Microsoft Job Trends in Stevenage

Microsoft
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Stevenage 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 December 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 23 28 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Stevenage 4.55% 13.93% 8.62%
As % of the Vendors category 36.51% 30.43% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 5
10th Percentile £26,892 £44,700 £23,365
25th Percentile £28,500 £46,250 £23,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -12.82%
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £57,875 £69,225 £58,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -

All Vendors
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 63 92 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stevenage 12.48% 45.77% 50.86%
Number of salaries quoted 46 47 45
10th Percentile £28,250 £45,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +37.14%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £63,000
90th Percentile £69,375 £68,850 £67,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Stevenage

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Stevenage

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Stevenage over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Stevenage

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (30.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Google Workspace
3 3 (13.04%) Cohesity
4 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Skype
2 3 (13.04%) Ethernet
2 3 (13.04%) InfiniBand
2 3 (13.04%) VSAN
3 2 (8.70%) DHCP
3 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) LAN
3 2 (8.70%) VLAN
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) WAN
3 2 (8.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
2 3 (13.04%) Legal
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Coordinator
2 3 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Information Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Professional Services Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Sales Executive
3 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Driving Licence
2 3 (13.04%) Blackberry
2 3 (13.04%) PKI
2 3 (13.04%) RSA SecurID
2 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.70%) e-Learning
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows Server
3 6 (26.09%) Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Customer Service
2 5 (21.74%) Presales
3 3 (13.04%) Batch Scheduling
3 3 (13.04%) Change Control
3 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.70%) B2B
4 2 (8.70%) CRM
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
4 2 (8.70%) Information Management
4 2 (8.70%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (8.70%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Management
4 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.70%) Service Management
4 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.70%) Telesales
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
2 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) SLA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Lustre
2 3 (13.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 3 (13.04%) vSphere
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) SCOM
1 7 (30.43%) WSUS
2 6 (26.09%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (8.70%) PaperCut
4 2 (8.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Google
1 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
2 5 (21.74%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) EMC
3 3 (13.04%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) Mellanox
3 3 (13.04%) NetApp
4 2 (8.70%) Sophos