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 with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,888 3,962 3,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.74% 22.64% 18.65%
As % of the Vendors category 48.59% 48.45% 46.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,454 1,679 2,140
10th Percentile £24,807 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,175
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
North of England

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,944 8,177 7,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.46% 46.72% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,437 3,639 4,240
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,875 £37,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £77,715 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +2.80%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -2 1,491 £45,000 - 475
Yorkshire +2 986 £42,500 -5.56% 269
North East +3 410 £42,500 +6.25% 110
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
1 272 (9.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 261 (9.04%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.90%) IIS
4 17 (0.59%) Confluence
5 15 (0.52%) WordPress
6 14 (0.48%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.38%) CMS
8 9 (0.31%) SAS
9 8 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
10 6 (0.21%) Apache
10 6 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.17%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
13 2 (0.069%) Resin
14 1 (0.035%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.035%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 487 (16.86%) Microsoft Office
2 202 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.38%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.14%) InDesign
9 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.14%) Solid Edge
10 2 (0.069%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.069%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.069%) SPSS
10 2 (0.069%) Stata
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 107 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.52%) Sage 200
4 13 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.45%) iTrent
5 10 (0.35%) NEC Housing
6 8 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.28%) Magento
7 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.17%) MIS ActiveH
9 5 (0.17%) Sage 50
9 5 (0.17%) Sage CRM
9 5 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
10 4 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
11 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,266 (43.84%) Azure
2 950 (32.89%) Microsoft 365
3 367 (12.71%) Power Platform
4 259 (8.97%) AWS
5 220 (7.62%) Entra ID
6 205 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
7 151 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (3.98%) SaaS
9 112 (3.88%) PowerApps
10 110 (3.81%) Power Automate
11 89 (3.08%) GCP
12 59 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 52 (1.80%) OneDrive
14 46 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
15 44 (1.52%) IaaS
16 40 (1.39%) PaaS
17 32 (1.11%) Google Workspace
18 29 (1.00%) GitHub
19 28 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
20 27 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 286 (9.90%) Firewall
2 215 (7.44%) WAN
3 209 (7.24%) DNS
4 189 (6.54%) LAN
5 166 (5.75%) DHCP
6 110 (3.81%) TCP/IP
6 110 (3.81%) VPN
7 109 (3.77%) SAN
8 89 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
9 77 (2.67%) Internet
9 77 (2.67%) VoIP
10 70 (2.42%) Network Security
11 67 (2.32%) Wireless
12 51 (1.77%) VLAN
13 47 (1.63%) Broadband
14 39 (1.35%) NAS
14 39 (1.35%) WLAN
15 37 (1.28%) SD-WAN
16 28 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
17 26 (0.90%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 540 (18.70%) SQL Server
2 205 (7.10%) Power BI
3 115 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 99 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 66 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 61 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 43 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 42 (1.45%) Data Lake
10 39 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
11 36 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.07%) MySQL
13 24 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 23 (0.80%) NoSQL
15 21 (0.73%) MS Access
15 21 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 19 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (0.55%) DB2
18 15 (0.52%) DynamoDB
19 14 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 98 (3.39%) Git
2 51 (1.77%) JIRA
3 28 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.83%) GitLab
5 16 (0.55%) Jasmine
5 16 (0.55%) Karma Test Runner
6 14 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.42%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.31%) JUnit
9 9 (0.31%) Selenium
10 8 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.21%) Dreamweaver
12 6 (0.21%) Postman
13 5 (0.17%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.17%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 949 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 475 (16.45%) Finance
3 284 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 176 (6.09%) Retail
6 161 (5.57%) Law
7 157 (5.44%) Legal
8 126 (4.36%) Marketing
9 120 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
10 107 (3.70%) Manufacturing
11 59 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 59 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 51 (1.77%) Advertising
13 48 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.28%) Local Government
15 36 (1.25%) Banking
16 30 (1.04%) Games
16 30 (1.04%) Police
17 26 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 471 (16.31%) Developer
2 397 (13.75%) Analyst
3 259 (8.97%) IT Support
4 255 (8.83%) Senior
5 194 (6.72%) .NET Developer
6 189 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 183 (6.34%) Lead
8 172 (5.96%) IT Engineer
9 171 (5.92%) Support Engineer
10 149 (5.16%) Architect
11 147 (5.09%) Consultant
12 134 (4.64%) Service Analyst
13 132 (4.57%) IT Manager
14 125 (4.33%) Service Desk Analyst
15 100 (3.46%) IT Analyst
16 98 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
17 95 (3.29%) Administrator
18 93 (3.22%) 2nd Line Support
19 86 (2.98%) C# Developer
20 85 (2.94%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (12.05%) .NET
2 212 (7.34%) ASP.NET
3 203 (7.03%) .NET Core
4 164 (5.68%) ASP.NET MVC
5 156 (5.40%) HTML
6 142 (4.92%) AngularJS
7 138 (4.78%) ASP.NET Web API
8 133 (4.61%) Entity Framework
9 113 (3.91%) .NET Framework
10 95 (3.29%) HTML5
11 94 (3.25%) CSS
12 72 (2.49%) React
13 67 (2.32%) RESTful
14 52 (1.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 51 (1.77%) Node.js
16 50 (1.73%) Web Services
17 49 (1.70%) Blazor
18 48 (1.66%) JSON
19 47 (1.63%) XML
20 44 (1.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 145 (5.02%) Driving Licence
2 127 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 96 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 88 (3.05%) Public Cloud
5 77 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 64 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 38 (1.32%) PKI
9 37 (1.28%) Product Ownership
10 36 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.25%) Smartphone
11 31 (1.07%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 30 (1.04%) Clustering
12 30 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (1.04%) PMI
13 28 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
13 28 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 26 (0.90%) NHS
15 24 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 761 (26.35%) Windows
2 348 (12.05%) Windows Server
3 194 (6.72%) Windows 10
4 132 (4.57%) Linux
5 77 (2.67%) Android
6 76 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 60 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 58 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (1.59%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.28%) VMS
11 33 (1.14%) Mac OS
12 29 (1.00%) Windows 7
13 21 (0.73%) Unix
14 16 (0.55%) Windows 8
15 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (0.42%) Windows Vista
17 11 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 9 (0.31%) Windows Phone
19 6 (0.21%) Ubuntu
20 4 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
2 531 (18.39%) Agile
3 443 (15.34%) Customer Service
4 408 (14.13%) ITIL
5 281 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
6 278 (9.63%) DevOps
7 270 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 245 (8.48%) CRM
9 236 (8.17%) Project Management
10 228 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 225 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
12 222 (7.69%) Migration
13 210 (7.27%) Roadmaps
14 206 (7.13%) Mentoring
15 198 (6.86%) ERP
16 193 (6.68%) Full Stack Development
17 185 (6.41%) Microservices
18 183 (6.34%) MVC
19 171 (5.92%) Disaster Recovery
20 158 (5.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 544 (18.84%) SQL
2 383 (13.26%) C#
3 279 (9.66%) JavaScript
4 194 (6.72%) PowerShell
5 124 (4.29%) T-SQL
6 77 (2.67%) TypeScript
7 70 (2.42%) Python
8 33 (1.14%) VB.NET
9 32 (1.11%) VB
10 27 (0.93%) Bash
11 17 (0.59%) R
12 16 (0.55%) VB6
13 14 (0.48%) PHP
14 13 (0.45%) VBScript
15 11 (0.38%) Delphi
16 10 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.35%) VBA
17 9 (0.31%) Java
17 9 (0.31%) Swift
18 8 (0.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 380 (13.16%) Degree
2 248 (8.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 112 (3.88%) Azure Certification
4 102 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 79 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 74 (2.56%) DBS Check
7 60 (2.08%) CCNA
8 59 (2.04%) SC Cleared
9 52 (1.80%) PMI Certification
10 50 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 46 (1.59%) MCP
12 41 (1.42%) CCNP
13 39 (1.35%) A+ Certification
14 32 (1.11%) CISSP
15 29 (1.00%) MCSE
16 27 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
17 25 (0.87%) PMP
18 23 (0.80%) AWS Certification
19 21 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 21 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (5.51%) SLA
2 89 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (2.70%) GDPR
4 65 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (1.94%) QA
6 35 (1.21%) NIST
7 28 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.93%) Data Quality
9 25 (0.87%) PMO
10 20 (0.69%) Accessibility
11 17 (0.59%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.28%) GRC
13 8 (0.28%) PSD2
14 7 (0.24%) COSHH
14 7 (0.24%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.24%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.17%) COBIT
15 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 727 (25.17%) Active Directory
2 192 (6.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 186 (6.44%) Hyper-V
4 64 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (0.97%) Docker
6 28 (0.97%) vSphere
7 27 (0.93%) Terminal Services
8 20 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.55%) VMware Server
10 10 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.24%) Firmware
11 7 (0.24%) KVM
11 7 (0.24%) XenApp
11 7 (0.24%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.069%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.035%) RACF
Systems Management
1 243 (8.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (2.91%) SCCM
3 65 (2.25%) Kubernetes
4 53 (1.84%) Terraform
5 36 (1.25%) SCOM
6 26 (0.90%) WSUS
7 21 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
7 21 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 17 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.52%) Autotask
10 14 (0.48%) Ansible
10 14 (0.48%) ZABBIX
11 12 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.42%) Opsgenie
11 12 (0.42%) VxRail
12 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 340 (11.77%) VMware
2 181 (6.27%) Google
3 162 (5.61%) Cisco
4 107 (3.70%) Apple
5 101 (3.50%) Citrix
6 77 (2.67%) Oracle
7 74 (2.56%) SAP
8 65 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.25%) Veeam
9 62 (2.15%) Adobe
10 58 (2.01%) Dell
11 44 (1.52%) SolarWinds
12 42 (1.45%) Fortinet
13 37 (1.28%) HP
14 32 (1.11%) NetApp
14 32 (1.11%) Sophos
15 31 (1.07%) Datto
15 31 (1.07%) Facebook
16 26 (0.90%) IBM
17 25 (0.87%) CA