Microsoft Certification Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 149 160
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 62 47 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.83% 1.24% 0.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% 2.93% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 61 39 20
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £26,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £41,088
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -14.82% -26.32%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,125 £63,125
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,850 £69,875
South East median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £44,175
% change year-on-year - -9.45% +10.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,362 1,603 1,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.27% 42.41% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 804 497 679
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,650 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -15.97% +5.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

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 27 September 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
Berkshire +27 41 £45,000 -4.26% 3
Oxfordshire -32 13 £32,500 -3.70% 3
Buckinghamshire -16 8 £67,500 +92.86% 7
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 30 (48.39%) SharePoint
2 26 (41.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (16.13%) Apache
3 10 (16.13%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (74.19%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (59.68%) Azure
3 31 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 11 (17.74%) Google Workspace
5 10 (16.13%) IaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.61%) AWS
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.61%) GCP
8 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (59.68%) DNS
2 32 (51.61%) DHCP
2 32 (51.61%) Firewall
3 19 (30.65%) VLAN
4 18 (29.03%) VPN
5 15 (24.19%) SSL
5 15 (24.19%) VoIP
6 13 (20.97%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (9.68%) Wireless
9 4 (6.45%) LAN
9 4 (6.45%) WAN
10 2 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Power BI
1 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.61%) Power Query
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Git
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 54 (87.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Retail
3 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 10 (16.13%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (48.39%) IT Support
2 15 (24.19%) IT Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) IT Support Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Support Engineer
3 12 (19.35%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 12 (19.35%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support
3 12 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (19.35%) IT Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) IT Support Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Senior
3 12 (19.35%) Support Analyst
4 11 (17.74%) Senior IT Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Senior IT Support
4 11 (17.74%) Senior Support Engineer
5 10 (16.13%) NOC Manager
5 10 (16.13%) Operations Manager
6 7 (11.29%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Web Services
2 1 (1.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 47 (75.81%) Windows
2 34 (54.84%) Windows Server
3 12 (19.35%) Windows 10
4 11 (17.74%) Mac OS
5 10 (16.13%) Linux
6 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.61%) Android
8 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (58.06%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (51.61%) Customer Service
3 28 (45.16%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (33.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (32.26%) High Availability
6 16 (25.81%) Project Delivery
7 14 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (22.58%) Migration
8 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
9 11 (17.74%) Data Privacy
9 11 (17.74%) Kalman Filter
9 11 (17.74%) Mobile Device Management
10 10 (16.13%) Business Continuity
10 10 (16.13%) ITIL
10 10 (16.13%) Systems Engineering
10 10 (16.13%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 9 (14.52%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (14.52%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (14.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.23%) Python
2 2 (3.23%) SQL
3 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 29 (46.77%) Degree
2 16 (25.81%) A+ Certification
2 16 (25.81%) Network+ Certification
3 14 (22.58%) Azure Certification
4 11 (17.74%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (17.74%) DBS Check
5 10 (16.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (8.06%) CCNA
6 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.61%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (41.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (20.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (6.45%) NCSC
4 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.61%) GDPR
5 1 (1.61%) IASME
5 1 (1.61%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 32 (51.61%) Active Directory
2 23 (37.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (20.97%) Hyper-V
4 10 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (8.06%) Squid
5 5 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (58.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (17.74%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (8.06%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (37.10%) VMware
3 21 (33.87%) Veeam
4 15 (24.19%) Apple
5 11 (17.74%) Cisco
5 11 (17.74%) Datto
5 11 (17.74%) Google
5 11 (17.74%) SonicWALL
6 4 (6.45%) ConnectWise
6 4 (6.45%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.61%) Databricks