.19%) ASP.NET
2 7 (2.19%) WPF
3 5 (1.56%) .NET Core
3 5 (1.56%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (0.94%) Blazor
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.94%) Middleware
4 3 (0.94%) RESTful
5 2 (0.63%) CSS
5 2 (0.63%) HTML
5 2 (0.63%) JSON
5 2 (0.63%) LangChain
5 2 (0.63%) React
5 2 (0.63%) REST
5 2 (0.63%) SOAP
5 2 (0.63%) Web Services
6 1 (0.31%) Code First Entity Framework
6 1 (0.31%) SPFx
6 1 (0.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.50%) Driving Licence
2 21 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.81%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.88%) Clustering
5 6 (1.88%) EPoS
6 5 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.25%) Social Media
8 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.63%) IoT
9 2 (0.63%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.63%) Optoelectronics
10 1 (0.31%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.31%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.31%) iPhone
10 1 (0.31%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 151 (47.19%) Windows
2 70 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 19 (5.94%) Mac OS
5 14 (4.38%) Linux
6 12 (3.75%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.81%) Android
7 9 (2.81%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.56%) CentOS
8 5 (1.56%) Rocky
8 5 (1.56%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 36 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (10.94%) ITIL
5 34 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (10.31%) Project Management
7 31 (9.69%) ITSM
7 31 (9.69%) Time Management
8 25 (7.81%) Safety Engineering
9 23 (7.19%) Mentoring
10 21 (6.56%) Service Delivery
11 19 (5.94%) SIEM
12 18 (5.63%) PRINCE2
13 17 (5.31%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (5.31%) Data Analysis
13 17 (5.31%) Migration
14 16 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (5.00%) ERP
14 16 (5.00%) ETL
14 16 (5.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.44%) SQL
2 32 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.31%) C#
3 17 (5.31%) T-SQL
4 14 (4.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 12 (3.75%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.75%) Python
6 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.25%) VB
7 2 (0.63%) Bash
7 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.63%) R
7 2 (0.63%) XAML
8 1 (0.31%) Ada
8 1 (0.31%) C
8 1 (0.31%) C++
8 1 (0.31%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.31%) Perl
8 1 (0.31%) Ruby
8 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (15.94%) Degree
2 19 (5.94%) CCNA
2 19 (5.94%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (4.06%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.75%) A+ Certification
4 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.13%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.81%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.56%) CCNP
8 5 (1.56%) LPIC
8 5 (1.56%) MCP
8 5 (1.56%) MCSE
9 3 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.94%) HNC
9 3 (0.94%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.63%) HND
10 2 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.81%) SLA
2 18 (5.63%) GDPR
3 12 (3.75%) QA
4 9 (2.81%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) PMO
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) JTAG
9 1 (0.31%) MISRA
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 116 (36.25%) Active Directory
2 30 (9.38%) Hyper-V
3 25 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.38%) Docker
5 7 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (2.19%) vSphere
6 6 (1.88%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.19%) SCCM
3 6 (1.88%) Ansible
3 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.25%) Grafana
5 4 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.94%) Autotask
6 3 (0.94%) SCOM
7 2 (0.63%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
8 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (9.06%) VMware
2 28 (8.75%) Cisco
3 19 (5.94%) Meraki
4 11 (3.44%) Sage
5 10 (3.13%) SAP
6 9 (2.81%) Sophos
6 9 (2.81%) Veeam
7 8 (2.50%) HP
8 7 (2.19%) Barracuda Networks
8 7 (2.19%) Dell
8 7 (2.19%) Google
9 6 (1.88%) NetApp
10 4 (1.25%) Adobe
10 4 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.94%) dotdigital
11 3 (0.94%) Freshdesk
11 3 (0.94%) MobileIron
11 3 (0.94%) Zoho
12 2 (0.63%) IBM
12 2 (0.63%) TP-LINK