Microsoft Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 10 September 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
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,086 616 566
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 13.73% 17.99% 12.79%
As % of the Vendors category 59.05% 46.56% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 777 421 310
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.69% +14.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -7.41%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,839 1,323 1,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 23.25% 38.63% 30.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 673 636
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in the East of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the East of England

Microsoft
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Hertfordshire +1 313 £41,191 -17.62% 122
Essex 0 263 £40,000 -2.00% 97
Cambridgeshire 0 210 £36,500 -8.75% 79
Norfolk +5 130 £42,500 +30.64% 50
Suffolk +9 114 £40,000 -20.00% 37
Bedfordshire +2 62 £39,500 +11.27% 35
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 221 (20.35%) SharePoint
2 136 (12.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2007
3 16 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2010
3 16 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
4 12 (1.10%) WordPress
5 10 (0.92%) IIS
6 5 (0.46%) CMS
7 3 (0.28%) Confluence
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 153 (14.09%) Microsoft Office
2 124 (11.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.37%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.46%) Primavera
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 500 (46.04%) Microsoft 365
2 484 (44.57%) Azure
3 165 (15.19%) Entra ID
4 138 (12.71%) Power Platform
5 84 (7.73%) OneDrive
6 66 (6.08%) Azure AI
7 62 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.88%) PowerApps
9 51 (4.70%) Power Automate
10 48 (4.42%) AWS
11 38 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 30 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 29 (2.67%) GitHub
14 24 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 18 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 14 (1.29%) SaaS
18 11 (1.01%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 122 (11.23%) Firewall
2 115 (10.59%) DNS
3 82 (7.55%) VPN
4 79 (7.27%) DHCP
5 59 (5.43%) TCP/IP
6 44 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
7 34 (3.13%) WAN
8 30 (2.76%) Wireless
9 28 (2.58%) LAN
9 28 (2.58%) VoIP
10 25 (2.30%) Internet
11 21 (1.93%) VLAN
12 11 (1.01%) SMTP
13 10 (0.92%) SAN
14 8 (0.74%) FTP
14 8 (0.74%) HTTP
14 8 (0.74%) PBX
15 6 (0.55%) Network Security
16 5 (0.46%) Broadband
16 5 (0.46%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
1 101 (9.30%) Power BI
2 59 (5.43%) MongoDB
3 34 (3.13%) Tableau
4 24 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.46%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.37%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.28%) Metadata
10 3 (0.28%) Spotfire
11 2 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.18%) SQLite
12 1 (0.092%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.092%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 24 (2.21%) Git
2 12 (1.10%) JIRA
3 3 (0.28%) git-flow
3 3 (0.28%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.092%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 525 (48.34%) Social Skills
2 100 (9.21%) Finance
3 84 (7.73%) Organisational Skills
4 61 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (3.78%) Manufacturing
6 36 (3.31%) Marketing
7 32 (2.95%) Law
7 32 (2.95%) Retail
8 22 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 20 (1.84%) Public Sector
10 18 (1.66%) Legal
11 15 (1.38%) Electronics
12 14 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.83%) Local Government
16 8 (0.74%) Games
17 7 (0.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 223 (20.53%) IT Support
2 151 (13.90%) Analyst
3 146 (13.44%) Support Engineer
4 144 (13.26%) Developer
5 140 (12.89%) IT Engineer
6 126 (11.60%) IT Support Engineer
7 95 (8.75%) Senior
8 84 (7.73%) .NET Developer
9 80 (7.37%) Junior
10 70 (6.45%) Junior Analyst
11 68 (6.26%) Administrator
12 61 (5.62%) Support Technician
13 59 (5.43%) IT Technician
14 49 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support
15 48 (4.42%) Consultant
15 48 (4.42%) IT Support Technician
16 46 (4.24%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.87%) Senior Developer
18 39 (3.59%) Lead
19 37 (3.41%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (10.41%) .NET
2 100 (9.21%) .NET Core
3 80 (7.37%) ASP.NET
4 79 (7.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 68 (6.26%) CSS
6 66 (6.08%) HTML
7 42 (3.87%) RESTful
8 39 (3.59%) Entity Framework
9 36 (3.31%) React
10 32 (2.95%) Blazor
10 32 (2.95%) ML.NET
11 30 (2.76%) Node.js
12 22 (2.03%) JSON
12 22 (2.03%) Microsoft Graph
13 21 (1.93%) ASP.NET Web API
14 20 (1.84%) .NET Framework
14 20 (1.84%) AngularJS
14 20 (1.84%) Vue
15 19 (1.75%) HTML5 Canvas
16 18 (1.66%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 103 (9.48%) Driving Licence
2 80 (7.37%) Onboarding
3 58 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.95%) Cyberattack
6 14 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.01%) Social Media
8 10 (0.92%) CCTV
9 9 (0.83%) AI Agents
9 9 (0.83%) FMCG
9 9 (0.83%) Product Ownership
10 8 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (0.74%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.64%) Clustering
11 7 (0.64%) iPhone
11 7 (0.64%) Social Network
11 7 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 332 (30.57%) Windows
2 171 (15.75%) Windows Server
3 55 (5.06%) Windows 10
4 47 (4.33%) Linux
5 27 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 19 (1.75%) Apple iOS
8 17 (1.57%) Android
8 17 (1.57%) Windows 7
9 16 (1.47%) Windows 8
10 15 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (16.57%) Customer Service
3 179 (16.48%) Cybersecurity
4 130 (11.97%) AI
5 128 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 105 (9.67%) Agile
7 104 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
8 98 (9.02%) Mentoring
9 84 (7.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 84 (7.73%) Service Delivery
10 80 (7.37%) User Experience
11 77 (7.09%) DevOps
12 63 (5.80%) ITIL
13 57 (5.25%) CI/CD
13 57 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 55 (5.06%) Machine Learning
15 50 (4.60%) Decision-Making
16 49 (4.51%) ITSM
16 49 (4.51%) Service Management
17 45 (4.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (17.50%) SQL
2 124 (11.42%) C#
3 81 (7.46%) PowerShell
4 69 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 68 (6.26%) Python
6 38 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.10%) C++
8 9 (0.83%) Bash
8 9 (0.83%) Bicep
9 6 (0.55%) Perl
9 6 (0.55%) R
10 5 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.46%) Java
10 5 (0.46%) VBA
11 4 (0.37%) PHP
11 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.092%) C
13 1 (0.092%) VB
Qualifications
1 142 (13.08%) Azure Certification
2 102 (9.39%) Degree
3 76 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (4.51%) Security Cleared
5 46 (4.24%) CompTIA Security+
6 39 (3.59%) CEH
7 35 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (3.04%) CCNA
9 32 (2.95%) CompTIA CySA+
10 27 (2.49%) DBS Check
10 27 (2.49%) Network+ Certification
11 19 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (1.38%) SC Cleared
13 14 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.20%) A+ Certification
14 13 (1.20%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.20%) MCSE
15 10 (0.92%) ACCA
15 10 (0.92%) CIMA
16 7 (0.64%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.79%) SLA
2 45 (4.14%) QA
3 30 (2.76%) GDPR
4 22 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.64%) NIST
9 6 (0.55%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.28%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.28%) PMO
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 1 (0.092%) Automotive SPICE
12 1 (0.092%) IFRS
12 1 (0.092%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.092%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 1 (0.092%) MISRA
12 1 (0.092%) MISRA C
System Software
1 246 (22.65%) Active Directory
2 70 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 56 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.93%) Docker
5 16 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.28%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.092%) Firmware
10 1 (0.092%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.092%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 97 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.66%) SCCM
3 17 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.74%) WSUS
5 7 (0.64%) Proxmox
6 6 (0.55%) QRadar
7 4 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.18%) Ansible
8 2 (0.18%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.092%) Puppet
9 1 (0.092%) SCOM
9 1 (0.092%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (8.10%) ForeScout
2 66 (6.08%) VMware
3 53 (4.88%) Cisco
4 34 (3.13%) Apple
5 33 (3.04%) Adobe
6 32 (2.95%) Google
7 23 (2.12%) SAP
8 19 (1.75%) Meraki
8 19 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.47%) Facebook
10 15 (1.38%) Veeam
11 14 (1.29%) Sophos
12 12 (1.10%) Ubiquiti
13 9 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.74%) NetApp
14 8 (0.74%) Remedy
14 8 (0.74%) Splunk
15 7 (0.64%) Databricks
15 7 (0.64%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.64%) SonicWALL