Microsoft Certification Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 211 252
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 103 118 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.83% 1.09% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.63% 4.55% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 66 98 151
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £30,688 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £50,000 £59,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,304 £47,500 £48,402
% change year-on-year -4.62% -1.86% +1.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,333 2,595 4,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 51.27% 24.03% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,521 1,649 1,910
10th Percentile £35,802 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,600
90th Percentile £73,708 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +1.55%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North of England.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West -21 48 £40,000 -11.11% 24
Yorkshire +14 32 £41,250 -6.25% 9
North East -5 23 £36,000 +10.77% 10
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (13.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (12.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.94%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.97%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (10.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (53.40%) Azure
2 54 (52.43%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (22.33%) Entra ID
4 14 (13.59%) Power Platform
5 12 (11.65%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (9.71%) PowerApps
7 9 (8.74%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.88%) AWS
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.88%) GCP
10 3 (2.91%) IaaS
10 3 (2.91%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.91%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.91%) SaaS
11 2 (1.94%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.94%) PaaS
12 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.50%) DNS
2 16 (15.53%) Firewall
3 11 (10.68%) DHCP
4 7 (6.80%) SAN
5 6 (5.83%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.83%) VSAN
6 5 (4.85%) VPN
6 5 (4.85%) WAN
7 3 (2.91%) Broadband
7 3 (2.91%) LAN
7 3 (2.91%) NAS
7 3 (2.91%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.91%) SNMP
7 3 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.94%) VoIP
8 2 (1.94%) WLAN
9 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.80%) Power BI
3 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.97%) Big Data
5 1 (0.97%) Power Query
5 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (3.88%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 44 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.56%) Finance
2 15 (14.56%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.83%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.88%) Legal
5 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Banking
5 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Law
7 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (14.56%) IT Engineer
2 14 (13.59%) Analyst
3 12 (11.65%) Senior
4 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) IT Manager
5 9 (8.74%) Computer Technician
5 9 (8.74%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) IT Technician
7 6 (5.83%) Developer
7 6 (5.83%) Senior IT Technician
7 6 (5.83%) Senior Technician
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) IT Support
8 5 (4.85%) Power Platform Developer
8 5 (4.85%) Service Analyst
8 5 (4.85%) Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (3.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 4 (3.88%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) Middleware
2 3 (2.91%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.91%) SAML
3 2 (1.94%) CSS
3 2 (1.94%) HTML
3 2 (1.94%) Web Services
4 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (6.80%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.85%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.85%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.91%) Replication
6 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 52 (50.49%) Windows
2 25 (24.27%) Windows Server
3 12 (11.65%) Windows 10
4 8 (7.77%) Mac OS X
5 6 (5.83%) Linux
6 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) Customer Service
2 35 (33.98%) ITIL
3 32 (31.07%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (16.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (11.65%) Agile
5 12 (11.65%) Mentoring
6 11 (10.68%) CRM
6 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (10.68%) Project Management
6 11 (10.68%) Ticket Management
7 10 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (9.71%) Service Delivery
8 8 (7.77%) High Availability
9 7 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (6.80%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 7 (6.80%) Data Modelling
9 7 (6.80%) Data Protection
10 6 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (5.83%) DevOps
10 6 (5.83%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.50%) SQL
2 5 (4.85%) C#
2 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.97%) Bicep
4 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (15.53%) MCSE
2 15 (14.56%) MCSA
3 13 (12.62%) Azure Certification
3 13 (12.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (10.68%) A+ Certification
4 11 (10.68%) MCP
5 8 (7.77%) Degree
5 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.77%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.80%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.85%) ACSP
8 5 (4.85%) CCNA
8 5 (4.85%) HP AIS
8 5 (4.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (3.88%) PMI Certification
9 4 (3.88%) PMP
10 3 (2.91%) MCITP
10 3 (2.91%) MCTS
10 3 (2.91%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) SLA
2 6 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.91%) IASME
4 3 (2.91%) PMO
5 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.97%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 52 (50.49%) Active Directory
2 18 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (12.62%) Hyper-V
4 10 (9.71%) vSphere
5 8 (7.77%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.91%) DFS Replication
6 3 (2.91%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.80%) Terraform
3 6 (5.83%) SCCM
4 4 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.91%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (90.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (25.24%) VMware
3 9 (8.74%) Veeam
4 7 (6.80%) Apple
5 6 (5.83%) Cisco
6 5 (4.85%) HP
6 5 (4.85%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.88%) Google
8 3 (2.91%) Aderant
8 3 (2.91%) Oracle
9 2 (1.94%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.94%) Meraki
10 1 (0.97%) ConnectWise
10 1 (0.97%) Tanium