Microsoft Job Trends in Guildford

Microsoft
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Guildford 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 8 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 21 1
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +22
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 34 9 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 16.83% 6.92% 24.16%
As % of the Vendors category 73.91% 37.50% 72.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23 4 36
10th Percentile £25,850 £35,500 £26,875
25th Percentile £26,500 £40,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +15.79% +53.23%
75th Percentile £45,625 £67,813 £69,500
90th Percentile £61,000 £68,375 £70,000
Surrey median annual salary £37,500 £52,250 £49,800
% change year-on-year -28.23% +4.92% +17.18%

All Vendors
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 46 24 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 22.77% 18.46% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 34 13 50
10th Percentile £25,750 £43,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £55,000 £35,088
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +26.32% +39.71%
75th Percentile £43,750 £77,500 £60,125
90th Percentile £77,000 - £70,000
Surrey median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.43% +15.00% -9.09%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Guildford

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Guildford over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Guildford

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (14.71%) Azure AI
2 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.82%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Unified Communications
2 2 (5.88%) iSCSI
2 2 (5.88%) NAS
2 2 (5.88%) SAN
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Power BI
1 5 (14.71%) Tableau
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.71%) Legal
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Junior
2 10 (29.41%) Analyst
2 10 (29.41%) Junior Analyst
3 9 (26.47%) IT Engineer
4 8 (23.53%) IT Support
5 7 (20.59%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Support Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Data Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Junior Data Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Junior Security Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Security Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (11.76%) Administrator
7 4 (11.76%) IT Administrator
8 3 (8.82%) 1st Line Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Junior IT Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Junior IT Support
8 3 (8.82%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.88%) Blazor
2 2 (5.88%) React
2 2 (5.88%) Vue
2 2 (5.88%) WinForms
2 2 (5.88%) WPF
3 1 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (2.94%) LAMP
3 1 (2.94%) OAuth
3 1 (2.94%) SOAP
3 1 (2.94%) XML
3 1 (2.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.82%) PMI
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.94%) FPGA
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) AI
2 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 5 (14.71%) Customer Experience
4 3 (8.82%) Asset Management
4 3 (8.82%) Business Development
4 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.82%) CRM
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) CAD
5 2 (5.88%) Clean Code
5 2 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (5.88%) Inventory Management
5 2 (5.88%) Machine Learning
5 2 (5.88%) Mathematics
5 2 (5.88%) Microservices
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Azure Certification
2 5 (14.71%) CompTIA CySA+
2 5 (14.71%) CompTIA Security+
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) PMI Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) CCNA
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) MCSE
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.94%) HND
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) Firmware
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
1 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Podman
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) ForeScout
1 5 (14.71%) Mitel
2 3 (8.82%) BT
2 3 (8.82%) Fortinet
2 3 (8.82%) VMware
3 2 (5.88%) NetApp
3 2 (5.88%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) SAP