Microsoft Certification Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 303 183
Rank change year-on-year +145 -120 +54
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 272 140 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.57% 0.80% 1.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.00% 2.68% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 227 112 218
10th Percentile £26,733 £23,750 £25,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,563 £26,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,000 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +22.88% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £61,351
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,887 5,216 5,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.46% 29.83% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,663 1,764 2,484
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £28,057
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,013 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,900 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the North of England

Microsoft Certification
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 Certification within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
North West +41 120 £40,000 -15.79% 40
Yorkshire +124 90 £40,000 +6.67% 17
North East - 62 £32,500 - 7
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
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 48 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) CMS
3 4 (1.47%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (12.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (61.03%) Azure
2 114 (41.91%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (16.18%) Power Platform
4 37 (13.60%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.46%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.78%) AWS
8 12 (4.41%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.57%) IaaS
9 7 (2.57%) OneDrive
9 7 (2.57%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.57%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.84%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.84%) Azure Stack
11 5 (1.84%) PaaS
12 4 (1.47%) Google Workspace
13 3 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.97%) Firewall
2 32 (11.76%) Broadband
3 28 (10.29%) SAN
4 25 (9.19%) TCP/IP
5 20 (7.35%) Internet
5 20 (7.35%) LAN
5 20 (7.35%) VPN
6 17 (6.25%) DHCP
6 17 (6.25%) DNS
7 16 (5.88%) VoIP
8 14 (5.15%) WAN
9 13 (4.78%) Network Security
9 13 (4.78%) VLAN
10 9 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.57%) WLAN
12 4 (1.47%) NAS
12 4 (1.47%) Skype
12 4 (1.47%) SSL
13 3 (1.10%) IPv4
13 3 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 39 (14.34%) Power BI
3 34 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.84%) Redis
8 3 (1.10%) Big Data
8 3 (1.10%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.74%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (0.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) AdminStudio
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 125 (45.96%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.66%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (9.56%) Finance
4 16 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.51%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.04%) Retail
8 9 (3.31%) Games
9 8 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.94%) Law
10 6 (2.21%) Marketing
11 5 (1.84%) Local Government
12 3 (1.10%) Banking
12 3 (1.10%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.10%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.74%) Billing
13 2 (0.74%) Legal
13 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 51 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 47 (17.28%) IT Support
3 35 (12.87%) 3rd Line Support
4 28 (10.29%) IT Engineer
5 27 (9.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 27 (9.93%) DBA
5 27 (9.93%) SQL DBA
6 26 (9.56%) IT Support Engineer
7 24 (8.82%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 24 (8.82%) Analyst
7 24 (8.82%) Senior
8 21 (7.72%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 20 (7.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 19 (6.99%) 2nd Line Support
11 18 (6.62%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
12 17 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 17 (6.25%) Lead
13 14 (5.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 14 (5.15%) Service Analyst
13 14 (5.15%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.21%) CSS
1 6 (2.21%) HTML
2 5 (1.84%) Middleware
3 4 (1.47%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.10%) PySpark
5 1 (0.37%) .NET
5 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.37%) React
5 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.37%) SAML
5 1 (0.37%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.71%) Driving Licence
2 23 (8.46%) Enterprise Storage
3 18 (6.62%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.51%) Private Cloud
5 13 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.04%) Smartphone
7 10 (3.68%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.84%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.84%) Replication
12 3 (1.10%) Fat Client
12 3 (1.10%) Housing Association
12 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.10%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (0.74%) NHS
14 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 111 (40.81%) Windows
2 51 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 34 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 26 (9.56%) VMS
5 22 (8.09%) Linux
6 13 (4.78%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.57%) Windows 7
7 7 (2.57%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.10%) Android
8 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.10%) Windows Vista
9 2 (0.74%) Unix
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (30.15%) Customer Service
3 76 (27.94%) ITIL
4 39 (14.34%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (11.03%) Collaborative Working
6 30 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 30 (11.03%) High Availability
7 29 (10.66%) Computer Science
7 29 (10.66%) DevOps
8 27 (9.93%) Incident Management
8 27 (9.93%) Performance Tuning
8 27 (9.93%) Roadmaps
9 25 (9.19%) Migration
10 22 (8.09%) Time Management
11 21 (7.72%) Agile
11 21 (7.72%) Desktop Virtualisation
12 19 (6.99%) CI/CD
13 18 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (23.90%) SQL
2 23 (8.46%) T-SQL
3 22 (8.09%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.25%) C#
5 11 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.84%) Python
7 4 (1.47%) Bicep
8 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.37%) Bash
9 1 (0.37%) Go
9 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (24.26%) Degree
2 52 (19.12%) Azure Certification
3 43 (15.81%) MCSE
4 37 (13.60%) MCP
5 34 (12.50%) A+ Certification
6 32 (11.76%) MCSA
7 29 (10.66%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (9.93%) CCNA
9 22 (8.09%) DBS Check
10 18 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (4.78%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (2.94%) CISSP
12 8 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (2.57%) Security Cleared
14 6 (2.21%) SC Cleared
15 5 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (1.47%) CEH
16 4 (1.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.04%) SLA
2 8 (2.94%) GDPR
2 8 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.47%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 137 (50.37%) Active Directory
2 42 (15.44%) Hyper-V
3 31 (11.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (7.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.94%) vSphere
6 5 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.74%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.37%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (10.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.62%) SCCM
4 13 (4.78%) SCOM
5 10 (3.68%) Terraform
6 7 (2.57%) Autotask
7 5 (1.84%) Grafana
7 5 (1.84%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.47%) WSUS
9 2 (0.74%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) Ansible
10 1 (0.37%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 251 (92.28%) Microsoft
2 54 (19.85%) VMware
3 18 (6.62%) SolarWinds
4 13 (4.78%) Apple
4 13 (4.78%) Cisco
5 11 (4.04%) Virgin Media
6 10 (3.68%) Datto
7 9 (3.31%) Adobe
7 9 (3.31%) Sophos
8 8 (2.94%) Kaseya
9 7 (2.57%) Citrix
10 6 (2.21%) Databricks
10 6 (2.21%) LogicMonitor
10 6 (2.21%) Meraki
11 5 (1.84%) Google
11 5 (1.84%) Oracle
11 5 (1.84%) Veeam
12 4 (1.47%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.10%) Acronis
13 3 (1.10%) ConnectWise