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 15 January 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,132 8,165 9,018
As % of all permanent jobs in England 13.43% 16.93% 18.38%
As % of the Vendors category 44.06% 44.93% 46.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,829 4,367 7,276
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% -4.76%

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 16,187 18,172 19,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.49% 37.68% 39.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,602 9,278 14,956
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,277 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,584 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,860 £57,471 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +4.49% -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 15 January 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 15 January 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 2,005 £60,000 -7.69% 696
South East +1 1,446 £40,000 -20.00% 949
North of England -10 1,419 £40,000 -11.11% 689
Midlands -13 931 £40,000 -15.34% 439
North West -13 676 £40,000 -15.79% 313
South West -1 663 £36,625 -18.61% 300
West Midlands -16 585 £45,000 -10.00% 224
Yorkshire +7 576 £37,500 -16.67% 276
East of England -1 567 £37,500 -21.05% 390
East Midlands -1 337 £37,500 -16.67% 211
North East +4 167 £40,000 -5.88% 108
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
1 782 (10.96%) SharePoint
2 730 (10.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 72 (1.01%) Confluence
4 59 (0.83%) IIS
5 42 (0.59%) WordPress
6 28 (0.39%) CMS
7 26 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
8 19 (0.27%) Apache
9 18 (0.25%) Skype for Business
10 13 (0.18%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
12 7 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (0.098%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.070%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.070%) HCL Notes
13 5 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.042%) FileNet
15 3 (0.042%) HCL Domino
Applications
1 1,223 (17.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1,030 (14.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 226 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 29 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 21 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 20 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
10 17 (0.24%) InDesign
11 15 (0.21%) Maya
12 14 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 14 (0.20%) Adobe XD
13 13 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 11 (0.15%) Chatbot
15 6 (0.084%) Acrobat
15 6 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
15 6 (0.084%) Trello
16 5 (0.070%) CATIA
16 5 (0.070%) Revit
Business Applications
1 249 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 27 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 16 (0.22%) Shopify
5 13 (0.18%) Magento
6 12 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 10 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
9 7 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.098%) Unit4 Business World
10 6 (0.084%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.084%) Exchequer
10 6 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.084%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.084%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
11 5 (0.070%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.056%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.056%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,236 (45.37%) Azure
2 2,401 (33.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1,112 (15.59%) Power Platform
4 762 (10.68%) Entra ID
5 735 (10.31%) AWS
6 448 (6.28%) Dynamics 365
7 335 (4.70%) GitHub
8 291 (4.08%) Azure AI
9 283 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
10 269 (3.77%) SaaS
11 266 (3.73%) Power Automate
12 222 (3.11%) PowerApps
13 199 (2.79%) OneDrive
14 142 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
15 141 (1.98%) PaaS
16 122 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
17 117 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
18 116 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
19 112 (1.57%) GCP
20 105 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 637 (8.93%) DNS
2 621 (8.71%) Firewall
3 575 (8.06%) DHCP
4 399 (5.59%) VPN
5 320 (4.49%) Internet
5 320 (4.49%) TCP/IP
6 299 (4.19%) WAN
7 277 (3.88%) LAN
8 240 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
9 214 (3.00%) VLAN
10 161 (2.26%) VoIP
11 146 (2.05%) Wireless
12 113 (1.58%) SAN
13 110 (1.54%) Network Security
14 70 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
15 61 (0.86%) SD-WAN
16 55 (0.77%) Unified Communications
17 30 (0.42%) WebEx
18 29 (0.41%) Intranet
19 25 (0.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 739 (10.36%) Power BI
2 458 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 419 (5.87%) Tableau
4 155 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 135 (1.89%) Data Mining
6 129 (1.81%) Data Lake
7 110 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 102 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 85 (1.19%) Relational Database
10 78 (1.09%) Metadata
11 74 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 62 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 54 (0.76%) MongoDB
14 53 (0.74%) Oracle Database
15 46 (0.64%) MySQL
16 40 (0.56%) GIS
17 39 (0.55%) Power Query
18 32 (0.45%) NoSQL
19 30 (0.42%) Oracle Database 10g
20 28 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 341 (4.78%) Git
2 212 (2.97%) JIRA
3 23 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 22 (0.31%) Visual Studio
5 20 (0.28%) GitLab
6 14 (0.20%) Balsamiq
7 13 (0.18%) Selenium
8 12 (0.17%) Axure RP
8 12 (0.17%) Postman
9 9 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.098%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.098%) Chocolatey
11 7 (0.098%) Metasploit
11 7 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.084%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.070%) Browser DevTools
13 5 (0.070%) MLflow
13 5 (0.070%) Rational DOORS
14 4 (0.056%) TeamCity
General
1 3,341 (46.85%) Social Skills
2 1,323 (18.55%) Finance
3 1,032 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 442 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 380 (5.33%) Law
6 366 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 325 (4.56%) Legal
8 300 (4.21%) Marketing
9 268 (3.76%) Manufacturing
10 246 (3.45%) Multimedia
11 241 (3.38%) Retail
12 240 (3.37%) Public Sector
13 163 (2.29%) French Language
14 151 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 147 (2.06%) Advertising
16 122 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
17 114 (1.60%) Banking
18 111 (1.56%) Swedish Language
19 105 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
20 70 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,569 (22.00%) Analyst
2 994 (13.94%) IT Support
3 691 (9.69%) Support Engineer
4 644 (9.03%) Senior
5 565 (7.92%) Junior
6 526 (7.38%) Developer
7 490 (6.87%) Junior Analyst
8 410 (5.75%) IT Engineer
9 395 (5.54%) Support Analyst
10 393 (5.51%) Data Analyst
11 364 (5.10%) Trainee
12 353 (4.95%) Lead
13 348 (4.88%) Architect
14 346 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
15 278 (3.90%) Security Analyst
16 275 (3.86%) Support Technician
17 267 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support
18 262 (3.67%) IT Analyst
19 252 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
20 236 (3.31%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (5.03%) HTML
2 347 (4.87%) CSS
3 295 (4.14%) .NET
4 107 (1.50%) .NET Core
4 107 (1.50%) REST
5 85 (1.19%) React
6 84 (1.18%) ASP.NET
7 72 (1.01%) .NET Framework
8 54 (0.76%) AngularJS
9 50 (0.70%) SOAP
10 44 (0.62%) Node.js
11 42 (0.59%) ASP.NET MVC
11 42 (0.59%) Middleware
12 41 (0.57%) RESTful
13 39 (0.55%) Web Services
13 39 (0.55%) YAML
14 38 (0.53%) Entity Framework
15 37 (0.52%) ASP.NET Web API
16 36 (0.50%) ARM Templates
16 36 (0.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 515 (7.22%) Onboarding
2 409 (5.73%) Driving Licence
3 242 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 217 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 174 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 165 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 134 (1.88%) Cloud Native
8 108 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 93 (1.30%) Product Ownership
10 84 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 80 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 76 (1.07%) Social Media
12 76 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
13 74 (1.04%) Security Posture
14 73 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
15 72 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 50 (0.70%) Public Cloud
17 48 (0.67%) IoT
18 47 (0.66%) AI Agents
19 43 (0.60%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,858 (26.05%) Windows
2 822 (11.53%) Windows Server
3 399 (5.59%) Windows 10
4 324 (4.54%) Linux
5 195 (2.73%) Mac OS
6 160 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 129 (1.81%) Apple iOS
8 119 (1.67%) Android
9 107 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 49 (0.69%) Unix
11 46 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 35 (0.49%) Windows 7
12 35 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
13 32 (0.45%) VMS
14 27 (0.38%) Solaris
14 27 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
15 25 (0.35%) HPUX
16 11 (0.15%) Mac OS X
17 9 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 6 (0.084%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,699 (23.82%) Problem-Solving
2 1,148 (16.10%) Customer Service
3 1,136 (15.93%) Cybersecurity
4 1,072 (15.03%) Mentoring
5 911 (12.77%) AI
6 873 (12.24%) ITIL
7 836 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
8 830 (11.64%) Agile
9 751 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 623 (8.74%) Analytics
11 546 (7.66%) DevOps
12 513 (7.19%) Project Management
13 498 (6.98%) CRM
14 480 (6.73%) Migration
15 408 (5.72%) ITSM
16 396 (5.55%) Service Delivery
17 393 (5.51%) Roadmaps
18 368 (5.16%) Decision-Making
19 346 (4.85%) ERP
20 338 (4.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,211 (16.98%) SQL
2 1,030 (14.44%) Python
3 576 (8.08%) PowerShell
4 505 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 373 (5.23%) C#
6 150 (2.10%) R
7 87 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 82 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 72 (1.01%) Java
10 66 (0.93%) Bicep
11 58 (0.81%) Bash
12 44 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 38 (0.53%) VBA
14 32 (0.45%) PHP
15 27 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
16 26 (0.36%) Perl
17 15 (0.21%) VBScript
18 14 (0.20%) C++
18 14 (0.20%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,103 (15.47%) Degree
2 961 (13.47%) Azure Certification
3 828 (11.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 457 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 452 (6.34%) Security Cleared
6 360 (5.05%) SC Cleared
7 276 (3.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 249 (3.49%) CompTIA CySA+
9 244 (3.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 196 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 180 (2.52%) MCSE
12 129 (1.81%) A+ Certification
13 127 (1.78%) DBS Check
14 124 (1.74%) CISSP
15 113 (1.58%) MCP
16 109 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
17 88 (1.23%) Master's Degree
18 75 (1.05%) PMI Certification
19 73 (1.02%) ACCA
20 69 (0.97%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 247 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 243 (3.41%) SLA
4 241 (3.38%) QA
5 210 (2.94%) GDPR
6 140 (1.96%) Data Quality
7 133 (1.86%) NIST
8 113 (1.58%) Accessibility
9 103 (1.44%) PCI DSS
10 78 (1.09%) PMO
11 61 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 31 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 26 (0.36%) GRC
14 24 (0.34%) NCSC
15 22 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 19 (0.27%) WCAG
17 17 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 11 (0.15%) IFRS
19 11 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,624 (22.77%) Active Directory
2 366 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 335 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 106 (1.49%) Docker
5 84 (1.18%) Terminal Server
6 64 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 64 (0.90%) vSphere
7 63 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (0.41%) Firmware
10 20 (0.28%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.14%) XenApp
11 10 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.084%) Terminal Services
12 6 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.070%) Lustre
13 5 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.056%) Postfix
14 4 (0.056%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 704 (9.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 185 (2.59%) SCCM
3 168 (2.36%) Terraform
4 111 (1.56%) Kubernetes
5 70 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 68 (0.95%) Ansible
7 36 (0.50%) Autotask
8 35 (0.49%) vCenter Server
9 33 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 31 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 27 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 25 (0.35%) WSUS
13 19 (0.27%) Prometheus
13 19 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.25%) SCOM
15 17 (0.24%) Nagios
16 15 (0.21%) Grafana
17 12 (0.17%) Nessus
18 10 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
18 10 (0.14%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 607 (8.51%) VMware
2 354 (4.96%) Cisco
3 235 (3.30%) ForeScout
4 227 (3.18%) ServiceNow
5 200 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 197 (2.76%) Oracle
7 196 (2.75%) Apple
7 196 (2.75%) Google
8 183 (2.57%) Veeam
9 151 (2.12%) SAP
10 145 (2.03%) SolarWinds
11 141 (1.98%) Adobe
12 125 (1.75%) Splunk
13 120 (1.68%) Databricks
14 112 (1.57%) Dell
15 94 (1.32%) Tanium
16 93 (1.30%) Citrix
17 86 (1.21%) Nimble Storage
18 84 (1.18%) Brocade
19 83 (1.16%) Fortinet