Microsoft Certification Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Certification
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 +51
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 29 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 8.90% 0.61% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.16% 2.01% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £51,625 £60,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,188 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +75.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,188 £82,500
90th Percentile - £63,875 -
UK median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% -14.29% +10.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 149 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 31.60% 30.10% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 37 52 77
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,286 £29,994
25th Percentile £41,750 £34,112 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,154 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -8.81% +29.41%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,013 £69,875
90th Percentile £78,503 £78,717 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
County Antrim +26 13 - - 6
County Armagh - 1 - - 1
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (89.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) AWS
2 20 (68.97%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (93.10%) Social Skills
2 26 (89.66%) French Language
2 26 (89.66%) Swedish Language
3 6 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Analyst
1 20 (68.97%) Service Analyst
1 20 (68.97%) Service Desk Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 6 (20.69%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Service Desk Team Leader
3 6 (20.69%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) DBA
4 1 (3.45%) Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 1 (3.45%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) EDI
1 1 (3.45%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (3.45%) JSON
1 1 (3.45%) Kafka
1 1 (3.45%) REST
1 1 (3.45%) SOAP
1 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) ITSM
2 20 (68.97%) ITIL
3 14 (48.28%) Customer Service
3 14 (48.28%) Performance Metrics
4 6 (20.69%) Business Continuity
4 6 (20.69%) Coaching
4 6 (20.69%) Conflict Resolution
4 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.69%) Knowledge Management
4 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
4 6 (20.69%) Service Management
5 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (3.45%) Anomaly Detection
7 1 (3.45%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (3.45%) Database Security
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (3.45%) Observability
7 1 (3.45%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) SQL
1 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.45%) C#
2 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (89.66%) MCSE
2 21 (72.41%) AWS Certification
3 20 (68.97%) Degree
4 6 (20.69%) A+ Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
1 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (68.97%) ServiceNow
3 6 (20.69%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI