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 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 12 24
Rank change year-on-year -51 +12 +36
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 56 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.93% 10.51% 5.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% 30.27% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8 40 23
10th Percentile - - £25,878
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £26,768
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £54,188 £51,188 £47,500
90th Percentile £68,250 £53,075 £50,000
West Midlands median annual salary £30,500 £35,000 £36,250
% change year-on-year -12.86% -3.45% -27.50%

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 486 185 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 50.15% 34.71% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 77 106 118
10th Percentile £26,375 - £21,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £26,768
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £51,251 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £64,000 £59,125
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -

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 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 2026. 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 - 3 £51,500 -
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:

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