Microsoft Certification Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Certification
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 73 83
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +51
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 23 37 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.68% 2.50% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.85% 6.73% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 5
10th Percentile - - £31,850
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £38,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -18.42% +53.23%
75th Percentile £60,313 £75,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,000 - £54,000
South East median annual salary £37,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -17.78% +20.00% -16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 597 550 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 43.58% 37.21% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 292 255 214
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,875 £90,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +0.96%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Surrey

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Surrey over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in Surrey

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Guildford - 10 £48,750 - 2
Reigate - 5 £31,500 - 1
Epsom +17 1 £57,500 -
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Intranet
2 4 (17.39%) NAS
2 4 (17.39%) SAN
3 3 (13.04%) IP Telephony
3 3 (13.04%) SNMP
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
5 1 (4.35%) Internet
5 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) IT Support
2 8 (34.78%) Administrator
2 8 (34.78%) IT Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support Manager
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) IT Systems Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) Network Manager
3 5 (21.74%) Network Support
3 5 (21.74%) Support Assistant
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Support
4 4 (17.39%) IT Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Driving Licence
2 5 (21.74%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.04%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
2 8 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (34.78%) Inventory Management
3 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
5 3 (13.04%) Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) Business Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Data Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) Data Security
5 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (13.04%) Server Building
5 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Bash
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) MCSE
2 9 (39.13%) CCNA
2 9 (39.13%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 9 (39.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (21.74%) Master's Degree
3 5 (21.74%) MCSA
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (13.04%) HND
5 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) A+ Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) vSphere
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Firmware
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Podman
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) Cisco
3 12 (52.17%) VMware
4 5 (21.74%) Aruba
4 5 (21.74%) HP
4 5 (21.74%) Sage
5 3 (13.04%) McAfee
5 3 (13.04%) Veeam
6 1 (4.35%) Adobe
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) NetApp
6 1 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.35%) Splunk