Microsoft Certification Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 163 182
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 85 94 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.26% 1.56% 1.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.29% 3.73% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 71 85 57
10th Percentile £29,175 £23,500 £21,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -22.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £71,500
South East median annual salary £38,500 £36,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.48% -14.12% +19.72%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,583 2,519 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.41% 41.82% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,579 1,043 945
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,990 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,850 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -6.06% -4.59%
75th Percentile £68,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +13 39 £31,500 +12.50% 5
Buckinghamshire -26 26 £39,000 -13.33% 9
Oxfordshire +24 20 £38,500 -35.83% 6
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 14 (16.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.12%) Azure
2 35 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (28.24%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.59%) AWS
4 9 (10.59%) PowerApps
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.35%) Serverless
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.18%) IaaS
8 1 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) DNS
2 11 (12.94%) Firewall
3 10 (11.76%) DHCP
3 10 (11.76%) NAS
3 10 (11.76%) SAN
4 8 (9.41%) Intranet
4 8 (9.41%) LAN
4 8 (9.41%) VPN
4 8 (9.41%) WAN
5 6 (7.06%) Network Security
5 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
5 6 (7.06%) VLAN
5 6 (7.06%) VoIP
6 4 (4.71%) Broadband
6 4 (4.71%) Wireshark
7 3 (3.53%) Wireless
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.00%) Power BI
2 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 39 (45.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.59%) Finance
6 7 (8.24%) Legal
6 7 (8.24%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (8.24%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.53%) Banking
8 2 (2.35%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Support Engineer
2 14 (16.47%) IT Support
3 13 (15.29%) Hardware Engineer
3 13 (15.29%) Technical Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) IT Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) IT Support Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Architect
5 10 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.41%) Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) Digital Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Digital Solutions Architect
7 7 (8.24%) IT Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) 3rd Line Support
8 6 (7.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) DBA
8 6 (7.06%) SOC Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.71%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.35%) .NET
1 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.35%) CSS
1 2 (2.35%) HTML
1 2 (2.35%) PySpark
1 2 (2.35%) React
2 1 (1.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 9 (10.59%) Private Cloud
4 7 (8.24%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (4.71%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.71%) Replication
6 3 (3.53%) Clustering
7 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 32 (37.65%) Windows
2 12 (14.12%) Linux
2 12 (14.12%) Windows 10
3 7 (8.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.71%) Mac OS
4 4 (4.71%) VMS
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.18%) Android
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (32.94%) Customer Service
3 15 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (17.65%) Presales
4 13 (15.29%) Asset Management
4 13 (15.29%) Break/Fix
4 13 (15.29%) IT Asset Management
5 11 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (12.94%) Software Licensing
6 10 (11.76%) Change Management
7 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (9.41%) ITIL
8 8 (9.41%) Project Management
9 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.24%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (8.24%) High Availability
9 7 (8.24%) Neuroscience
9 7 (8.24%) TOGAF
9 7 (8.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) SQL
2 10 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.06%) Python
4 6 (7.06%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.71%) Bash
6 2 (2.35%) C#
6 2 (2.35%) R
6 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (31.76%) Degree
1 27 (31.76%) MCP
2 22 (25.88%) Azure Certification
3 16 (18.82%) A+ Certification
4 15 (17.65%) MCSE
5 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
5 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
6 13 (15.29%) DV Cleared
7 12 (14.12%) CCNA
7 12 (14.12%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.53%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.53%) MCITP
10 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.35%) MCSA
10 2 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.18%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 13 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.41%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) SCCM
2 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (84.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.65%) VMware
3 12 (14.12%) Adobe
3 12 (14.12%) Apple
4 6 (7.06%) McAfee
4 6 (7.06%) Rapid7
4 6 (7.06%) Splunk
5 4 (4.71%) Veeam
6 2 (2.35%) Cisco
6 2 (2.35%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.35%) RedGate
7 1 (1.18%) Citrix
7 1 (1.18%) Dell
7 1 (1.18%) Draytek
7 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.18%) Juniper
7 1 (1.18%) Sage
7 1 (1.18%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.18%) WatchGuard