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 16 January 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
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 136 155 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 14.50% 20.26% 21.46%
As % of the Vendors category 41.85% 45.59% 47.22%
Number of salaries quoted 64 137 125
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,800 £24,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +6.17% +4.52%
75th Percentile £54,178 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £64,250 £71,420
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +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 325 340 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 34.65% 44.44% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 142 290 249
10th Percentile £28,559 £27,500 £26,450
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,938 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +0.75% +11.66%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,164 £68,855 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +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 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North East

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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 16 January 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 -4 104 £42,500 -5.81% 48
Durham -10 30 £48,750 +14.71% 7
Northumberland -14 2 £60,000 +122.22% 4
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 16 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.21%) IIS
4 2 (1.47%) SAS
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 35 (25.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (46.32%) Azure
2 40 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (9.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 10 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (6.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.15%) Azure API Management
8 6 (4.41%) AWS
8 6 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.41%) OneDrive
8 6 (4.41%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.68%) Slack
10 3 (2.21%) GCP
10 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (1.47%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) SAN
2 10 (7.35%) Firewall
3 9 (6.62%) DHCP
3 9 (6.62%) DNS
4 5 (3.68%) Network Security
5 4 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.94%) VoIP
5 4 (2.94%) VPN
6 3 (2.21%) Broadband
6 3 (2.21%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (2.21%) Skype
7 2 (1.47%) NAS
8 1 (0.74%) LAN
8 1 (0.74%) WAN
8 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.21%) Power BI
3 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.74%) Big Data
3 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Git
1 9 (6.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (48.53%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Finance
3 14 (10.29%) Telecoms
4 12 (8.82%) Automotive
4 12 (8.82%) Retail
5 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Advertising
7 5 (3.68%) Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Law
8 4 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.74%) Military
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.18%) Senior
1 22 (16.18%) Software Engineer
2 11 (8.09%) Analyst
3 10 (7.35%) Administrator
4 9 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (6.62%) Azure Software Engineer
4 9 (6.62%) Computer Technician
4 9 (6.62%) Integration Engineer
4 9 (6.62%) IT Support
4 9 (6.62%) Security Engineer
4 9 (6.62%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 9 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (6.62%) Software Integration Engineer
5 8 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 8 (5.88%) IT Manager
6 7 (5.15%) 1st Line Support
6 7 (5.15%) Developer
6 7 (5.15%) IT Technician
6 7 (5.15%) Lead
6 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.06%) .NET
2 14 (10.29%) ASP.NET
2 14 (10.29%) React
3 13 (9.56%) .NET Core
3 13 (9.56%) AngularJS
3 13 (9.56%) Blazor
4 12 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (6.62%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.41%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.41%) RESTful
7 3 (2.21%) OAuth
7 3 (2.21%) REST
7 3 (2.21%) SAML
8 2 (1.47%) Django
8 2 (1.47%) Middleware
8 2 (1.47%) Web Services
9 1 (0.74%) CSS
9 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.74%) HTML
9 1 (0.74%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.68%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.68%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.68%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.68%) Replication
4 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.47%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.47%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.00%) Windows
2 24 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 12 (8.82%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (5.15%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.41%) Linux
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.12%) Agile
2 24 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (13.24%) Customer Service
5 15 (11.03%) DevOps
6 14 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (10.29%) Microservices
7 13 (9.56%) Business Strategy
7 13 (9.56%) Matrix Organization
8 12 (8.82%) Acceptance Criteria
8 12 (8.82%) Burndown Charts
8 12 (8.82%) Unit Testing
9 11 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (7.35%) API Management
10 10 (7.35%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.35%) Mentoring
10 10 (7.35%) Supply Chain Management
11 8 (5.88%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.88%) Project Delivery
11 8 (5.88%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.26%) SQL
2 28 (20.59%) C#
3 18 (13.24%) Python
4 14 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.41%) Java
8 4 (2.94%) Bash
9 2 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (15.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (13.24%) Degree
3 10 (7.35%) MCSE
4 6 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.94%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) CCDA
7 1 (0.74%) CCNA
7 1 (0.74%) CCNP
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) PMO
2 4 (2.94%) SLA
3 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (33.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 11 (8.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.21%) Ceph
4 3 (2.21%) vSphere
5 1 (0.74%) Docker
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (7.35%) WSUS
2 5 (3.68%) Ansible
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.94%) Terraform
4 3 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (2.21%) N-central
4 3 (2.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (12.50%) VMware
2 6 (4.41%) Cisco
3 5 (3.68%) Databricks
4 4 (2.94%) Draytek
4 4 (2.94%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.94%) Juniper
4 4 (2.94%) Progress
4 4 (2.94%) Sophos
4 4 (2.94%) Veeam
5 3 (2.21%) Citrix
5 3 (2.21%) Mitel
5 3 (2.21%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.21%) UiPath
5 3 (2.21%) Zerto
6 2 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (1.47%) Splunk
7 1 (0.74%) Avaya
7 1 (0.74%) MikroTik
7 1 (0.74%) Ubiquiti