Microsoft Jobs 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 26 July 2024, 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
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 13,198 12,812 22,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.84% 18.02% 15.48%
As % of the Vendors category 49.11% 44.48% 39.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,878 8,992 13,565
10th Percentile £26,131 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,375 £35,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

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 26,873 28,802 58,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.29% 40.52% 39.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,330 19,587 30,303
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +1.85%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in England

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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 26 July 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 0 3,475 £62,500 - 525
South East +3 2,892 £45,000 -1.32% 597
North of England -1 2,460 £45,000 - 606
Midlands +2 2,118 £45,000 -10.00% 391
North West -1 1,327 £47,250 +0.53% 308
West Midlands +2 1,306 £47,500 -9.52% 261
South West +2 1,278 £45,000 +5.88% 351
Yorkshire +1 855 £42,500 -0.02% 205
East of England +2 825 £37,500 -1.66% 229
East Midlands +2 805 £40,000 -15.79% 130
North East +3 279 £40,000 -6.98% 110
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 1,286 (9.74%) SharePoint
2 1,141 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 180 (1.36%) IIS
4 119 (0.90%) Confluence
5 90 (0.68%) CMS
6 72 (0.55%) Apache
7 54 (0.41%) SAS
8 52 (0.39%) Skype for Business
9 46 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 43 (0.33%) Umbraco
11 37 (0.28%) Kentico
12 30 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
12 30 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 28 (0.21%) Headless CMS
14 27 (0.20%) Tomcat
15 26 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
16 24 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
17 23 (0.17%) WordPress
18 22 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
19 18 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2,792 (21.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2,352 (17.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 487 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 231 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 108 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 45 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 43 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 23 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 16 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 16 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 16 (0.12%) Trello
10 15 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 15 (0.11%) InDesign
11 11 (0.083%) SPSS
12 10 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
13 8 (0.061%) Adobe Captivate
14 7 (0.053%) Sketch
15 6 (0.045%) InVision
15 6 (0.045%) OrCAD
16 5 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 469 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 81 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 76 (0.58%) Primavera
4 53 (0.40%) NEC Housing
5 50 (0.38%) iTrent
6 31 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
7 27 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 21 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 21 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 19 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 18 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 17 (0.13%) Elite 3E
12 16 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
12 16 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
13 15 (0.11%) Magento
13 15 (0.11%) Shopify
14 14 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
15 11 (0.083%) Dynamics GP
15 11 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
15 11 (0.083%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 4,904 (37.16%) Azure
2 3,729 (28.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1,594 (12.08%) Power Platform
4 1,151 (8.72%) Entra ID
5 1,047 (7.93%) Dynamics 365
6 876 (6.64%) AWS
7 633 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
8 584 (4.42%) PowerApps
9 505 (3.83%) Power Automate
10 456 (3.46%) SaaS
11 338 (2.56%) OneDrive
12 302 (2.29%) GCP
13 253 (1.92%) PaaS
14 242 (1.83%) IaaS
15 175 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 174 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
17 143 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 142 (1.08%) Serverless
19 128 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
20 119 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,174 (8.90%) Firewall
2 793 (6.01%) DNS
3 744 (5.64%) Broadband
4 669 (5.07%) WAN
5 621 (4.71%) LAN
6 589 (4.46%) DHCP
7 479 (3.63%) VPN
8 426 (3.23%) TCP/IP
9 349 (2.64%) SAN
10 335 (2.54%) Wireless
11 334 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
12 309 (2.34%) Network Security
13 272 (2.06%) VLAN
14 270 (2.05%) Internet
15 221 (1.67%) 5G
16 186 (1.41%) VoIP
17 166 (1.26%) WLAN
18 161 (1.22%) SD-WAN
19 148 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
20 111 (0.84%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,405 (10.65%) SQL Server
2 978 (7.41%) Power BI
3 252 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 239 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 233 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 228 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
7 216 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 176 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 121 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 119 (0.90%) MongoDB
11 116 (0.88%) Tableau
12 99 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
13 98 (0.74%) MySQL
14 88 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
15 85 (0.64%) Oracle Database
16 83 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
17 70 (0.53%) Big Data
18 68 (0.52%) NoSQL
19 66 (0.50%) Metadata
20 65 (0.49%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 305 (2.31%) Git
2 290 (2.20%) JIRA
3 233 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 95 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 90 (0.68%) GitLab
6 50 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 38 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 37 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 31 (0.23%) Selenium
10 28 (0.21%) Subversion
11 27 (0.20%) Jasmine
11 27 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
12 25 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 25 (0.19%) Sourcetree
13 24 (0.18%) Postman
14 20 (0.15%) MSI
15 18 (0.14%) NUnit
16 17 (0.13%) Moq
16 17 (0.13%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.12%) Axure RP
General
1 4,725 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 3,059 (23.18%) Finance
3 2,408 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1,125 (8.52%) Retail
5 842 (6.38%) Marketing
6 800 (6.06%) Legal
7 791 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 624 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
9 612 (4.64%) Law
10 535 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
11 450 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 437 (3.31%) Public Sector
13 384 (2.91%) Manufacturing
14 314 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 309 (2.34%) Banking
16 196 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 150 (1.14%) Local Government
18 144 (1.09%) Games
19 141 (1.07%) Advertising
20 126 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,086 (15.81%) Analyst
2 1,766 (13.38%) Senior
3 1,336 (10.12%) Developer
4 1,039 (7.87%) IT Support
5 871 (6.60%) Support Engineer
6 855 (6.48%) Architect
7 772 (5.85%) Lead
8 756 (5.73%) Consultant
9 716 (5.43%) IT Engineer
10 696 (5.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 477 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
12 468 (3.55%) Development Manager
13 465 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
14 387 (2.93%) IT Analyst
14 387 (2.93%) IT Manager
15 384 (2.91%) .NET Developer
16 369 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
17 368 (2.79%) Support Analyst
18 367 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
19 328 (2.49%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,165 (8.83%) .NET
2 399 (3.02%) ASP.NET
3 384 (2.91%) .NET Core
4 364 (2.76%) HTML
5 332 (2.52%) .NET Framework
6 294 (2.23%) AngularJS
7 264 (2.00%) React
8 260 (1.97%) CSS
9 253 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
10 226 (1.71%) ASP.NET Web API
11 203 (1.54%) Entity Framework
12 199 (1.51%) Web Services
13 160 (1.21%) RESTful
14 144 (1.09%) REST
14 144 (1.09%) XML
15 137 (1.04%) JSON
16 123 (0.93%) HTML5
17 118 (0.89%) Vue
18 114 (0.86%) Node.js
19 77 (0.58%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 683 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
2 623 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 480 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 438 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 301 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 295 (2.24%) Social Media
7 232 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 187 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 170 (1.29%) PKI
10 150 (1.14%) Cloud Native
11 147 (1.11%) Replication
12 131 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 123 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
14 104 (0.79%) Smartphone
15 103 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
16 101 (0.77%) Algorithms
16 101 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
17 100 (0.76%) Clustering
18 90 (0.68%) Low-Code
19 76 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3,552 (26.91%) Windows
2 1,453 (11.01%) Windows Server
3 1,023 (7.75%) Windows 10
4 1,021 (7.74%) Linux
5 348 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 346 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 302 (2.29%) Android
8 279 (2.11%) Ubuntu
9 246 (1.86%) Apple iOS
10 228 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
11 199 (1.51%) Mac OS
12 135 (1.02%) Windows 7
13 124 (0.94%) Unix
14 99 (0.75%) VMS
15 74 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 72 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
17 55 (0.42%) CentOS
18 50 (0.38%) Mac OS X
19 43 (0.33%) Windows 8
20 27 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,720 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
2 2,627 (19.90%) Agile
3 1,698 (12.87%) Customer Service
4 1,452 (11.00%) ITIL
5 1,284 (9.73%) Mentoring
6 1,255 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
7 1,201 (9.10%) DevOps
8 1,128 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
9 1,118 (8.47%) CRM
10 1,098 (8.32%) Project Management
11 1,021 (7.74%) Decision-Making
12 853 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 803 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 710 (5.38%) Analytics
14 710 (5.38%) Logistics
15 701 (5.31%) Computer Science
16 700 (5.30%) Business Development
17 659 (4.99%) Actionable Insight
18 652 (4.94%) Project Delivery
18 652 (4.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,899 (14.39%) SQL
2 1,281 (9.71%) C#
3 949 (7.19%) PowerShell
4 762 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 600 (4.55%) Python
6 447 (3.39%) Bash
7 327 (2.48%) T-SQL
8 230 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 171 (1.30%) Java
10 143 (1.08%) C++
11 114 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 105 (0.80%) VB
13 104 (0.79%) C
14 89 (0.67%) Bicep
15 87 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 83 (0.63%) VBA
17 73 (0.55%) Fortran
17 73 (0.55%) R
18 64 (0.48%) Scala
19 48 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,320 (17.58%) Degree
2 963 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 934 (7.08%) Security Cleared
4 568 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 555 (4.21%) ACCA
6 489 (3.71%) CIMA
7 428 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 387 (2.93%) Azure Certification
9 379 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
10 362 (2.74%) DBS Check
11 288 (2.18%) CCNA
12 241 (1.83%) MCP
13 221 (1.67%) MCSE
14 218 (1.65%) CCNP
15 190 (1.44%) A+ Certification
16 189 (1.43%) DV Cleared
17 180 (1.36%) CISSP
18 158 (1.20%) Master's Degree
19 147 (1.11%) PMI Certification
20 122 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (4.00%) SLA
2 364 (2.76%) QA
3 347 (2.63%) GDPR
4 290 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 199 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 176 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 146 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 123 (0.93%) NIST
9 105 (0.80%) PMO
10 81 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 72 (0.55%) IFRS
12 64 (0.48%) GAAP
13 48 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 31 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 29 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 26 (0.20%) GRC
17 24 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 24 (0.18%) SOC 2
18 21 (0.16%) COBIT
19 16 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 2,993 (22.68%) Active Directory
2 894 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 606 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 242 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 187 (1.42%) vSphere
6 170 (1.29%) Docker
7 139 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
8 109 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 93 (0.70%) XenApp
10 85 (0.64%) XenDesktop
11 52 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
12 46 (0.35%) RACF
13 43 (0.33%) Firmware
14 36 (0.27%) Terminal Services
15 26 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 25 (0.19%) VMware NSX
17 24 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
18 21 (0.16%) pfSense
19 20 (0.15%) KVM
19 20 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,030 (7.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 434 (3.29%) SCCM
3 355 (2.69%) Terraform
4 282 (2.14%) Kubernetes
5 272 (2.06%) Jamf Pro
6 152 (1.15%) Ansible
7 147 (1.11%) WSUS
8 108 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 84 (0.64%) SCOM
10 83 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 83 (0.63%) vCenter Server
11 38 (0.29%) Grafana
12 37 (0.28%) Stealthwatch
13 34 (0.26%) CASB
14 33 (0.25%) Backup Exec
14 33 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
14 33 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 32 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 32 (0.24%) Puppet
16 26 (0.20%) Autotask
Vendors
1 1,343 (10.18%) VMware
2 772 (5.85%) Cisco
3 491 (3.72%) Google
4 386 (2.92%) Apple
5 374 (2.83%) Citrix
6 373 (2.83%) Oracle
7 289 (2.19%) Dell
8 282 (2.14%) CyberArk
9 274 (2.08%) Veeam
10 256 (1.94%) Adobe
11 248 (1.88%) HP
12 237 (1.80%) SAP
13 212 (1.61%) ServiceNow
14 211 (1.60%) Tanium
15 191 (1.45%) Meraki
16 156 (1.18%) Databricks
17 145 (1.10%) Salesforce
18 144 (1.09%) Red Hat
19 135 (1.02%) Fortinet
20 123 (0.93%) Palo Alto