Microsoft Jobs in the North East

Microsoft
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 30 May 2025, 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 104 429 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 11.72% 21.66% 21.84%
As % of the Vendors category 19.51% 58.61% 49.64%
Number of salaries quoted 63 351 108
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,500 £26,425
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,683
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +4.47% +1.71%
75th Percentile £68,250 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £66,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 533 732 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 60.09% 36.95% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 273 591 289
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,000 £31,000
25th Percentile - £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £43,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% -8.42% +18.75%
75th Percentile £43,750 £58,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,100 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the North East.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the North East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -7 67 £47,500 +10.47% 291
Durham -16 31 £32,000 -20.00% 21
Northumberland -7 5 £37,500 +53.06% 1
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 69 (66.35%) Azure
2 33 (31.73%) Entra ID
3 20 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.88%) AWS
6 3 (2.88%) GCP
7 2 (1.92%) Slack
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub
8 1 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.58%) Firewall
2 9 (8.65%) SAN
3 6 (5.77%) VLAN
3 6 (5.77%) VPN
4 5 (4.81%) DHCP
4 5 (4.81%) DNS
5 4 (3.85%) LAN
5 4 (3.85%) WAN
6 3 (2.88%) Network Security
7 2 (1.92%) NAS
7 2 (1.92%) VoIP
8 1 (0.96%) Broadband
8 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.81%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.81%) Power BI
3 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.88%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.88%) Git
2 3 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 2 (1.92%) NUnit
3 2 (1.92%) Selenium
3 2 (1.92%) SpecFlow
3 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.12%) Finance
3 12 (11.54%) Advertising
4 6 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.85%) Banking
6 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Front Office
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (28.85%) Identity Management Specialist
1 30 (28.85%) Technology Specialist
2 12 (11.54%) Developer
3 11 (10.58%) Analyst
3 11 (10.58%) IT Support
4 10 (9.62%) IT Analyst
4 10 (9.62%) Technical Support
5 9 (8.65%) IT Support Analyst
5 9 (8.65%) Support Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) Senior
7 7 (6.73%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (5.77%) Technical Product Support
9 5 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.85%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.85%) DBA
10 4 (3.85%) Sales Executive
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) .NET
2 4 (3.85%) .NET Core
2 4 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.88%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.92%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.92%) REST
5 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.96%) HTML
5 1 (0.96%) JSON
5 1 (0.96%) Kendo UI
5 1 (0.96%) PySpark
5 1 (0.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.85%) NHS
2 7 (6.73%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.88%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.15%) Windows
2 14 (13.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.85%) Linux
4 3 (2.88%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.65%) ITIL
2 31 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (28.85%) Identity Management
4 16 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 11 (10.58%) Computer Science
6 10 (9.62%) DevOps
7 8 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 8 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (6.73%) Process Improvement
9 6 (5.77%) Analytics
9 6 (5.77%) CRM
9 6 (5.77%) Customer Experience
9 6 (5.77%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (5.77%) Data Entry
10 5 (4.81%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (4.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (4.81%) OOP
10 5 (4.81%) Patch Management
10 5 (4.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.31%) SQL
2 13 (12.50%) C#
2 13 (12.50%) Python
3 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.73%) Java
5 3 (2.88%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.96%) C
6 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.96%) R
6 1 (0.96%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (48.08%) Degree
2 34 (32.69%) DBS Check
3 7 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.81%) CCNA
4 5 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.85%) CCNP
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.92%) HNC
7 2 (1.92%) MCSE
8 1 (0.96%) CCDA
8 1 (0.96%) CIPD
8 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.96%) MCSA
8 1 (0.96%) MCSD
8 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.96%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.88%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.96%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (44.23%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.85%) Docker
6 3 (2.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) Ansible
1 4 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
1 4 (3.85%) Grafana
1 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (3.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.92%) Control-M
3 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.96%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (12.50%) VMware
2 11 (10.58%) Cisco
3 4 (3.85%) Dell
3 4 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.88%) CheckPoint
4 3 (2.88%) Meraki
5 2 (1.92%) Veeam
6 1 (0.96%) Databricks
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.96%) Sun
6 1 (0.96%) Telerik
6 1 (0.96%) WatchGuard