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 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 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 894 1,573 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.65% 14.77% 20.76%
As % of the Vendors category 29.21% 46.93% 48.89%
Number of salaries quoted 665 1,202 812
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,750 £23,275
25th Percentile £33,125 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -4.26% +6.82%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,000 £80,000 £77,375
England median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,061 3,352 2,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 39.89% 31.47% 42.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 2,351 1,806
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 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 -5 361 £43,375 -13.25% 404
Lancashire -28 247 £50,055 +30.01% 323
Cumbria -12 112 £45,628 +21.67% 15
Merseyside -1 99 £30,000 -29.41% 77
Cheshire -29 74 £37,500 +4.90% 102
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
1 100 (11.19%) SharePoint
2 58 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.12%) CMS
4 8 (0.89%) IIS
5 6 (0.67%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.34%) Confluence
6 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.34%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.34%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 355 (39.71%) Microsoft Office
2 244 (27.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 149 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (5.59%) Simulink
5 9 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 119 (13.31%) Teamcenter
2 11 (1.23%) Unit4 Business World
3 10 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Primavera
4 4 (0.45%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.45%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.34%) Sage 50
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.22%) Magento
6 2 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 227 (25.39%) Azure
2 202 (22.60%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (9.06%) Power Platform
4 47 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 37 (4.14%) Entra ID
6 28 (3.13%) AWS
6 28 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.02%) Power Automate
8 23 (2.57%) SaaS
9 19 (2.13%) PowerApps
10 17 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (1.68%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (1.23%) IaaS
16 10 (1.12%) PaaS
17 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
18 8 (0.89%) GCP
19 7 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.93%) Firewall
2 50 (5.59%) DNS
3 39 (4.36%) DHCP
4 33 (3.69%) WAN
5 32 (3.58%) LAN
6 29 (3.24%) VPN
7 16 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.68%) VLAN
9 14 (1.57%) VoIP
9 14 (1.57%) Wireless
10 12 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (1.01%) SAN
12 7 (0.78%) Broadband
12 7 (0.78%) NAS
12 7 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (0.67%) MPLS
14 5 (0.56%) Internet
14 5 (0.56%) Network Security
15 4 (0.45%) Ethernet
15 4 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 42 (4.70%) Power BI
3 16 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 11 (1.23%) MySQL
5 10 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.67%) Data Hub
7 6 (0.67%) GIS
7 6 (0.67%) SQL CLR
8 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.56%) Tableau
9 4 (0.45%) Metadata
9 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.22%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (5.59%) JIRA
2 11 (1.23%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.11%) Babel
5 1 (0.11%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.11%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.11%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.11%) Maven
5 1 (0.11%) MLflow
5 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.11%) Subversion
5 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 420 (46.98%) Social Skills
2 181 (20.25%) Aerospace
3 130 (14.54%) Automotive
4 114 (12.75%) Finance
5 88 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 40 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.69%) Law
9 25 (2.80%) Legal
10 24 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.57%) Marketing
12 22 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.35%) Retail
14 19 (2.13%) Public Sector
15 14 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.34%) Banking
17 10 (1.12%) Aeronautics
17 10 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.12%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 199 (22.26%) Systems Engineer
2 179 (20.02%) Senior
3 88 (9.84%) Analyst
4 75 (8.39%) Lead
4 75 (8.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 72 (8.05%) IT Support
6 57 (6.38%) Developer
6 57 (6.38%) Team Leader
7 56 (6.26%) Support Engineer
8 50 (5.59%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 41 (4.59%) Administrator
10 37 (4.14%) Applications Support
11 35 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (3.36%) Consultant
13 28 (3.13%) Technical Support
14 26 (2.91%) IT Analyst
14 26 (2.91%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.80%) Integration Engineer
15 25 (2.80%) Support Analyst
15 25 (2.80%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.91%) .NET
2 11 (1.23%) .NET Framework
3 10 (1.12%) HTML
4 9 (1.01%) CSS
5 8 (0.89%) ARM Templates
5 8 (0.89%) ASP.NET
6 7 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 7 (0.78%) REST
7 6 (0.67%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.45%) JSON
8 4 (0.45%) Middleware
8 4 (0.45%) RESTful
9 3 (0.34%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (0.34%) Dapper ORM
9 3 (0.34%) Software Packaging
10 2 (0.22%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.22%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.22%) React
10 2 (0.22%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.36%) Social Media
2 27 (3.02%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.68%) Driving Licence
4 22 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.34%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.12%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (0.89%) Life Science
10 8 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.78%) FMCG
12 6 (0.67%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.67%) NHS
12 6 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.56%) Blackberry
13 5 (0.56%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 171 (19.13%) Windows
2 72 (8.05%) Windows Server
3 48 (5.37%) Linux
4 40 (4.47%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (1.12%) Android
6 10 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (0.67%) CentOS
7 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.67%) Unix
7 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.45%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.22%) Debian
10 2 (0.22%) VMS
10 2 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (21.03%) Systems Engineering
3 156 (17.45%) Agile
4 121 (13.53%) PLM
5 119 (13.31%) Project Management
6 114 (12.75%) Customer Service
7 102 (11.41%) ITIL
8 100 (11.19%) ERP
9 85 (9.51%) Coaching
10 79 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (8.61%) Line Management
12 73 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (7.38%) System Testing
14 62 (6.94%) Mentoring
15 61 (6.82%) Roadmaps
16 57 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
17 56 (6.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 50 (5.59%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
18 50 (5.59%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 119 (13.31%) MATLAB
2 87 (9.73%) SQL
3 43 (4.81%) PowerShell
4 33 (3.69%) Python
5 23 (2.57%) JavaScript
6 21 (2.35%) C#
7 12 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.23%) Bash
8 11 (1.23%) PHP
9 7 (0.78%) VB
10 6 (0.67%) VBA
11 5 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.45%) Java
13 3 (0.34%) Bicep
13 3 (0.34%) C++
13 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.34%) R
14 2 (0.22%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.11%) Progress 4GL
15 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 295 (33.00%) Degree
2 274 (30.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 117 (13.09%) HND
4 116 (12.98%) HNC
5 60 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (6.60%) DBS Check
7 35 (3.91%) Security Cleared
8 32 (3.58%) SC Cleared
9 27 (3.02%) Azure Certification
10 18 (2.01%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.34%) CCNA
13 11 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.78%) A+ Certification
15 7 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.78%) MOS
16 6 (0.67%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.25%) SLA
2 24 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 22 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.13%) GDPR
5 10 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.01%) NIST
7 6 (0.67%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.56%) QA
9 4 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.34%) GAAP
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
10 3 (0.34%) PMO
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.11%) IFRS
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (12.30%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (3.02%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.01%) Docker
5 9 (1.01%) vSphere
6 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.56%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.45%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.45%) Postfix
8 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (2.68%) SCCM
3 20 (2.24%) Terraform
4 13 (1.45%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.89%) Ansible
6 7 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.67%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.34%) Autotask
9 3 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.34%) Puppet
9 3 (0.34%) SCOM
9 3 (0.34%) SCOrch
9 3 (0.34%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.22%) QRadar
10 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 119 (13.31%) ANSYS
2 72 (8.05%) SAP
3 67 (7.49%) VMware
4 60 (6.71%) Cisco
5 50 (5.59%) MathWorks
6 27 (3.02%) Google
7 25 (2.80%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.24%) Veeam
9 17 (1.90%) Facebook
10 12 (1.34%) Citrix
10 12 (1.34%) Sophos
11 11 (1.23%) Adobe
11 11 (1.23%) Apple
11 11 (1.23%) Meraki
12 10 (1.12%) Oracle
13 9 (1.01%) Ubiquiti
14 7 (0.78%) Databricks
14 7 (0.78%) ESET
14 7 (0.78%) iManage