Microsoft Jobs in the North West

Microsoft
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 December 2023 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
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 6 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 658 2,126 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.93% 23.64% 19.17%
As % of the Vendors category 43.38% 54.94% 47.45%
Number of salaries quoted 514 969 1,119
10th Percentile £23,825 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £74,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,517 3,870 3,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 36.72% 43.02% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 2,032 2,398
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,673 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,520
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North West

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North West

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the North West over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North West

Microsoft
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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 -9 332 £47,500 - 264
Merseyside -4 118 £45,000 - 63
Cheshire 0 97 £42,500 +10.39% 99
Lancashire +1 73 £38,500 +4.13% 53
Cumbria -3 24 £33,500 -4.29% 21
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
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 41 (6.23%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.89%) IIS
3 16 (2.43%) MS Exchange
4 11 (1.67%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.30%) CMS
6 2 (0.30%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 107 (16.26%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.15%) SPSS
7 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 62 (9.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.82%) Primavera
3 5 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.15%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.15%) FastStats
5 1 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 340 (51.67%) Azure
2 210 (31.91%) Microsoft 365
3 182 (27.66%) Power Platform
4 118 (17.93%) Dynamics 365
5 104 (15.81%) Azure DevOps
6 84 (12.77%) IaaS
7 79 (12.01%) PaaS
8 65 (9.88%) AWS
9 56 (8.51%) SaaS
10 46 (6.99%) Serverless
11 38 (5.78%) Azure Functions
12 36 (5.47%) Entra ID
13 32 (4.86%) PowerApps
14 24 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (2.74%) Azure Storage
17 15 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
17 15 (2.28%) GCP
18 14 (2.13%) Azure Cognitive Search
18 14 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 57 (8.66%) DNS
2 42 (6.38%) Firewall
3 39 (5.93%) DHCP
4 33 (5.02%) LAN
5 31 (4.71%) WAN
6 30 (4.56%) TCP/IP
7 29 (4.41%) VoIP
8 15 (2.28%) Network Security
9 14 (2.13%) Structured Cabling
10 13 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (1.82%) Internet
11 12 (1.82%) VPN
11 12 (1.82%) Wireless
12 10 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (1.06%) NAS
13 7 (1.06%) SAN
14 5 (0.76%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.76%) VLAN
14 5 (0.76%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (13.22%) SQL Server
2 74 (11.25%) Power BI
3 21 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.82%) InterSystems Cache
7 11 (1.67%) MySQL
7 11 (1.67%) Tableau
8 8 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.76%) Big Data
10 5 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (0.76%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.76%) DTS
11 4 (0.61%) MS Access
11 4 (0.61%) Tableau Desktop
11 4 (0.61%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 19 (2.89%) Git
2 16 (2.43%) JIRA
3 8 (1.22%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.61%) NUnit
6 4 (0.61%) Postman
6 4 (0.61%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.30%) MSBuild
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 186 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 149 (22.64%) Finance
3 68 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (7.14%) Retail
5 43 (6.53%) Legal
6 37 (5.62%) Law
7 31 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 28 (4.26%) Marketing
9 26 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 23 (3.50%) Manufacturing
11 22 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.43%) Banking
13 11 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.37%) Electronics
15 8 (1.22%) Local Government
15 8 (1.22%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.76%) Advertising
17 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (18.39%) Analyst
2 86 (13.07%) Architect
3 69 (10.49%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 52 (7.90%) Support Engineer
5 51 (7.75%) Consultant
5 51 (7.75%) Developer
6 48 (7.29%) IT Support
7 46 (6.99%) Senior
8 36 (5.47%) CRM Architect
8 36 (5.47%) Dynamics CRM Architect
8 36 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (5.47%) Support Analyst
9 34 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (5.02%) Lead
11 32 (4.86%) Cloud Consultant
12 31 (4.71%) IT Engineer
13 29 (4.41%) IT Analyst
14 28 (4.26%) Azure Consultant
15 27 (4.10%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
16 25 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.05%) .NET
2 17 (2.58%) HTML
3 16 (2.43%) ARM Templates
4 15 (2.28%) CSS
5 12 (1.82%) .NET Core
6 11 (1.67%) .NET Framework
6 11 (1.67%) MFC
7 10 (1.52%) ASP.NET
8 9 (1.37%) React
8 9 (1.37%) Web Services
9 8 (1.22%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.06%) REST
10 7 (1.06%) SOAP
11 6 (0.91%) JSON
11 6 (0.91%) Node.js
11 6 (0.91%) RESTful
12 5 (0.76%) Middleware
13 4 (0.61%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.61%) Swagger
14 3 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 28 (4.26%) Driving Licence
3 23 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
6 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.67%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.37%) Housing Association
10 8 (1.22%) PDA
11 7 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.06%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.91%) IoT
13 5 (0.76%) Cyberattack
13 5 (0.76%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.76%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 168 (25.53%) Windows
2 90 (13.68%) Windows Server
3 52 (7.90%) Windows 10
4 34 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 32 (4.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (3.19%) Linux
7 19 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.58%) Android
9 9 (1.37%) Apple iOS
9 9 (1.37%) Windows 7
9 9 (1.37%) Windows 8
10 7 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.61%) Windows Vista
12 3 (0.46%) Debian
12 3 (0.46%) Unix
12 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.30%) VMS
14 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (21.58%) DevOps
2 134 (20.36%) Agile
3 128 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (13.83%) Customer Service
5 85 (12.92%) CRM
6 84 (12.77%) Actionable Insight
7 83 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
7 83 (12.61%) Mentoring
8 78 (11.85%) Roadmaps
9 64 (9.73%) ITIL
10 55 (8.36%) Project Delivery
11 51 (7.75%) Analytics
11 51 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (7.45%) CI/CD
13 47 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 47 (7.14%) Presales
14 44 (6.69%) Customer Engagement
14 44 (6.69%) Requirements Gathering
15 41 (6.23%) Strategic Roadmap
16 40 (6.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 114 (17.33%) SQL
2 52 (7.90%) PowerShell
3 50 (7.60%) C#
4 36 (5.47%) T-SQL
5 28 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.50%) Python
7 8 (1.22%) Bash
7 8 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (1.06%) Java
8 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.61%) Bicep
9 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.46%) VB
11 2 (0.30%) Perl
11 2 (0.30%) PHP
11 2 (0.30%) R
11 2 (0.30%) sed
11 2 (0.30%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) C++
12 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 80 (12.16%) Degree
2 43 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (5.47%) Security Cleared
4 34 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.91%) MCSE
10 5 (0.76%) MCP
11 4 (0.61%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.61%) CISM
11 4 (0.61%) CISSP
11 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.46%) CEH
12 3 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 24 (3.65%) SLA
3 17 (2.58%) GDPR
4 13 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.22%) NIST
6 7 (1.06%) NCSC
6 7 (1.06%) PMO
7 5 (0.76%) QA
8 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.46%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) Basel III
11 1 (0.15%) GAAP
11 1 (0.15%) GLBA
11 1 (0.15%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 169 (25.68%) Active Directory
2 36 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (5.32%) Docker
4 29 (4.41%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.28%) XenApp
7 14 (2.13%) vSphere
8 11 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.61%) Firmware
10 4 (0.61%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.30%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.15%) NFS
12 1 (0.15%) RACF
12 1 (0.15%) Samba
12 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 39 (5.93%) Terraform
2 36 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (5.32%) Kubernetes
4 30 (4.56%) SCCM
5 19 (2.89%) Nessus
6 11 (1.67%) PaperCut
7 7 (1.06%) Ansible
8 5 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.61%) Nmap
10 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.46%) CASB
10 3 (0.46%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.46%) Nagios
10 3 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.30%) cPanel
11 2 (0.30%) Grafana
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Identity Management
11 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (8.05%) VMware
2 47 (7.14%) Citrix
3 36 (5.47%) Cisco
4 26 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.04%) Sophos
6 19 (2.89%) Oracle
7 16 (2.43%) Dell
8 14 (2.13%) arcserve
9 13 (1.98%) Google
9 13 (1.98%) SAP
10 12 (1.82%) Mitel
10 12 (1.82%) Ubiquiti
10 12 (1.82%) Veeam
11 10 (1.52%) Apple
11 10 (1.52%) HP
12 9 (1.37%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.22%) Databricks
13 8 (1.22%) Datto
13 8 (1.22%) ESET
13 8 (1.22%) Fortinet