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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 153 155
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +40
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 40 43 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.09% 0.99% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.95% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 37 20 36
10th Percentile £27,250 - -
25th Percentile £31,875 £25,750 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £27,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -42.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £57,081
90th Percentile £66,000 £68,750 £67,500
South East median annual salary £37,500 £44,588 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.90% +11.47% -13.98%

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 1,326 1,460 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.21% 33.51% 44.64%
Number of salaries quoted 491 570 941
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,491 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,759 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% +11.16% +4.69%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,200 £83,750
South East median annual salary £51,400 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -10.61% +9.42% +1.06%

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 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
Buckinghamshire +18 18 £35,000 -41.67% 13
Oxfordshire +15 14 £28,500 +3.64% 10
Berkshire +5 8 £40,250 -8.89% 37
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 2 (5.00%) IIS
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
3 12 (30.00%) GCP
3 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.00%) GitHub
4 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.50%) IaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) DNS
2 14 (35.00%) DHCP
3 7 (17.50%) Firewall
3 7 (17.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (12.50%) VPN
4 5 (12.50%) WAN
5 4 (10.00%) LAN
6 3 (7.50%) InfiniBand
6 3 (7.50%) VLAN
7 2 (5.00%) Internet
7 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) Metadata
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 29 (72.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) IT Support
2 11 (27.50%) Support Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) IT Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) Applications Support
4 7 (17.50%) Applications Support Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) Senior
4 7 (17.50%) Support Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Developer
6 4 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
6 4 (10.00%) IT Technician
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Support Technician
7 3 (7.50%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Help Desk Technician
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Support Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Trainee
8 2 (5.00%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
2 2 (5.00%) CSS
2 2 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) CMDB
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.00%) Linux
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (32.50%) Customer Service
3 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (10.00%) Data Management
4 4 (10.00%) DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (7.50%) ITIL
5 3 (7.50%) Low Latency
5 3 (7.50%) Migration
5 3 (7.50%) Project Planning
5 3 (7.50%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.00%) Analytics
6 2 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (5.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
3 3 (7.50%) C#
3 3 (7.50%) Perl
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Degree
2 10 (25.00%) MCP
2 10 (25.00%) MCSE
3 8 (20.00%) A+ Certification
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (10.00%) RHCE
5 4 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (7.50%) LPIC
6 3 (7.50%) MCSA
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.50%) CCNA
8 1 (2.50%) CCNP
8 1 (2.50%) CISSP
8 1 (2.50%) OCP
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.50%) GPFS
4 3 (7.50%) Lustre
4 3 (7.50%) NFS
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (2.50%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) VMware
3 7 (17.50%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix
5 1 (2.50%) Commvault
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) Veeam