Microsoft Job Trends in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 13 September 2026, 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
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 11,941 7,040 10,921
As % of all permanent jobs in England 11.93% 16.23% 15.86%
As % of the Vendors category 49.06% 38.18% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,196 5,109 5,993
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,250 £31,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.45% -6.07%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.91% -3.81%

All Vendors
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 24,339 18,438 22,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.31% 42.50% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,784 10,130 12,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,773 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,312 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.47% -7.05% -4.35%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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 +2 2,832 £70,000 +12.00% 2,386
North of England +7 2,599 £45,000 +16.88% 1,084
South East +3 2,398 £49,425 +20.55% 1,328
Midlands +1 1,779 £47,500 +21.79% 780
North West +18 1,341 £47,500 +21.02% 528
South West 0 1,214 £41,250 +13.01% 545
East of England +1 1,063 £40,000 -11.11% 492
West Midlands +1 1,015 £55,000 +29.41% 438
Yorkshire +3 923 £42,500 +11.84% 395
East Midlands +4 764 £40,129 +14.65% 341
North East -1 335 £45,000 +28.57% 184
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 1,385 (11.60%) SharePoint
2 957 (8.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 121 (1.01%) IIS
4 105 (0.88%) Confluence
5 48 (0.40%) Apache
6 30 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.25%) CMS
6 30 (0.25%) WordPress
7 25 (0.21%) nginx
8 19 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
8 19 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 19 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
9 17 (0.14%) Skype for Business
10 16 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.050%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.050%) SAS
11 6 (0.050%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.042%) Sitecore CMS
13 4 (0.033%) JBoss
13 4 (0.033%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,511 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1,309 (10.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 282 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
5 89 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 71 (0.59%) MS Visio
7 26 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 19 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 17 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 17 (0.14%) Revit
10 13 (0.11%) EPLAN
11 11 (0.092%) Navisworks
12 10 (0.084%) CorelDRAW
13 7 (0.059%) Trello
14 6 (0.050%) Photoshop
15 5 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
15 5 (0.042%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.042%) DaVinci Resolve
15 5 (0.042%) ProjectWise
16 4 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 292 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 59 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 41 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 31 (0.26%) Shopify
5 26 (0.22%) Primavera
6 24 (0.20%) Cloudability
7 23 (0.19%) Elite 3E
8 22 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 18 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 17 (0.14%) Magento
11 16 (0.13%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
13 12 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
14 10 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
14 10 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
15 9 (0.075%) Fidessa
15 9 (0.075%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 9 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
15 9 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
15 9 (0.075%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 5,656 (47.37%) Azure
2 4,005 (33.54%) Microsoft 365
3 1,976 (16.55%) Power Platform
4 1,466 (12.28%) Entra ID
5 897 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
6 828 (6.93%) AWS
7 703 (5.89%) Azure AI
8 578 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 556 (4.66%) Power Automate
10 488 (4.09%) PowerApps
11 470 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 464 (3.89%) SaaS
13 383 (3.21%) OneDrive
14 298 (2.50%) GitHub
15 265 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
16 190 (1.59%) GCP
17 183 (1.53%) Serverless
18 170 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
19 168 (1.41%) PaaS
20 166 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,093 (9.15%) Firewall
2 1,003 (8.40%) DNS
3 765 (6.41%) DHCP
4 737 (6.17%) VPN
5 445 (3.73%) TCP/IP
6 403 (3.37%) WAN
7 377 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
8 375 (3.14%) VLAN
9 363 (3.04%) LAN
10 293 (2.45%) Wireless
11 260 (2.18%) Network Security
12 196 (1.64%) VoIP
13 140 (1.17%) Internet
14 118 (0.99%) SAN
15 79 (0.66%) SD-WAN
16 65 (0.54%) SSL
17 47 (0.39%) HTTP
18 46 (0.39%) Unified Communications
19 38 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
20 35 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,189 (9.96%) Power BI
2 726 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 571 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 419 (3.51%) Tableau
5 410 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 196 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 140 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 140 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 107 (0.90%) Metadata
9 93 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 92 (0.77%) Relational Database
11 89 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 80 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 65 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
14 54 (0.45%) MySQL
15 46 (0.39%) Delta Lake
16 43 (0.36%) Star Schema
17 41 (0.34%) Power Query
18 36 (0.30%) NoSQL
19 26 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 289 (2.42%) JIRA
2 233 (1.95%) Git
3 53 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 49 (0.41%) GitLab
5 26 (0.22%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.18%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.17%) Postman
7 20 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
8 16 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.13%) Chocolatey
10 13 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 13 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (0.10%) MLflow
12 10 (0.084%) MSI
12 10 (0.084%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.075%) Selenium
14 8 (0.067%) NUnit
14 8 (0.067%) Terragrunt
15 7 (0.059%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.059%) TeamCity
General
1 5,443 (45.58%) Social Skills
2 1,744 (14.61%) Finance
3 1,214 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 796 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 511 (4.28%) Legal
6 493 (4.13%) Manufacturing
7 490 (4.10%) Retail
8 475 (3.98%) Law
9 445 (3.73%) Marketing
10 410 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 343 (2.87%) Public Sector
12 192 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 183 (1.53%) Advertising
14 174 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
15 165 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
16 153 (1.28%) Banking
17 149 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
18 96 (0.80%) Aerospace
19 90 (0.75%) Local Government
20 78 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,885 (15.79%) Analyst
2 1,365 (11.43%) IT Support
3 1,275 (10.68%) Developer
4 1,134 (9.50%) Senior
5 946 (7.92%) Support Engineer
6 890 (7.45%) Junior
7 888 (7.44%) IT Engineer
8 785 (6.57%) Junior Analyst
9 701 (5.87%) IT Support Engineer
10 696 (5.83%) Architect
11 676 (5.66%) Lead
12 549 (4.60%) Consultant
13 510 (4.27%) .NET Developer
14 476 (3.99%) Security Analyst
15 462 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 458 (3.84%) Support Analyst
17 447 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 446 (3.74%) Data Analyst
19 393 (3.29%) Network Engineer
20 380 (3.18%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (7.75%) .NET
2 529 (4.43%) ASP.NET
3 504 (4.22%) .NET Core
4 459 (3.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 385 (3.22%) Terraform
6 306 (2.56%) HTML
7 302 (2.53%) CSS
8 240 (2.01%) React
9 226 (1.89%) Entity Framework
10 222 (1.86%) REST
11 210 (1.76%) RESTful
12 199 (1.67%) Node.js
13 183 (1.53%) Blazor
14 179 (1.50%) ASP.NET Web API
15 171 (1.43%) .NET Framework
15 171 (1.43%) AngularJS
16 157 (1.31%) Vue
17 138 (1.16%) ML.NET
18 112 (0.94%) JSON
19 100 (0.84%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 750 (6.28%) Onboarding
2 633 (5.30%) Driving Licence
3 428 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 415 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
5 393 (3.29%) Cyberattack
6 303 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 242 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 218 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 200 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 179 (1.50%) Product Ownership
11 152 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 147 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 136 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 105 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
15 102 (0.85%) AI Agents
16 86 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
17 83 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
18 81 (0.68%) Low-Code
18 81 (0.68%) PKI
18 81 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2,731 (22.87%) Windows
2 1,243 (10.41%) Windows Server
3 597 (5.00%) Linux
4 383 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 229 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 167 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 141 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 136 (1.14%) Android
9 116 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
10 48 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 36 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 34 (0.28%) VMS
12 34 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
13 26 (0.22%) Windows 7
14 25 (0.21%) Unix
15 16 (0.13%) Windows 8
16 14 (0.12%) CentOS
17 11 (0.092%) Rocky
18 4 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
19 3 (0.025%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,607 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
2 2,023 (16.94%) Cybersecurity
3 1,841 (15.42%) AI
4 1,810 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,602 (13.42%) Customer Service
6 1,272 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
7 1,238 (10.37%) Agile
8 1,190 (9.97%) Mentoring
9 1,004 (8.41%) ITIL
10 961 (8.05%) DevOps
11 933 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 850 (7.12%) CRM
13 810 (6.78%) CI/CD
14 761 (6.37%) Analytics
15 747 (6.26%) Roadmaps
16 712 (5.96%) Service Delivery
17 697 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 689 (5.77%) ERP
19 677 (5.67%) Decision-Making
20 667 (5.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,026 (16.97%) SQL
2 1,093 (9.15%) Python
3 1,062 (8.89%) C#
4 837 (7.01%) PowerShell
5 502 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 280 (2.34%) TypeScript
7 165 (1.38%) Bicep
8 157 (1.31%) Bash
9 108 (0.90%) Java
10 83 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 78 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 70 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 60 (0.50%) C++
14 56 (0.47%) R
14 56 (0.47%) Ruby
15 55 (0.46%) VBA
16 34 (0.28%) Scala
17 30 (0.25%) PHP
18 28 (0.23%) C
19 27 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,731 (14.50%) Azure Certification
2 1,132 (9.48%) Degree
3 682 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 630 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 507 (4.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 499 (4.18%) SC Cleared
7 442 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
8 417 (3.49%) CEH
9 415 (3.48%) CompTIA CySA+
10 374 (3.13%) CCNA
11 341 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
12 302 (2.53%) DBS Check
13 173 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 164 (1.37%) AWS Certification
15 142 (1.19%) CISSP
16 119 (1.00%) A+ Certification
17 110 (0.92%) DV Cleared
18 91 (0.76%) MCSE
19 74 (0.62%) PMI Certification
20 68 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 378 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 367 (3.07%) GDPR
4 360 (3.01%) SLA
5 347 (2.91%) Data Quality
6 337 (2.82%) QA
7 187 (1.57%) NIST
8 154 (1.29%) Accessibility
9 123 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 121 (1.01%) PCI DSS
11 92 (0.77%) PMO
12 48 (0.40%) ISO 9001
13 45 (0.38%) GRC
14 34 (0.28%) NCSC
15 31 (0.26%) WCAG
16 25 (0.21%) TickIT
17 22 (0.18%) SOC 2
18 18 (0.15%) IFRS
19 13 (0.11%) ISO 19650
20 11 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 2,089 (17.49%) Active Directory
2 579 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 549 (4.60%) Hyper-V
4 295 (2.47%) Docker
5 142 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 113 (0.95%) vSphere
7 108 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 64 (0.54%) Terminal Server
9 52 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 40 (0.33%) BitLocker
11 39 (0.33%) Firmware
12 28 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 18 (0.15%) VMware NSX
14 16 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 13 (0.11%) KVM
15 13 (0.11%) Squid
16 11 (0.092%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.075%) NDS
18 5 (0.042%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 5 (0.042%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 939 (7.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 368 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 189 (1.58%) SCCM
4 123 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 104 (0.87%) Ansible
6 80 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 64 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
8 46 (0.39%) Grafana
9 31 (0.26%) Autotask
9 31 (0.26%) WSUS
10 27 (0.23%) Proxmox
10 27 (0.23%) vCenter Server
11 24 (0.20%) QRadar
12 23 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 21 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.16%) Nessus
14 19 (0.16%) ZABBIX
15 18 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
16 15 (0.13%) Packer
17 14 (0.12%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,046 (8.76%) ForeScout
2 851 (7.13%) VMware
3 747 (6.26%) Cisco
4 396 (3.32%) Google
5 304 (2.55%) ServiceNow
6 276 (2.31%) Databricks
7 248 (2.08%) Veeam
8 231 (1.93%) Oracle
9 213 (1.78%) SAP
10 190 (1.59%) Apple
11 166 (1.39%) Splunk
12 149 (1.25%) Adobe
13 147 (1.23%) Palo Alto
14 136 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 124 (1.04%) Salesforce
16 123 (1.03%) Meraki
17 121 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
18 117 (0.98%) SolarWinds
19 114 (0.95%) SonicWALL
20 104 (0.87%) HP