Microsoft Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 18 August 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
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 536 346 516
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 11.19% 17.75% 13.55%
As % of the Vendors category 60.91% 41.49% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 416 265 364
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £27,375 £34,974
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.15% +24.00%
75th Percentile £63,813 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,200
South East median annual salary £50,000 £41,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% -8.33% -5.26%

All Vendors
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 880 834 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.37% 42.79% 37.73%
Number of salaries quoted 612 487 934
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £35,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Southampton 0 110 £45,000 -7.69% 37
Basingstoke +1 55 £60,000 +4.35% 18
Fareham +4 54 £26,000 -16.13% 15
Winchester +8 52 £60,000 +114.29% 4
Portsmouth +19 47 £46,000 -34.29% 17
Farnborough -15 41 £72,500 +141.67% 18
Ringwood - 17 £36,000 - 7
Waterlooville +1 14 £28,000 - 2
Fleet -5 9 £32,500 +18.18% 1
Eastleigh +4 8 £31,000 -27.06% 2
Aldershot - 7 £29,000 - 1
Tadley -4 5 £57,500 +124.26%
Andover -2 3 £52,500 -16.00% 11
Hook -6 3 £50,000 +100.00% 2
Petersfield - 3 £65,000 - 2
Brockenhurst - 2 £55,000 -
Fordingbridge - 2 £32,500 -
Lymington -5 1 £32,500 -19.45%
Gosport -7 1 £27,500 - 1
Alton -8 1 £42,500 - 1
Romsey - 1 £65,000 -
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 27 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.43%) IIS
4 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.37%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 214 (39.93%) Azure
2 148 (27.61%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (7.46%) Entra ID
4 37 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 34 (6.34%) Azure AI
6 33 (6.16%) AWS
7 25 (4.66%) GitHub
8 21 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (3.73%) SaaS
10 17 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.87%) Serverless
13 9 (1.68%) Azure Functions
13 9 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (1.49%) GCP
15 7 (1.31%) OpenShift
16 5 (0.93%) Mimecast
17 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
18 3 (0.56%) Azure AKS
18 3 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.75%) Firewall
2 38 (7.09%) VPN
3 35 (6.53%) DNS
4 23 (4.29%) WAN
5 21 (3.92%) LAN
5 21 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.17%) Internet
7 13 (2.43%) DHCP
8 9 (1.68%) VLAN
9 8 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.49%) Wireless
10 7 (1.31%) Network Security
11 5 (0.93%) HTTP
12 4 (0.75%) BGP
12 4 (0.75%) FTP
12 4 (0.75%) SMTP
12 4 (0.75%) VoIP
12 4 (0.75%) WLAN
13 3 (0.56%) NGFW
13 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 29 (5.41%) Power BI
4 28 (5.22%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.29%) Tableau
6 14 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.93%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.75%) MySQL
12 3 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (3.92%) Git
2 5 (0.93%) GitLab
3 4 (0.75%) JIRA
4 3 (0.56%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.56%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.19%) JMeter
6 1 (0.19%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.19%) Snyk
6 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 279 (52.05%) Social Skills
2 58 (10.82%) Marketing
3 34 (6.34%) Finance
4 33 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.43%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.87%) Legal
8 10 (1.87%) Retail
9 8 (1.49%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.93%) Banking
12 4 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.56%) Aeronautics
13 3 (0.56%) Aviation
13 3 (0.56%) Military
14 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.19%) Advertising
15 1 (0.19%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 90 (16.79%) Analyst
2 81 (15.11%) IT Support
3 69 (12.87%) Support Technician
4 61 (11.38%) Senior
5 53 (9.89%) IT Engineer
6 47 (8.77%) Developer
7 46 (8.58%) Junior
8 44 (8.21%) Junior Analyst
9 43 (8.02%) Support Engineer
10 42 (7.84%) 1st Line Support
10 42 (7.84%) IT Support Engineer
11 36 (6.72%) .NET Developer
12 35 (6.53%) Sales Executive
13 34 (6.34%) 1st Line Support Technician
13 34 (6.34%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 26 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support
14 26 (4.85%) Support Analyst
15 24 (4.48%) Data Analyst
15 24 (4.48%) Ethical Hacker
15 24 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.65%) .NET
2 30 (5.60%) ASP.NET
3 27 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
4 25 (4.66%) .NET Core
5 12 (2.24%) JSON
5 12 (2.24%) ML.NET
5 12 (2.24%) Node.js
6 11 (2.05%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.05%) React
6 11 (2.05%) Vue
7 8 (1.49%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.49%) Blazor
7 8 (1.49%) CSS
8 7 (1.31%) RESTful
9 6 (1.12%) HTML
10 4 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.75%) LDAP
11 3 (0.56%) Classic ASP
11 3 (0.56%) Google Maps API
11 3 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.66%) Driving Licence
2 24 (4.48%) Cyberattack
2 24 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 14 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.43%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.43%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.87%) PKI
7 8 (1.49%) Replication
8 7 (1.31%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.31%) Clustering
8 7 (1.31%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.31%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (0.93%) EPoS
10 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.75%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.56%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 127 (23.69%) Windows
2 68 (12.69%) Windows Server
3 23 (4.29%) Linux
4 17 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.68%) CentOS
7 8 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.12%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.56%) Android
10 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.37%) Debian
11 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (21.08%) Cybersecurity
3 88 (16.42%) Customer Service
4 82 (15.30%) AI
5 75 (13.99%) Mentoring
6 67 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 64 (11.94%) ITIL
8 60 (11.19%) Project Management
9 55 (10.26%) Logistics
10 54 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (8.77%) Agile
12 45 (8.40%) IT Strategy
13 43 (8.02%) Customer Experience
14 37 (6.90%) Technology Strategy
15 35 (6.53%) CI/CD
16 34 (6.34%) Email Marketing
17 33 (6.16%) CRM
18 32 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
19 31 (5.78%) Service Delivery
20 30 (5.60%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 95 (17.72%) SQL
2 48 (8.96%) Python
3 40 (7.46%) C#
4 24 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.73%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.99%) Ruby
7 15 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.12%) Bash
8 6 (1.12%) C++
9 4 (0.75%) Perl
10 3 (0.56%) Java
11 1 (0.19%) Ada
11 1 (0.19%) Bicep
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (17.91%) Azure Certification
2 55 (10.26%) Degree
3 46 (8.58%) DBS Check
4 45 (8.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (6.34%) Security Cleared
6 26 (4.85%) CEH
6 26 (4.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 26 (4.85%) SC Cleared
7 24 (4.48%) CompTIA CySA+
8 21 (3.92%) A+ Certification
9 14 (2.61%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.43%) CCNA
10 13 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (2.24%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.93%) HNC
14 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.05%) QA
2 10 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (1.87%) GDPR
2 10 (1.87%) SLA
3 7 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.93%) PMO
5 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.56%) NIST
6 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.37%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) GMP
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 110 (20.52%) Active Directory
2 32 (5.97%) Hyper-V
3 22 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.73%) Docker
5 10 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.31%) vSphere
8 4 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.75%) XenApp
9 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.37%) UAG
9 2 (0.37%) Xen
10 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (4.29%) SCCM
4 17 (3.17%) Terraform
5 13 (2.43%) vCenter Server
6 12 (2.24%) Ansible
7 9 (1.68%) Nessus
8 7 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.93%) QRadar
10 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.37%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.37%) Grafana
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.37%) Rancher
12 2 (0.37%) WSUS
12 2 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 61 (11.38%) Cisco
2 58 (10.82%) ForeScout
3 37 (6.90%) Dell
4 26 (4.85%) VMware
5 24 (4.48%) Fortinet
6 22 (4.10%) SonicWALL
7 15 (2.80%) Citrix
7 15 (2.80%) Oracle
8 13 (2.43%) Splunk
9 12 (2.24%) Google
10 10 (1.87%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.49%) Sophos
12 7 (1.31%) Sage
13 6 (1.12%) Veeam
14 5 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.93%) Ubiquiti
15 4 (0.75%) SAP
16 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
16 3 (0.56%) Symantec
16 3 (0.56%) WatchGuard