Microsoft Certification Jobs 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 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 197 323
Rank change year-on-year +4 +126 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 716 1,182 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.59% 1.51% 1.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.32% 5.26% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 439 1,010 880
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,375 £31,250 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £59,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%

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 21,548 22,468 31,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 47.87% 28.66% 32.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,515 15,085 14,170
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,734 £41,374
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,433 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in England over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

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 24 March 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
Midlands +68 221 £35,000 -7.89% 40
London -6 181 £57,500 -9.45% 96
West Midlands +74 178 £35,000 -7.37% 18
South East -31 98 £45,000 +19.21% 67
North of England -39 93 £36,750 -8.13% 53
East of England +30 70 £47,500 +18.75% 39
North West -33 48 £37,500 -16.67% 25
South West +48 44 £45,000 +5.88% 26
East Midlands +36 43 £35,000 -17.65% 21
Yorkshire +22 32 £28,750 -32.35% 18
North East +6 13 £36,000 +10.77% 12
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 66 (9.22%) SharePoint
2 60 (8.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.70%) IIS
4 2 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 75 (10.47%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 30 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.56%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.42%) Sage 50
5 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.14%) Eikon
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 321 (44.83%) Azure
2 252 (35.20%) Microsoft 365
3 119 (16.62%) Entra ID
4 77 (10.75%) AWS
5 75 (10.47%) Power Platform
6 70 (9.78%) Dynamics 365
7 48 (6.70%) PowerApps
8 40 (5.59%) Power Automate
9 36 (5.03%) SaaS
10 35 (4.89%) GCP
11 33 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (3.77%) OneDrive
13 23 (3.21%) Google Workspace
14 22 (3.07%) IaaS
15 21 (2.93%) PaaS
16 20 (2.79%) GitHub
17 15 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
18 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
19 9 (1.26%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 186 (25.98%) WLAN
2 180 (25.14%) Network Security
3 163 (22.77%) Internet
4 125 (17.46%) DNS
5 110 (15.36%) Firewall
6 107 (14.94%) DHCP
7 69 (9.64%) TCP/IP
8 65 (9.08%) VLAN
9 62 (8.66%) WAN
10 58 (8.10%) LAN
11 42 (5.87%) VPN
12 34 (4.75%) SAN
13 27 (3.77%) Cisco IOS
14 21 (2.93%) BGP
14 21 (2.93%) OSPF
14 21 (2.93%) Wireless
15 18 (2.51%) IPv4
16 17 (2.37%) FTP
16 17 (2.37%) PBX
16 17 (2.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (8.94%) SQL Server
2 30 (4.19%) Power BI
3 20 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (0.84%) Metabase
5 6 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.28%) Power Query
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.14%) Big Data
10 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (4.19%) JIRA
2 28 (3.91%) Git
3 17 (2.37%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.14%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.14%) ESLint
6 1 (0.14%) Gatling
6 1 (0.14%) GitLab
6 1 (0.14%) JMeter
6 1 (0.14%) Mercurial
General
1 308 (43.02%) Social Skills
2 92 (12.85%) Finance
3 56 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.31%) Retail
5 27 (3.77%) Automotive
6 26 (3.63%) Law
6 26 (3.63%) Marketing
7 21 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.79%) Legal
9 19 (2.65%) Banking
10 13 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.68%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.98%) Humanities
15 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.56%) Advertising
16 4 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 241 (33.66%) IT Engineer
2 240 (33.52%) Support Engineer
3 231 (32.26%) IT Support
4 204 (28.49%) IT Support Engineer
5 76 (10.61%) Senior
6 70 (9.78%) Analyst
7 46 (6.42%) Consultant
8 45 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 43 (6.01%) Developer
10 32 (4.47%) 2nd Line Support
11 30 (4.19%) Systems Engineer
11 30 (4.19%) Technical Support
12 28 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.77%) Support Analyst
14 26 (3.63%) Architect
15 23 (3.21%) 1st Line Support
15 23 (3.21%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 21 (2.93%) Senior Developer
17 18 (2.51%) Functional Consultant
17 18 (2.51%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.70%) .NET
2 31 (4.33%) ASP.NET
3 21 (2.93%) .NET Framework
4 20 (2.79%) CSS
4 20 (2.79%) HTML
5 18 (2.51%) CSS3
5 18 (2.51%) HTML5
6 17 (2.37%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (2.37%) Entity Framework
6 17 (2.37%) LESS
6 17 (2.37%) Sass
7 11 (1.54%) Web Services
8 7 (0.98%) JSON
8 7 (0.98%) Middleware
9 6 (0.84%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.84%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (0.84%) SAML
10 5 (0.70%) REST
11 4 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.42%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 173 (24.16%) Driving Licence
2 53 (7.40%) Management Information System
3 29 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 22 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (3.07%) Smartphone
5 18 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (1.54%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.40%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.98%) Operational Technology
10 7 (0.98%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (0.84%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.70%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 444 (62.01%) Windows
2 231 (32.26%) Linux
3 149 (20.81%) Windows Server
4 89 (12.43%) Windows 10
5 44 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 43 (6.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (5.03%) Mac OS X
8 29 (4.05%) Ubuntu
9 23 (3.21%) Android
10 22 (3.07%) Mac OS
11 13 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.54%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.26%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.98%) CentOS
15 6 (0.84%) VMS
15 6 (0.84%) Windows 8
16 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.28%) Unix
17 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
18 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (54.19%) Problem-Solving
2 305 (42.60%) ITIL
3 221 (30.87%) Computer Science
4 207 (28.91%) Mentoring
5 174 (24.30%) Asset Management
6 167 (23.32%) IT Asset Management
6 167 (23.32%) Network Management
7 128 (17.88%) Customer Service
8 79 (11.03%) Agile
9 61 (8.52%) DevOps
10 60 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
11 55 (7.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 51 (7.12%) Project Management
13 41 (5.73%) Service Management
14 40 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (5.45%) ITSM
16 38 (5.31%) CRM
17 36 (5.03%) Information Security
17 36 (5.03%) Migration
18 34 (4.75%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 130 (18.16%) PowerShell
2 114 (15.92%) SQL
3 56 (7.82%) C#
4 48 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 44 (6.15%) Python
6 25 (3.49%) T-SQL
7 21 (2.93%) C++
7 21 (2.93%) Java
8 17 (2.37%) C
8 17 (2.37%) Objective-C
8 17 (2.37%) PHP
9 6 (0.84%) VB
10 3 (0.42%) Bash
10 3 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.28%) R
11 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.28%) VBScript
12 1 (0.14%) Delphi
12 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 310 (43.30%) Degree
2 252 (35.20%) MCSE
3 235 (32.82%) Cisco Certification
4 220 (30.73%) CCNA
5 216 (30.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 214 (29.89%) MCP
7 187 (26.12%) CCNP
8 162 (22.63%) LPIC
9 125 (17.46%) Azure Certification
10 80 (11.17%) MCSA
11 56 (7.82%) A+ Certification
12 55 (7.68%) Network+ Certification
13 50 (6.98%) Security Cleared
14 43 (6.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 30 (4.19%) SC Cleared
16 23 (3.21%) HND
17 22 (3.07%) HNC
18 21 (2.93%) AWS Certification
19 18 (2.51%) MCITP
20 14 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (4.05%) SLA
3 20 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (2.51%) GDPR
5 10 (1.40%) NIST
6 8 (1.12%) NCSC
7 5 (0.70%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.42%) PMO
8 3 (0.42%) QA
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 267 (37.29%) Active Directory
2 86 (12.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (9.92%) Hyper-V
4 31 (4.33%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 27 (3.77%) vSphere
6 21 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.40%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.12%) Docker
9 6 (0.84%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.56%) Firmware
11 3 (0.42%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.28%) XenApp
12 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.14%) LXC
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.14%) Samba
13 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 82 (11.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (8.52%) SCCM
3 27 (3.77%) Terraform
4 23 (3.21%) WSUS
5 15 (2.09%) Ansible
6 10 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.26%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.12%) SCOM
9 7 (0.98%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.70%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.70%) VxRail
10 5 (0.70%) WMI
11 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.56%) Iperf
11 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (0.56%) Nagios
11 4 (0.56%) vRealize
12 3 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 671 (93.72%) Microsoft
2 266 (37.15%) Cisco
3 109 (15.22%) VMware
4 62 (8.66%) Google
5 41 (5.73%) Dell
6 37 (5.17%) Veeam
7 34 (4.75%) Fortinet
8 32 (4.47%) Citrix
9 31 (4.33%) Apple
10 22 (3.07%) Ubiquiti
11 18 (2.51%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.51%) SolarWinds
12 17 (2.37%) Xamarin
13 16 (2.23%) HP
14 15 (2.09%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.82%) SAP
16 12 (1.68%) Red Hat
17 11 (1.54%) Meraki
18 10 (1.40%) Okta
19 9 (1.26%) WatchGuard