Microsoft Certification Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 162 141
Rank change year-on-year -10 -21 +51
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 105 109 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.13% 1.68% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.17% 4.93% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 91 59 94
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,950 £23,318
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £26,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £61,250 £54,875 £48,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,414 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,030 2,209 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.92% 34.14% 28.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,255 824 1,383
10th Percentile £26,850 £30,000 £26,843
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North West.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Manchester +6 54 £38,000 -16.94% 3
Cheshire -6 33 £35,392 -21.35% 4
Merseyside +20 10 £65,500 +54.12% 1
Lancashire -35 7 £52,500 +114.29% 4
Cumbria -11 1 £57,500 - 1
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (54.29%) Azure
2 56 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.67%) AWS
5 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.71%) Azure AKS
6 6 (5.71%) IaaS
7 5 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.76%) PaaS
8 4 (3.81%) Google Workspace
8 4 (3.81%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.90%) SaaS
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.95%) GCP
11 1 (0.95%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.33%) Broadband
2 12 (11.43%) Firewall
3 11 (10.48%) Internet
4 9 (8.57%) TCP/IP
5 7 (6.67%) DHCP
5 7 (6.67%) DNS
5 7 (6.67%) VoIP
5 7 (6.67%) WAN
5 7 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (4.76%) LAN
7 4 (3.81%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (3.81%) VPN
8 3 (2.86%) VLAN
9 1 (0.95%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.95%) SNMP
9 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.95%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) Power BI
2 8 (7.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.86%) Big Data
3 3 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.95%) QlikView
4 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.95%) AdminStudio
1 1 (0.95%) JIRA
1 1 (0.95%) MSI
General
1 34 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Retail
4 7 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.76%) Finance
6 4 (3.81%) Law
6 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Billing
7 2 (1.90%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.95%) Automotive
8 1 (0.95%) Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Games
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Analyst
2 12 (11.43%) Service Analyst
2 12 (11.43%) Service Desk Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) IT Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) Senior
4 10 (9.52%) IT Support
4 10 (9.52%) Lead
4 10 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Azure Consultant
5 9 (8.57%) Consultant
5 9 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
8 6 (5.71%) Architect
8 6 (5.71%) Cloud Consultant
8 6 (5.71%) DBA
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.71%) SQL DBA
9 5 (4.76%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.86%) CSS
2 3 (2.86%) HTML
2 3 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (0.95%) .NET
3 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.95%) SAML
3 1 (0.95%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Driving Licence
2 11 (10.48%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.57%) Private Cloud
3 9 (8.57%) Smartphone
4 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.81%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.86%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.90%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.90%) NHS
7 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.95%) Handset
8 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.95%) Replication
8 1 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.24%) Windows
2 16 (15.24%) Windows 10
3 10 (9.52%) VMS
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Vista
5 2 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) Customer Service
2 25 (23.81%) ITIL
3 21 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (19.05%) DevOps
5 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.48%) Agile
9 11 (10.48%) ITSM
10 10 (9.52%) Project Management
10 10 (9.52%) Time Management
11 9 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (8.57%) Presales
11 9 (8.57%) Service Management
11 9 (8.57%) Software Licensing
12 8 (7.62%) Data Engineering
13 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (5.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.29%) SQL
2 5 (4.76%) C#
2 5 (4.76%) T-SQL
3 4 (3.81%) Bicep
3 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (36.19%) Degree
2 19 (18.10%) MCP
3 16 (15.24%) A+ Certification
3 16 (15.24%) Azure Certification
4 13 (12.38%) CCNA
4 13 (12.38%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (10.48%) MCSE
6 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.71%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.76%) DBS Check
8 4 (3.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.81%) MCSA
8 4 (3.81%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.86%) CISSP
9 3 (2.86%) MCITP
10 2 (1.90%) MCTS
11 1 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.95%) GIAC
11 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Master
11 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) GDPR
1 4 (3.81%) PCI DSS
1 4 (3.81%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) SLA
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (40.95%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 6 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.90%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.95%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.95%) XenApp
6 1 (0.95%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.57%) Terraform
3 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.71%) SCCM
5 4 (3.81%) Autotask
6 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (97.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.33%) VMware
3 9 (8.57%) Adobe
3 9 (8.57%) Apple
3 9 (8.57%) Virgin Media
4 5 (4.76%) Citrix
5 4 (3.81%) Datto
5 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.86%) Databricks
7 2 (1.90%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.95%) Aderant
8 1 (0.95%) CA
8 1 (0.95%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco
8 1 (0.95%) Google
8 1 (0.95%) Meraki
8 1 (0.95%) SYSPRO
8 1 (0.95%) Veeam