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 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,352 2,940 3,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.70% 16.81% 22.38%
As % of the Vendors category 33.66% 49.38% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 2,483 1,657
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,920 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £32,000
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 4,017 5,954 8,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.78% 34.03% 46.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 4,461 3,612
10th Percentile £24,225 £25,750 £27,510
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,050 £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 11 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 11 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 -12 881 £50,055 +11.23% 686
Yorkshire -7 378 £42,500 - 415
North East -10 97 £45,000 +5.88% 168
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
1 147 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 84 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.96%) Confluence
4 9 (0.67%) Apache
4 9 (0.67%) 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
1 450 (33.28%) Microsoft Office
2 318 (23.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 226 (16.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (3.70%) Simulink
5 23 (1.70%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 158 (11.69%) 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
1 414 (30.62%) Azure
2 327 (24.19%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (9.25%) Power Platform
4 99 (7.32%) Entra ID
5 62 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
6 48 (3.55%) AWS
6 48 (3.55%) SaaS
7 47 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (3.03%) Power Automate
9 33 (2.44%) PowerApps
10 23 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (1.63%) GitHub
12 18 (1.33%) GCP
12 18 (1.33%) OneDrive
12 18 (1.33%) PaaS
13 17 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 16 (1.18%) IaaS
15 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 97 (7.17%) Firewall
2 80 (5.92%) DNS
3 68 (5.03%) LAN
4 60 (4.44%) WAN
5 58 (4.29%) VPN
6 55 (4.07%) DHCP
7 36 (2.66%) TCP/IP
7 36 (2.66%) VoIP
8 28 (2.07%) SAN
8 28 (2.07%) Wireless
9 21 (1.55%) Internet
10 17 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.11%) SMTP
12 13 (0.96%) Network Security
12 13 (0.96%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.81%) MPLS
13 11 (0.81%) NAS
14 10 (0.74%) DKIM
14 10 (0.74%) DNSSEC
14 10 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 79 (5.84%) Power BI
3 29 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.55%) Data Lake
4 21 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.89%) MySQL
7 12 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 12 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.59%) Big Data
9 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (0.52%) Tableau
10 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.37%) DB2
12 4 (0.30%) Data Hub
12 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (0.30%) Power Query
12 4 (0.30%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.30%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 62 (4.59%) JIRA
2 20 (1.48%) Git
3 11 (0.81%) TeamCity
4 9 (0.67%) Babel
4 9 (0.67%) 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 (0.30%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.30%) 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
1 628 (46.45%) Social Skills
2 215 (15.90%) Aerospace
3 190 (14.05%) Finance
4 175 (12.94%) Automotive
5 133 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (5.40%) Manufacturing
8 64 (4.73%) Law
9 51 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (3.55%) Banking
11 40 (2.96%) Retail
12 39 (2.88%) Legal
13 32 (2.37%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (2.00%) Marketing
16 26 (1.92%) Public Sector
17 17 (1.26%) Advertising
18 14 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
20 10 (0.74%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 219 (16.20%) Systems Engineer
2 213 (15.75%) Senior
3 135 (9.99%) Analyst
4 134 (9.91%) IT Support
5 113 (8.36%) Developer
6 107 (7.91%) Lead
7 85 (6.29%) Project Manager
8 82 (6.07%) Support Engineer
9 69 (5.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 67 (4.96%) Team Leader
11 62 (4.59%) IT Engineer
12 57 (4.22%) IT Analyst
13 51 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.70%) Administrator
14 50 (3.70%) Lead Systems Engineer
15 47 (3.48%) Support Analyst
16 43 (3.18%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (3.03%) Architect
17 41 (3.03%) SQL Developer
18 34 (2.51%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.55%) .NET
2 30 (2.22%) HTML
2 30 (2.22%) React
3 29 (2.14%) .NET Core
3 29 (2.14%) ASP.NET
4 26 (1.92%) CSS
5 23 (1.70%) REST
6 21 (1.55%) .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 (0.67%) ARM Templates
10 9 (0.67%) 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 (4.73%) Management Information System
2 55 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.74%) Social Media
5 35 (2.59%) NHS
6 28 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.00%) Driving Licence
8 25 (1.85%) Mobile App
9 21 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.26%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.26%) Replication
11 15 (1.11%) Cloud Native
12 13 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (0.96%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
13 12 (0.89%) FMCG
14 11 (0.81%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.74%) Private Cloud
15 10 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 306 (22.63%) Windows
2 117 (8.65%) Windows Server
3 83 (6.14%) Windows 10
4 59 (4.36%) Linux
5 37 (2.74%) Android
6 22 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (1.11%) Mac OS
9 14 (1.04%) Windows Vista
10 9 (0.67%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.59%) Unix
11 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.52%) CentOS
13 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.30%) 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
1 306 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
2 217 (16.05%) Agile
3 209 (15.46%) Customer Service
4 207 (15.31%) Systems Engineering
5 180 (13.31%) Project Management
6 169 (12.50%) ITIL
7 160 (11.83%) PLM
8 108 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 105 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
10 99 (7.32%) ERP
11 96 (7.10%) DevOps
12 93 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
13 92 (6.80%) Line Management
14 90 (6.66%) Coaching
15 85 (6.29%) Mentoring
16 82 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 73 (5.40%) Technical Leadership
18 72 (5.33%) Performance Metrics
19 69 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 66 (4.88%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 181 (13.39%) SQL
2 158 (11.69%) MATLAB
3 70 (5.18%) Python
4 68 (5.03%) C#
5 58 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 56 (4.14%) T-SQL
7 55 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 36 (2.66%) Java
9 14 (1.04%) 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%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.52%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.44%) R
15 5 (0.37%) C++
16 4 (0.30%) VB
17 3 (0.22%) C
17 3 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 409 (30.25%) Degree
2 317 (23.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 161 (11.91%) HND
4 160 (11.83%) HNC
5 118 (8.73%) DBS Check
6 86 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (3.33%) Security Cleared
8 39 (2.88%) SC Cleared
9 33 (2.44%) Azure Certification
10 27 (2.00%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.18%) CCNA
13 16 (1.18%) MBA
14 15 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (1.04%) MCSE
16 12 (0.89%) MCSA
16 12 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 11 (0.81%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.44%) SLA
2 37 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 35 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.37%) GDPR
5 21 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.48%) QA
7 13 (0.96%) ISO 9001
8 10 (0.74%) NIST
9 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (0.44%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.30%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 217 (16.05%) Active Directory
2 62 (4.59%) Hyper-V
3 58 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.04%) vSphere
5 13 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.89%) Docker
7 9 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.52%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.37%) Postfix
10 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.30%) KVM
12 3 (0.22%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.22%) NFS
13 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.15%) SRDF
13 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (5.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (2.74%) SCCM
3 36 (2.66%) Terraform
4 27 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 25 (1.85%) Ansible
6 8 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.52%) SCOM
7 7 (0.52%) WSUS
8 6 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.37%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.37%) Grafana
9 5 (0.37%) Puppet
10 4 (0.30%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.30%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.30%) QRadar
10 4 (0.30%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (11.69%) ANSYS
2 106 (7.84%) VMware
3 89 (6.58%) SAP
4 83 (6.14%) Cisco
5 50 (3.70%) MathWorks
6 37 (2.74%) Google
7 29 (2.14%) Oracle
8 27 (2.00%) Apple
9 24 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.63%) Veeam
11 21 (1.55%) IBM
12 16 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.18%) Zoho
13 15 (1.11%) Meraki
14 14 (1.04%) Citrix
14 14 (1.04%) Veritas
15 13 (0.96%) IFS
16 12 (0.89%) Adobe
16 12 (0.89%) Capita
17 11 (0.81%) Dell