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 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 62 290 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.42% 21.67% 23.42%
As % of the Vendors category 28.97% 56.75% 53.22%
Number of salaries quoted 55 252 74
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £26,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,000 £39,739
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +8.21% +5.97%
75th Percentile £69,375 £54,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £65,000 £63,750
North East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -

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 214 511 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 46.32% 38.19% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 138 437 213
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £37,934
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £45,000 £49,557
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% -9.20% +23.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £81,250
North East median annual salary £32,000 £43,036 £47,000
% change year-on-year -25.64% -8.43% +17.50%

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 10 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 10 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 -6 52 £55,000 +22.22% 73
Sunderland +5 6 £35,000 -17.65% 14
Gateshead -3 2 £29,000 -17.14% 10
South Shields - 1 - - 1
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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (6.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (53.23%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 7 (11.29%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.45%) AWS
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
6 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.23%) Slack
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.61%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.90%) SAN
2 5 (8.06%) Firewall
3 2 (3.23%) DHCP
3 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) NAS
3 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) LAN
4 1 (1.61%) VoIP
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
4 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.42%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.68%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.06%) Power BI
4 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Git
1 3 (4.84%) TeamCity
2 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.23%) NUnit
2 2 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (3.23%) Selenium
2 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.23%) SpecFlow
2 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (37.10%) Finance
3 10 (16.13%) Advertising
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.84%) Automotive
5 3 (4.84%) Marketing
5 3 (4.84%) Retail
6 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.23%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Front Office
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Senior
3 8 (12.90%) Administrator
4 6 (9.68%) .NET Developer
4 6 (9.68%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (9.68%) C# Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Analyst
5 5 (8.06%) Identity Management Specialist
5 5 (8.06%) IT Support
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Technology Specialist
6 4 (6.45%) DBA
6 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) IT Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) IT Support Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Support Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (4.84%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) .NET
2 8 (12.90%) .NET Core
3 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
4 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.45%) Blazor
4 4 (6.45%) React
5 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.23%) HTML
6 2 (3.23%) REST
6 2 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (1.61%) CSS
7 1 (1.61%) JSON
7 1 (1.61%) Kendo UI
7 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Hedge funds
2 5 (8.06%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.06%) Client/Server
2 5 (8.06%) Data Structures
2 5 (8.06%) NHS
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Replication
4 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.84%) Linux
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
3 9 (14.52%) DevOps
3 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
4 7 (11.29%) Agile
4 7 (11.29%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (11.29%) ITIL
4 7 (11.29%) OOP
5 6 (9.68%) Analytics
5 6 (9.68%) CI/CD
5 6 (9.68%) Design Patterns
5 6 (9.68%) SDLC
6 5 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (8.06%) Fintech
6 5 (8.06%) Identity Management
6 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.45%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (6.45%) Data Management
7 4 (6.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) SQL
2 18 (29.03%) C#
3 14 (22.58%) Python
4 9 (14.52%) Java
5 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.61%) R
8 1 (1.61%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (37.10%) Degree
2 9 (14.52%) DBS Check
3 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.61%) CCDA
5 1 (1.61%) CCNA
5 1 (1.61%) CCNP
5 1 (1.61%) CIPD
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) MCSD
5 1 (1.61%) MCSE
5 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.84%) Docker
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) vSphere
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Ansible
1 3 (4.84%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (4.84%) Grafana
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) VMware
2 4 (6.45%) Cisco
2 4 (6.45%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.23%) Dell
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) SAP
4 1 (1.61%) Telerik