Microsoft Certification Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 291 175
Rank change year-on-year +140 -116 +66
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 272 137 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.52% 0.81% 2.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.95% 2.67% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 227 106 224
10th Percentile £27,450 £24,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,875 £26,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,750 £39,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +21.66% -7.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,070 £61,588
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,914 5,131 5,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.90% 30.49% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,708 1,743 2,463
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,100 £27,550
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,734 £54,882 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +15.54% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,825 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,995 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.34% +9.09% -

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +30 125 £40,000 -11.11% 50
Yorkshire +112 83 £41,250 -17.50% 31
North East - 64 £32,500 - 9
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 46 (16.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) CMS
3 4 (1.47%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.74%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) Moodle
Applications
1 34 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (61.76%) Azure
2 114 (41.91%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (16.18%) Power Platform
4 38 (13.97%) Entra ID
5 25 (9.19%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.78%) AWS
8 12 (4.41%) Power Automate
9 8 (2.94%) IaaS
10 7 (2.57%) Azure AKS
10 7 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.57%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.57%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.57%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.21%) PaaS
12 5 (1.84%) Azure Stack
13 4 (1.47%) Google Workspace
14 3 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.97%) Firewall
2 32 (11.76%) Broadband
3 30 (11.03%) SAN
4 26 (9.56%) TCP/IP
5 20 (7.35%) Internet
5 20 (7.35%) VPN
6 19 (6.99%) LAN
7 17 (6.25%) DHCP
7 17 (6.25%) DNS
8 16 (5.88%) VoIP
9 14 (5.15%) WAN
10 13 (4.78%) Network Security
10 13 (4.78%) VLAN
11 9 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.57%) WLAN
13 4 (1.47%) NAS
13 4 (1.47%) Skype
13 4 (1.47%) SSL
14 3 (1.10%) IPv4
14 3 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 39 (14.34%) Power BI
3 33 (12.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (2.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.84%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.84%) Redis
9 3 (1.10%) Big Data
9 3 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.74%) QlikView
11 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) AdminStudio
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 125 (45.96%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.93%) Finance
3 26 (9.56%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.04%) Retail
7 9 (3.31%) Games
8 8 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.94%) Law
9 6 (2.21%) Marketing
10 5 (1.84%) Local Government
11 3 (1.10%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.10%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.10%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.74%) Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Billing
12 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (19.12%) Support Engineer
2 45 (16.54%) IT Support
3 37 (13.60%) 3rd Line Support
4 30 (11.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 29 (10.66%) IT Engineer
6 27 (9.93%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 27 (9.93%) DBA
6 27 (9.93%) IT Support Engineer
6 27 (9.93%) SQL DBA
7 24 (8.82%) Analyst
8 23 (8.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 23 (8.46%) Senior
9 21 (7.72%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
10 20 (7.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 19 (6.99%) 2nd Line Support
12 17 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 16 (5.88%) Lead
14 14 (5.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 14 (5.15%) IT Manager
14 14 (5.15%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.21%) CSS
1 6 (2.21%) HTML
2 5 (1.84%) Middleware
3 4 (1.47%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.10%) PySpark
5 1 (0.37%) .NET
5 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.37%) SAML
5 1 (0.37%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.81%) Driving Licence
2 25 (9.19%) Enterprise Storage
3 17 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.51%) Private Cloud
5 14 (5.15%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.04%) Smartphone
7 10 (3.68%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.84%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.84%) Replication
11 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.47%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.47%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.10%) Housing Association
12 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 113 (41.54%) Windows
2 53 (19.49%) Windows Server
3 31 (11.40%) Windows 10
4 26 (9.56%) VMS
5 23 (8.46%) Linux
6 12 (4.41%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.57%) Windows Vista
8 5 (1.84%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.84%) Windows 8
9 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.74%) Android
10 2 (0.74%) Unix
10 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (29.78%) Customer Service
2 80 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (29.04%) ITIL
4 39 (14.34%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (11.03%) Computer Science
5 30 (11.03%) DevOps
5 30 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
5 30 (11.03%) High Availability
5 30 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (10.66%) Collaborative Working
6 29 (10.66%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (10.66%) Incident Management
7 27 (9.93%) Performance Tuning
7 27 (9.93%) Roadmaps
8 25 (9.19%) Migration
9 22 (8.09%) Time Management
10 20 (7.35%) Agile
10 20 (7.35%) Desktop Virtualisation
11 19 (6.99%) CI/CD
11 19 (6.99%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.37%) SQL
2 23 (8.46%) T-SQL
3 21 (7.72%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.88%) C#
5 11 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.84%) Python
7 4 (1.47%) Bicep
8 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.37%) Bash
9 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 72 (26.47%) Degree
2 50 (18.38%) Azure Certification
3 43 (15.81%) MCSE
4 41 (15.07%) MCP
5 36 (13.24%) A+ Certification
6 34 (12.50%) MCSA
7 31 (11.40%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (10.66%) CCNA
9 22 (8.09%) DBS Check
10 18 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (4.41%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (2.94%) CISSP
12 8 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (2.21%) Security Cleared
14 5 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (1.84%) SC Cleared
14 5 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (1.47%) MCITP
16 3 (1.10%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.68%) SLA
2 8 (2.94%) GDPR
2 8 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.47%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 137 (50.37%) Active Directory
2 44 (16.18%) Hyper-V
3 34 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (7.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.94%) vSphere
6 5 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.74%) Docker
8 2 (0.74%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.37%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 29 (10.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.25%) SCCM
4 12 (4.41%) Terraform
5 11 (4.04%) SCOM
6 7 (2.57%) Autotask
7 5 (1.84%) Grafana
7 5 (1.84%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.47%) WSUS
9 2 (0.74%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) Ansible
10 1 (0.37%) SmoothWall
10 1 (0.37%) yum
Vendors
1 254 (93.38%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.59%) VMware
3 18 (6.62%) SolarWinds
4 14 (5.15%) Cisco
5 13 (4.78%) Apple
6 11 (4.04%) Virgin Media
7 10 (3.68%) Datto
8 9 (3.31%) Adobe
8 9 (3.31%) Sophos
9 8 (2.94%) Citrix
9 8 (2.94%) Kaseya
10 6 (2.21%) LogicMonitor
10 6 (2.21%) Meraki
11 5 (1.84%) Databricks
11 5 (1.84%) Google
11 5 (1.84%) Oracle
11 5 (1.84%) Veeam
12 4 (1.47%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.10%) Draytek
13 3 (1.10%) SonicWALL