Microsoft Engineer Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Engineer
England > North West

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the North West is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 289 305
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 6 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.076% 0.031% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.032% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £47,600 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile £51,500 - -
England median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -25.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 7,191 9,301 6,978
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 94.61% 89.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 7,150 4,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the North West

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the North West

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +67 6 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Microsoft Engineer
England

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) RHCE

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) E-Discovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Dovecot
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware