Microsoft Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 August 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,755 904 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 12.17% 15.73% 17.66%
As % of the Vendors category 54.10% 35.99% 55.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 728 1,127
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,146
25th Percentile £32,755 £29,250 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -14.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £60,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,808 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,244 2,512 3,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.50% 43.71% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,975 1,453 2,098
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,390 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% +0.87% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the Midlands

Microsoft
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
West Midlands +2 971 £50,000 +17.65% 456
East Midlands +5 784 £41,000 +17.14% 310
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 116 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 91 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.08%) IIS
4 9 (0.51%) WordPress
5 7 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.28%) Apache
6 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) CMS
8 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.057%) Confluence
9 1 (0.057%) Drupal
9 1 (0.057%) Mendix
9 1 (0.057%) Umbraco
Applications
1 272 (15.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (9.12%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.17%) Revit
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.057%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.057%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 53 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.68%) Shopify
3 11 (0.63%) SAP Business One
4 9 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.28%) Magento
6 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.23%) Exchequer
7 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.23%) Primavera
8 3 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.17%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 967 (55.10%) Azure
2 529 (30.14%) Microsoft 365
3 327 (18.63%) Power Platform
4 211 (12.02%) Entra ID
5 151 (8.60%) Azure AI
6 109 (6.21%) Dynamics 365
7 85 (4.84%) AWS
8 81 (4.62%) Power Automate
9 69 (3.93%) PowerApps
10 55 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (2.91%) SaaS
12 42 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 35 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
14 27 (1.54%) GitHub
15 24 (1.37%) GCP
16 23 (1.31%) Mimecast
17 22 (1.25%) IaaS
18 21 (1.20%) PaaS
19 19 (1.08%) OneDrive
20 15 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 128 (7.29%) Firewall
2 116 (6.61%) DNS
3 93 (5.30%) VPN
4 90 (5.13%) DHCP
5 73 (4.16%) TCP/IP
6 43 (2.45%) VLAN
6 43 (2.45%) WAN
7 40 (2.28%) LAN
8 39 (2.22%) Network Security
9 35 (1.99%) Internet
10 30 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.37%) VoIP
12 21 (1.20%) Wireless
13 17 (0.97%) SAN
14 8 (0.46%) MQTT
15 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
16 6 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
17 5 (0.28%) HTTP
17 5 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (14.53%) Power BI
2 135 (7.69%) Tableau
3 76 (4.33%) SQL Server
4 68 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 63 (3.59%) MongoDB
6 25 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (0.74%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 12 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 10 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.40%) GIS
12 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.23%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.17%) Data Mining
15 3 (0.17%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (1.20%) Git
2 14 (0.80%) JIRA
2 14 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.28%) VersionOne
4 2 (0.11%) Ant
4 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.11%) Maven
4 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.057%) Carbide.c++
5 1 (0.057%) GitLab
5 1 (0.057%) Yeoman
General
1 980 (55.84%) Social Skills
2 187 (10.66%) Finance
3 138 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (6.89%) Manufacturing
5 94 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 74 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (4.05%) Retail
8 67 (3.82%) Legal
9 65 (3.70%) Public Sector
10 58 (3.30%) Law
11 44 (2.51%) Marketing
12 33 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.42%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.25%) Advertising
15 13 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.68%) Swedish Language
17 9 (0.51%) Legal Technology
18 8 (0.46%) German Language
18 8 (0.46%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 437 (24.90%) Analyst
2 279 (15.90%) Junior
3 267 (15.21%) Junior Analyst
4 179 (10.20%) IT Support
5 172 (9.80%) Developer
6 149 (8.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 149 (8.49%) Security Analyst
7 148 (8.43%) Data Analyst
8 143 (8.15%) Ethical Hacker
9 135 (7.69%) Junior Data Analyst
10 132 (7.52%) Junior Security Analyst
11 109 (6.21%) IT Engineer
12 107 (6.10%) Support Engineer
13 98 (5.58%) Senior
14 73 (4.16%) Network Engineer
15 71 (4.05%) IT Manager
16 68 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
16 68 (3.87%) Lead
17 67 (3.82%) .NET Developer
17 67 (3.82%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (6.84%) .NET
2 75 (4.27%) ASP.NET
3 71 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
4 65 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 48 (2.74%) CSS
6 46 (2.62%) HTML
7 41 (2.34%) Entity Framework
8 33 (1.88%) ASP.NET Web API
9 28 (1.60%) Blazor
10 26 (1.48%) LINQ
10 26 (1.48%) Node.js
11 24 (1.37%) REST
12 23 (1.31%) React
13 17 (0.97%) .NET Framework
13 17 (0.97%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.85%) RESTful
14 15 (0.85%) Vue
15 11 (0.63%) EDI
16 10 (0.57%) ML.NET
17 8 (0.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 146 (8.32%) Cyberattack
2 109 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.84%) Driving Licence
4 67 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 34 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 34 (1.94%) Security Posture
7 32 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.20%) Clustering
11 17 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 15 (0.85%) IoT
13 13 (0.74%) Mobile App
14 12 (0.68%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.57%) BYOD
16 10 (0.57%) CSOC
16 10 (0.57%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 330 (18.80%) Windows
2 140 (7.98%) Windows Server
3 68 (3.87%) Windows 10
4 60 (3.42%) Linux
5 36 (2.05%) Android
6 32 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 20 (1.14%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.23%) VMS
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.17%) Solaris
10 3 (0.17%) Unix
10 3 (0.17%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (25.19%) Cybersecurity
2 351 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 288 (16.41%) AI
4 283 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 268 (15.27%) Business Intelligence
6 239 (13.62%) Mentoring
7 170 (9.69%) Customer Service
8 165 (9.40%) ITIL
9 143 (8.15%) Ethical Hacking
10 137 (7.81%) Agile
11 130 (7.41%) CRM
11 130 (7.41%) ERP
12 114 (6.50%) Service Delivery
13 95 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 94 (5.36%) DevOps
15 78 (4.44%) Analytics
16 77 (4.39%) CI/CD
17 73 (4.16%) ITSM
18 72 (4.10%) Full-Stack Development
19 68 (3.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 338 (19.26%) SQL
2 188 (10.71%) Python
3 112 (6.38%) C#
4 96 (5.47%) PowerShell
5 56 (3.19%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 15 (0.85%) Bicep
8 15 (0.85%) VBA
9 9 (0.51%) Bash
9 9 (0.51%) PHP
9 9 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.34%) Go
11 6 (0.34%) Java
11 6 (0.34%) R
12 4 (0.23%) C++
13 2 (0.11%) C
13 2 (0.11%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.057%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 516 (29.40%) Azure Certification
2 143 (8.15%) CEH
2 143 (8.15%) CompTIA Security+
3 139 (7.92%) CompTIA CySA+
4 127 (7.24%) Degree
5 86 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (4.44%) CCNA
6 78 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 77 (4.39%) Security Cleared
8 74 (4.22%) Network+ Certification
9 72 (4.10%) SC Cleared
10 41 (2.34%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (0.85%) MCSE
12 13 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.68%) CISSP
13 12 (0.68%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.68%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.63%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (3.30%) SLA
3 56 (3.19%) QA
4 53 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 50 (2.85%) GDPR
6 23 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 15 (0.85%) NIST
9 13 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 9 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.34%) GRC
13 3 (0.17%) COSHH
13 3 (0.17%) GMP
14 2 (0.11%) ISO 19650
14 2 (0.11%) NCSC
15 1 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 1 (0.057%) PMO
15 1 (0.057%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 283 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 95 (5.41%) Hyper-V
3 62 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.42%) Docker
5 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.68%) vSphere
7 7 (0.40%) Firmware
8 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.057%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 112 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.22%) Terraform
4 17 (0.97%) SCCM
5 10 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.23%) Ansible
7 4 (0.23%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.17%) Nessus
9 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.11%) Puppet
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.057%) Argo
10 1 (0.057%) Grafana
10 1 (0.057%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.057%) SCOM
Vendors
1 341 (19.43%) ForeScout
2 108 (6.15%) Cisco
3 84 (4.79%) VMware
4 56 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 36 (2.05%) SAP
6 34 (1.94%) Google
7 33 (1.88%) Apple
8 25 (1.42%) Oracle
9 24 (1.37%) Sage
10 21 (1.20%) Veeam
11 20 (1.14%) Adobe
12 18 (1.03%) Sophos
13 17 (0.97%) Logitech
14 16 (0.91%) SonicWALL
15 14 (0.80%) Facebook
15 14 (0.80%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.74%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.74%) HubSpot
16 13 (0.74%) TOWER Software
17 12 (0.68%) Meraki