Microsoft Jobs in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 June 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
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,467 3,682 2,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.30% 19.44% 17.91%
As % of the Vendors category 37.45% 53.45% 45.13%
Number of salaries quoted 880 2,586 1,708
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £26,175
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,350
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.91% -2.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,917 6,889 5,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 40.86% 36.38% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 4,538 3,302
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the South East.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South East over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Thames Valley -1 649 £41,500 -7.78% 1,854
Hampshire -3 288 £46,500 +3.33% 892
Surrey 0 265 £42,500 -10.53% 597
Berkshire -7 264 £42,500 -11.46% 967
Buckinghamshire -1 256 £45,000 +5.88% 570
Oxfordshire -3 129 £40,500 -6.33% 326
Kent -12 82 £37,500 -11.76% 460
Middlesex -2 77 £37,500 +7.14% 8
West Sussex -1 53 £46,500 -7.00% 277
East Sussex -16 39 £27,000 -40.66% 226
Sussex +20 8 £42,500 +21.43% 33
Isle of Wight - 2 £46,000 - 7
Home Counties - 1 £50,000 -
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 157 (10.70%) SharePoint
2 138 (9.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (1.84%) IBM Domino
4 20 (1.36%) IIS
5 19 (1.30%) Confluence
6 12 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2013
7 11 (0.75%) CMS
8 6 (0.41%) Apache
8 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.27%) Office Communications Server
9 4 (0.27%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.068%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.068%) Umbraco
Applications
1 295 (20.11%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.34%) Trello
7 4 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.20%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.14%) Productboard
10 1 (0.068%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.068%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.068%) Revit
10 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 36 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.91%) Dynamics AX
3 16 (1.09%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 16 (1.09%) SAP FI
4 10 (0.68%) Shopify
5 7 (0.48%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Sage 1000
7 4 (0.27%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.14%) Magento
9 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.068%) assyst
10 1 (0.068%) Maximo
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.068%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.068%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.068%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 500 (34.08%) Azure
2 354 (24.13%) Microsoft 365
3 163 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 100 (6.82%) AWS
5 98 (6.68%) Entra ID
6 81 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
7 80 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (4.57%) PowerApps
9 56 (3.82%) Power Automate
10 39 (2.66%) SaaS
11 32 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (2.11%) GCP
13 30 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (1.91%) Vertex AI
15 23 (1.57%) PaaS
16 22 (1.50%) Google Analytics
17 17 (1.16%) GitHub
17 17 (1.16%) OneDrive
18 14 (0.95%) Azure API Management
19 13 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 136 (9.27%) Firewall
2 88 (6.00%) DNS
3 75 (5.11%) WAN
4 74 (5.04%) LAN
5 62 (4.23%) DHCP
6 61 (4.16%) VoIP
7 60 (4.09%) SAN
8 45 (3.07%) TCP/IP
8 45 (3.07%) VPN
9 43 (2.93%) Network Security
10 36 (2.45%) Broadband
11 35 (2.39%) NAS
12 34 (2.32%) VLAN
12 34 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
14 20 (1.36%) Internet
15 17 (1.16%) IP Telephony
15 17 (1.16%) Wireless
16 14 (0.95%) SMTP
17 12 (0.82%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.02%) SQL Server
2 117 (7.98%) Power BI
3 38 (2.59%) Data Lake
4 37 (2.52%) Data Mining
5 33 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (2.04%) Tableau
7 28 (1.91%) Big Data
8 23 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.16%) MySQL
9 17 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.82%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.34%) QlikView
14 4 (0.27%) Metabase
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 3 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (3.68%) JIRA
2 28 (1.91%) Visual Studio
3 15 (1.02%) Git
3 15 (1.02%) MSI
4 11 (0.75%) NUnit
4 11 (0.75%) TeamCity
5 10 (0.68%) Jasmine
6 6 (0.41%) NDoc
7 4 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.068%) Maven
9 1 (0.068%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.068%) Selenium
9 1 (0.068%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 636 (43.35%) Social Skills
2 227 (15.47%) Finance
3 141 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (8.86%) Law
6 115 (7.84%) Retail
7 101 (6.88%) Manufacturing
8 87 (5.93%) Marketing
9 42 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.66%) Legal
12 28 (1.91%) Automotive
13 27 (1.84%) Electronics
14 26 (1.77%) Public Sector
15 20 (1.36%) Advertising
16 18 (1.23%) Military
17 16 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.02%) General Ledger
19 14 (0.95%) Local Government
20 13 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 204 (13.91%) Analyst
2 188 (12.82%) Senior
3 170 (11.59%) Lead
4 165 (11.25%) Support Engineer
5 159 (10.84%) IT Support
6 103 (7.02%) Developer
7 88 (6.00%) Support Analyst
8 70 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 66 (4.50%) Electrical Engineer
9 66 (4.50%) IT Engineer
10 64 (4.36%) Safety Engineer
10 64 (4.36%) Test Engineer
11 56 (3.82%) IT Analyst
11 56 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
12 53 (3.61%) Infrastructure Support
12 53 (3.61%) Technical Support
13 45 (3.07%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 44 (3.00%) Financial Analyst
15 39 (2.66%) 1st Line Support
16 37 (2.52%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (6.68%) .NET
2 44 (3.00%) React
3 33 (2.25%) ASP.NET
4 32 (2.18%) .NET Framework
5 28 (1.91%) HTML
6 24 (1.64%) CSS
6 24 (1.64%) XML
7 21 (1.43%) YAML
8 19 (1.30%) AngularJS
8 19 (1.30%) JSON
9 18 (1.23%) .NET Core
10 17 (1.16%) HTML5
11 16 (1.09%) Middleware
12 14 (0.95%) RESTful
13 12 (0.82%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (0.82%) CSS3
13 12 (0.82%) Vue
14 10 (0.68%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (0.68%) Jest
15 6 (0.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 62 (4.23%) Driving Licence
2 56 (3.82%) Data Centre
3 51 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 46 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.07%) Algorithms
7 40 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (2.66%) Security Posture
9 30 (2.04%) Clustering
10 26 (1.77%) Client/Server
11 23 (1.57%) Cloud Native
11 23 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 20 (1.36%) NHS
12 20 (1.36%) PKI
13 18 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.23%) Social Media
14 17 (1.16%) Replication
14 17 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 424 (28.90%) Windows
2 146 (9.95%) Windows Server
3 80 (5.45%) Linux
4 70 (4.77%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.75%) Mac OS
6 41 (2.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 25 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (1.50%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.09%) Unix
10 15 (1.02%) Android
11 14 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.41%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.34%) CentOS
15 5 (0.34%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.14%) Debian
16 2 (0.14%) SUSE
16 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
2 264 (18.00%) Agile
3 232 (15.81%) Customer Service
4 171 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
5 167 (11.38%) Mentoring
6 166 (11.32%) Analytics
7 156 (10.63%) DevOps
8 145 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
9 132 (9.00%) ITIL
10 130 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 128 (8.73%) Project Management
12 127 (8.66%) Roadmaps
13 118 (8.04%) Coaching
14 95 (6.48%) Computer Science
14 95 (6.48%) Service Management
14 95 (6.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 94 (6.41%) ERP
16 93 (6.34%) Artificial Intelligence
16 93 (6.34%) CRM
17 92 (6.27%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 172 (11.72%) SQL
2 144 (9.82%) PowerShell
3 123 (8.38%) C#
4 81 (5.52%) Python
5 55 (3.75%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.34%) Java
7 28 (1.91%) Bash
8 21 (1.43%) Rust
9 16 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (0.68%) X++
13 9 (0.61%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.41%) C++
14 6 (0.41%) R
15 5 (0.34%) Bicep
15 5 (0.34%) Korn
15 5 (0.34%) VBA
16 4 (0.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 335 (22.84%) Degree
2 109 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 103 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 50 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 45 (3.07%) DBS Check
7 39 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.98%) MCP
10 25 (1.70%) A+ Certification
10 25 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.57%) HND
11 23 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 22 (1.50%) CISSP
12 22 (1.50%) MCSE
13 21 (1.43%) CCNA
14 19 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
15 17 (1.16%) Master's Degree
15 17 (1.16%) MCSA
16 15 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.36%) GDPR
2 57 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.45%) SLA
5 35 (2.39%) NIST
6 28 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (1.30%) QA
8 18 (1.23%) NCSC
9 13 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.41%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.41%) GRC
10 6 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.20%) PERC
11 3 (0.20%) PMO
11 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 285 (19.43%) Active Directory
2 120 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (6.27%) Hyper-V
4 39 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (2.18%) vSphere
6 31 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.91%) Docker
9 18 (1.23%) Terminal Services
10 8 (0.55%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.27%) ISA Server
12 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.068%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.068%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 74 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (2.86%) Terraform
3 26 (1.77%) Ansible
3 26 (1.77%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.50%) Puppet
4 22 (1.50%) SCCM
5 19 (1.30%) vCenter Server
6 15 (1.02%) WMI
7 14 (0.95%) vMotion
8 7 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.48%) PowerCLI
8 7 (0.48%) vRealize
9 6 (0.41%) Nagios
9 6 (0.41%) QRadar
9 6 (0.41%) WSUS
10 5 (0.34%) CASB
10 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.34%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.27%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 152 (10.36%) VMware
2 97 (6.61%) Cisco
3 93 (6.34%) Google
4 57 (3.89%) Dell
5 56 (3.82%) SAP
6 48 (3.27%) Citrix
7 47 (3.20%) Apple
8 46 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 45 (3.07%) Databricks
10 40 (2.73%) Salesforce
11 36 (2.45%) Veeam
12 28 (1.91%) OpenAI
13 26 (1.77%) HP
14 25 (1.70%) Sun
15 23 (1.57%) Sophos
16 21 (1.43%) Meraki
17 20 (1.36%) Oracle
17 20 (1.36%) Tenable
18 19 (1.30%) Splunk
19 17 (1.16%) Qualys