Microsoft Office Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Office
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +23
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Office 12 39 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 2.94% 8.80% 6.02%
As % of the Applications category 37.50% 62.90% 52.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 19
10th Percentile £30,750 £24,525 £23,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £24,750 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £29,500 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% +11.32% +11.58%
75th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £27,250
90th Percentile - £41,275 £28,200
East Midlands median annual salary £31,250 £28,602 £26,500
% change year-on-year +9.26% +7.93% -15.20%

All Software Application Skills
Northamptonshire

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 32 62 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 7.84% 14.00% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 39
10th Percentile £30,750 £24,750 £25,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% +22.95%
75th Percentile £43,750 £62,125 £48,750
90th Percentile £56,875 £62,500 £50,000
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £42,250 £32,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +32.03% -14.67%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Office relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Office
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Microsoft Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Office within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Northampton -12 8 £35,000 +32.08%
Microsoft Office
East Midlands

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) AutoCAD
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
1 2 (16.67%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) DHCP
1 8 (66.67%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Support
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Support Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Support Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Support
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Support Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) ICT Officer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Repair Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Mac OS
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) CRM
3 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 7 (58.33%) Process Improvement
4 6 (50.00%) ITIL
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Client Onboarding
5 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
5 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 5 (41.67%) Service Management
6 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
7 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (25.00%) System Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Project Management
8 2 (16.67%) Six Sigma
8 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) MCP
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (25.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (41.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (16.67%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Autotask
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Apple