Microsoft Jobs in Reading

Microsoft
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 14 May 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 60 355 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.70% 20.75% 19.61%
As % of the Vendors category 31.58% 49.58% 48.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53 306 187
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,427
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
Berkshire median annual salary £41,250 £48,000 £46,350
% change year-on-year -14.06% +3.56% -7.30%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 190 716 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 37.04% 41.85% 40.04%
Number of salaries quoted 113 474 330
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £27,725
25th Percentile £39,000 £34,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,750 £78,750 £87,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Reading.

Salary trend for Microsoft in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Reading over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 18 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.00%) IIS
4 2 (3.33%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.67%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 37 (61.67%) Azure
2 25 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (23.33%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) AWS
6 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (5.00%) IaaS
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.33%) GitHub
9 2 (3.33%) SaaS
10 1 (1.67%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) DNS
2 9 (15.00%) DHCP
2 9 (15.00%) Firewall
3 5 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (5.00%) SAN
4 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.00%) VPN
5 2 (3.33%) LAN
5 2 (3.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.67%) VSAN
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
6 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.67%) Bugzilla
3 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Law
4 4 (6.67%) German Language
4 4 (6.67%) Marketing
5 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Electronics
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Support Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Technical Support
5 7 (11.67%) IT Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) IT Support
6 6 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Help Desk Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Help Desk Support
7 5 (8.33%) Help Desk Support Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Senior
7 5 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (6.67%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 4 (6.67%) Support Specialist
8 4 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (6.67%) Technical Support Specialist
9 3 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) .NET
2 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.00%) SAML
4 2 (3.33%) CSS
4 2 (3.33%) HTML
4 2 (3.33%) React
5 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.67%) CSS3
5 1 (1.67%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.67%) HTML5
5 1 (1.67%) Middleware
5 1 (1.67%) Node.js
5 1 (1.67%) Playwright
5 1 (1.67%) REST
5 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) PKI
2 3 (5.00%) Clustering
2 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.00%) Replication
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.67%) EPoS
4 1 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (43.33%) Windows
2 13 (21.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 7 (11.67%) Mac OS
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.33%) Linux
6 2 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (21.67%) Customer Service
3 12 (20.00%) DevOps
4 9 (15.00%) CRM
5 7 (11.67%) Service Desk Management
6 6 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (10.00%) ITIL
6 6 (10.00%) Migration
6 6 (10.00%) Presales
7 5 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (6.67%) Agile
8 4 (6.67%) Decision Tree
8 4 (6.67%) Security Testing
8 4 (6.67%) Time Management
9 3 (5.00%) Innovative Thinking
9 3 (5.00%) Server Management
9 3 (5.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) C#
2 5 (8.33%) X++
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.67%) SQL
4 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) PHP
5 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.00%) CCNA
5 3 (5.00%) CCNP
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.67%) CEH
7 1 (1.67%) CISA
7 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) MCSA
7 1 (1.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (23.33%) Hyper-V
3 9 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.67%) Docker
6 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.67%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.67%) vRealize
4 1 (1.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) VMware
2 5 (8.33%) Cisco
2 5 (8.33%) Sophos
2 5 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
3 3 (5.00%) Veeam
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Apple
5 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.67%) Dell
5 1 (1.67%) HP
5 1 (1.67%) Juniper
5 1 (1.67%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow