Microsoft Certification Job Trends in England

Microsoft Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 158 220
Rank change year-on-year +18 +62 +99
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 864 877 699
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.63% 1.82% 1.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.97% 4.86% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 622 425 592
10th Percentile £28,025 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.98% -1.05% -1.86%
75th Percentile £53,594 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,950 £80,000
UK median annual salary £31,500 £47,250 £49,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% -4.55% +2.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,371 18,059 14,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.72% 37.45% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,086 7,098 9,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,188 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £92,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,908 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.19% +4.19% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London +73 250 £47,000 -14.55% 75
North of England +81 205 £30,500 -18.67% 76
South East +3 118 £31,500 -31.89% 93
Midlands -57 116 £32,500 -7.14% 48
Yorkshire +51 109 £30,500 -32.22% 34
East of England +33 75 £32,500 -31.58% 48
North West +43 64 £30,500 -23.75% 34
West Midlands -70 59 £30,500 -12.86% 21
East Midlands -12 54 £35,000 - 26
South West -3 53 £30,500 -43.85% 36
North East +21 32 £30,500 -15.28% 10
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 75 (8.68%) SharePoint
2 65 (7.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.89%) WordPress
4 7 (0.81%) IIS
5 2 (0.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 177 (20.49%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 548 (63.43%) Azure
2 429 (49.65%) AWS
3 335 (38.77%) Microsoft 365
4 244 (28.24%) GitHub
5 121 (14.00%) Entra ID
6 79 (9.14%) Power Platform
7 55 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
8 46 (5.32%) Power Automate
9 44 (5.09%) PowerApps
10 36 (4.17%) Serverless
11 28 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (2.43%) OneDrive
13 20 (2.31%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.27%) IaaS
16 10 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (1.16%) PaaS
17 9 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 243 (28.13%) Internet
2 80 (9.26%) Firewall
3 72 (8.33%) DNS
4 57 (6.60%) DHCP
5 46 (5.32%) TCP/IP
6 38 (4.40%) VPN
7 32 (3.70%) WAN
8 29 (3.36%) LAN
9 28 (3.24%) VLAN
10 24 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
11 23 (2.66%) SAN
12 21 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
14 10 (1.16%) VoIP
15 9 (1.04%) WAAS
16 8 (0.93%) IP Telephony
17 6 (0.69%) SD-WAN
18 5 (0.58%) DKIM
18 5 (0.58%) DMARC
18 5 (0.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.13%) Power BI
2 42 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (1.62%) Metadata
6 13 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.39%) Oracle Database
8 11 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.58%) Power Query
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.46%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.46%) Tableau
11 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.35%) MySQL
11 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.23%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 244 (28.24%) Git
2 39 (4.51%) JIRA
3 7 (0.81%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.81%) Metasploit
4 6 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.46%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.46%) MLflow
5 4 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) Moq
7 1 (0.12%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.12%) MSTest
7 1 (0.12%) NSubstitute
7 1 (0.12%) NUnit
7 1 (0.12%) Sourcetree
General
1 403 (46.64%) Social Skills
2 239 (27.66%) Multimedia
3 131 (15.16%) French Language
4 111 (12.85%) Swedish Language
5 71 (8.22%) Finance
6 70 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (4.75%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.89%) Law
10 23 (2.66%) Legal
10 23 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.85%) Retail
11 16 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.04%) Marketing
14 8 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.46%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.46%) Military
15 4 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 239 (27.66%) Trainee
2 172 (19.91%) Analyst
3 141 (16.32%) Developer
4 120 (13.89%) IT Support
5 113 (13.08%) Service Analyst
5 113 (13.08%) Service Desk Analyst
5 113 (13.08%) Trainee Developer
6 109 (12.62%) Software Developer
6 109 (12.62%) Trainee Software Developer
7 81 (9.38%) Senior
8 76 (8.80%) Support Engineer
9 64 (7.41%) IT Engineer
10 59 (6.83%) Support Technician
11 52 (6.02%) Lead
12 51 (5.90%) IT Support Engineer
13 50 (5.79%) IT Technician
14 47 (5.44%) Architect
15 46 (5.32%) IT Support Technician
16 45 (5.21%) Support Analyst
17 38 (4.40%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (28.59%) CSS
2 243 (28.13%) HTML
3 17 (1.97%) .NET
3 17 (1.97%) React
4 15 (1.74%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 7 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 7 (0.81%) REST
6 7 (0.81%) Web Services
7 6 (0.69%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (0.69%) PySpark
8 5 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.58%) Pandas
9 4 (0.46%) LangChain
9 4 (0.46%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.46%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.46%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (0.46%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.46%) XGBoost
10 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
3 37 (4.28%) Driving Licence
4 23 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.55%) Cloud Native
6 17 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 17 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.50%) CMDB
8 12 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.81%) CCTV
11 7 (0.81%) Clustering
11 7 (0.81%) Insider Threat
11 7 (0.81%) PKI
11 7 (0.81%) Smartphone
11 7 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 218 (25.23%) Windows
2 102 (11.81%) Windows Server
3 52 (6.02%) Windows 10
4 41 (4.75%) Linux
5 38 (4.40%) Mac OS
6 31 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (3.13%) Android
8 23 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.35%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.23%) Unix
12 2 (0.23%) VMS
12 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Solaris
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.12%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (37.15%) Mentoring
2 290 (33.56%) Cybersecurity
3 249 (28.82%) ITIL
4 182 (21.06%) Customer Service
5 175 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (19.10%) ITSM
7 103 (11.92%) Performance Metrics
8 85 (9.84%) Computer Science
9 84 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (8.22%) Migration
11 64 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 63 (7.29%) Service Management
13 57 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
14 52 (6.02%) DevOps
15 51 (5.90%) Project Delivery
16 48 (5.56%) Service Delivery
17 47 (5.44%) Agile
18 45 (5.21%) Data Modelling
19 43 (4.98%) Analytics
20 41 (4.75%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 295 (34.14%) JavaScript
2 289 (33.45%) Python
3 131 (15.16%) R
4 88 (10.19%) PowerShell
5 62 (7.18%) C#
6 50 (5.79%) SQL
7 28 (3.24%) TypeScript
8 25 (2.89%) Java
9 18 (2.08%) Bicep
10 9 (1.04%) Bash
11 8 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.69%) VBScript
13 2 (0.23%) C
13 2 (0.23%) Scala
13 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.23%) VB
13 2 (0.23%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.12%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) PHP
14 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 389 (45.02%) AWS Certification
2 341 (39.47%) Azure Certification
3 278 (32.18%) Degree
4 244 (28.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 206 (23.84%) MCSE
6 95 (11.00%) MCP
7 92 (10.65%) A+ Certification
8 70 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (6.83%) MCSA
10 58 (6.71%) Security Cleared
11 50 (5.79%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (5.79%) SC Cleared
12 49 (5.67%) CCNA
13 32 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 30 (3.47%) TOGAF Certification
15 29 (3.36%) Network+ Certification
16 26 (3.01%) CISSP
17 23 (2.66%) DBS Check
18 15 (1.74%) MCITP
19 13 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (11.00%) QA
2 33 (3.82%) GDPR
3 31 (3.59%) SLA
4 20 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.81%) GRC
7 7 (0.81%) GxP
7 7 (0.81%) NIST
8 5 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 204 (23.61%) Active Directory
2 80 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (6.13%) Hyper-V
4 19 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.85%) Docker
6 9 (1.04%) Firmware
6 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.93%) vSphere
8 6 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.46%) XenApp
10 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.23%) vCloud
10 2 (0.23%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 102 (11.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (3.70%) SCCM
3 20 (2.31%) Terraform
4 15 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.81%) Nmap
6 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.69%) SCOM
8 5 (0.58%) Nessus
9 4 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.35%) Ansible
10 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.35%) QRadar
10 3 (0.35%) WSUS
11 2 (0.23%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.23%) Puppet
12 1 (0.12%) Autotask
12 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 828 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 124 (14.35%) ServiceNow
3 109 (12.62%) VMware
4 47 (5.44%) Cisco
5 25 (2.89%) Citrix
6 24 (2.78%) Google
7 21 (2.43%) Dell
8 20 (2.31%) Apple
8 20 (2.31%) HP
9 18 (2.08%) Veeam
10 16 (1.85%) Oracle
11 14 (1.62%) Fortinet
12 11 (1.27%) Meraki
12 11 (1.27%) SonicWALL
13 10 (1.16%) Databricks
13 10 (1.16%) Draytek
13 10 (1.16%) Palo Alto
14 9 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.04%) Mitel
15 8 (0.93%) Bloomberg