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 2 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 539 1,190 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.76% 21.07% 21.59%
As % of the Vendors category 46.63% 57.32% 48.31%
Number of salaries quoted 365 946 652
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,807 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £38,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.18% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -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 1,156 2,076 2,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 40.24% 36.75% 44.70%
Number of salaries quoted 718 1,635 1,205
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,100 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £29,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -12.00% +10.21%
75th Percentile £66,211 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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 2 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 2 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 -4 139 £50,000 +5.26% 125
Bedfordshire +1 118 £47,500 +40.74% 39
Cambridgeshire -3 100 £45,000 +38.46% 95
Essex -1 80 £35,000 +7.69% 83
Suffolk -16 63 £33,000 -2.94% 27
Norfolk -15 39 £26,000 -35.00% 16
East Anglia - 1 £86,000 - 69
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 81 (15.03%) SharePoint
2 68 (12.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.86%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 10 (1.86%) Exchange Server 2013
3 10 (1.86%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.30%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.37%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.19%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 140 (25.97%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (10.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
1 6 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.56%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.37%) Magento
4 2 (0.37%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 200 (37.11%) Microsoft 365
2 199 (36.92%) Azure
3 59 (10.95%) Entra ID
4 45 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 41 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (5.38%) SaaS
7 26 (4.82%) OneDrive
8 23 (4.27%) PowerApps
9 22 (4.08%) GitHub
10 21 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (3.15%) AWS
12 15 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (2.23%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.86%) Cohesity
15 9 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.30%) Firebase
16 7 (1.30%) Google Play
16 7 (1.30%) Mimecast
16 7 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (14.29%) Firewall
2 55 (10.20%) DNS
3 47 (8.72%) VPN
4 39 (7.24%) DHCP
5 34 (6.31%) LAN
6 32 (5.94%) TCP/IP
6 32 (5.94%) WAN
7 23 (4.27%) VLAN
8 21 (3.90%) Internet
9 17 (3.15%) Network Security
9 17 (3.15%) SMTP
10 16 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (2.60%) FTP
11 14 (2.60%) SAN
12 10 (1.86%) HTTP
12 10 (1.86%) IMAP
12 10 (1.86%) Skype
13 6 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (1.11%) WLAN
14 5 (0.93%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (2.78%) Power BI
4 10 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.48%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.30%) SQLite
7 6 (1.11%) Big Data
7 6 (1.11%) MySQL
8 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.19%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.19%) DB2
11 1 (0.19%) GIS
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (5.19%) Git
2 27 (5.01%) JIRA
3 21 (3.90%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Maven
7 1 (0.19%) Moq
7 1 (0.19%) MSTest
7 1 (0.19%) xUnit.net
General
1 213 (39.52%) Social Skills
2 92 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 68 (12.62%) Finance
4 54 (10.02%) Manufacturing
5 53 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (3.53%) Electronics
7 19 (3.53%) Law
8 17 (3.15%) Legal
9 12 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Marketing
11 10 (1.86%) Retail
12 9 (1.67%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.48%) Aviation
14 7 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.11%) Local Government
15 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.93%) Games
16 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.74%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 77 (14.29%) Analyst
2 75 (13.91%) Senior
3 69 (12.80%) IT Support
4 56 (10.39%) Support Engineer
5 53 (9.83%) Developer
6 47 (8.72%) Electrical Engineer
6 47 (8.72%) IT Engineer
6 47 (8.72%) Safety Engineer
6 47 (8.72%) Test Engineer
7 37 (6.86%) IT Support Engineer
8 32 (5.94%) .NET Developer
9 31 (5.75%) Support Analyst
10 29 (5.38%) Junior
11 28 (5.19%) Lead
12 26 (4.82%) 1st Line Support
12 26 (4.82%) IT Technician
12 26 (4.82%) Project Manager
13 23 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.90%) Applications Support
14 21 (3.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.39%) .NET
2 46 (8.53%) .NET Framework
3 34 (6.31%) Entity Framework
4 24 (4.45%) ASP.NET
5 22 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
5 22 (4.08%) HTML
5 22 (4.08%) Web Services
6 19 (3.53%) REST
7 18 (3.34%) CSS
8 16 (2.97%) Sass
9 15 (2.78%) CSS3
9 15 (2.78%) HTML5
10 14 (2.60%) LESS
11 13 (2.41%) SOAP
12 12 (2.23%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.04%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.86%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (1.86%) LINQ
15 8 (1.48%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.79%) Self-Motivation
2 37 (6.86%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.23%) Client/Server
4 12 (2.23%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.86%) Blackberry
5 10 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (1.48%) NHS
7 6 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.93%) Biopharmaceutical
8 5 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.93%) Life Science
8 5 (0.93%) Robotics
9 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 160 (29.68%) Windows
2 76 (14.10%) Windows Server
3 42 (7.79%) Linux
4 18 (3.34%) Mac OS
5 17 (3.15%) Apple iOS
6 16 (2.97%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.86%) Android
8 9 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.56%) SUSE
12 2 (0.37%) Debian
12 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.19%) AIX
13 1 (0.19%) CentOS
13 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.19%) VMS
13 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (20.41%) Customer Service
3 60 (11.13%) ITIL
4 57 (10.58%) Agile
4 57 (10.58%) DevOps
5 53 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (8.72%) Safety Engineering
7 46 (8.53%) ITSM
8 45 (8.35%) Project Management
9 39 (7.24%) Mentoring
10 35 (6.49%) Service Delivery
10 35 (6.49%) Service Management
11 27 (5.01%) Budget Management
12 26 (4.82%) Computer Science
12 26 (4.82%) MVC
13 25 (4.64%) PRINCE2
14 24 (4.45%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (4.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (4.27%) ERP
15 23 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.32%) SQL
2 50 (9.28%) C#
3 35 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 26 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.64%) Java
6 21 (3.90%) C++
6 21 (3.90%) Objective-C
6 21 (3.90%) T-SQL
7 14 (2.60%) C
7 14 (2.60%) PHP
7 14 (2.60%) Python
8 12 (2.23%) Bash
9 7 (1.30%) XAML
10 6 (1.11%) Perl
10 6 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.19%) VBScript
11 1 (0.19%) VC++
Qualifications
1 116 (21.52%) Degree
2 68 (12.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.27%) DBS Check
5 22 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.34%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.78%) A+ Certification
9 13 (2.41%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.30%) MCP
12 6 (1.11%) CCNA
12 6 (1.11%) CCNP
13 5 (0.93%) CIPD
13 5 (0.93%) MCSA
13 5 (0.93%) PMP
13 5 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.74%) CISSP
14 4 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.71%) SLA
2 8 (1.48%) QA
3 7 (1.30%) GDPR
4 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (0.74%) NIST
6 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 146 (27.09%) Active Directory
2 37 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.90%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.97%) Docker
5 14 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.67%) vSphere
7 7 (1.30%) Firmware
8 6 (1.11%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.67%) SCCM
4 7 (1.30%) QRadar
5 5 (0.93%) NetBackup
5 5 (0.93%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.93%) VxRail
6 4 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.74%) SCOM
7 3 (0.56%) Ansible
7 3 (0.56%) Autotask
7 3 (0.56%) Avamar
7 3 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.56%) Puppet
7 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.56%) WSUS
8 2 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.37%) Marathon
8 2 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (10.20%) VMware
2 22 (4.08%) Cisco
3 21 (3.90%) Xamarin
4 17 (3.15%) NEC
5 13 (2.41%) NetApp
6 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.86%) Dell
8 8 (1.48%) Google
8 8 (1.48%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.30%) Aruba
9 7 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.30%) Splunk
9 7 (1.30%) WatchGuard
9 7 (1.30%) YouTube
10 6 (1.11%) Adobe
10 6 (1.11%) Apple
10 6 (1.11%) Oracle
10 6 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.93%) EMC
11 5 (0.93%) SAP