Microsoft Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in Manchester is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 220 244
Rank change year-on-year +67 +24 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 6 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.27% 0.058% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.061% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £47,600 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile £51,500 - -
North West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 2,013 4,891 4,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 94.40% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 3,774 2,630
10th Percentile £32,125 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,017 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,334 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -5.51% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in Manchester

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in Manchester

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) RHCE

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) E-Discovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Dovecot
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware