Microsoft Job Trends in London

Microsoft
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 7 June 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
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,295 2,009 4,322
As % of all permanent jobs in London 10.82% 16.61% 17.87%
As % of the Vendors category 37.12% 38.74% 45.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,663 1,444 2,949
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -3.20%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,100 £96,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £49,350 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.75% +3.89% -9.52%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,183 5,186 9,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.16% 42.87% 39.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,919 3,162 6,523
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £52,693 £50,786 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,121 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +3.70% +1.50%
75th Percentile £91,250 £89,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £106,500
England median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% +10.00% -13.04%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Central London 0 504 £70,000 +12.00% 259
West London +3 77 £47,500 +18.75% 74
South London +9 50 £38,500 -27.70% 28
East London -11 15 £36,250 -59.72% 50
North London 0 10 £45,000 -32.58% 20
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 285 (12.42%) SharePoint
2 202 (8.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.65%) Confluence
4 13 (0.57%) IIS
5 11 (0.48%) CMS
6 10 (0.44%) WordPress
7 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) Apache
10 3 (0.13%) JBoss
11 2 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.087%) Camunda
11 2 (0.087%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.087%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.044%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 286 (12.46%) Microsoft Office
2 160 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.35%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.22%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.13%) SPSS
9 2 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.087%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.087%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 62 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.31%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.087%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.087%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.087%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.044%) FastStats
7 1 (0.044%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.044%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.044%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,195 (52.07%) Azure
2 838 (36.51%) Microsoft 365
3 425 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 344 (14.99%) Entra ID
5 217 (9.46%) AWS
6 202 (8.80%) Dynamics 365
7 162 (7.06%) SaaS
8 144 (6.27%) Power Automate
9 127 (5.53%) PowerApps
10 119 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
11 103 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
12 99 (4.31%) Azure AI
13 91 (3.97%) OneDrive
14 78 (3.40%) Microsoft Purview
14 78 (3.40%) PaaS
15 73 (3.18%) GitHub
16 71 (3.09%) GCP
17 67 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 52 (2.27%) IaaS
19 51 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 236 (10.28%) Firewall
2 184 (8.02%) DNS
3 166 (7.23%) VPN
4 154 (6.71%) DHCP
5 111 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
6 96 (4.18%) WAN
7 91 (3.97%) TCP/IP
8 80 (3.49%) VLAN
9 67 (2.92%) Network Security
10 56 (2.44%) SAN
11 53 (2.31%) LAN
12 42 (1.83%) Wireless
13 36 (1.57%) Internet
14 35 (1.53%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.05%) VoIP
16 20 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (0.74%) Cisco Wireless
17 17 (0.74%) Intranet
18 16 (0.70%) Kerberos
19 15 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (9.76%) Power BI
2 217 (9.46%) SQL Server
3 49 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (2.09%) Data Lake
5 47 (2.05%) Tableau
6 37 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 34 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 30 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (0.92%) Metadata
11 19 (0.83%) MongoDB
12 18 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (0.70%) Data Mining
14 14 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.52%) Power Query
16 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.48%) Delta Lake
17 10 (0.44%) Metabase
18 9 (0.39%) MySQL
19 8 (0.35%) Db2
Development Applications
1 82 (3.57%) Git
2 57 (2.48%) JIRA
3 23 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.87%) Chocolatey
4 20 (0.87%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.65%) GitLab
5 15 (0.65%) Postman
6 13 (0.57%) Balsamiq
6 13 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.35%) Axure RP
9 7 (0.31%) MLflow
9 7 (0.31%) Selenium
10 6 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.22%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.17%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 2 (0.087%) ESLint
14 2 (0.087%) Rational Rhapsody
14 2 (0.087%) Storybook
General
1 836 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 658 (28.67%) Finance
3 307 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (8.28%) Law
5 182 (7.93%) Legal
6 139 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (4.66%) Banking
8 96 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
9 74 (3.22%) Public Sector
10 66 (2.88%) Retail
11 63 (2.75%) Marketing
12 38 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.00%) Multimedia
17 21 (0.92%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.83%) French Language
18 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 374 (16.30%) Senior
2 312 (13.59%) Analyst
3 222 (9.67%) Architect
4 213 (9.28%) Developer
4 213 (9.28%) IT Support
5 191 (8.32%) Lead
6 175 (7.63%) Support Engineer
7 167 (7.28%) IT Engineer
8 130 (5.66%) Consultant
9 117 (5.10%) IT Support Engineer
10 90 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 86 (3.75%) Support Analyst
12 85 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
13 74 (3.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 72 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (3.14%) IT Analyst
15 71 (3.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 71 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 69 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
17 64 (2.79%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.45%) .NET
2 63 (2.75%) CSS
3 61 (2.66%) REST
4 58 (2.53%) HTML
5 52 (2.27%) OAuth
6 42 (1.83%) React
7 37 (1.61%) PySpark
7 37 (1.61%) SAML
8 33 (1.44%) OpenID
9 32 (1.39%) RESTful
10 30 (1.31%) .NET Core
11 25 (1.09%) .NET Framework
12 24 (1.05%) ASP.NET
13 19 (0.83%) Kafka
14 17 (0.74%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (0.74%) Entity Framework
15 16 (0.70%) JSON
15 16 (0.70%) LDAP
16 15 (0.65%) ASP.NET Core
16 15 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 145 (6.32%) Onboarding
2 79 (3.44%) Cloud Native
3 77 (3.36%) Management Information System
4 63 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
5 62 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 52 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (2.00%) Product Ownership
9 43 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
11 34 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 34 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 29 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 25 (1.09%) CMDB
15 25 (1.09%) PKI
16 24 (1.05%) Low-Code
17 23 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
18 22 (0.96%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 596 (25.97%) Windows
2 199 (8.67%) Windows Server
3 143 (6.23%) Linux
4 110 (4.79%) Windows 10
5 78 (3.40%) Mac OS
6 50 (2.18%) Apple iOS
7 33 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (1.22%) Android
10 16 (0.70%) Unix
10 16 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.44%) VMS
12 8 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.22%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.13%) CentOS
16 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.087%) tvOS
17 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
2 387 (16.86%) AI
3 295 (12.85%) Agile
4 294 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 270 (11.76%) DevOps
6 265 (11.55%) Cybersecurity
7 257 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
8 254 (11.07%) ITIL
9 253 (11.02%) Roadmaps
10 250 (10.89%) Mentoring
11 238 (10.37%) Analytics
12 212 (9.24%) Migration
13 193 (8.41%) Customer Service
14 175 (7.63%) CI/CD
15 164 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
16 159 (6.93%) Disaster Recovery
17 158 (6.88%) Decision-Making
18 151 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 140 (6.10%) ITSM
20 139 (6.06%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 377 (16.43%) SQL
2 342 (14.90%) Python
3 294 (12.81%) PowerShell
4 149 (6.49%) C#
5 129 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 49 (2.14%) TypeScript
7 46 (2.00%) Bicep
8 40 (1.74%) Bash
9 33 (1.44%) Java
10 31 (1.35%) R
11 22 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
12 21 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 17 (0.74%) VBA
14 12 (0.52%) VBScript
15 11 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.48%) VB.NET
16 10 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.35%) C++
17 8 (0.35%) PHP
17 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 318 (13.86%) Degree
2 197 (8.58%) Azure Certification
3 192 (8.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 111 (4.84%) Security Cleared
5 85 (3.70%) CISSP
6 84 (3.66%) SC Cleared
7 81 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (2.79%) AWS Certification
10 57 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 44 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
12 37 (1.61%) CEH
13 34 (1.48%) CCNA
13 34 (1.48%) CCNP
14 33 (1.44%) DBS Check
15 31 (1.35%) A+ Certification
16 30 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 29 (1.26%) GIAC
18 28 (1.22%) PMI Certification
18 28 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (4.23%) SLA
3 96 (4.18%) NIST
4 83 (3.62%) GDPR
5 73 (3.18%) Data Quality
6 61 (2.66%) QA
7 46 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 41 (1.79%) PMO
9 26 (1.13%) GRC
10 23 (1.00%) Accessibility
11 22 (0.96%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.74%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (0.70%) IFRS
14 9 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.39%) WCAG
15 8 (0.35%) GAAP
15 8 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.31%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 463 (20.17%) Active Directory
2 109 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (2.92%) Docker
4 48 (2.09%) Hyper-V
5 47 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (1.31%) vSphere
8 16 (0.70%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.44%) Firmware
10 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.22%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.17%) KVM
12 4 (0.17%) Squid
12 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.087%) IAG
13 2 (0.087%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.044%) Xen
14 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 226 (9.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 146 (6.36%) Terraform
3 91 (3.97%) Kubernetes
4 86 (3.75%) SCCM
5 66 (2.88%) Ansible
6 48 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 20 (0.87%) Autotask
10 17 (0.74%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.57%) Grafana
12 12 (0.52%) Prometheus
13 10 (0.44%) Packer
14 9 (0.39%) QRadar
15 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.26%) VxRail
15 6 (0.26%) WSUS
16 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
17 4 (0.17%) Control-M
18 3 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 167 (7.28%) VMware
2 120 (5.23%) Cisco
3 115 (5.01%) Databricks
4 89 (3.88%) Google
5 80 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 78 (3.40%) iManage
7 69 (3.01%) Oracle
8 60 (2.61%) Palo Alto
9 53 (2.31%) ForeScout
10 50 (2.18%) Splunk
11 47 (2.05%) Apple
12 45 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
13 41 (1.79%) SAP
14 37 (1.61%) OpenAI
14 37 (1.61%) Tenable
15 33 (1.44%) SolarWinds
16 32 (1.39%) Foundry
17 31 (1.35%) Adobe
18 30 (1.31%) Salesforce
19 29 (1.26%) Citrix