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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,530 2,019 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.53% 25.82% 17.80%
As % of the Vendors category 46.69% 56.65% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 853 996
10th Percentile £24,761 £23,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,001 £32,500 £31,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £43,150
Median % change year-on-year - +4.29% -4.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,206 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 3,277 3,564 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 33.26% 45.58% 38.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 1,802 2,021
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £76,520
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,078 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.78% +3.77%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
Manchester -2 765 £50,000 - 228
Cheshire 0 317 £37,500 -11.76% 105
Lancashire -3 200 £37,900 +1.07% 66
Merseyside -4 199 £41,000 +2.50% 52
Cumbria -1 47 £42,500 +6.25% 27
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
1 117 (7.65%) SharePoint
2 109 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (2.75%) IIS
4 8 (0.52%) CMS
5 6 (0.39%) Apache
5 6 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 6 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.33%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.26%) Confluence
7 4 (0.26%) SAS
7 4 (0.26%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.065%) Documentum
9 1 (0.065%) Site Server
Applications
1 242 (15.82%) Microsoft Office
2 132 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
7 2 (0.13%) InDesign
7 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.13%) SPSS
7 2 (0.13%) Stata
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 72 (4.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 13 (0.85%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (0.85%) iTrent
4 6 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.39%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.39%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
6 4 (0.26%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.065%) BPCS
7 1 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.065%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 632 (41.31%) Azure
2 451 (29.48%) Microsoft 365
3 188 (12.29%) Power Platform
4 157 (10.26%) AWS
5 114 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
6 93 (6.08%) Entra ID
7 88 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.46%) SaaS
9 49 (3.20%) Power Automate
10 46 (3.01%) PowerApps
11 45 (2.94%) GCP
12 38 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (1.50%) GitHub
13 23 (1.50%) IaaS
14 22 (1.44%) Google Ads
14 22 (1.44%) PaaS
15 21 (1.37%) Google Analytics
16 20 (1.31%) OneDrive
17 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Advertising
18 15 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 123 (8.04%) Firewall
2 107 (6.99%) DNS
3 106 (6.93%) WAN
4 88 (5.75%) LAN
5 81 (5.29%) DHCP
6 50 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
7 48 (3.14%) TCP/IP
8 40 (2.61%) Internet
9 34 (2.22%) VoIP
10 32 (2.09%) Wireless
11 30 (1.96%) SAN
12 27 (1.76%) SD-WAN
13 26 (1.70%) Broadband
14 24 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
15 23 (1.50%) Network Security
15 23 (1.50%) VPN
16 14 (0.92%) Unified Communications
17 12 (0.78%) iSCSI
18 11 (0.72%) NAS
18 11 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (18.82%) SQL Server
2 97 (6.34%) Power BI
3 69 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 62 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 58 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 32 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 29 (1.90%) MongoDB
9 23 (1.50%) MySQL
10 20 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (1.05%) MS Access
13 15 (0.98%) Looker
14 13 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
14 13 (0.85%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.85%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.78%) RDBMS
16 9 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (0.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (3.92%) Git
2 25 (1.63%) Visual Studio
3 15 (0.98%) GitLab
4 14 (0.92%) JIRA
5 12 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 11 (0.72%) Jasmine
6 11 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
7 9 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.39%) Dreamweaver
8 6 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.33%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.33%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.33%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (0.26%) MSTest
10 4 (0.26%) NUnit
10 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.20%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.20%) Subversion
11 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 449 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 269 (17.58%) Finance
3 149 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.71%) Retail
5 114 (7.45%) Legal
6 83 (5.42%) Public Sector
7 70 (4.58%) Marketing
8 60 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (3.59%) Law
10 48 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 42 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.48%) Advertising
13 30 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.31%) Local Government
16 14 (0.92%) Brand Awareness
17 13 (0.85%) Banking
17 13 (0.85%) Games
18 9 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 264 (17.25%) Developer
2 194 (12.68%) Analyst
3 136 (8.89%) Senior
4 122 (7.97%) IT Support
5 115 (7.52%) .NET Developer
6 105 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 99 (6.47%) Lead
8 81 (5.29%) Architect
9 80 (5.23%) Support Engineer
10 78 (5.10%) Consultant
10 78 (5.10%) IT Engineer
11 59 (3.86%) IT Manager
12 56 (3.66%) Service Analyst
13 51 (3.33%) Service Desk Analyst
14 50 (3.27%) C# Developer
15 49 (3.20%) Administrator
16 46 (3.01%) IT Support Engineer
17 44 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
18 43 (2.81%) Project Manager
19 41 (2.68%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (13.53%) .NET
2 123 (8.04%) ASP.NET
3 112 (7.32%) .NET Core
4 96 (6.27%) ASP.NET MVC
5 93 (6.08%) HTML
6 79 (5.16%) AngularJS
7 76 (4.97%) Entity Framework
8 64 (4.18%) ASP.NET Web API
9 63 (4.12%) CSS
9 63 (4.12%) HTML5
10 56 (3.66%) .NET Framework
11 41 (2.68%) React
12 36 (2.35%) Node.js
13 34 (2.22%) Blazor
14 33 (2.16%) CSS3
14 33 (2.16%) Web Services
15 27 (1.76%) REST
16 26 (1.70%) RESTful
17 25 (1.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 25 (1.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (4.44%) Driving Licence
2 60 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 50 (3.27%) Public Cloud
4 49 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
5 48 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 38 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (2.35%) Smartphone
8 29 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.63%) PKI
10 24 (1.57%) PMI
11 23 (1.50%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
14 18 (1.18%) FMCG
14 18 (1.18%) Product Ownership
15 17 (1.11%) EPoS
16 15 (0.98%) Social Media
17 13 (0.85%) Social Network
18 12 (0.78%) Blog
19 11 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 337 (22.03%) Windows
2 144 (9.41%) Windows Server
3 87 (5.69%) Windows 10
4 82 (5.36%) Linux
5 38 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 35 (2.29%) Android
7 31 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 24 (1.57%) VMS
10 16 (1.05%) Windows Vista
11 15 (0.98%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.72%) Unix
13 9 (0.59%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.59%) Windows Phone
14 7 (0.46%) Windows 8
15 6 (0.39%) Solaris
15 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.26%) Debian
16 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
2 285 (18.63%) Agile
3 230 (15.03%) Customer Service
4 202 (13.20%) ITIL
5 158 (10.33%) CRM
6 148 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
7 147 (9.61%) DevOps
8 143 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
9 138 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 137 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 135 (8.82%) Project Management
12 125 (8.17%) Migration
13 119 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
14 111 (7.25%) Full Stack Development
14 111 (7.25%) Time Management
15 105 (6.86%) ERP
15 105 (6.86%) MVC
16 100 (6.54%) Mentoring
17 95 (6.21%) Microservices
18 90 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 283 (18.50%) SQL
2 234 (15.29%) C#
3 164 (10.72%) JavaScript
4 90 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 66 (4.31%) T-SQL
6 49 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 27 (1.76%) Python
8 25 (1.63%) VB
9 22 (1.44%) VB.NET
10 17 (1.11%) R
11 15 (0.98%) Bash
12 13 (0.85%) PHP
13 11 (0.72%) Delphi
13 11 (0.72%) VB6
14 10 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.59%) Java
15 9 (0.59%) Swift
16 8 (0.52%) Bicep
16 8 (0.52%) Go
17 6 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 239 (15.62%) Degree
2 117 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 62 (4.05%) Security Cleared
4 46 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
5 39 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 39 (2.55%) CCNA
6 38 (2.48%) SC Cleared
7 37 (2.42%) PMI Certification
8 32 (2.09%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.63%) MCP
10 23 (1.50%) A+ Certification
10 23 (1.50%) CCNP
11 20 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.05%) PMP
14 13 (0.85%) CISSP
15 12 (0.78%) CIMA
16 11 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
17 10 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.25%) SLA
2 37 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 29 (1.90%) QA
4 26 (1.70%) GDPR
5 21 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.11%) NIST
7 15 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.98%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.65%) ISO 9001
9 9 (0.59%) PMO
10 7 (0.46%) COSHH
10 7 (0.46%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.26%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 2 (0.13%) EMIR
13 2 (0.13%) GMP
13 2 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 332 (21.70%) Active Directory
2 99 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (5.49%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.44%) Terminal Services
6 15 (0.98%) Docker
7 7 (0.46%) KVM
7 7 (0.46%) vSphere
8 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.39%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.065%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.065%) RACF
10 1 (0.065%) Snort
Systems Management
1 91 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (2.68%) Terraform
3 29 (1.90%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.37%) SCCM
5 19 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.78%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.78%) VxRail
6 12 (0.78%) ZABBIX
7 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.59%) AirWatch
9 8 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 8 (0.52%) WSUS
10 7 (0.46%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.46%) CASB
10 7 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.46%) Stealthwatch
11 5 (0.33%) Ansible
12 4 (0.26%) Autotask
12 4 (0.26%) Grafana
12 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 140 (9.15%) VMware
2 93 (6.08%) Google
3 79 (5.16%) Apple
4 76 (4.97%) Cisco
5 56 (3.66%) Adobe
6 51 (3.33%) Citrix
7 47 (3.07%) SAP
8 38 (2.48%) Dell
9 32 (2.09%) Oracle
10 30 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.96%) Veeam
11 28 (1.83%) HP
12 25 (1.63%) Facebook
13 21 (1.37%) Fortinet
13 21 (1.37%) Meraki
14 20 (1.31%) NetApp
15 15 (0.98%) SolarWinds
16 14 (0.92%) CA
16 14 (0.92%) Infor
16 14 (0.92%) Sophos