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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 105 423 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.82% 22.74% 20.88%
As % of the Vendors category 26.99% 58.51% 48.36%
Number of salaries quoted 65 352 104
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,500 £26,325
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £68,250 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £64,875 £63,375
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 389 723 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 51.18% 38.87% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 205 593 285
10th Percentile £23,702 £25,300 £30,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £43,072 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -9.32% +18.75%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,800
90th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +3.64%

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 12 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 12 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 -9 69 £48,750 +13.37% 108
Durham -16 31 £32,000 -20.00% 18
Northumberland -6 4 £37,500 +51.52% 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 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.81%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (64.76%) Azure
2 33 (31.43%) Entra ID
3 23 (21.90%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.62%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.81%) AWS
5 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.81%) GCP
6 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.90%) Slack
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.95%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.95%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.95%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.95%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Firewall
2 8 (7.62%) SAN
2 8 (7.62%) VPN
3 7 (6.67%) DHCP
3 7 (6.67%) DNS
4 3 (2.86%) VLAN
4 3 (2.86%) VoIP
5 2 (1.90%) LAN
5 2 (1.90%) NAS
5 2 (1.90%) WAN
6 1 (0.95%) Network Security
6 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.76%) Power BI
4 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Git
1 3 (2.86%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.90%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.90%) NUnit
2 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.90%) Selenium
2 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.90%) SpecFlow
2 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 38 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.86%) Finance
3 10 (9.52%) Advertising
4 6 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.81%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Automotive
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (28.57%) Identity Management Specialist
1 30 (28.57%) Technology Specialist
2 14 (13.33%) Developer
3 11 (10.48%) Senior
4 9 (8.57%) IT Support
5 8 (7.62%) Administrator
5 8 (7.62%) Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (6.67%) IT Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) Technical Support
7 6 (5.71%) .NET Developer
7 6 (5.71%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (5.71%) C# Developer
7 6 (5.71%) IT Support Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Support Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Technical Product Support
8 5 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.81%) DBA
9 4 (3.81%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.19%) .NET
2 8 (7.62%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.81%) Blazor
4 4 (3.81%) React
5 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.90%) HTML
6 2 (1.90%) REST
6 2 (1.90%) Web Services
7 1 (0.95%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.95%) CSS
7 1 (0.95%) JSON
7 1 (0.95%) Kendo UI
7 1 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.57%) NHS
2 9 (8.57%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.81%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.05%) Windows
2 14 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.86%) Linux
4 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.33%) ITIL
2 32 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 14 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 13 (12.38%) Computer Science
6 9 (8.57%) DevOps
6 9 (8.57%) Software Engineering
7 7 (6.67%) Agile
7 7 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (6.67%) OOP
7 7 (6.67%) Process Improvement
8 6 (5.71%) Analytics
8 6 (5.71%) CI/CD
8 6 (5.71%) CRM
8 6 (5.71%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (5.71%) Design Patterns
8 6 (5.71%) SDLC
9 5 (4.76%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (4.76%) Fintech
9 5 (4.76%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.05%) SQL
2 18 (17.14%) C#
3 14 (13.33%) Python
4 9 (8.57%) Java
4 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.95%) C++
7 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.95%) R
7 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (46.67%) Degree
2 34 (32.38%) DBS Check
3 7 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.86%) CCNA
5 3 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.90%) CCNP
6 2 (1.90%) MCSE
7 1 (0.95%) CCDA
7 1 (0.95%) CIPD
7 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.95%) MCSA
7 1 (0.95%) MCSD
7 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (41.90%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.86%) Docker
6 2 (1.90%) vSphere
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.86%) Ansible
1 3 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (2.86%) Grafana
1 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.86%) Terraform
2 2 (1.90%) SCCM
3 1 (0.95%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (11.43%) VMware
2 6 (5.71%) Cisco
3 4 (3.81%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.90%) Dell
5 1 (0.95%) Avaya
5 1 (0.95%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.95%) Databricks
5 1 (0.95%) Google
5 1 (0.95%) Meraki
5 1 (0.95%) SAP
5 1 (0.95%) Telerik
5 1 (0.95%) Veeam