Microsoft Jobs in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 15,920 17,668 19,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.77% 18.95% 14.97%
As % of the Vendors category 50.15% 45.14% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,251 10,407 13,000
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
England

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 31,744 39,138 50,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.43% 41.98% 38.81%
Number of salaries quoted 22,826 22,358 29,231
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +2.80%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

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 27 April 2024.

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 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 +6 4,364 £60,500 -3.20% 1,251
South East +3 3,427 £45,000 - 840
North of England 0 2,888 £43,500 -3.33% 844
Midlands +1 2,264 £42,500 -10.53% 660
South West +3 1,618 £46,958 +15.94% 432
North West -2 1,491 £45,000 - 475
West Midlands +1 1,484 £45,000 -10.00% 410
East of England +2 1,227 £38,000 -5.14% 387
Yorkshire +2 986 £42,500 -5.56% 268
East Midlands 0 771 £37,500 -14.77% 248
North East +3 410 £42,500 +6.25% 109
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 1,709 (10.73%) SharePoint
2 1,590 (9.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 284 (1.78%) IIS
4 187 (1.17%) Confluence
5 140 (0.88%) CMS
6 71 (0.45%) Skype for Business
6 71 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 65 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 59 (0.37%) Apache
9 53 (0.33%) Kentico
10 50 (0.31%) SAS
11 48 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
12 44 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 44 (0.28%) WordPress
13 40 (0.25%) Headless CMS
14 38 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
15 22 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
15 22 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 18 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
17 16 (0.10%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,878 (18.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2,077 (13.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 598 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 252 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 118 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 62 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 23 (0.14%) InDesign
11 18 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 17 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 15 (0.094%) Trello
14 13 (0.082%) SPSS
15 10 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
16 8 (0.050%) Acrobat
16 8 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.050%) Sketch
17 7 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
18 6 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 550 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 100 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 77 (0.48%) Primavera
4 44 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 33 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 26 (0.16%) Shopify
7 24 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 24 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 22 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 21 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
10 18 (0.11%) iTrent
10 18 (0.11%) Magento
11 15 (0.094%) Elite 3E
11 15 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
12 12 (0.075%) Maximo
12 12 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
12 12 (0.075%) PlanetPress Connect
12 12 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
12 12 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6,546 (41.12%) Azure
2 4,915 (30.87%) Microsoft 365
3 2,063 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 1,272 (7.99%) AWS
5 1,233 (7.74%) Entra ID
6 1,078 (6.77%) Dynamics 365
7 775 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
8 632 (3.97%) PowerApps
9 623 (3.91%) SaaS
10 586 (3.68%) Power Automate
11 400 (2.51%) OneDrive
12 366 (2.30%) GCP
13 316 (1.98%) PaaS
14 298 (1.87%) IaaS
15 223 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
16 204 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 188 (1.18%) Serverless
18 160 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 138 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
19 138 (0.87%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,515 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1,063 (6.68%) DNS
3 959 (6.02%) WAN
4 808 (5.08%) Broadband
5 797 (5.01%) DHCP
6 791 (4.97%) LAN
7 584 (3.67%) VPN
8 522 (3.28%) TCP/IP
9 507 (3.18%) Wireless
10 457 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
11 453 (2.85%) SAN
12 356 (2.24%) VLAN
13 322 (2.02%) Internet
14 292 (1.83%) VoIP
15 285 (1.79%) SD-WAN
16 281 (1.77%) Network Security
17 225 (1.41%) 5G
18 193 (1.21%) Intranet
19 163 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
20 158 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,455 (15.42%) SQL Server
2 1,327 (8.34%) Power BI
3 428 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 426 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 399 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 303 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 282 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 259 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 252 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 247 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 159 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 131 (0.82%) Tableau
13 126 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
14 123 (0.77%) MySQL
15 120 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
16 100 (0.63%) NoSQL
17 97 (0.61%) Big Data
18 88 (0.55%) MS Access
19 67 (0.42%) Power Query
20 64 (0.40%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 455 (2.86%) Git
2 406 (2.55%) JIRA
3 361 (2.27%) Visual Studio
4 122 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 107 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 97 (0.61%) GitLab
7 72 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 71 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.41%) Sourcetree
10 45 (0.28%) NUnit
11 42 (0.26%) Subversion
12 39 (0.24%) Selenium
12 39 (0.24%) TeamCity
13 32 (0.20%) Postman
14 27 (0.17%) Jasmine
14 27 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
15 23 (0.14%) Moq
16 22 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 16 (0.10%) MSTest
18 15 (0.094%) Balsamiq
General
1 5,666 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 3,259 (20.47%) Finance
3 2,193 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 916 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 879 (5.52%) Retail
6 740 (4.65%) Law
7 715 (4.49%) Legal
8 639 (4.01%) Marketing
9 631 (3.96%) Public Sector
10 625 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
11 589 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
12 468 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 462 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
14 392 (2.46%) Telecoms
15 378 (2.37%) Banking
16 258 (1.62%) Games
17 215 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
18 207 (1.30%) Advertising
19 172 (1.08%) Local Government
20 155 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,378 (14.94%) Analyst
2 2,264 (14.22%) Developer
3 2,094 (13.15%) Senior
4 1,424 (8.94%) IT Support
5 1,099 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 972 (6.11%) Architect
7 914 (5.74%) .NET Developer
8 902 (5.67%) IT Engineer
9 840 (5.28%) Lead
10 826 (5.19%) Consultant
11 801 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 589 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
13 572 (3.59%) Administrator
14 458 (2.88%) 2nd Line Support
15 444 (2.79%) IT Analyst
16 439 (2.76%) Support Analyst
17 438 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
18 414 (2.60%) IT Technician
18 414 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
19 413 (2.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,950 (12.25%) .NET
2 994 (6.24%) ASP.NET
3 940 (5.90%) .NET Core
4 766 (4.81%) ASP.NET MVC
5 752 (4.72%) AngularJS
6 736 (4.62%) HTML
7 670 (4.21%) .NET Framework
8 617 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
9 599 (3.76%) Entity Framework
10 514 (3.23%) CSS
11 513 (3.22%) React
12 378 (2.37%) HTML5
13 335 (2.10%) RESTful
14 309 (1.94%) Node.js
15 282 (1.77%) Vue
16 249 (1.56%) JSON
17 245 (1.54%) Web Services
18 241 (1.51%) REST
19 209 (1.31%) XML
20 193 (1.21%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 859 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
2 699 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 619 (3.89%) Driving Licence
4 491 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 338 (2.12%) Social Media
6 298 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 289 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 260 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
9 238 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 221 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 214 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 209 (1.31%) PKI
13 154 (0.97%) Replication
14 150 (0.94%) Cloud Native
15 145 (0.91%) Clustering
16 131 (0.82%) Mobile App
17 129 (0.81%) Low-Code
17 129 (0.81%) NHS
18 120 (0.75%) Smartphone
19 119 (0.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,457 (28.00%) Windows
2 1,955 (12.28%) Windows Server
3 1,356 (8.52%) Windows 10
4 1,029 (6.46%) Linux
5 489 (3.07%) Android
6 441 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 437 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 334 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 304 (1.91%) Apple iOS
10 291 (1.83%) Ubuntu
11 249 (1.56%) Mac OS
12 239 (1.50%) Windows 7
13 129 (0.81%) VMS
14 116 (0.73%) Unix
15 97 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
16 96 (0.60%) Windows 8
17 71 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 63 (0.40%) CentOS
19 56 (0.35%) Mac OS X
20 39 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,171 (19.92%) Agile
2 3,137 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2,124 (13.34%) Customer Service
4 1,774 (11.14%) ITIL
5 1,579 (9.92%) DevOps
6 1,510 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
7 1,509 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
8 1,443 (9.06%) Mentoring
9 1,297 (8.15%) Project Management
10 1,276 (8.02%) CRM
11 1,040 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 989 (6.21%) Decision-Making
13 939 (5.90%) Full Stack Development
14 927 (5.82%) MVC
15 874 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 874 (5.49%) Roadmaps
16 859 (5.40%) Migration
17 811 (5.09%) Microservices
17 811 (5.09%) Project Delivery
18 809 (5.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,618 (16.44%) SQL
2 2,043 (12.83%) C#
3 1,412 (8.87%) JavaScript
4 1,164 (7.31%) PowerShell
5 673 (4.23%) Python
6 522 (3.28%) T-SQL
7 437 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 432 (2.71%) Bash
9 233 (1.46%) Java
10 144 (0.90%) VB
11 123 (0.77%) C++
12 106 (0.67%) VB.NET
13 105 (0.66%) C
14 96 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 86 (0.54%) Bicep
16 81 (0.51%) R
17 69 (0.43%) PHP
18 58 (0.36%) VBA
19 45 (0.28%) VBScript
20 44 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,626 (16.49%) Degree
2 1,187 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 1,075 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 742 (4.66%) SC Cleared
5 491 (3.08%) ACCA
6 466 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 464 (2.91%) CIMA
8 463 (2.91%) DBS Check
9 424 (2.66%) Azure Certification
10 384 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 320 (2.01%) DV Cleared
12 260 (1.63%) CCNA
13 257 (1.61%) Master's Degree
14 225 (1.41%) A+ Certification
15 219 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 209 (1.31%) CISSP
17 203 (1.28%) MCP
18 181 (1.14%) MCSE
19 162 (1.02%) PMI Certification
20 148 (0.93%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 757 (4.76%) SLA
2 447 (2.81%) GDPR
3 439 (2.76%) QA
4 366 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 274 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 195 (1.22%) Data Quality
7 146 (0.92%) NIST
8 135 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 117 (0.73%) PMO
10 112 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 107 (0.67%) ISO 9001
12 56 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 39 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 34 (0.21%) GRC
14 34 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 30 (0.19%) NCSC
16 29 (0.18%) COBIT
16 29 (0.18%) IFRS
16 29 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 26 (0.16%) GAAP
System Software
1 3,841 (24.13%) Active Directory
2 1,131 (7.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 866 (5.44%) Hyper-V
4 275 (1.73%) Docker
5 271 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 266 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
7 204 (1.28%) vSphere
8 186 (1.17%) XenApp
9 163 (1.02%) XenDesktop
10 136 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
11 123 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
12 78 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
13 67 (0.42%) Firmware
14 49 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 45 (0.28%) KVM
16 34 (0.21%) VMware NSX
17 29 (0.18%) VirtualBox
18 26 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 25 (0.16%) VMware Server
20 19 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,255 (7.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 672 (4.22%) SCCM
3 348 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 317 (1.99%) Terraform
5 274 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
6 157 (0.99%) WSUS
7 136 (0.85%) SCOM
8 127 (0.80%) AirWatch
9 121 (0.76%) Ansible
10 117 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 97 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 95 (0.60%) vCenter Server
13 63 (0.40%) FortiGate
14 52 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
15 46 (0.29%) Puppet
16 42 (0.26%) Grafana
17 40 (0.25%) NetBackup
18 38 (0.24%) CASB
19 37 (0.23%) EnCase
19 37 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1,687 (10.60%) VMware
2 884 (5.55%) Cisco
3 638 (4.01%) Google
4 609 (3.83%) Citrix
5 500 (3.14%) Apple
6 396 (2.49%) Oracle
7 369 (2.32%) Veeam
8 359 (2.26%) Dell
9 345 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 327 (2.05%) HP
11 285 (1.79%) Adobe
12 238 (1.49%) CyberArk
13 235 (1.48%) SAP
14 210 (1.32%) Tanium
15 192 (1.21%) Meraki
16 188 (1.18%) Databricks
17 163 (1.02%) Salesforce
18 144 (0.90%) Fortinet
19 137 (0.86%) Sophos
20 135 (0.85%) Red Hat