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 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 15,944 17,700 19,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.77% 18.96% 14.97%
As % of the Vendors category 50.14% 45.17% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,286 10,409 13,008
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,148
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 31,801 39,188 50,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.44% 41.99% 38.81%
Number of salaries quoted 22,896 22,372 29,240
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +3.06%
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 26 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 26 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 4,375 £60,500 -3.20% 1,287
South East +3 3,432 £45,000 - 833
North of England 0 2,887 £43,500 -3.33% 853
Midlands +1 2,268 £42,500 -10.53% 636
South West +3 1,619 £46,958 +16.66% 428
North West -2 1,492 £45,000 - 484
West Midlands +1 1,486 £45,000 -10.00% 396
East of England +2 1,231 £38,000 -5.14% 381
Yorkshire +2 986 £42,500 -5.56% 265
East Midlands 0 773 £37,500 -13.79% 239
North East +3 408 £42,500 +6.25% 113
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 1,718 (10.78%) SharePoint
2 1,594 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 279 (1.75%) IIS
4 187 (1.17%) Confluence
5 140 (0.88%) CMS
6 71 (0.45%) Skype for Business
6 71 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 68 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 53 (0.33%) Apache
8 53 (0.33%) Kentico
9 50 (0.31%) SAS
10 46 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
11 44 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 44 (0.28%) WordPress
12 40 (0.25%) Headless CMS
13 38 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
14 22 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
15 18 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
16 16 (0.10%) EPiServer
16 16 (0.10%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,879 (18.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2,071 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 600 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 252 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 117 (0.73%) 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 34 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 26 (0.16%) Shopify
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 16 (0.10%) NEC Housing
12 15 (0.094%) Elite 3E
12 15 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
13 12 (0.075%) Maximo
13 12 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
13 12 (0.075%) PlanetPress Connect
13 12 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
13 12 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6,566 (41.18%) Azure
2 4,942 (31.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2,063 (12.94%) Power Platform
4 1,279 (8.02%) AWS
5 1,237 (7.76%) Entra ID
6 1,078 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
7 776 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
8 633 (3.97%) PowerApps
9 625 (3.92%) SaaS
10 585 (3.67%) Power Automate
11 401 (2.52%) OneDrive
12 369 (2.31%) GCP
13 317 (1.99%) PaaS
14 299 (1.88%) IaaS
15 224 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
16 204 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 187 (1.17%) Serverless
18 160 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 140 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
20 139 (0.87%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,521 (9.54%) Firewall
2 1,071 (6.72%) DNS
3 965 (6.05%) WAN
4 809 (5.07%) Broadband
5 803 (5.04%) DHCP
6 799 (5.01%) LAN
7 584 (3.66%) VPN
8 527 (3.31%) TCP/IP
9 512 (3.21%) Wireless
10 458 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
11 453 (2.84%) SAN
12 362 (2.27%) VLAN
13 323 (2.03%) Internet
14 293 (1.84%) VoIP
15 286 (1.79%) SD-WAN
16 281 (1.76%) Network Security
17 225 (1.41%) 5G
18 193 (1.21%) Intranet
19 165 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
20 159 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,461 (15.44%) SQL Server
2 1,328 (8.33%) Power BI
3 428 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 426 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 399 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 303 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 282 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 262 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 255 (1.60%) 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
15 121 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 100 (0.63%) NoSQL
17 97 (0.61%) Big Data
18 88 (0.55%) MS Access
19 67 (0.42%) Data Mining
19 67 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 457 (2.87%) Git
2 406 (2.55%) JIRA
3 361 (2.26%) 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 43 (0.27%) 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 5,672 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 3,254 (20.41%) Finance
3 2,197 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 913 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 879 (5.51%) Retail
6 740 (4.64%) Law
7 719 (4.51%) Legal
8 640 (4.01%) Marketing
9 623 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 623 (3.91%) Public Sector
10 588 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
11 467 (2.93%) Manufacturing
12 463 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 393 (2.46%) Telecoms
14 379 (2.38%) Banking
15 258 (1.62%) Games
16 217 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
17 207 (1.30%) Advertising
18 165 (1.03%) Local Government
19 155 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,387 (14.97%) Analyst
2 2,265 (14.21%) Developer
3 2,100 (13.17%) Senior
4 1,430 (8.97%) IT Support
5 1,108 (6.95%) Support Engineer
6 977 (6.13%) Architect
7 915 (5.74%) .NET Developer
8 908 (5.69%) IT Engineer
9 842 (5.28%) Lead
10 828 (5.19%) Consultant
11 806 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 592 (3.71%) IT Support Engineer
13 572 (3.59%) Administrator
14 460 (2.89%) 2nd Line Support
15 445 (2.79%) IT Analyst
16 441 (2.77%) Support Analyst
17 439 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
18 416 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
19 414 (2.60%) IT Manager
19 414 (2.60%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,953 (12.25%) .NET
2 994 (6.23%) ASP.NET
3 940 (5.90%) .NET Core
4 766 (4.80%) ASP.NET MVC
5 752 (4.72%) AngularJS
6 738 (4.63%) HTML
7 671 (4.21%) .NET Framework
8 617 (3.87%) ASP.NET Web API
9 599 (3.76%) Entity Framework
10 516 (3.24%) CSS
11 514 (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
17 242 (1.52%) REST
18 239 (1.50%) Web Services
19 209 (1.31%) XML
20 193 (1.21%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 856 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
2 698 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 625 (3.92%) Driving Licence
4 492 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 338 (2.12%) Social Media
6 300 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 283 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 262 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
9 238 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 220 (1.38%) Product Ownership
11 214 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 209 (1.31%) PKI
13 155 (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
18 121 (0.76%) Smartphone
18 121 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,475 (28.07%) Windows
2 1,969 (12.35%) Windows Server
3 1,366 (8.57%) Windows 10
4 1,025 (6.43%) Linux
5 493 (3.09%) Android
6 444 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 440 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 337 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 306 (1.92%) Apple iOS
10 291 (1.83%) Ubuntu
11 251 (1.57%) Mac OS
12 242 (1.52%) Windows 7
13 129 (0.81%) VMS
14 111 (0.70%) Unix
15 97 (0.61%) Windows 8
15 97 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
16 71 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 63 (0.40%) CentOS
18 57 (0.36%) Mac OS X
19 39 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,175 (19.91%) Agile
2 3,138 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
3 2,130 (13.36%) Customer Service
4 1,779 (11.16%) ITIL
5 1,581 (9.92%) DevOps
6 1,516 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
7 1,508 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
8 1,450 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 1,302 (8.17%) Project Management
10 1,277 (8.01%) CRM
11 1,044 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 989 (6.20%) Decision-Making
13 941 (5.90%) Full Stack Development
14 927 (5.81%) MVC
15 876 (5.49%) Roadmaps
16 872 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 864 (5.42%) Migration
18 817 (5.12%) Project Delivery
19 812 (5.09%) Microservices
20 808 (5.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,621 (16.44%) SQL
2 2,045 (12.83%) C#
3 1,414 (8.87%) JavaScript
4 1,165 (7.31%) PowerShell
5 673 (4.22%) Python
6 523 (3.28%) T-SQL
7 437 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 432 (2.71%) Bash
9 234 (1.47%) Java
10 144 (0.90%) VB
11 123 (0.77%) C++
12 106 (0.66%) 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 70 (0.44%) PHP
18 58 (0.36%) VBA
19 45 (0.28%) VBScript
20 44 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,630 (16.50%) Degree
2 1,183 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 1,078 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 744 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 491 (3.08%) ACCA
6 469 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 464 (2.91%) CIMA
8 462 (2.90%) DBS Check
9 425 (2.67%) Azure Certification
10 386 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 322 (2.02%) DV Cleared
12 261 (1.64%) CCNA
13 260 (1.63%) Master's Degree
14 225 (1.41%) A+ Certification
15 218 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
16 210 (1.32%) CISSP
17 204 (1.28%) MCP
18 182 (1.14%) MCSE
19 162 (1.02%) PMI Certification
20 148 (0.93%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 759 (4.76%) SLA
2 449 (2.82%) GDPR
3 440 (2.76%) QA
4 372 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 279 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 194 (1.22%) Data Quality
7 148 (0.93%) NIST
8 127 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 117 (0.73%) PMO
10 112 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 108 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 57 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 40 (0.25%) 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 3,863 (24.23%) Active Directory
2 1,133 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 870 (5.46%) Hyper-V
4 275 (1.72%) Docker
5 271 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 268 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
7 206 (1.29%) vSphere
8 188 (1.18%) XenApp
9 165 (1.03%) XenDesktop
10 137 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
11 125 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
12 79 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 68 (0.43%) 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 1,259 (7.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 679 (4.26%) SCCM
3 348 (2.18%) Kubernetes
4 318 (1.99%) Terraform
5 275 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
6 157 (0.98%) WSUS
7 136 (0.85%) SCOM
8 130 (0.82%) 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%) EnCase
18 38 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 38 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,692 (10.61%) VMware
2 888 (5.57%) Cisco
3 643 (4.03%) Google
4 612 (3.84%) Citrix
5 504 (3.16%) Apple
6 390 (2.45%) Oracle
7 370 (2.32%) Veeam
8 360 (2.26%) Dell
9 346 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 329 (2.06%) HP
11 285 (1.79%) Adobe
12 238 (1.49%) CyberArk
13 236 (1.48%) SAP
14 210 (1.32%) Tanium
15 192 (1.20%) Meraki
16 188 (1.18%) Databricks
17 163 (1.02%) Salesforce
18 144 (0.90%) Fortinet
19 138 (0.87%) Sophos
20 135 (0.85%) Red Hat