Microsoft Job Trends in Poole

Microsoft
Dorset > Poole

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Poole requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 37 15 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Poole 23.42% 32.61% 10.59%
As % of the Vendors category 82.22% 71.43% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 28 9 9
10th Percentile £27,000 - £34,650
25th Percentile £27,501 £27,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £31,250 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -32.80% +16.25%
75th Percentile £38,000 £37,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £38,450 £63,750
Dorset median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -22.11% +5.56%

All Vendors
Poole

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Poole.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 45 21 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Poole 28.48% 45.65% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 31 12 31
10th Percentile £27,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £28,334 £27,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £34,125 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% -28.16% +2.15%
75th Percentile £40,000 £44,594 £63,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £49,563 £70,000
Dorset median annual salary £35,750 £50,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -28.50% +2.56% +2.63%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Poole

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Poole

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Poole

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Poole citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Poole citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Poole

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Poole over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Poole

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Poole 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 15 (40.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (37.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (48.65%) Azure
3 14 (37.84%) OneDrive
4 11 (29.73%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (10.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) DNS
2 10 (27.03%) VPN
3 9 (24.32%) LAN
4 8 (21.62%) Firewall
4 8 (21.62%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (16.22%) DHCP
5 6 (16.22%) Wireless
6 5 (13.51%) VoIP
7 4 (10.81%) NAS
7 4 (10.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Advertising
4 4 (10.81%) Legal
4 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) 2nd Line Support
2 11 (29.73%) IT Support
3 7 (18.92%) ICT Support
3 7 (18.92%) ICT Support Technician
3 7 (18.92%) ICT Technician
3 7 (18.92%) Support Technician
4 6 (16.22%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Support Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Advisor
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Support
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Support Advisor
6 4 (10.81%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 4 (10.81%) Administrator
6 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) IT Administrator
7 3 (8.11%) 1st Line Support
8 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Windows Server
3 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (13.51%) Android
4 5 (13.51%) Apple iOS
4 5 (13.51%) Mac OS
4 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (16.22%) CRM
2 6 (16.22%) ITSM
2 6 (16.22%) Line Management
2 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
3 5 (13.51%) Asset Management
3 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
3 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (10.81%) Agile
4 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
4 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.81%) Server Patching
4 4 (10.81%) Service Desk Management
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 2 (5.41%) ERP
7 1 (2.70%) B2B
7 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (2.70%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
2 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) Active Directory
2 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (24.32%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (51.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (16.22%) Autotask
3 4 (10.81%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) VMware
2 8 (21.62%) Cisco
2 8 (21.62%) Datto
3 6 (16.22%) Meraki
4 2 (5.41%) SAP