Microsoft Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 67 294 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 12.32% 20.35% 24.86%
As % of the Vendors category 22.04% 56.54% 54.83%
Number of salaries quoted 52 249 77
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £26,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,000 £40,865
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +5.22% +8.97%
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £65,121 £67,500
North East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,683
% change year-on-year -5.88% +4.47% +1.71%

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 304 520 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 55.88% 35.99% 45.35%
Number of salaries quoted 178 434 215
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £30,850
25th Percentile - £33,500 £38,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.25% -10.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,166 £80,250
North East median annual salary £25,087 £43,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -42.33% -8.42% +18.75%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Microsoft in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Tyne and Wear

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 51 £55,000 +22.22% 74
Sunderland +1 7 £35,000 -30.00% 5
Gateshead -1 6 £40,000 +14.29% 9
South Shields - 3 - -
Microsoft
North East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (5.97%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) Azure
2 15 (22.39%) Entra ID
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.48%) AWS
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
6 2 (2.99%) Slack
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) SAN
2 4 (5.97%) Firewall
3 1 (1.49%) NAS
3 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.49%) VLAN
3 1 (1.49%) VoIP
3 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (31.34%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
2 5 (7.46%) Power BI
3 4 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) TeamCity
2 3 (4.48%) Artifactory
2 3 (4.48%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.99%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) NUnit
3 2 (2.99%) Selenium
3 2 (2.99%) SpecFlow
3 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (32.84%) Finance
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Advertising
3 4 (5.97%) Banking
3 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.97%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.97%) Marketing
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Front Office
4 1 (1.49%) Law
4 1 (1.49%) Retail
4 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (19.40%) Identity Management Specialist
1 13 (19.40%) Technology Specialist
2 12 (17.91%) Developer
3 8 (11.94%) Administrator
3 8 (11.94%) Analyst
3 8 (11.94%) IT Support
3 8 (11.94%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) IT Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) IT Support Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Support Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.97%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (5.97%) C# Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Corporate Sales Executive
6 4 (5.97%) DBA
6 4 (5.97%) Sales Executive
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) .NET
2 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
2 4 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.99%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.49%) HTML
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) Kendo UI
4 1 (1.49%) PySpark
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) NHS
2 7 (10.45%) Hedge funds
3 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Windows
2 6 (8.96%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.97%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (22.39%) ITIL
3 13 (19.40%) Identity Management
4 11 (16.42%) Computer Science
5 10 (14.93%) DevOps
6 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
6 8 (11.94%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (8.96%) Analytics
8 6 (8.96%) Customer Experience
8 6 (8.96%) Data Entry
9 5 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (7.46%) OOP
9 5 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (5.97%) Change Data Capture
10 4 (5.97%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (5.97%) Data Cleansing
10 4 (5.97%) Email Marketing
10 4 (5.97%) High Availability
10 4 (5.97%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) SQL
2 13 (19.40%) C#
2 13 (19.40%) Python
3 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.45%) Java
5 3 (4.48%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.49%) C
6 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.49%) R
6 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (43.28%) Degree
2 17 (25.37%) DBS Check
3 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) HNC
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CCDA
5 1 (1.49%) CCNA
5 1 (1.49%) CCNP
5 1 (1.49%) CIPD
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.49%) MCSD
5 1 (1.49%) MCSE
5 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.48%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
3 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (26.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.97%) Docker
4 3 (4.48%) vSphere
5 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.97%) Ansible
1 4 (5.97%) Docker Swarm
1 4 (5.97%) Grafana
1 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.97%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Control-M
3 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Cisco
2 6 (8.96%) VMware
3 4 (5.97%) Dell
3 4 (5.97%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.49%) Databricks
5 1 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.49%) Telerik
5 1 (1.49%) Veeam
5 1 (1.49%) WatchGuard