Microsoft Job Trends 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 10 February 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
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 2
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 187 120 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 15.33% 14.22% 22.02%
As % of the Vendors category 47.34% 45.11% 51.79%
Number of salaries quoted 132 60 249
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,126 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,438 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +5.52%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,563 £53,750
90th Percentile £71,125 £68,875 £63,150
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -9.52%

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 395 266 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 32.38% 31.52% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 233 110 487
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -4.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,200 £82,500 £70,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,716
% change year-on-year -8.70% +11.18% -10.06%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in the North East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the North East over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 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
Tyne and Wear +5 155 £40,000 -5.88% 52
Durham +8 31 £31,500 -16.00% 17
Northumberland +7 1 £31,000 -48.33% 2
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) CMS
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.07%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.07%) WordPress
4 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (19.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (13.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.07%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 97 (51.87%) Azure
2 41 (21.93%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (17.65%) AWS
4 28 (14.97%) Power Platform
5 24 (12.83%) GitHub
6 18 (9.63%) Azure AI
7 7 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.74%) IaaS
7 7 (3.74%) SaaS
8 4 (2.14%) GCP
8 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.14%) PaaS
9 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.07%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.07%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.07%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.07%) Google Docs
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.76%) Internet
2 18 (9.63%) Firewall
3 13 (6.95%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.81%) DNS
4 9 (4.81%) VPN
5 8 (4.28%) VLAN
6 6 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.67%) Wireless
8 3 (1.60%) DHCP
8 3 (1.60%) DMZ
8 3 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.60%) SAN
8 3 (1.60%) STUN
8 3 (1.60%) VoIP
9 1 (0.53%) LAN
9 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.44%) Tableau
2 18 (9.63%) Power BI
2 18 (9.63%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.88%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.14%) Metadata
6 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (12.30%) Git
2 6 (3.21%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.53%) TestRail
General
1 81 (43.32%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.76%) Multimedia
3 21 (11.23%) Advertising
3 21 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.63%) Finance
5 11 (5.88%) Marketing
6 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.67%) Law
8 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Games
9 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Retail
10 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (31.02%) Analyst
2 35 (18.72%) Trainee
3 34 (18.18%) Junior
4 33 (17.65%) Junior Analyst
5 28 (14.97%) Data Analyst
6 26 (13.90%) Support Engineer
7 19 (10.16%) Senior
7 19 (10.16%) Technical Engineer
7 19 (10.16%) Technical Support
7 19 (10.16%) Technical Support Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) Junior Data Analyst
9 16 (8.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 16 (8.56%) Developer
9 16 (8.56%) Junior Security Analyst
9 16 (8.56%) Security Analyst
10 13 (6.95%) Software Developer
10 13 (6.95%) Trainee Developer
10 13 (6.95%) Trainee Software Developer
11 12 (6.42%) IT Support
12 11 (5.88%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.30%) CSS
1 23 (12.30%) HTML
2 3 (1.60%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.07%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.07%) Matplotlib
3 2 (1.07%) NumPy
3 2 (1.07%) Pandas
3 2 (1.07%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.07%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.53%) Blazor
4 1 (0.53%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.53%) Dropwizard
4 1 (0.53%) JAX-RS
4 1 (0.53%) LESS
4 1 (0.53%) Mongoose
4 1 (0.53%) Nunjucks
4 1 (0.53%) React
4 1 (0.53%) Sass
4 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 14 (7.49%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (3.74%) LIMS
3 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.21%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.14%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.14%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.07%) Blog
8 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.07%) EPoS
8 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.23%) Windows
2 19 (10.16%) Linux
3 12 (6.42%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.21%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.60%) Debian
6 2 (1.07%) Android
6 2 (1.07%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (28.88%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (24.60%) Mentoring
3 33 (17.65%) Customer Service
4 25 (13.37%) ITIL
5 21 (11.23%) AI
6 20 (10.70%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.63%) Agile
9 17 (9.09%) DevOps
9 17 (9.09%) Project Management
10 16 (8.56%) Analytics
10 16 (8.56%) Business Analysis
11 15 (8.02%) Mathematics
12 14 (7.49%) B2B
12 14 (7.49%) B2B Sales
12 14 (7.49%) Business Development
12 14 (7.49%) Commercial Awareness
12 14 (7.49%) Data Analysis
12 14 (7.49%) Data Entry
12 14 (7.49%) Telesales
Programming Languages
1 57 (30.48%) Python
2 41 (21.93%) SQL
3 24 (12.83%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.81%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.81%) R
5 3 (1.60%) Bash
5 3 (1.60%) C#
5 3 (1.60%) Java
5 3 (1.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 28 (14.97%) AWS Certification
3 27 (14.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (12.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 21 (11.23%) HNC
6 17 (9.09%) Degree
7 16 (8.56%) CompTIA CySA+
7 16 (8.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (3.21%) HND
10 4 (2.14%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.14%) CEH
10 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.60%) Security Cleared
12 2 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.07%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.21%) QA
2 4 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (1.60%) PMO
4 2 (1.07%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 33 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.42%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.14%) Docker
5 2 (1.07%) vSphere
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.67%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.14%) Ansible
3 4 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.14%) Terraform
4 2 (1.07%) Control-M
4 2 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.07%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (12.30%) VMware
2 20 (10.70%) ForeScout
3 10 (5.35%) Cisco
4 8 (4.28%) Google
5 6 (3.21%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.21%) Veeam
6 5 (2.67%) SonicWALL
6 5 (2.67%) WatchGuard
7 3 (1.60%) Forcepoint
7 3 (1.60%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.60%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.07%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.07%) iManage
9 1 (0.53%) Aruba
9 1 (0.53%) Citrix
9 1 (0.53%) HP
9 1 (0.53%) Intapp
9 1 (0.53%) Nimble Storage