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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,921 3,858 3,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.82% 22.37% 18.43%
As % of the Vendors category 49.00% 47.88% 46.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,471 1,656 2,112
10th Percentile £24,840 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -1.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,375
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 5,961 8,057 7,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.33% 46.72% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,438 3,602 4,171
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,500 £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 £64,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,542 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +3.77%

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 7 May 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 7 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 -2 1,518 £45,000 - 539
Yorkshire +2 985 £41,821 -6.02% 355
North East +3 417 £42,500 +6.25% 125
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
1 270 (9.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 262 (8.97%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.85%) IIS
4 17 (0.58%) Confluence
5 15 (0.51%) WordPress
6 14 (0.48%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.38%) CMS
8 9 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
9 8 (0.27%) SAS
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 (0.068%) Resin
14 1 (0.034%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.034%) Documentum
14 1 (0.034%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 496 (16.98%) Microsoft Office
2 216 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.10%) 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 (0.068%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.068%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.068%) SPSS
10 2 (0.068%) Stata
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 111 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.51%) Sage 200
4 13 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.45%) iTrent
5 9 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.27%) Magento
7 7 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) MIS ActiveH
11 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,272 (43.55%) Azure
2 955 (32.69%) Microsoft 365
3 365 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 257 (8.80%) AWS
5 224 (7.67%) Entra ID
6 213 (7.29%) Dynamics 365
7 151 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (3.90%) SaaS
9 112 (3.83%) PowerApps
10 110 (3.77%) Power Automate
11 90 (3.08%) GCP
12 58 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 54 (1.85%) OneDrive
14 46 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (1.47%) IaaS
16 41 (1.40%) PaaS
17 32 (1.10%) Google Workspace
18 30 (1.03%) GitHub
19 28 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
20 27 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 282 (9.65%) Firewall
2 213 (7.29%) WAN
3 209 (7.16%) DNS
4 187 (6.40%) LAN
5 165 (5.65%) DHCP
6 111 (3.80%) SAN
7 108 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 108 (3.70%) VPN
8 90 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
9 78 (2.67%) Internet
10 77 (2.64%) VoIP
11 71 (2.43%) Network Security
12 67 (2.29%) Wireless
13 48 (1.64%) VLAN
14 47 (1.61%) Broadband
15 39 (1.34%) NAS
16 38 (1.30%) WLAN
17 37 (1.27%) SD-WAN
18 29 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
19 26 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 541 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 204 (6.98%) Power BI
3 114 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 98 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 66 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 62 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 45 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 42 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 41 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.03%) MySQL
13 24 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 23 (0.79%) NoSQL
15 21 (0.72%) MS Access
16 20 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 19 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
18 16 (0.55%) DB2
19 15 (0.51%) DynamoDB
19 15 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 98 (3.36%) Git
2 50 (1.71%) JIRA
3 29 (0.99%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.82%) GitLab
5 16 (0.55%) Jasmine
5 16 (0.55%) Karma Test Runner
6 14 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.31%) JUnit
9 9 (0.31%) Selenium
10 8 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.21%) Dreamweaver
12 6 (0.21%) Postman
13 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.17%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.17%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 958 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 483 (16.54%) Finance
3 285 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 185 (6.33%) Retail
6 166 (5.68%) Legal
7 163 (5.58%) Law
8 127 (4.35%) Marketing
9 118 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
10 105 (3.59%) Manufacturing
11 61 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 57 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 53 (1.81%) Advertising
14 46 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.27%) Local Government
16 36 (1.23%) Banking
17 30 (1.03%) Games
17 30 (1.03%) Police
18 27 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 483 (16.54%) Developer
2 401 (13.73%) Analyst
3 260 (8.90%) IT Support
4 257 (8.80%) Senior
5 200 (6.85%) .NET Developer
6 188 (6.44%) Lead
7 186 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 174 (5.96%) IT Engineer
8 174 (5.96%) Support Engineer
9 150 (5.14%) Architect
10 145 (4.96%) Consultant
11 132 (4.52%) Service Analyst
12 130 (4.45%) IT Manager
13 124 (4.25%) Service Desk Analyst
14 99 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
15 97 (3.32%) IT Analyst
16 96 (3.29%) Administrator
17 94 (3.22%) 2nd Line Support
18 88 (3.01%) C# Developer
19 87 (2.98%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (12.15%) .NET
2 217 (7.43%) ASP.NET
3 208 (7.12%) .NET Core
4 169 (5.79%) ASP.NET MVC
5 160 (5.48%) HTML
6 146 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 141 (4.83%) ASP.NET Web API
8 138 (4.72%) Entity Framework
9 118 (4.04%) .NET Framework
10 98 (3.36%) CSS
10 98 (3.36%) HTML5
11 75 (2.57%) React
12 67 (2.29%) RESTful
13 54 (1.85%) Node.js
13 54 (1.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 51 (1.75%) Blazor
14 51 (1.75%) Web Services
15 48 (1.64%) JSON
16 47 (1.61%) XML
17 46 (1.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 145 (4.96%) Driving Licence
2 121 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 99 (3.39%) Data Centre
4 87 (2.98%) Public Cloud
5 78 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 50 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 39 (1.34%) PKI
9 37 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 36 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.23%) Smartphone
11 32 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.06%) Low-Code
12 31 (1.06%) PMI
13 30 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (0.99%) Clustering
14 29 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
14 29 (0.99%) Mobile App
15 26 (0.89%) NHS
16 24 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 764 (26.16%) Windows
2 348 (11.91%) Windows Server
3 194 (6.64%) Windows 10
4 130 (4.45%) Linux
5 76 (2.60%) Android
6 73 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 59 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 57 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 44 (1.51%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.27%) VMS
11 32 (1.10%) Mac OS
12 29 (0.99%) Windows 7
13 21 (0.72%) Unix
14 16 (0.55%) Windows 8
15 14 (0.48%) Windows Vista
16 12 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
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
1 645 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
2 540 (18.49%) Agile
3 448 (15.34%) Customer Service
4 409 (14.00%) ITIL
5 282 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
6 277 (9.48%) DevOps
7 266 (9.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 249 (8.52%) CRM
9 241 (8.25%) Project Management
10 230 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
11 227 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 225 (7.70%) Migration
13 209 (7.16%) Roadmaps
14 206 (7.05%) Mentoring
15 198 (6.78%) ERP
15 198 (6.78%) Full Stack Development
16 188 (6.44%) Microservices
16 188 (6.44%) MVC
17 172 (5.89%) Disaster Recovery
18 158 (5.41%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 542 (18.56%) SQL
2 389 (13.32%) C#
3 287 (9.83%) JavaScript
4 190 (6.50%) PowerShell
5 123 (4.21%) T-SQL
6 81 (2.77%) TypeScript
7 71 (2.43%) Python
8 33 (1.13%) VB.NET
9 32 (1.10%) VB
10 27 (0.92%) Bash
11 18 (0.62%) R
12 16 (0.55%) VB6
13 14 (0.48%) PHP
14 13 (0.45%) VBScript
15 11 (0.38%) Delphi
16 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.34%) Java
16 10 (0.34%) VBA
17 9 (0.31%) Go
17 9 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 383 (13.11%) Degree
2 252 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 111 (3.80%) Azure Certification
4 103 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 83 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 75 (2.57%) DBS Check
7 64 (2.19%) CCNA
8 60 (2.05%) SC Cleared
9 57 (1.95%) PMI Certification
10 50 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 48 (1.64%) MCP
12 43 (1.47%) CCNP
13 41 (1.40%) A+ Certification
14 31 (1.06%) CISSP
14 31 (1.06%) MCSE
15 29 (0.99%) PMP
16 27 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 23 (0.79%) MCSA
18 22 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (5.41%) SLA
2 86 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 77 (2.64%) GDPR
4 65 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (1.92%) QA
6 33 (1.13%) NIST
7 29 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 28 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.86%) PMO
10 19 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 17 (0.58%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.31%) GRC
14 8 (0.27%) PSD2
15 7 (0.24%) COSHH
15 7 (0.24%) ISO 14001
15 7 (0.24%) NEBOSH
16 5 (0.17%) COBIT
17 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 730 (24.99%) Active Directory
2 186 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 185 (6.33%) Hyper-V
4 63 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (0.92%) Docker
6 27 (0.92%) Terminal Services
6 27 (0.92%) vSphere
7 20 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.55%) VMware Server
9 9 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.24%) KVM
10 7 (0.24%) XenApp
10 7 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.21%) Firmware
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.068%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 238 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (2.84%) SCCM
3 66 (2.26%) Kubernetes
4 53 (1.81%) Terraform
5 35 (1.20%) SCOM
6 26 (0.89%) WSUS
7 22 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 20 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
9 17 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.51%) Autotask
11 14 (0.48%) Ansible
11 14 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 12 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.41%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.41%) VxRail
13 11 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 9 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 336 (11.50%) VMware
2 182 (6.23%) Google
3 165 (5.65%) Cisco
4 110 (3.77%) Apple
5 102 (3.49%) Citrix
6 77 (2.64%) Oracle
7 76 (2.60%) SAP
8 68 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 64 (2.19%) Adobe
10 63 (2.16%) Dell
11 61 (2.09%) Veeam
12 45 (1.54%) SolarWinds
13 42 (1.44%) HP
14 41 (1.40%) Fortinet
15 34 (1.16%) NetApp
16 31 (1.06%) Facebook
17 30 (1.03%) Datto
17 30 (1.03%) Sophos
18 26 (0.89%) IBM
19 24 (0.82%) CA