Microsoft Job Trends in Kent

Microsoft
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 11 April 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
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 261 71 311
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 18.63% 13.73% 21.98%
As % of the Vendors category 59.45% 55.47% 52.53%
Number of salaries quoted 113 51 284
10th Percentile £26,950 £25,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £25,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £51,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,050 £67,500 £65,250
South East median annual salary £42,500 £46,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.89% -

All Vendors
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 439 128 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 31.33% 24.76% 41.84%
Number of salaries quoted 205 97 447
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +29.41% -3.41%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,000 £87,500 £66,150
South East median annual salary £50,000 £54,597 £47,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% +16.16% -6.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Kent

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Kent over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Kent

Microsoft
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Kent region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Canterbury - 54 £42,500 - 5
Chatham +2 51 - - 1
West Malling 0 15 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Ramsgate -3 10 £31,500 - 1
Tunbridge Wells -4 9 £112,500 +104.55% 1
Sittingbourne -3 5 £34,500 -13.75%
Maidstone -5 4 £42,500 +60.38% 7
Birchington - 4 £40,000 - 2
Rochester +1 3 £80,000 +140.60% 1
Dartford -2 2 £35,750 +123.44% 9
Sevenoaks - 2 £34,000 -
Stansted - 2 £50,000 -
Tonbridge - 2 £39,750 - 2
Sandwich - 1 - -
Broadstairs - 1 £47,500 - 1
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 26 (9.96%) SharePoint
2 23 (8.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.15%) IIS
4 2 (0.77%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
Applications
1 43 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (15.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.38%) InDesign
3 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 156 (59.77%) Azure
2 68 (26.05%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (22.61%) Power Platform
4 45 (17.24%) Azure AI
5 25 (9.58%) AWS
6 16 (6.13%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (3.45%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.92%) GCP
11 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.15%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.15%) PaaS
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Service Fabric
12 2 (0.77%) GitHub
12 2 (0.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.43%) DHCP
1 22 (8.43%) DNS
1 22 (8.43%) VPN
2 20 (7.66%) Firewall
3 16 (6.13%) LAN
4 13 (4.98%) WAN
5 12 (4.60%) VLAN
6 10 (3.83%) SAN
7 9 (3.45%) Wireless
8 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.53%) BGP
9 4 (1.53%) IPsec
9 4 (1.53%) WLAN
10 2 (0.77%) Internet
10 2 (0.77%) NAS
10 2 (0.77%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.77%) VSAN
11 1 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
11 1 (0.38%) MPLS
11 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.77%) Power BI
2 37 (14.18%) Tableau
3 12 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.53%) Power Query
5 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.77%) Metadata
5 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.21%) JIRA
2 3 (1.15%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 162 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.90%) Finance
3 16 (6.13%) French Language
4 15 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.45%) Swedish Language
7 8 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.30%) Advertising
9 6 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.92%) Retail
11 2 (0.77%) Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 111 (42.53%) Analyst
2 73 (27.97%) Junior
3 72 (27.59%) Junior Analyst
4 40 (15.33%) Data Analyst
4 40 (15.33%) Security Analyst
5 37 (14.18%) IT Support
6 36 (13.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 36 (13.79%) Junior Data Analyst
6 36 (13.79%) Junior Security Analyst
7 27 (10.34%) Support Engineer
8 24 (9.20%) Ethical Hacker
9 18 (6.90%) IT Engineer
9 18 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
10 17 (6.51%) Service Analyst
10 17 (6.51%) Service Desk Analyst
11 15 (5.75%) Developer
11 15 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (5.36%) Infrastructure Support
13 13 (4.98%) 3rd Line Support
14 10 (3.83%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.92%) .NET
2 4 (1.53%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.77%) .NET Core
3 2 (0.77%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (0.77%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (0.77%) LDAP
3 2 (0.77%) OAuth
3 2 (0.77%) OAuth2
3 2 (0.77%) OpenID
3 2 (0.77%) REST
3 2 (0.77%) SOAP
3 2 (0.77%) WCF
3 2 (0.77%) Web Services
4 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.38%) Blazor
4 1 (0.38%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.38%) LINQ
4 1 (0.38%) Node.js
4 1 (0.38%) React
4 1 (0.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.20%) Cyberattack
2 10 (3.83%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.53%) Replication
4 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.15%) Taxonomies
5 2 (0.77%) Clustering
5 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.38%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 53 (20.31%) Windows
2 25 (9.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.07%) Linux
3 8 (3.07%) Windows 10
3 8 (3.07%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.27%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (19.16%) AI
3 49 (18.77%) Business Intelligence
4 46 (17.62%) Mentoring
5 38 (14.56%) ITIL
6 32 (12.26%) Customer Service
6 32 (12.26%) ITSM
7 27 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (9.20%) Ethical Hacking
9 22 (8.43%) Service Management
10 19 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (7.28%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (7.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (6.90%) Performance Metrics
12 17 (6.51%) Process Improvement
13 16 (6.13%) Agile
14 15 (5.75%) Migration
14 15 (5.75%) Roadmaps
15 13 (4.98%) Data Governance
16 12 (4.60%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.61%) SQL
2 40 (15.33%) Python
3 8 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.77%) C#
5 2 (0.77%) Delphi
5 2 (0.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.77%) VB
5 2 (0.77%) VB6
6 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (40.61%) Azure Certification
2 36 (13.79%) CompTIA CySA+
2 36 (13.79%) CompTIA Security+
3 33 (12.64%) Degree
3 33 (12.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (9.20%) CEH
4 24 (9.20%) MCSE
5 18 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.21%) CCNA
6 11 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.83%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.92%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.51%) QA
2 7 (2.68%) SLA
3 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (19.92%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.75%) Hyper-V
3 13 (4.98%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.45%) Backup Exec
2 9 (3.45%) vCenter Server
3 7 (2.68%) SCCM
4 3 (1.15%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.77%) Nagios
5 2 (0.77%) Terraform
5 2 (0.77%) VxRail
5 2 (0.77%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.38%) CASB
6 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 66 (25.29%) ForeScout
2 19 (7.28%) ServiceNow
2 19 (7.28%) Veeam
3 16 (6.13%) VMware
4 11 (4.21%) Cisco
5 10 (3.83%) Databricks
6 7 (2.68%) Citrix
6 7 (2.68%) NetApp
7 6 (2.30%) Google
8 5 (1.92%) 3PAR
8 5 (1.92%) Apple
8 5 (1.92%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.92%) WatchGuard
9 4 (1.53%) Meraki
9 4 (1.53%) SAP
9 4 (1.53%) Tenable
10 3 (1.15%) Dell
10 3 (1.15%) Facebook
10 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.15%) Instagram