Microsoft Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,897 3,883 3,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.72% 22.20% 18.55%
As % of the Vendors category 48.62% 47.70% 46.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,459 1,674 2,135
10th Percentile £24,833 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,890 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -1.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,958 8,140 7,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.38% 46.54% 39.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,446 3,658 4,210
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,906 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,607 £77,715 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +3.77%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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 -2 1,503 £45,000 - 514
Yorkshire +2 978 £41,711 -6.27% 324
North East +3 415 £42,500 +6.25% 122
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
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
1 269 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 260 (8.97%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.86%) IIS
4 17 (0.59%) Confluence
5 15 (0.52%) WordPress
6 14 (0.48%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.38%) CMS
8 8 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
8 8 (0.28%) SAS
9 6 (0.21%) Apache
9 6 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.17%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.069%) Resin
13 1 (0.035%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.035%) Documentum
13 1 (0.035%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 486 (16.78%) Microsoft Office
2 204 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 74 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.38%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.14%) InDesign
9 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.14%) Solid Edge
10 2 (0.069%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.069%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.069%) SPSS
10 2 (0.069%) Stata
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 108 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.52%) Sage 200
4 13 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.45%) iTrent
5 9 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 8 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.28%) Magento
7 7 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.17%) Sage 50
9 5 (0.17%) Sage CRM
9 5 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
10 4 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
11 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,265 (43.67%) Azure
2 951 (32.83%) Microsoft 365
3 367 (12.67%) Power Platform
4 256 (8.84%) AWS
5 222 (7.66%) Entra ID
6 209 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
7 151 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (3.94%) SaaS
9 113 (3.90%) PowerApps
10 110 (3.80%) Power Automate
11 90 (3.11%) GCP
12 59 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 53 (1.83%) OneDrive
14 46 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (1.48%) IaaS
16 41 (1.42%) PaaS
17 32 (1.10%) Google Workspace
18 30 (1.04%) GitHub
19 28 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
20 27 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 283 (9.77%) Firewall
2 213 (7.35%) WAN
3 208 (7.18%) DNS
4 187 (6.45%) LAN
5 164 (5.66%) DHCP
6 110 (3.80%) SAN
7 108 (3.73%) TCP/IP
7 108 (3.73%) VPN
8 90 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
9 78 (2.69%) Internet
10 77 (2.66%) VoIP
11 71 (2.45%) Network Security
12 67 (2.31%) Wireless
13 48 (1.66%) VLAN
14 46 (1.59%) Broadband
15 39 (1.35%) NAS
16 38 (1.31%) WLAN
17 37 (1.28%) SD-WAN
18 29 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
19 26 (0.90%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (18.57%) SQL Server
2 205 (7.08%) Power BI
3 114 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 99 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 67 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 62 (2.14%) Relational Database
8 44 (1.52%) MongoDB
9 42 (1.45%) Data Lake
10 40 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.04%) MySQL
13 24 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 23 (0.79%) NoSQL
15 21 (0.72%) MS Access
15 21 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 19 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (0.55%) DB2
18 15 (0.52%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 99 (3.42%) Git
2 50 (1.73%) JIRA
3 29 (1.00%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.83%) GitLab
5 16 (0.55%) Jasmine
5 16 (0.55%) Karma Test Runner
6 14 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.31%) JUnit
9 9 (0.31%) Selenium
10 8 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.21%) Dreamweaver
12 6 (0.21%) Postman
13 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.17%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.17%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 952 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 472 (16.29%) Finance
3 284 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 176 (6.08%) Retail
6 161 (5.56%) Law
7 158 (5.45%) Legal
8 127 (4.38%) Marketing
9 119 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 106 (3.66%) Manufacturing
11 60 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 57 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 51 (1.76%) Advertising
14 46 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.28%) Local Government
16 36 (1.24%) Banking
17 30 (1.04%) Games
17 30 (1.04%) Police
18 27 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (0.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 479 (16.53%) Developer
2 398 (13.74%) Analyst
3 262 (9.04%) IT Support
4 257 (8.87%) Senior
5 196 (6.77%) .NET Developer
6 185 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 182 (6.28%) Lead
8 175 (6.04%) Support Engineer
9 173 (5.97%) IT Engineer
10 150 (5.18%) Architect
11 143 (4.94%) Consultant
12 134 (4.63%) Service Analyst
13 131 (4.52%) IT Manager
14 125 (4.31%) Service Desk Analyst
15 100 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
16 98 (3.38%) IT Analyst
17 95 (3.28%) Administrator
18 94 (3.24%) 2nd Line Support
19 87 (3.00%) C# Developer
19 87 (3.00%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (12.12%) .NET
2 214 (7.39%) ASP.NET
3 205 (7.08%) .NET Core
4 166 (5.73%) ASP.NET MVC
5 158 (5.45%) HTML
6 145 (5.01%) AngularJS
7 140 (4.83%) ASP.NET Web API
8 135 (4.66%) Entity Framework
9 117 (4.04%) .NET Framework
10 96 (3.31%) CSS
10 96 (3.31%) HTML5
11 74 (2.55%) React
12 67 (2.31%) RESTful
13 54 (1.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 53 (1.83%) Node.js
15 51 (1.76%) Web Services
16 49 (1.69%) Blazor
17 48 (1.66%) JSON
18 47 (1.62%) XML
19 46 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 145 (5.01%) Driving Licence
2 123 (4.25%) Management Information System
3 99 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 87 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 78 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 64 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 50 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 39 (1.35%) PKI
9 37 (1.28%) Product Ownership
10 36 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.24%) Smartphone
11 32 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 31 (1.07%) PMI
13 30 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (1.00%) Clustering
14 29 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
14 29 (1.00%) Mobile App
15 26 (0.90%) NHS
16 24 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 761 (26.27%) Windows
2 347 (11.98%) Windows Server
3 194 (6.70%) Windows 10
4 130 (4.49%) Linux
5 77 (2.66%) Android
6 72 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 59 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 57 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 45 (1.55%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.28%) VMS
11 33 (1.14%) Mac OS
12 29 (1.00%) Windows 7
13 21 (0.72%) Unix
14 16 (0.55%) Windows 8
15 12 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.41%) Windows Vista
16 11 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 9 (0.31%) Windows Phone
18 6 (0.21%) Ubuntu
19 4 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
2 536 (18.50%) Agile
3 445 (15.36%) Customer Service
4 408 (14.08%) ITIL
5 282 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
6 277 (9.56%) DevOps
7 265 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 246 (8.49%) CRM
9 239 (8.25%) Project Management
10 229 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
11 226 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 225 (7.77%) Migration
13 208 (7.18%) Roadmaps
14 206 (7.11%) Mentoring
15 198 (6.83%) ERP
16 195 (6.73%) Full Stack Development
17 187 (6.45%) Microservices
18 185 (6.39%) MVC
19 172 (5.94%) Disaster Recovery
20 158 (5.45%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 541 (18.67%) SQL
2 385 (13.29%) C#
3 284 (9.80%) JavaScript
4 190 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 124 (4.28%) T-SQL
6 80 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 71 (2.45%) Python
8 33 (1.14%) VB.NET
9 32 (1.10%) VB
10 27 (0.93%) Bash
11 18 (0.62%) R
12 16 (0.55%) VB6
13 14 (0.48%) PHP
14 13 (0.45%) VBScript
15 11 (0.38%) Delphi
16 10 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.35%) Java
16 10 (0.35%) VBA
17 9 (0.31%) Go
17 9 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 382 (13.19%) Degree
2 251 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 111 (3.83%) Azure Certification
4 103 (3.56%) Security Cleared
5 81 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 75 (2.59%) DBS Check
7 62 (2.14%) CCNA
8 60 (2.07%) SC Cleared
9 56 (1.93%) PMI Certification
10 50 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 46 (1.59%) MCP
12 43 (1.48%) CCNP
13 39 (1.35%) A+ Certification
14 31 (1.07%) CISSP
15 29 (1.00%) MCSE
16 28 (0.97%) PMP
17 27 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.79%) AWS Certification
19 22 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 21 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (5.42%) SLA
2 87 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 77 (2.66%) GDPR
4 65 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (1.93%) QA
6 34 (1.17%) NIST
7 28 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 28 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 25 (0.86%) PMO
9 19 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.59%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.31%) GRC
13 8 (0.28%) PSD2
14 7 (0.24%) COSHH
14 7 (0.24%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.24%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.17%) COBIT
16 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 725 (25.03%) Active Directory
2 186 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 185 (6.39%) Hyper-V
4 63 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (0.93%) Docker
6 27 (0.93%) Terminal Services
6 27 (0.93%) vSphere
7 20 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.55%) VMware Server
9 9 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.24%) KVM
10 7 (0.24%) XenApp
10 7 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.21%) Firmware
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.069%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.035%) RACF
Systems Management
1 238 (8.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (2.87%) SCCM
3 66 (2.28%) Kubernetes
4 53 (1.83%) Terraform
5 35 (1.21%) SCOM
6 26 (0.90%) WSUS
7 22 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 20 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
9 17 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.52%) Autotask
11 14 (0.48%) Ansible
11 14 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 12 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.41%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.41%) VxRail
13 11 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 9 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 336 (11.60%) VMware
2 182 (6.28%) Google
3 164 (5.66%) Cisco
4 110 (3.80%) Apple
5 101 (3.49%) Citrix
6 77 (2.66%) Oracle
7 76 (2.62%) SAP
8 68 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 64 (2.21%) Adobe
10 62 (2.14%) Dell
11 61 (2.11%) Veeam
12 45 (1.55%) SolarWinds
13 41 (1.42%) Fortinet
13 41 (1.42%) HP
14 34 (1.17%) NetApp
15 31 (1.07%) Facebook
16 30 (1.04%) Datto
16 30 (1.04%) Sophos
17 26 (0.90%) IBM
18 24 (0.83%) CA