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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 315 327
Rank change year-on-year +109 +12 -45
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1,212 1,028 1,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.43% 1.09% 1.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.01% 3.35% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 834 1,099
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,813 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £59,896
90th Percentile £77,300 £71,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% +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 24,190 30,722 34,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.55% 32.68% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 15,777 13,798 16,737
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +5.11% -

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 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 24 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 +132 309 £62,500 +13.64% 114
North of England +141 269 £40,000 -15.79% 81
South East +33 256 £38,000 +4.11% 44
Midlands +26 160 £38,000 -9.52% 43
North West +41 120 £40,000 -13.98% 51
East of England +42 104 £40,000 -5.88% 33
West Midlands +35 98 £37,572 -16.04% 26
South West -16 96 £42,500 +0.85% 41
Yorkshire +120 88 £40,000 -15.79% 23
East Midlands +8 62 £44,225 +5.30% 17
North East +63 61 £32,500 -68.29% 9
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
1 199 (16.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (15.18%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.91%) IIS
4 10 (0.83%) CMS
5 9 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.58%) Apache
6 7 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (0.58%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.083%) Confluence
8 1 (0.083%) Drupal
8 1 (0.083%) SAS
8 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 168 (13.86%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.07%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.083%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.083%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.083%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 27 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.25%) Maximo
3 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.17%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.17%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.083%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.083%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 742 (61.22%) Azure
2 504 (41.58%) Microsoft 365
3 258 (21.29%) Power Platform
4 143 (11.80%) AWS
5 105 (8.66%) Entra ID
6 89 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (6.44%) PowerApps
8 76 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (5.36%) Power Automate
10 41 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (3.30%) IaaS
11 40 (3.30%) IBM Cloud
12 37 (3.05%) PaaS
13 36 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 34 (2.81%) Serverless
15 32 (2.64%) OneDrive
16 27 (2.23%) SaaS
17 26 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
18 22 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 201 (16.58%) Firewall
2 137 (11.30%) DNS
3 132 (10.89%) DHCP
4 115 (9.49%) SAN
5 94 (7.76%) Broadband
5 94 (7.76%) TCP/IP
6 90 (7.43%) VLAN
7 89 (7.34%) VPN
8 88 (7.26%) WAN
9 82 (6.77%) LAN
10 67 (5.53%) Network Security
11 60 (4.95%) Wireless
12 48 (3.96%) VoIP
13 44 (3.63%) Internet
14 40 (3.30%) NAS
15 30 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (2.15%) Intranet
16 26 (2.15%) Remote Desktop
17 19 (1.57%) ADSL
18 18 (1.49%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (17.57%) Power BI
2 195 (16.09%) SQL Server
3 103 (8.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 42 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 39 (3.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (2.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 30 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 14 (1.16%) Big Data
13 13 (1.07%) Metadata
14 9 (0.74%) QlikView
14 9 (0.74%) Tableau
15 8 (0.66%) MySQL
16 6 (0.50%) NoSQL
16 6 (0.50%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.41%) Metadata Repository
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 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.17%) Hudson
9 2 (0.17%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.083%) AdminStudio
10 1 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.083%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.083%) MSI
10 1 (0.083%) Vagrant
General
1 556 (45.87%) Social Skills
2 140 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (10.07%) Finance
4 118 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 64 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (4.54%) Presentation Skills
8 52 (4.29%) Marketing
9 51 (4.21%) Telecoms
10 42 (3.47%) Legal
11 40 (3.30%) Manufacturing
12 36 (2.97%) Retail
13 18 (1.49%) Law
14 16 (1.32%) Billing
15 15 (1.24%) Banking
16 13 (1.07%) Automotive
17 10 (0.83%) Games
17 10 (0.83%) Local Government
18 8 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 179 (14.77%) Support Engineer
2 173 (14.27%) IT Support
3 117 (9.65%) IT Engineer
4 112 (9.24%) Architect
4 112 (9.24%) Senior
5 105 (8.66%) Analyst
6 94 (7.76%) DBA
7 90 (7.43%) Consultant
8 85 (7.01%) IT Support Engineer
8 85 (7.01%) SQL DBA
9 73 (6.02%) 2nd Line Support
10 71 (5.86%) Lead
11 60 (4.95%) 3rd Line Support
12 59 (4.87%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 57 (4.70%) Developer
14 54 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 52 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 52 (4.29%) Administrator
16 43 (3.55%) Support Analyst
17 41 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.63%) HTML
2 42 (3.47%) CSS
3 37 (3.05%) .NET
4 26 (2.15%) ARM Templates
5 23 (1.90%) 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 (0.50%) REST
13 6 (0.50%) 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 (7.10%) Data Centre
2 69 (5.69%) Driving Licence
3 52 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 48 (3.96%) Replication
5 47 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 41 (3.38%) Public Cloud
8 40 (3.30%) Blockchain
9 35 (2.89%) Private Cloud
10 33 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (2.23%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.90%) Cloud Native
15 22 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
16 18 (1.49%) Low-Code
17 16 (1.32%) NHS
17 16 (1.32%) Product Ownership
17 16 (1.32%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 531 (43.81%) Windows
2 272 (22.44%) Windows Server
3 144 (11.88%) Windows 10
4 140 (11.55%) Linux
5 84 (6.93%) VMS
6 49 (4.04%) Mac OS
7 46 (3.80%) Debian
7 46 (3.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 42 (3.47%) Apple iOS
9 41 (3.38%) CentOS
9 41 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 40 (3.30%) Alpine Linux
11 30 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (1.90%) Android
13 20 (1.65%) Windows 8
13 20 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (1.24%) Ubuntu
15 14 (1.16%) SUSE
15 14 (1.16%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
2 279 (23.02%) ITIL
3 269 (22.19%) Customer Service
4 211 (17.41%) Business Intelligence
5 167 (13.78%) Cybersecurity
6 149 (12.29%) DevOps
7 136 (11.22%) Agile
8 133 (10.97%) Computer Science
9 122 (10.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 122 (10.07%) Project Delivery
10 107 (8.83%) Project Management
11 105 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence
11 105 (8.66%) CI/CD
11 105 (8.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 103 (8.50%) Collaborative Working
13 88 (7.26%) High Availability
13 88 (7.26%) Migration
13 88 (7.26%) Performance Tuning
14 82 (6.77%) Presales
15 74 (6.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 275 (22.69%) SQL
2 126 (10.40%) PowerShell
3 92 (7.59%) C#
4 85 (7.01%) T-SQL
5 56 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 37 (3.05%) Python
7 20 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (1.57%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.16%) Bash
10 10 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.74%) Bicep
12 8 (0.66%) R
12 8 (0.66%) U-SQL
13 7 (0.58%) Java
14 6 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 363 (29.95%) Degree
2 281 (23.18%) MCSE
3 221 (18.23%) Azure Certification
4 196 (16.17%) MCSA
5 172 (14.19%) Cisco Certification
6 153 (12.62%) MCP
7 144 (11.88%) CCNA
8 138 (11.39%) A+ Certification
9 107 (8.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 87 (7.18%) Security Cleared
11 76 (6.27%) SC Cleared
12 72 (5.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 70 (5.78%) DBS Check
14 65 (5.36%) Network+ Certification
15 48 (3.96%) MCITP
16 27 (2.23%) CISSP
17 24 (1.98%) AWS Certification
17 24 (1.98%) CCNP
17 24 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 23 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.11%) SLA
2 40 (3.30%) 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 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.07%) WCAG
9 12 (0.99%) QA
10 9 (0.74%) Data Quality
10 9 (0.74%) NCSC
11 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.41%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.083%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.083%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.083%) PMO
System Software
1 464 (38.28%) Active Directory
2 191 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (10.81%) Hyper-V
4 85 (7.01%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (5.28%) Docker
6 49 (4.04%) vSphere
7 31 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.16%) vCloud
10 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.58%) Firmware
11 7 (0.58%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.41%) XenApp
14 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.083%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.083%) LXC
Systems Management
1 115 (9.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (7.18%) Kubernetes
3 75 (6.19%) SCCM
4 74 (6.11%) Terraform
5 22 (1.82%) SCOM
6 13 (1.07%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.83%) 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 (0.50%) 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 1,074 (88.61%) Microsoft
2 258 (21.29%) VMware
3 119 (9.82%) Cisco
4 71 (5.86%) HP
5 64 (5.28%) Veeam
6 62 (5.12%) Apple
7 49 (4.04%) Adobe
8 46 (3.80%) Red Hat
9 45 (3.71%) IBM
10 41 (3.38%) Citrix
11 32 (2.64%) Databricks
12 29 (2.39%) Meraki
13 26 (2.15%) Google
14 24 (1.98%) Nimble Storage
14 24 (1.98%) SolarWinds
15 18 (1.49%) Dell
15 18 (1.49%) Oracle
16 17 (1.40%) Commvault
17 16 (1.32%) Bloomberg
17 16 (1.32%) MobileIron