Microsoft Certification Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 221 219
Rank change year-on-year +26 -2 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 867 775 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.61% 1.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.14% 4.24% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 620 510 854
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £59,313 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,873 18,275 26,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.85% 37.96% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,460 7,807 11,272
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £28,109
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Midlands +23 230 £40,000 -15.79% 23
North of England +26 224 £38,000 -15.56% 47
South East +3 176 £38,000 -14.92% 40
West Midlands +28 148 £39,000 -22.00% 18
North West -10 105 £40,000 -11.11% 13
South West +3 103 £42,500 - 29
East Midlands -1 82 £41,500 +2.47% 5
Yorkshire +45 78 £37,500 -23.08% 23
East of England -5 61 £42,500 -22.73% 16
North East +24 43 £32,500 - 14
Scotland -33 40 £55,000 +23.60% 11
Wales +26 28 £40,000 +3.90% 4
Northern Ireland +17 6 £45,000 -37.93% 11
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 137 (15.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (11.07%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.04%) SharePoint 2010
3 9 (1.04%) SharePoint 2013
4 5 (0.58%) CMS
4 5 (0.58%) Confluence
5 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) Moodle
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 114 (13.15%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 473 (54.56%) Azure
2 356 (41.06%) Microsoft 365
3 137 (15.80%) Power Platform
4 87 (10.03%) Entra ID
5 68 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
6 60 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (6.69%) AWS
8 39 (4.50%) Azure AI
8 39 (4.50%) IBM Cloud
9 35 (4.04%) OneDrive
10 31 (3.58%) PowerApps
11 24 (2.77%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.73%) GCP
14 14 (1.61%) SaaS
15 13 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.50%) PaaS
16 12 (1.38%) Azure AKS
16 12 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (1.38%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 139 (16.03%) Firewall
2 115 (13.26%) Network Security
3 105 (12.11%) Internet
4 84 (9.69%) WLAN
5 70 (8.07%) DNS
6 68 (7.84%) TCP/IP
7 65 (7.50%) SAN
8 62 (7.15%) DHCP
9 60 (6.92%) VPN
10 55 (6.34%) Broadband
11 51 (5.88%) WAN
12 47 (5.42%) LAN
13 41 (4.73%) VLAN
14 40 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (3.58%) VoIP
16 30 (3.46%) NAS
17 26 (3.00%) Wireless
18 20 (2.31%) Remote Desktop
19 16 (1.85%) Intranet
20 10 (1.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (12.92%) SQL Server
2 101 (11.65%) Power BI
3 66 (7.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.92%) MySQL
9 6 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.58%) Big Data
10 5 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.58%) Power Query
10 5 (0.58%) Redis
10 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.35%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.35%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.35%) Metadata
11 3 (0.35%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (2.08%) Git
2 16 (1.85%) JIRA
3 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.35%) Axure RP
4 3 (0.35%) GitLab
4 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.12%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) Hudson
6 1 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 343 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 97 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (7.27%) Finance
4 61 (7.04%) Public Sector
5 31 (3.58%) Law
6 30 (3.46%) Retail
7 24 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 23 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.19%) Legal
11 17 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.73%) General Ledger
13 13 (1.50%) Local Government
14 12 (1.38%) Police
15 11 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (1.04%) Marketing
18 8 (0.92%) Automotive
18 8 (0.92%) Banking
18 8 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 189 (21.80%) Support Engineer
2 184 (21.22%) IT Support
3 160 (18.45%) IT Engineer
4 119 (13.73%) IT Support Engineer
5 59 (6.81%) DBA
6 57 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 57 (6.57%) SQL DBA
7 56 (6.46%) Analyst
8 54 (6.23%) 2nd Line Support
9 52 (6.00%) Architect
9 52 (6.00%) Lead
10 48 (5.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 47 (5.42%) 3rd Line Support
12 46 (5.31%) IT Technician
13 44 (5.07%) Senior
14 42 (4.84%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 41 (4.73%) Developer
16 38 (4.38%) Consultant
17 37 (4.27%) Desktop Engineer
17 37 (4.27%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.00%) CSS
1 26 (3.00%) HTML
2 23 (2.65%) .NET
3 11 (1.27%) ADO
4 10 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (1.04%) .NET Core
6 7 (0.81%) jQuery
6 7 (0.81%) Loki
7 6 (0.69%) Middleware
7 6 (0.69%) React
8 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.58%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.58%) YAML
9 3 (0.35%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.35%) PySpark
9 3 (0.35%) RESTful
10 2 (0.23%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.23%) MDX
10 2 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 129 (14.88%) Driving Licence
2 103 (11.88%) Onboarding
3 68 (7.84%) Data Centre
4 44 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 42 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (4.50%) Blockchain
7 37 (4.27%) Management Information System
8 35 (4.04%) Private Cloud
9 23 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
11 17 (1.96%) Smartphone
12 15 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.73%) Replication
12 15 (1.73%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.27%) Blackberry
13 11 (1.27%) PKI
13 11 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
14 8 (0.92%) NHS
15 7 (0.81%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 445 (51.33%) Windows
2 187 (21.57%) Windows Server
3 167 (19.26%) Linux
4 101 (11.65%) Windows 10
5 61 (7.04%) VMS
6 45 (5.19%) Debian
7 42 (4.84%) CentOS
8 41 (4.73%) Mac OS
9 39 (4.50%) Alpine Linux
9 39 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 29 (3.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
12 18 (2.08%) Apple iOS
13 15 (1.73%) Android
14 8 (0.92%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.69%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.69%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.46%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.46%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (36.79%) Problem-Solving
2 257 (29.64%) ITIL
3 197 (22.72%) Customer Service
4 161 (18.57%) Computer Science
5 114 (13.15%) Mentoring
6 97 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
7 96 (11.07%) DevOps
8 94 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 80 (9.23%) Asset Management
11 76 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
12 72 (8.30%) IT Asset Management
13 70 (8.07%) Network Management
14 66 (7.61%) Project Management
15 65 (7.50%) Agile
15 65 (7.50%) CI/CD
16 62 (7.15%) Collaborative Working
17 59 (6.81%) Presales
18 57 (6.57%) Performance Tuning
19 54 (6.23%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 157 (18.11%) SQL
2 54 (6.23%) PowerShell
3 48 (5.54%) C#
4 47 (5.42%) T-SQL
5 25 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.73%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.27%) Python
8 10 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.58%) Bicep
10 4 (0.46%) Java
11 3 (0.35%) C++
12 2 (0.23%) Bash
12 2 (0.23%) C
12 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.23%) Go
13 1 (0.12%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.12%) PHP
13 1 (0.12%) Swift
13 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 313 (36.10%) Degree
2 263 (30.33%) MCSE
3 182 (20.99%) MCP
4 164 (18.92%) Cisco Certification
5 152 (17.53%) CCNA
6 147 (16.96%) Azure Certification
7 132 (15.22%) MCSA
8 131 (15.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 111 (12.80%) A+ Certification
10 88 (10.15%) CCNP
11 70 (8.07%) DBS Check
12 68 (7.84%) Security Cleared
13 67 (7.73%) LPIC
14 63 (7.27%) SC Cleared
15 49 (5.65%) MCITP
16 35 (4.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 30 (3.46%) Network+ Certification
18 24 (2.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 21 (2.42%) HND
20 17 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.61%) SLA
2 32 (3.69%) GDPR
3 25 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.38%) ISO 9001
6 11 (1.27%) QA
7 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.46%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 360 (41.52%) Active Directory
2 134 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (13.49%) Hyper-V
4 57 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (5.42%) Docker
6 38 (4.38%) vSphere
7 16 (1.85%) XenDesktop
8 14 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (1.15%) XenApp
11 7 (0.81%) Firmware
12 4 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.35%) KVM
13 3 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.23%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 73 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 72 (8.30%) Terraform
3 70 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 49 (5.65%) SCCM
5 12 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.27%) SCOM
7 9 (1.04%) WSUS
8 8 (0.92%) Autotask
9 7 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.58%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.58%) Grafana
10 5 (0.58%) SmoothWall
11 4 (0.46%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.35%) Ansible
13 2 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.12%) yum
Vendors
1 792 (91.35%) Microsoft
2 198 (22.84%) VMware
3 137 (15.80%) Cisco
4 49 (5.65%) Apple
5 48 (5.54%) IBM
6 45 (5.19%) Red Hat
6 45 (5.19%) Veeam
7 40 (4.61%) Citrix
8 38 (4.38%) HP
9 30 (3.46%) Adobe
10 28 (3.23%) Dell
11 24 (2.77%) Google
12 22 (2.54%) SolarWinds
13 21 (2.42%) Meraki
14 16 (1.85%) McAfee
15 15 (1.73%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.73%) Sophos
16 14 (1.61%) ServiceNow
17 11 (1.27%) Databricks
18 10 (1.15%) Datto