Microsoft Certification Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft Certification
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -55 +8 +46
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 58 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.91% 10.34% 6.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.79% 29.90% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 9 40 23
10th Percentile - - £25,878
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £26,768
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.14% -6.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £52,250 £51,188 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £53,075 £50,000
West Midlands median annual salary £31,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.43% -6.67% -25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 504 194 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 51.01% 34.58% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 84 111 110
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,000 £21,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £64,063 £54,125 £53,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £58,875
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +2.04%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in Staffordshire

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 4 £51,500 - 2
Stoke-on-Trent -11 1 £35,000 - 1
Rugeley - 1 £85,000 -
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Datadog
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) RFID
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Help Desk Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Help Desk Support
2 3 (33.33%) Help Desk Support Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) RBAC
1 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (44.44%) Runbook
1 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) ERP
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Server Building
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Bicep
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) MCP
1 4 (44.44%) MCSA
2 3 (33.33%) HNC
3 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
3 3 (33.33%) Veeam
3 3 (33.33%) VMware