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 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 133 157
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 52 58 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.81% 1.61% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.11% 3.83% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 51 49 45
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,650 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +11.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,100 £62,000
South East median annual salary £39,000 £45,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +18.42% -14.92%

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 1,265 1,515 1,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.79% 42.11% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 739 482 1,026
10th Percentile £33,225 £30,125 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,375 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.96% -2.29% -

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +31 30 £47,500 -7.32% 13
Buckinghamshire -24 12 £67,500 +92.86% 5
Oxfordshire -21 10 £32,500 -1.89% 4
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 17 (32.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 17 (32.69%) SharePoint
2 10 (19.23%) Apache
2 10 (19.23%) nginx
3 2 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (61.54%) Azure
2 31 (59.62%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (36.54%) Entra ID
4 8 (15.38%) IaaS
5 6 (11.54%) Google Workspace
5 6 (11.54%) SaaS
6 5 (9.62%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (7.69%) AWS
7 4 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.85%) GCP
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub
8 2 (3.85%) PaaS
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (51.92%) DNS
2 24 (46.15%) Firewall
3 19 (36.54%) DHCP
4 13 (25.00%) VPN
5 12 (23.08%) VLAN
6 9 (17.31%) SSL
7 7 (13.46%) VoIP
8 6 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
10 4 (7.69%) LAN
10 4 (7.69%) WAN
10 4 (7.69%) Wireless
11 2 (3.85%) Internet
12 1 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 39 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Retail
3 11 (21.15%) Finance
4 10 (19.23%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.92%) Law
7 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) IT Support
2 10 (19.23%) IT Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) IT Support Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) NOC Manager
2 10 (19.23%) Operations Manager
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
2 10 (19.23%) Support Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 8 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) IT Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) IT Support Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) Support Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (11.54%) Senior IT Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior IT Support
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Web Services
2 2 (3.85%) CSS
2 2 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.92%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (67.31%) Windows
2 26 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (19.23%) Linux
4 9 (17.31%) Windows 10
5 6 (11.54%) Mac OS
6 5 (9.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.92%) Android
7 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (38.46%) Customer Service
2 20 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (32.69%) High Availability
5 10 (19.23%) Project Delivery
5 10 (19.23%) Systems Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
7 7 (13.46%) Business Continuity
7 7 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (13.46%) ITIL
7 7 (13.46%) Kalman Filter
7 7 (13.46%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 6 (11.54%) Data Privacy
8 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
8 6 (11.54%) Migration
8 6 (11.54%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (11.54%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.77%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) R
3 2 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (1.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) Degree
2 13 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 12 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (17.31%) A+ Certification
5 8 (15.38%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (11.54%) CCNA
6 6 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (11.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (11.54%) DBS Check
7 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
7 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
8 4 (7.69%) MCSE
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.92%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (32.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (13.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (5.77%) NCSC
4 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Active Directory
2 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (19.23%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (13.46%) Hyper-V
5 5 (9.62%) Squid
5 5 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (46.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (11.54%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (9.62%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 52 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (36.54%) VMware
3 17 (32.69%) Veeam
4 8 (15.38%) Cisco
5 7 (13.46%) Apple
5 7 (13.46%) SonicWALL
6 6 (11.54%) Datto
6 6 (11.54%) Google
7 5 (9.62%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.92%) Adobe
8 1 (1.92%) Citrix
8 1 (1.92%) ConnectWise
8 1 (1.92%) Dell
8 1 (1.92%) Draytek
8 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.92%) Juniper
8 1 (1.92%) WatchGuard