Microsoft Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,357 2,942 3,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.74% 16.80% 22.38%
As % of the Vendors category 32.49% 49.40% 47.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 2,484 1,656
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,930 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,563 £30,000 £31,996
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,863 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% -3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,177 5,956 8,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.13% 34.00% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,312 4,461 3,641
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,750 £27,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £64,000
90th Percentile £76,781 £77,715 £77,542
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West -14 880 £50,055 +11.23% 713
Yorkshire -7 376 £42,500 - 453
North East -11 105 £45,000 +5.88% 175
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
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
1 149 (10.98%) SharePoint
2 81 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.96%) Confluence
4 9 (0.66%) Apache
4 9 (0.66%) IIS
5 6 (0.44%) WordPress
6 5 (0.37%) CMS
7 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
8 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.074%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 449 (33.09%) Microsoft Office
2 316 (23.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 226 (16.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (3.68%) Simulink
5 23 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 158 (11.64%) Teamcenter
2 13 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.22%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.074%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 425 (31.32%) Azure
2 328 (24.17%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (9.21%) Power Platform
4 111 (8.18%) Entra ID
5 61 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
6 48 (3.54%) AWS
7 47 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.39%) SaaS
9 41 (3.02%) Power Automate
10 33 (2.43%) PowerApps
11 23 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.62%) GitHub
13 18 (1.33%) OneDrive
13 18 (1.33%) PaaS
14 17 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (1.25%) GCP
15 16 (1.18%) IaaS
16 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
17 11 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 96 (7.07%) Firewall
2 78 (5.75%) DNS
3 66 (4.86%) LAN
4 58 (4.27%) WAN
5 57 (4.20%) VPN
6 53 (3.91%) DHCP
7 37 (2.73%) VoIP
8 36 (2.65%) TCP/IP
9 28 (2.06%) Wireless
10 27 (1.99%) SAN
11 19 (1.40%) Internet
12 16 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.96%) Network Security
13 13 (0.96%) SMTP
14 12 (0.88%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.81%) MPLS
16 10 (0.74%) NAS
16 10 (0.74%) VLAN
17 9 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.69%) SQL Server
2 79 (5.82%) Power BI
3 29 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 15 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.88%) MySQL
8 12 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 12 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.59%) Big Data
10 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (0.52%) Tableau
11 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.37%) DB2
13 4 (0.29%) Data Hub
13 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 4 (0.29%) Power Query
13 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.29%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 62 (4.57%) JIRA
2 20 (1.47%) Git
3 11 (0.81%) TeamCity
4 9 (0.66%) Babel
4 9 (0.66%) webpack
5 8 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.29%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.22%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.15%) ERwin
9 2 (0.15%) GitLab
9 2 (0.15%) NUnit
9 2 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 632 (46.57%) Social Skills
2 215 (15.84%) Aerospace
3 183 (13.49%) Finance
4 175 (12.90%) Automotive
5 130 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (5.38%) Manufacturing
8 62 (4.57%) Law
9 51 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (3.10%) Banking
11 40 (2.95%) Retail
12 35 (2.58%) Legal
13 32 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (1.99%) Marketing
16 26 (1.92%) Public Sector
17 17 (1.25%) Advertising
18 14 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
20 10 (0.74%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 218 (16.06%) Systems Engineer
2 213 (15.70%) Senior
3 134 (9.87%) IT Support
4 132 (9.73%) Analyst
5 112 (8.25%) Developer
6 104 (7.66%) Lead
7 86 (6.34%) Support Engineer
8 85 (6.26%) Project Manager
9 69 (5.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 67 (4.94%) Team Leader
11 64 (4.72%) IT Engineer
12 57 (4.20%) IT Analyst
13 50 (3.68%) Administrator
13 50 (3.68%) Lead Systems Engineer
14 47 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (3.46%) Support Analyst
15 43 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
16 41 (3.02%) Architect
16 41 (3.02%) SQL Developer
17 39 (2.87%) Identity Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (5.45%) .NET
2 30 (2.21%) HTML
2 30 (2.21%) React
3 28 (2.06%) .NET Core
3 28 (2.06%) ASP.NET
4 26 (1.92%) CSS
5 23 (1.69%) REST
6 20 (1.47%) .NET Framework
7 13 (0.96%) AngularJS
7 13 (0.96%) RESTful
8 11 (0.81%) Entity Framework
9 10 (0.74%) HTML5
9 10 (0.74%) Middleware
10 9 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 9 (0.66%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (0.59%) Bootstrap
11 8 (0.59%) Web Services
12 7 (0.52%) EDI
12 7 (0.52%) JSON
13 6 (0.44%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 64 (4.72%) Management Information System
2 54 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (3.46%) NHS
4 41 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 40 (2.95%) Social Media
6 28 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.99%) Driving Licence
8 21 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.25%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.03%) Replication
11 13 (0.96%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.96%) Data Centre
11 13 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
12 12 (0.88%) FMCG
13 11 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 10 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 306 (22.55%) Windows
2 116 (8.55%) Windows Server
3 83 (6.12%) Windows 10
4 59 (4.35%) Linux
5 37 (2.73%) Android
6 20 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (1.11%) Mac OS
8 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (1.03%) Windows Vista
9 11 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.66%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.59%) Unix
12 7 (0.52%) CentOS
13 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.22%) Debian
16 2 (0.15%) AIX
16 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Solaris
16 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
2 211 (15.55%) Agile
3 207 (15.25%) Systems Engineering
4 205 (15.11%) Customer Service
5 183 (13.49%) ITIL
6 180 (13.26%) Project Management
7 160 (11.79%) PLM
8 107 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 105 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
10 99 (7.30%) ERP
11 93 (6.85%) Coaching
12 92 (6.78%) Line Management
13 91 (6.71%) DevOps
14 88 (6.48%) Cybersecurity
15 85 (6.26%) Mentoring
16 82 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
17 72 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
18 71 (5.23%) Performance Metrics
19 66 (4.86%) CRM
20 65 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 180 (13.26%) SQL
2 158 (11.64%) MATLAB
3 65 (4.79%) Python
4 63 (4.64%) C#
5 56 (4.13%) T-SQL
6 55 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 54 (3.98%) JavaScript
8 32 (2.36%) Java
9 14 (1.03%) PHP
10 13 (0.96%) Bash
11 11 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.52%) Bicep
13 7 (0.52%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.44%) R
15 5 (0.37%) C++
16 4 (0.29%) VB
17 3 (0.22%) C
17 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 423 (31.17%) Degree
2 317 (23.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 161 (11.86%) HND
4 160 (11.79%) HNC
5 133 (9.80%) DBS Check
6 86 (6.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (3.32%) Security Cleared
8 39 (2.87%) SC Cleared
9 33 (2.43%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.18%) MBA
13 15 (1.11%) CCNA
13 15 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (1.03%) MCSE
15 12 (0.88%) MCSA
15 12 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 11 (0.81%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.35%) SLA
2 37 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 35 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.36%) GDPR
5 19 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.40%) QA
6 13 (0.96%) ISO 9001
7 10 (0.74%) NIST
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (0.44%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.29%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.22%) NCSC
12 3 (0.22%) PMO
13 2 (0.15%) COBIT
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.074%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 233 (17.17%) Active Directory
2 61 (4.50%) Hyper-V
3 58 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.03%) vSphere
5 13 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.88%) Docker
7 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.37%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.37%) Postfix
9 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.29%) KVM
11 3 (0.22%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.22%) NFS
12 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.15%) SRDF
12 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (5.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (2.73%) SCCM
3 36 (2.65%) Terraform
4 27 (1.99%) Kubernetes
5 25 (1.84%) Ansible
6 8 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.52%) WSUS
8 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.44%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.44%) SCOM
9 5 (0.37%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.37%) Grafana
9 5 (0.37%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.29%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.29%) QRadar
10 4 (0.29%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 158 (11.64%) ANSYS
2 104 (7.66%) VMware
3 89 (6.56%) SAP
4 84 (6.19%) Cisco
5 50 (3.68%) MathWorks
6 32 (2.36%) Google
7 29 (2.14%) Oracle
8 27 (1.99%) Apple
9 23 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.62%) Veeam
11 17 (1.25%) IBM
11 17 (1.25%) Meraki
12 16 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.18%) Zoho
13 14 (1.03%) Citrix
14 13 (0.96%) IFS
15 12 (0.88%) Adobe
15 12 (0.88%) Capita
15 12 (0.88%) Dell
15 12 (0.88%) Veritas