Microsoft Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 739 1,256 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 14.49% 24.97% 16.61%
As % of the Vendors category 41.75% 55.72% 48.50%
Number of salaries quoted 637 470 593
10th Percentile £27,650 £24,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,047 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,521 £79,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year - +2.27% -2.22%

All Vendors
Manchester

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,770 2,254 1,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.71% 44.81% 34.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 1,101 1,238
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £66,764 £68,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £82,538 £81,250 £81,250
North West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Manchester

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Manchester

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Manchester

Microsoft
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Bolton -7 20 £45,000 -5.26% 8
Oldham +2 15 £40,000 +13.48% 4
Salford -13 12 £73,750 +58.60% 11
Bury 0 10 £40,000 -
Stockport -13 10 £42,500 - 7
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 £37,500 - 2
Cheadle -6 4 £43,865 +99.39% 5
Sale - 3 £25,000 - 2
Wigan +1 1 - - 5
Microsoft
North West

Microsoft
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 72 (9.74%) SharePoint
2 37 (5.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.65%) IIS
4 8 (1.08%) CMS
5 5 (0.68%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 4 (0.54%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Site Server
Applications
1 101 (13.67%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.68%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 46 (6.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.76%) Infor SunSystems
2 13 (1.76%) iTrent
3 10 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.81%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
5 5 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.14%) BPCS
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.14%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 328 (44.38%) Azure
2 213 (28.82%) Microsoft 365
3 110 (14.88%) Power Platform
4 85 (11.50%) AWS
4 85 (11.50%) Dynamics 365
5 53 (7.17%) Entra ID
6 45 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.33%) PowerApps
8 31 (4.19%) GCP
8 31 (4.19%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.52%) SaaS
10 19 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (2.30%) GitHub
12 14 (1.89%) PaaS
13 13 (1.76%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (1.76%) IaaS
14 11 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.80%) Firewall
2 46 (6.22%) WAN
3 42 (5.68%) DNS
4 28 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
5 27 (3.65%) DHCP
6 26 (3.52%) LAN
6 26 (3.52%) SAN
7 24 (3.25%) SD-WAN
7 24 (3.25%) Wireless
8 19 (2.57%) Network Security
9 18 (2.44%) VoIP
10 17 (2.30%) Internet
11 13 (1.76%) Unified Communications
12 12 (1.62%) iSCSI
12 12 (1.62%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.62%) VPN
13 11 (1.49%) NAS
14 9 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (1.08%) SSL
16 6 (0.81%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (20.30%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.63%) Power BI
3 27 (3.65%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.76%) BusinessObjects
9 10 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (1.22%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.22%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.08%) Big Data
11 8 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.81%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (4.33%) Git
2 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio
3 9 (1.22%) JIRA
4 6 (0.81%) Eclipse
4 6 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.54%) GitLab
6 4 (0.54%) Jasmine
6 4 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (0.54%) MSTest
6 4 (0.54%) NUnit
7 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) AdminStudio
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 196 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 156 (21.11%) Finance
3 89 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.22%) Legal
5 36 (4.87%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.19%) Retail
7 30 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (3.79%) Law
9 27 (3.65%) Marketing
10 24 (3.25%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.57%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.03%) Local Government
14 14 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.49%) Banking
15 11 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.95%) Back Office
17 6 (0.81%) Billing
17 6 (0.81%) Games
18 5 (0.68%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 132 (17.86%) Developer
2 86 (11.64%) Senior
3 69 (9.34%) Analyst
4 66 (8.93%) Consultant
5 63 (8.53%) .NET Developer
6 62 (8.39%) Lead
7 55 (7.44%) Architect
7 55 (7.44%) IT Support
8 39 (5.28%) C# Developer
9 37 (5.01%) IT Engineer
10 36 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 33 (4.47%) Administrator
12 30 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (4.06%) C# .NET Developer
13 29 (3.92%) Support Engineer
14 26 (3.52%) 2nd Line Support
14 26 (3.52%) Data Engineer
15 25 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (3.25%) IT Support Engineer
17 23 (3.11%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.53%) .NET
2 64 (8.66%) ASP.NET
3 61 (8.25%) .NET Core
4 50 (6.77%) AngularJS
4 50 (6.77%) ASP.NET MVC
5 45 (6.09%) ASP.NET Web API
6 38 (5.14%) Entity Framework
7 36 (4.87%) .NET Framework
7 36 (4.87%) HTML
8 26 (3.52%) React
9 22 (2.98%) Node.js
10 20 (2.71%) CSS
10 20 (2.71%) HTML5
10 20 (2.71%) Vue
11 17 (2.30%) RESTful
12 15 (2.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 14 (1.89%) Web Services
14 13 (1.76%) LINQ
15 11 (1.49%) REST
16 7 (0.95%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.77%) Data Centre
2 32 (4.33%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.79%) Public Cloud
4 27 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.98%) PMI
7 18 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.30%) EPoS
9 12 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 12 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 11 (1.49%) Blog
10 11 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.35%) FMCG
11 10 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.35%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.35%) PKI
12 9 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.08%) iPhone
14 7 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 158 (21.38%) Windows
2 82 (11.10%) Windows Server
3 53 (7.17%) Linux
4 51 (6.90%) Windows 10
5 25 (3.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (2.30%) Android
9 12 (1.62%) Windows Vista
10 8 (1.08%) VMS
11 7 (0.95%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.81%) Unix
12 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.68%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.54%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.54%) Solaris
14 4 (0.54%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
17 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (19.62%) Agile
2 141 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (12.45%) Customer Service
4 89 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
6 81 (10.96%) DevOps
7 80 (10.83%) Project Management
8 72 (9.74%) CRM
9 71 (9.61%) ITIL
10 68 (9.20%) Migration
11 66 (8.93%) Microservices
12 61 (8.25%) Full Stack Development
13 57 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 57 (7.71%) MVC
14 55 (7.44%) Presales
15 53 (7.17%) Mentoring
16 51 (6.90%) CI/CD
16 51 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
17 45 (6.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (16.51%) C#
2 103 (13.94%) SQL
3 74 (10.01%) JavaScript
4 48 (6.50%) PowerShell
5 34 (4.60%) TypeScript
6 23 (3.11%) T-SQL
7 17 (2.30%) Python
8 11 (1.49%) Delphi
9 7 (0.95%) Bash
9 7 (0.95%) Go
10 6 (0.81%) VB
11 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.54%) Bicep
12 4 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.54%) VB6
13 2 (0.27%) Java
13 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 110 (14.88%) Degree
2 60 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 35 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (3.92%) CCNA
5 27 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.25%) Security Cleared
7 23 (3.11%) PMI Certification
8 20 (2.71%) CCNP
9 18 (2.44%) AWS Certification
10 17 (2.30%) DBS Check
11 14 (1.89%) SC Cleared
12 9 (1.22%) CISSP
12 9 (1.22%) MCP
13 8 (1.08%) CISM
13 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.68%) CFA
15 5 (0.68%) Citrix Certification
15 5 (0.68%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 26 (3.52%) SLA
2 18 (2.44%) QA
3 17 (2.30%) GDPR
4 16 (2.17%) NIST
5 12 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.54%) GRC
10 3 (0.41%) PMO
11 2 (0.27%) GMP
12 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.14%) GxP
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 123 (16.64%) Active Directory
2 51 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.19%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.49%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.54%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.41%) Docker
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.14%) RACF
9 1 (0.14%) Snort
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 63 (8.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (3.38%) Terraform
3 24 (3.25%) Kubernetes
4 18 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (2.17%) SCCM
6 12 (1.62%) Opsgenie
6 12 (1.62%) VxRail
6 12 (1.62%) ZABBIX
7 7 (0.95%) CASB
8 6 (0.81%) WSUS
9 5 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.68%) Stealthwatch
10 4 (0.54%) Autotask
10 4 (0.54%) Grafana
10 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.41%) SELinux
11 3 (0.41%) SysTrack
12 2 (0.27%) Ansible
13 1 (0.14%) cPanel
Vendors
1 67 (9.07%) VMware
2 58 (7.85%) Apple
3 54 (7.31%) Cisco
4 48 (6.50%) Adobe
5 34 (4.60%) Google
6 29 (3.92%) SAP
7 28 (3.79%) Dell
8 27 (3.65%) Citrix
9 21 (2.84%) Oracle
10 19 (2.57%) Fortinet
11 18 (2.44%) Meraki
12 16 (2.17%) HP
12 16 (2.17%) NetApp
13 15 (2.03%) Veeam
14 14 (1.89%) Facebook
14 14 (1.89%) Infor
15 13 (1.76%) SolarWinds
16 11 (1.49%) Databricks
16 11 (1.49%) Sage
17 10 (1.35%) Samsung