Microsoft Certification Jobs in England

Microsoft Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 317 332
Rank change year-on-year +108 +15 -56
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1,214 1,021 1,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.43% 1.10% 1.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.01% 3.35% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 829 1,089
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £59,250
90th Percentile £77,350 £71,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% +5.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,218 30,499 34,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.56% 32.72% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 13,726 16,723
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +122 311 £62,500 +13.64% 59
North of England +145 269 £40,000 -13.98% 59
South East +41 251 £38,250 +4.79% 37
Midlands +31 161 £38,000 -9.52% 28
North West +42 120 £40,000 -13.98% 37
East of England +27 106 £40,000 -5.88% 21
West Midlands +32 99 £38,000 -8.43% 19
South West 0 98 £42,500 +0.59% 30
Yorkshire +125 88 £40,000 -5.88% 16
East Midlands +10 62 £44,225 +5.30% 9
North East +57 61 £32,500 -68.29% 7
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
1 205 (16.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (15.32%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.91%) IIS
4 10 (0.82%) CMS
4 10 (0.82%) SharePoint 2010
4 10 (0.82%) SharePoint 2013
5 9 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.58%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.082%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.082%) Confluence
8 1 (0.082%) Drupal
8 1 (0.082%) SAS
8 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 166 (13.67%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.07%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.082%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.082%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 27 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.25%) Maximo
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.082%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.082%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 748 (61.61%) Azure
2 506 (41.68%) Microsoft 365
3 260 (21.42%) Power Platform
4 146 (12.03%) AWS
5 105 (8.65%) Entra ID
6 91 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (6.51%) Dynamics 365
7 79 (6.51%) PowerApps
8 66 (5.44%) Power Automate
9 42 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 40 (3.29%) IaaS
10 40 (3.29%) IBM Cloud
11 37 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (3.05%) PaaS
12 35 (2.88%) Serverless
13 32 (2.64%) OneDrive
14 27 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 27 (2.22%) SaaS
15 26 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (1.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 203 (16.72%) Firewall
2 135 (11.12%) DNS
3 130 (10.71%) DHCP
4 115 (9.47%) SAN
5 93 (7.66%) TCP/IP
6 91 (7.50%) Broadband
7 89 (7.33%) VPN
8 88 (7.25%) WAN
9 86 (7.08%) VLAN
10 84 (6.92%) LAN
11 68 (5.60%) Network Security
12 58 (4.78%) Wireless
13 50 (4.12%) VoIP
14 44 (3.62%) Internet
15 40 (3.29%) NAS
16 28 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
17 26 (2.14%) Intranet
17 26 (2.14%) Remote Desktop
18 17 (1.40%) SD-WAN
19 16 (1.32%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (17.63%) Power BI
2 195 (16.06%) SQL Server
3 104 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 43 (3.54%) Data Lake
6 39 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (2.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 31 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 14 (1.15%) Big Data
13 13 (1.07%) Metadata
14 9 (0.74%) QlikView
14 9 (0.74%) Tableau
15 8 (0.66%) MySQL
16 6 (0.49%) NoSQL
16 6 (0.49%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (1.57%) JIRA
2 13 (1.07%) Axure RP
2 13 (1.07%) Balsamiq
3 8 (0.66%) Git
3 8 (0.66%) GitLab
4 7 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.49%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.16%) Hudson
9 2 (0.16%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.082%) AdminStudio
10 1 (0.082%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.082%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.082%) MSI
10 1 (0.082%) Vagrant
General
1 552 (45.47%) Social Skills
2 142 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (10.13%) Finance
4 118 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 64 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
8 53 (4.37%) Marketing
9 48 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 41 (3.38%) Legal
10 41 (3.38%) Manufacturing
11 35 (2.88%) Retail
12 18 (1.48%) Law
13 16 (1.32%) Billing
14 15 (1.24%) Banking
15 13 (1.07%) Automotive
16 10 (0.82%) Games
16 10 (0.82%) Local Government
17 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 177 (14.58%) Support Engineer
2 173 (14.25%) IT Support
3 116 (9.56%) IT Engineer
4 114 (9.39%) Senior
5 111 (9.14%) Architect
6 106 (8.73%) Analyst
7 94 (7.74%) DBA
8 90 (7.41%) Consultant
9 85 (7.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 85 (7.00%) SQL DBA
10 75 (6.18%) 2nd Line Support
11 71 (5.85%) Lead
12 62 (5.11%) 3rd Line Support
13 61 (5.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 58 (4.78%) Developer
15 54 (4.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 53 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (4.28%) Administrator
18 43 (3.54%) Support Analyst
19 41 (3.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.62%) HTML
2 42 (3.46%) CSS
3 38 (3.13%) .NET
4 26 (2.14%) ARM Templates
5 23 (1.89%) ASP.NET
6 21 (1.73%) .NET Framework
7 20 (1.65%) ASP.NET MVC
8 16 (1.32%) Entity Framework
9 15 (1.24%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (1.07%) PySpark
11 9 (0.74%) .NET Core
11 9 (0.74%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.66%) Middleware
13 6 (0.49%) REST
13 6 (0.49%) Web Services
14 5 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (0.41%) MDX
15 4 (0.33%) React
15 4 (0.33%) WinForms
15 4 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.08%) Data Centre
2 69 (5.68%) Driving Licence
3 52 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 49 (4.04%) Replication
5 47 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (3.38%) Public Cloud
8 40 (3.29%) Blockchain
8 40 (3.29%) Onboarding
9 36 (2.97%) Private Cloud
10 33 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (2.22%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.89%) Cloud Native
15 22 (1.81%) Enterprise Storage
16 18 (1.48%) Low-Code
17 16 (1.32%) NHS
17 16 (1.32%) Product Ownership
17 16 (1.32%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 532 (43.82%) Windows
2 275 (22.65%) Windows Server
3 141 (11.61%) Linux
4 140 (11.53%) Windows 10
5 84 (6.92%) VMS
6 49 (4.04%) Mac OS
7 46 (3.79%) Debian
7 46 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 42 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 41 (3.38%) Apple iOS
9 41 (3.38%) CentOS
10 40 (3.29%) Alpine Linux
11 30 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (1.89%) Android
13 20 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
14 19 (1.57%) Windows 8
15 15 (1.24%) Ubuntu
16 14 (1.15%) SUSE
17 13 (1.07%) Windows 7
18 6 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (22.90%) ITIL
3 264 (21.75%) Customer Service
4 212 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
5 166 (13.67%) Cybersecurity
6 151 (12.44%) DevOps
7 138 (11.37%) Agile
8 132 (10.87%) Computer Science
9 123 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
10 122 (10.05%) Project Delivery
11 107 (8.81%) Project Management
12 106 (8.73%) CI/CD
13 105 (8.65%) Artificial Intelligence
14 104 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 103 (8.48%) Collaborative Working
16 88 (7.25%) High Availability
16 88 (7.25%) Migration
16 88 (7.25%) Performance Tuning
17 82 (6.75%) Presales
18 75 (6.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 276 (22.73%) SQL
2 125 (10.30%) PowerShell
3 93 (7.66%) C#
4 85 (7.00%) T-SQL
5 56 (4.61%) JavaScript
6 38 (3.13%) Python
7 21 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (1.57%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.15%) Bash
10 10 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.74%) Bicep
11 9 (0.74%) U-SQL
12 8 (0.66%) R
13 7 (0.58%) Java
14 6 (0.49%) C
15 5 (0.41%) C++
15 5 (0.41%) PHP
16 3 (0.25%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 361 (29.74%) Degree
2 284 (23.39%) MCSE
3 220 (18.12%) Azure Certification
4 197 (16.23%) MCSA
5 172 (14.17%) Cisco Certification
6 150 (12.36%) MCP
7 144 (11.86%) CCNA
8 140 (11.53%) A+ Certification
9 106 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 89 (7.33%) Security Cleared
11 78 (6.43%) SC Cleared
12 74 (6.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 70 (5.77%) DBS Check
14 62 (5.11%) Network+ Certification
15 50 (4.12%) MCITP
16 27 (2.22%) CISSP
17 24 (1.98%) CCNP
18 23 (1.89%) AWS Certification
18 23 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.93%) SLA
2 41 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (2.72%) GDPR
4 19 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.32%) NIST
7 14 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.07%) QA
8 13 (1.07%) WCAG
9 9 (0.74%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.74%) NCSC
10 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.082%) PMO
System Software
1 468 (38.55%) Active Directory
2 198 (16.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (11.04%) Hyper-V
4 85 (7.00%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (5.27%) Docker
6 50 (4.12%) vSphere
7 31 (2.55%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.15%) vCloud
10 10 (0.82%) XenDesktop
11 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.58%) Firmware
12 7 (0.58%) XenApp
13 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.082%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.082%) LXC
16 1 (0.082%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 117 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 77 (6.34%) SCCM
4 74 (6.10%) Terraform
5 23 (1.89%) SCOM
6 13 (1.07%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.74%) WSUS
9 8 (0.66%) Autotask
10 7 (0.58%) SmoothWall
10 7 (0.58%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.49%) Ansible
12 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.41%) Grafana
12 5 (0.41%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.33%) AirWatch
14 3 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,075 (88.55%) Microsoft
2 262 (21.58%) VMware
3 120 (9.88%) Cisco
4 76 (6.26%) HP
5 63 (5.19%) Veeam
6 62 (5.11%) Apple
7 50 (4.12%) Adobe
8 46 (3.79%) Red Hat
9 45 (3.71%) IBM
10 44 (3.62%) Citrix
11 33 (2.72%) Databricks
12 29 (2.39%) Meraki
13 28 (2.31%) Google
14 26 (2.14%) SolarWinds
15 24 (1.98%) Nimble Storage
16 22 (1.81%) Dell
17 18 (1.48%) Oracle
18 17 (1.40%) Commvault
19 16 (1.32%) Bloomberg
19 16 (1.32%) MobileIron