Microsoft Jobs 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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 541 1,232 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 19.22% 20.38% 21.58%
As % of the Vendors category 45.85% 57.54% 47.63%
Number of salaries quoted 366 951 608
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,807 £25,175
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £38,000 £40,057
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% -5.14% -6.84%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

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 1,180 2,141 2,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 41.92% 35.42% 45.30%
Number of salaries quoted 717 1,643 1,133
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £29,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -13.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,206 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% +2.73%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the East of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the East of England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 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
Hertfordshire -3 141 £50,000 +11.11% 123
Bedfordshire 0 99 £47,500 +43.94% 27
Cambridgeshire +1 95 £47,500 +46.15% 111
Suffolk -15 83 £32,500 -4.41% 26
Essex 0 81 £35,000 - 67
Norfolk -11 43 £30,000 -25.00% 30
East Anglia - 2 £73,000 - 48
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 82 (15.16%) SharePoint
2 55 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.22%) IIS
4 8 (1.48%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2013
4 8 (1.48%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.29%) IBM Domino
6 4 (0.74%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 152 (28.10%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (3.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.55%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.37%) Magento
4 2 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 208 (38.45%) Microsoft 365
2 191 (35.30%) Azure
3 60 (11.09%) Entra ID
4 48 (8.87%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.44%) OneDrive
7 21 (3.88%) PowerApps
8 20 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 18 (3.33%) AWS
10 17 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (2.77%) SaaS
12 13 (2.40%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.48%) Cohesity
14 8 (1.48%) GitHub
15 7 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.29%) Mimecast
16 5 (0.92%) Rubrik
17 4 (0.74%) ChatGPT
17 4 (0.74%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.31%) Firewall
2 48 (8.87%) DNS
3 41 (7.58%) LAN
4 39 (7.21%) DHCP
4 39 (7.21%) WAN
5 38 (7.02%) VPN
6 35 (6.47%) TCP/IP
7 24 (4.44%) FTP
7 24 (4.44%) VLAN
8 17 (3.14%) Network Security
9 15 (2.77%) SMTP
10 13 (2.40%) Internet
10 13 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (2.22%) SAN
12 10 (1.85%) HTTP
13 8 (1.48%) IMAP
13 8 (1.48%) Skype
13 8 (1.48%) VoIP
13 8 (1.48%) Wireless
14 7 (1.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.57%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.70%) Power BI
3 11 (2.03%) MySQL
3 11 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.92%) Big Data
6 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.37%) SQLite
7 2 (0.37%) Tableau
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.18%) DB2
8 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.18%) GIS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (3.70%) JIRA
2 17 (3.14%) Git
3 9 (1.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (1.29%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.18%) Maven
7 1 (0.18%) Moq
7 1 (0.18%) MSTest
7 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.18%) xUnit.net
General
1 204 (37.71%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 62 (11.46%) Finance
4 53 (9.80%) Manufacturing
5 50 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (6.65%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (4.81%) Electronics
8 22 (4.07%) Law
9 16 (2.96%) Legal
10 15 (2.77%) Local Government
10 15 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.66%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.48%) Marketing
13 8 (1.48%) Retail
14 5 (0.92%) Automotive
14 5 (0.92%) Aviation
14 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.92%) Games
15 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (15.53%) Analyst
2 73 (13.49%) IT Support
3 59 (10.91%) Support Engineer
4 56 (10.35%) Senior
5 47 (8.69%) Electrical Engineer
5 47 (8.69%) Safety Engineer
5 47 (8.69%) Test Engineer
6 44 (8.13%) IT Engineer
7 43 (7.95%) Support Analyst
8 37 (6.84%) Developer
9 36 (6.65%) IT Support Engineer
10 31 (5.73%) Account Executive
11 29 (5.36%) Applications Support
12 26 (4.81%) 1st Line Support
12 26 (4.81%) Junior
13 25 (4.62%) Lead
14 23 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support
16 21 (3.88%) .NET Developer
16 21 (3.88%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.95%) .NET
2 28 (5.18%) .NET Framework
3 26 (4.81%) Web Services
4 25 (4.62%) REST
5 21 (3.88%) SOAP
6 19 (3.51%) HTML
7 18 (3.33%) Entity Framework
8 15 (2.77%) XML
9 14 (2.59%) ASP.NET
9 14 (2.59%) JSON
10 11 (2.03%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (1.85%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.85%) CSS
12 8 (1.48%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.48%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (1.48%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (1.48%) LINQ
13 7 (1.29%) HTML5
13 7 (1.29%) LDAP
13 7 (1.29%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.61%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (5.73%) Driving Licence
3 15 (2.77%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.03%) NHS
5 11 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (1.85%) Client/Server
7 9 (1.66%) Social Media
8 8 (1.48%) Blackberry
9 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.92%) Robotics
10 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.55%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.55%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (31.24%) Windows
2 79 (14.60%) Windows Server
3 43 (7.95%) Linux
4 24 (4.44%) Windows 10
5 20 (3.70%) Mac OS
6 12 (2.22%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.11%) Android
10 5 (0.92%) VMS
10 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.55%) SUSE
11 3 (0.55%) Unix
12 2 (0.37%) Debian
12 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.18%) AIX
13 1 (0.18%) CentOS
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (24.03%) Customer Service
2 128 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (13.68%) ITIL
4 58 (10.72%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (8.69%) Safety Engineering
6 45 (8.32%) DevOps
6 45 (8.32%) ITSM
7 43 (7.95%) Project Management
8 42 (7.76%) Agile
9 38 (7.02%) Service Delivery
9 38 (7.02%) Service Management
10 33 (6.10%) Mentoring
11 32 (5.91%) Business Development
11 32 (5.91%) Business Enablement
11 32 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (5.55%) Customer Experience
13 26 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (4.25%) ERP
14 23 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (4.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.91%) SQL
2 47 (8.69%) PowerShell
3 39 (7.21%) C#
4 22 (4.07%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 16 (2.96%) Python
7 14 (2.59%) Java
8 13 (2.40%) Bash
9 12 (2.22%) C++
10 7 (1.29%) Objective-C
11 6 (1.11%) Perl
11 6 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.92%) C
12 5 (0.92%) PHP
13 3 (0.55%) VBA
14 2 (0.37%) XAML
15 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.18%) VBScript
15 1 (0.18%) VC++
Qualifications
1 124 (22.92%) Degree
2 63 (11.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (4.62%) DBS Check
3 25 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.88%) A+ Certification
5 17 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 17 (3.14%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.29%) CISSP
9 6 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.92%) CCNA
10 5 (0.92%) CCNP
10 5 (0.92%) CISM
10 5 (0.92%) MCP
10 5 (0.92%) MCSA
10 5 (0.92%) PMP
10 5 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.74%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.77%) SLA
2 12 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.85%) QA
4 8 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.29%) NIST
6 5 (0.92%) GDPR
7 4 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.74%) NCSC
8 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 143 (26.43%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.88%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.59%) Docker
5 13 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.66%) Firmware
8 8 (1.48%) vSphere
9 6 (1.11%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (1.66%) SCCM
4 7 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.11%) QRadar
5 6 (1.11%) SmoothWall
6 5 (0.92%) NetBackup
6 5 (0.92%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.92%) VxRail
7 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.74%) Nessus
8 3 (0.55%) Ansible
8 3 (0.55%) Autotask
8 3 (0.55%) Avamar
8 3 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.55%) Puppet
8 3 (0.55%) SCOM
8 3 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (9.80%) VMware
2 25 (4.62%) Cisco
3 13 (2.40%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.03%) NetApp
4 11 (2.03%) YouTube
5 9 (1.66%) Dell
5 9 (1.66%) NEC
5 9 (1.66%) Oracle
6 8 (1.48%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.29%) Apple
7 7 (1.29%) Splunk
7 7 (1.29%) WatchGuard
7 7 (1.29%) Xamarin
8 6 (1.11%) Adobe
8 6 (1.11%) Aruba
8 6 (1.11%) Instagram
8 6 (1.11%) Meraki
8 6 (1.11%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.92%) Commvault
9 5 (0.92%) Zerto