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 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,390 3,528 2,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.43% 20.12% 17.56%
As % of the Vendors category 36.49% 53.00% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 825 2,530 1,764
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,720 £45,000 £46,175
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -2.54% -2.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £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 3,809 6,657 5,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.53% 37.96% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,174 4,435 3,408
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -2 589 £42,000 -6.67% 1,793
Hampshire -4 294 £46,500 +3.33% 746
Surrey 0 254 £42,500 -10.53% 542
Berkshire -8 244 £42,500 -11.46% 990
Buckinghamshire -2 228 £45,000 +5.88% 529
Oxfordshire -5 117 £41,500 -4.02% 283
Middlesex -5 76 - - 2
Kent -11 75 £40,000 -5.88% 447
West Sussex 0 54 £46,500 -7.00% 245
East Sussex -15 38 £27,000 -36.47% 228
Sussex +15 6 £35,000 - 16
Isle of Wight - 2 £46,000 - 2
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
1 138 (9.93%) SharePoint
2 120 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (1.94%) IBM Domino
4 24 (1.73%) IIS
5 19 (1.37%) Confluence
6 15 (1.08%) CMS
7 8 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
8 7 (0.50%) Apache
8 7 (0.50%) Kentico
9 6 (0.43%) WordPress
10 5 (0.36%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
12 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.072%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.072%) SharePoint 2010
13 1 (0.072%) Umbraco
Applications
1 288 (20.72%) Microsoft Office
2 112 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.50%) Acrobat
5 7 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.36%) Trello
7 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.22%) Productboard
9 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.072%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.73%) Dynamics AX
3 16 (1.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 16 (1.15%) SAP FI
4 14 (1.01%) Shopify
5 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.36%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 4 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.14%) Sage 1000
7 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.14%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.072%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.072%) Magento
8 1 (0.072%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.072%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 483 (34.75%) Azure
2 342 (24.60%) Microsoft 365
3 165 (11.87%) Power Platform
4 102 (7.34%) AWS
5 89 (6.40%) Entra ID
6 79 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (5.11%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (4.75%) PowerApps
9 58 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 47 (3.38%) SaaS
11 32 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (2.23%) GCP
13 27 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (1.87%) Google Analytics
15 23 (1.65%) PaaS
16 18 (1.29%) GitHub
17 16 (1.15%) OneDrive
18 15 (1.08%) Google Ads
18 15 (1.08%) Vertex AI
19 14 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 126 (9.06%) Firewall
2 83 (5.97%) DNS
3 65 (4.68%) WAN
4 63 (4.53%) LAN
5 60 (4.32%) VoIP
6 58 (4.17%) DHCP
7 53 (3.81%) SAN
8 41 (2.95%) Network Security
9 40 (2.88%) VPN
10 38 (2.73%) TCP/IP
11 37 (2.66%) Broadband
12 35 (2.52%) NAS
13 32 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (2.23%) VLAN
15 21 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (1.15%) Internet
17 15 (1.08%) Wireless
18 14 (1.01%) IP Telephony
19 13 (0.94%) SMTP
20 12 (0.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (10.65%) SQL Server
2 122 (8.78%) Power BI
3 36 (2.59%) Data Lake
4 31 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 29 (2.09%) Big Data
5 29 (2.09%) Tableau
6 24 (1.73%) Data Mining
7 23 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.01%) MySQL
10 13 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.86%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.58%) QlikView
13 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 5 (0.36%) Metadata
15 4 (0.29%) Metabase
16 3 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 53 (3.81%) JIRA
2 30 (2.16%) Visual Studio
3 15 (1.08%) MSI
4 13 (0.94%) Git
5 10 (0.72%) NUnit
5 10 (0.72%) TeamCity
6 9 (0.65%) Jasmine
7 6 (0.43%) NDoc
8 3 (0.22%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.072%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.072%) Selenium
9 1 (0.072%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 577 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 213 (15.32%) Finance
3 131 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (8.35%) Law
6 104 (7.48%) Retail
7 100 (7.19%) Manufacturing
8 86 (6.19%) Marketing
9 49 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 42 (3.02%) Legal
11 36 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.01%) Automotive
13 27 (1.94%) Electronics
14 24 (1.73%) Public Sector
15 20 (1.44%) Advertising
16 19 (1.37%) Local Government
17 16 (1.15%) Military
18 15 (1.08%) General Ledger
18 15 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 179 (12.88%) Analyst
2 168 (12.09%) Support Engineer
3 165 (11.87%) Senior
4 157 (11.29%) Lead
5 141 (10.14%) IT Support
6 102 (7.34%) Developer
7 67 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 67 (4.82%) Support Analyst
8 66 (4.75%) Electrical Engineer
8 66 (4.75%) IT Engineer
9 64 (4.60%) Safety Engineer
9 64 (4.60%) Test Engineer
10 56 (4.03%) IT Support Engineer
11 51 (3.67%) IT Analyst
12 49 (3.53%) Infrastructure Support
13 42 (3.02%) 1st Line Support
13 42 (3.02%) Financial Analyst
14 41 (2.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 39 (2.81%) Technical Support
16 35 (2.52%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (7.55%) .NET
2 47 (3.38%) React
3 33 (2.37%) .NET Framework
4 32 (2.30%) ASP.NET
5 27 (1.94%) HTML
6 26 (1.87%) XML
7 23 (1.65%) CSS
8 21 (1.51%) YAML
9 20 (1.44%) .NET Core
10 19 (1.37%) JSON
11 18 (1.29%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.29%) HTML5
12 14 (1.01%) Middleware
13 13 (0.94%) RESTful
14 11 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (0.79%) CSS3
14 11 (0.79%) Vue
15 10 (0.72%) ASP.NET MVC
16 9 (0.65%) Jest
17 5 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (3.88%) Data Centre
1 54 (3.88%) Driving Licence
1 54 (3.88%) Product Ownership
2 53 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 47 (3.38%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.73%) Security Posture
5 35 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.37%) Algorithms
7 31 (2.23%) Client/Server
8 30 (2.16%) Clustering
9 22 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.51%) NHS
11 20 (1.44%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.37%) Social Media
13 18 (1.29%) PKI
13 18 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.15%) IoT
15 16 (1.15%) Robotics
15 16 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 387 (27.84%) Windows
2 123 (8.85%) Windows Server
3 78 (5.61%) Linux
4 67 (4.82%) Windows 10
5 52 (3.74%) Mac OS
6 41 (2.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (1.58%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.08%) Android
10 14 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.86%) Unix
12 10 (0.72%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.50%) CentOS
13 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.50%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.43%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.22%) VMS
17 2 (0.14%) Debian
17 2 (0.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
2 245 (17.63%) Agile
3 205 (14.75%) Customer Service
4 162 (11.65%) Analytics
5 153 (11.01%) Mentoring
6 146 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
6 146 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
7 141 (10.14%) Project Management
8 139 (10.00%) DevOps
9 129 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (8.78%) ITIL
11 116 (8.35%) Coaching
12 111 (7.99%) Roadmaps
13 97 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 96 (6.91%) Service Management
15 92 (6.62%) Computer Science
16 84 (6.04%) Customer-Centricity
16 84 (6.04%) ERP
17 83 (5.97%) CRM
17 83 (5.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 162 (11.65%) SQL
2 143 (10.29%) PowerShell
3 121 (8.71%) C#
4 83 (5.97%) Python
5 56 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.53%) Java
7 21 (1.51%) Bash
7 21 (1.51%) Rust
8 17 (1.22%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.86%) VB.NET
11 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.72%) X++
12 9 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.65%) R
13 8 (0.58%) C++
14 6 (0.43%) Bicep
15 4 (0.29%) RPG
16 3 (0.22%) PHP
16 3 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 320 (23.02%) Degree
2 101 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 99 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 54 (3.88%) SC Cleared
5 48 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 43 (3.09%) DBS Check
7 39 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.87%) A+ Certification
8 26 (1.87%) MCP
9 25 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.73%) CISSP
11 22 (1.58%) HND
11 22 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 21 (1.51%) CCNA
12 21 (1.51%) MCSE
12 21 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
13 19 (1.37%) MCSA
14 16 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
15 15 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.32%) GDPR
2 56 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (3.02%) SLA
4 40 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 33 (2.37%) NIST
6 27 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (1.51%) QA
8 17 (1.22%) NCSC
9 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.50%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.50%) PERC
12 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.43%) GRC
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) PMO
13 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.14%) WCAG
15 1 (0.072%) COBIT
System Software
1 263 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 114 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (5.90%) Hyper-V
4 39 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (2.09%) vSphere
7 23 (1.65%) Docker
8 15 (1.08%) Terminal Services
9 8 (0.58%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.22%) ISA Server
11 2 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.072%) Firmware
12 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.072%) Squid
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.072%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 63 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.52%) Terraform
3 26 (1.87%) Ansible
4 22 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.58%) Puppet
5 19 (1.37%) vCenter Server
6 15 (1.08%) SCCM
6 15 (1.08%) WMI
7 14 (1.01%) vMotion
8 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.50%) PowerCLI
8 7 (0.50%) vRealize
9 6 (0.43%) Nagios
9 6 (0.43%) QRadar
10 5 (0.36%) CASB
10 5 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.36%) WSUS
10 5 (0.36%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 142 (10.22%) VMware
2 91 (6.55%) Cisco
3 87 (6.26%) Google
4 55 (3.96%) SAP
5 50 (3.60%) Dell
6 48 (3.45%) Databricks
7 47 (3.38%) Citrix
8 43 (3.09%) ServiceNow
9 40 (2.88%) Apple
10 37 (2.66%) Veeam
11 36 (2.59%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.87%) HP
13 25 (1.80%) Sun
14 23 (1.65%) Meraki
15 21 (1.51%) Oracle
16 20 (1.44%) Adobe
16 20 (1.44%) Tenable
17 17 (1.22%) Qualys
17 17 (1.22%) Sophos
18 16 (1.15%) Splunk