Microsoft Jobs in Hertfordshire

Microsoft
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 12 May 2025, 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 153 347 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 17.55% 17.50% 25.71%
As % of the Vendors category 47.08% 46.02% 49.01%
Number of salaries quoted 121 281 153
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,250 £22,450
25th Percentile £39,750 £29,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £38,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -4.38% -11.11%

All Vendors
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 325 754 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 37.27% 38.02% 52.45%
Number of salaries quoted 209 599 413
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,500 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.69% -13.00% +5.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Hertfordshire

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for Microsoft in Hertfordshire

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Hertfordshire

Microsoft
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
Stevenage +6 26 £42,085 +10.75% 25
Hemel Hempstead +12 22 £62,000 +24.00% 43
Watford -12 21 £37,500 -22.68% 31
Borehamwood +2 11 £42,500 +6.25% 8
Hatfield +8 9 £50,000 -9.09% 11
St Albans +1 8 £62,500 +4.17% 7
Broxbourne -1 3 £42,500 -29.17%
Hitchin -1 3 £24,781 -34.79% 5
Berkhamsted - 3 - -
Bishop's Stortford +1 2 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Waltham Cross +7 1 - -
Hoddesdon +1 1 £100,000 -
Letchworth -4 1 - - 4
Radlett - 1 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £55,000 - 3
Microsoft
East of England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 36 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 28 (18.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (5.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 8 (5.23%) Exchange Server 2013
3 8 (5.23%) IIS
3 8 (5.23%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (3.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.96%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.96%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (49.02%) Azure
2 67 (43.79%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (21.57%) Power Platform
4 25 (16.34%) Entra ID
5 17 (11.11%) AWS
6 16 (10.46%) PowerApps
7 14 (9.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (5.23%) Cohesity
10 7 (4.58%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.92%) OneDrive
11 6 (3.92%) Rubrik
12 5 (3.27%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.61%) Mimecast
13 4 (2.61%) SaaS
13 4 (2.61%) Serverless
14 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (23.53%) Firewall
2 17 (11.11%) SMTP
2 17 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 16 (10.46%) FTP
3 16 (10.46%) LAN
3 16 (10.46%) WAN
4 15 (9.80%) VPN
5 12 (7.84%) DNS
6 10 (6.54%) DHCP
6 10 (6.54%) Internet
7 9 (5.88%) HTTP
8 8 (5.23%) IMAP
8 8 (5.23%) Network Security
8 8 (5.23%) SAN
8 8 (5.23%) Skype
9 5 (3.27%) Broadband
10 4 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.65%) VLAN
12 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.50%) Power BI
3 8 (5.23%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.92%) Big Data
6 3 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.65%) GIS
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.31%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Moq
3 1 (0.65%) MSTest
3 1 (0.65%) NUnit
3 1 (0.65%) xUnit.net
General
1 59 (38.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.38%) Finance
3 15 (9.80%) Local Government
4 8 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.27%) Games
7 5 (3.27%) Marketing
8 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.61%) Retail
8 4 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.96%) Advertising
9 3 (1.96%) Back Office
9 3 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.31%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (13.73%) Analyst
1 21 (13.73%) Support Engineer
2 19 (12.42%) Senior
3 17 (11.11%) Applications Support
4 14 (9.15%) Lead
5 12 (7.84%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.54%) IT Support
8 9 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Messaging Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Technical Support
10 7 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Applications Support
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Support Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.54%) .NET
2 8 (5.23%) LDAP
3 4 (2.61%) Akka
3 4 (2.61%) Web Services
4 3 (1.96%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.96%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.96%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.96%) RESTful
4 3 (1.96%) SAML
4 3 (1.96%) SOAP
5 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.31%) LINQ
5 2 (1.31%) React
5 2 (1.31%) REST
5 2 (1.31%) Vue
6 1 (0.65%) CSS
6 1 (0.65%) CSS3
6 1 (0.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.54%) Client/Server
1 10 (6.54%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (5.23%) Blackberry
4 6 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.27%) NHS
5 5 (3.27%) Robotics
6 3 (1.96%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.31%) CMDB
7 2 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 58 (37.91%) Windows
2 25 (16.34%) Windows Server
3 15 (9.80%) Linux
3 15 (9.80%) Mac OS
4 11 (7.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (6.54%) Windows 10
6 7 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.96%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.31%) Android
9 2 (1.31%) Debian
9 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.65%) CentOS
10 1 (0.65%) Rocky
10 1 (0.65%) SUSE
10 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (16.34%) ITIL
3 18 (11.76%) Customer Service
4 17 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (10.46%) ITSM
6 15 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (8.50%) Roadmaps
8 12 (7.84%) DevOps
9 11 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (7.19%) Data Protection
9 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (6.54%) ERP
10 10 (6.54%) Line Management
10 10 (6.54%) Project Management
10 10 (6.54%) Security Operations
10 10 (6.54%) Service Management
10 10 (6.54%) SIEM
11 9 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (5.88%) High Availability
11 9 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.26%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.11%) Python
2 17 (11.11%) SQL
3 12 (7.84%) Bash
4 9 (5.88%) C#
5 8 (5.23%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.92%) C++
6 6 (3.92%) Perl
7 4 (2.61%) Java
8 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.65%) Go
9 1 (0.65%) X++
Qualifications
1 41 (26.80%) Degree
2 22 (14.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (12.42%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.46%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.84%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (3.27%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.61%) CEH
9 4 (2.61%) CISM
9 4 (2.61%) CISSP
9 4 (2.61%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.61%) GIAC
10 1 (0.65%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.65%) ACCA
10 1 (0.65%) CIMA
10 1 (0.65%) GCIA
10 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) SLA
2 5 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.61%) NCSC
3 4 (2.61%) NIST
4 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (24.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (4.58%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.61%) Docker
6 3 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (5.23%) QRadar
3 6 (3.92%) NetBackup
4 4 (2.61%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (2.61%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.61%) Nessus
5 1 (0.65%) Autotask
5 1 (0.65%) Graylog
5 1 (0.65%) SCCM
5 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (14.38%) VMware
2 10 (6.54%) NetApp
3 9 (5.88%) Splunk
4 6 (3.92%) Apple
4 6 (3.92%) Commvault
4 6 (3.92%) Zerto
5 5 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.27%) Sun
6 4 (2.61%) Qualys
6 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.61%) Tenable
7 3 (1.96%) Adobe
7 3 (1.96%) Cisco
7 3 (1.96%) Oracle
7 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.31%) Dell
8 2 (1.31%) Epicor
8 2 (1.31%) HP
8 2 (1.31%) Instagram
8 2 (1.31%) SAP