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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 213 267
Rank change year-on-year -34 +54 -40
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 459 966 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.36% 1.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.15% 4.95% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 356 795 607
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £23,750
25th Percentile £28,688 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.61% -2.35%
75th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.17%

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 21,314 19,515 21,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.41% 27.48% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,928 12,241 8,204
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 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
South East -8 108 £42,500 +8.97% 138
Midlands +19 105 £35,000 -7.89% 74
North of England -82 98 £37,500 -6.25% 105
West Midlands +26 82 £35,000 -7.89% 43
South West +90 70 £31,500 -21.25% 59
East of England +7 62 £30,000 -25.00% 61
North West -55 53 £37,500 -6.25% 47
Yorkshire +24 39 £32,000 -20.00% 43
East Midlands -7 23 £35,000 -21.55% 27
Scotland +91 8 £40,000 -30.43% 37
Wales +22 8 £38,094 +41.09% 6
North East -13 6 £37,500 +15.38% 17
Isle of Man +15 2 £34,500 -31.00% 1
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 58 (12.64%) SharePoint
2 53 (11.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.87%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 53 (11.55%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.87%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.65%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 235 (51.20%) Azure
2 222 (48.37%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (19.83%) Entra ID
4 51 (11.11%) AWS
5 45 (9.80%) Power Platform
6 42 (9.15%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (6.97%) OneDrive
8 30 (6.54%) SaaS
9 26 (5.66%) Power Automate
9 26 (5.66%) PowerApps
10 22 (4.79%) PaaS
11 21 (4.58%) GCP
12 18 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (3.27%) IaaS
14 14 (3.05%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
16 6 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 5 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 5 (1.09%) GitHub
17 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 96 (20.92%) Firewall
2 92 (20.04%) DNS
3 66 (14.38%) DHCP
4 47 (10.24%) WAN
5 45 (9.80%) VLAN
6 44 (9.59%) WLAN
7 41 (8.93%) VPN
8 40 (8.71%) LAN
9 38 (8.28%) TCP/IP
10 35 (7.63%) Network Security
11 29 (6.32%) Internet
12 20 (4.36%) Wireless
13 16 (3.49%) Remote Desktop
14 14 (3.05%) BGP
14 14 (3.05%) OSPF
14 14 (3.05%) SD-WAN
14 14 (3.05%) VoIP
15 13 (2.83%) SAN
16 12 (2.61%) Wireshark
17 10 (2.18%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.71%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.23%) Power BI
3 11 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.87%) Metabase
5 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.44%) Big Data
7 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.22%) MySQL
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.22%) Power Query
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (3.27%) JIRA
2 6 (1.31%) Git
3 5 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 225 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 43 (9.37%) Finance
3 41 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.97%) Law
5 27 (5.88%) Retail
6 20 (4.36%) Automotive
7 18 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.49%) Legal
9 14 (3.05%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.74%) Welsh Language
12 6 (1.31%) Banking
12 6 (1.31%) Marketing
13 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.65%) Advertising
15 3 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 108 (23.53%) IT Support
2 86 (18.74%) Support Engineer
3 79 (17.21%) IT Engineer
4 73 (15.90%) Analyst
5 56 (12.20%) Senior
6 53 (11.55%) IT Support Engineer
7 48 (10.46%) Support Analyst
8 47 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 42 (9.15%) 2nd Line Support
10 37 (8.06%) Technical Support
11 26 (5.66%) 1st Line Support
12 22 (4.79%) Developer
13 20 (4.36%) Consultant
13 20 (4.36%) IT Analyst
14 19 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (4.14%) Support Technician
15 18 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support
15 18 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
16 17 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
17 15 (3.27%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.36%) .NET
2 12 (2.61%) ASP.NET
3 8 (1.74%) CSS
3 8 (1.74%) HTML
4 7 (1.53%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.53%) Middleware
5 6 (1.31%) WPF
6 5 (1.09%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.87%) CSS3
7 4 (0.87%) HTML5
7 4 (0.87%) Web Services
7 4 (0.87%) XML
8 3 (0.65%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.65%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.65%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.65%) LESS
8 3 (0.65%) REST
8 3 (0.65%) SAML
8 3 (0.65%) Sass
9 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 35 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.49%) Smartphone
5 15 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.40%) IoT
7 10 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.53%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.53%) Replication
9 6 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.09%) Blackberry
10 5 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.09%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 262 (57.08%) Windows
2 122 (26.58%) Windows Server
3 105 (22.88%) Linux
4 60 (13.07%) Windows 10
5 34 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (6.75%) Mac OS
6 31 (6.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (6.32%) Mac OS X
8 22 (4.79%) Ubuntu
9 11 (2.40%) Apple iOS
10 9 (1.96%) Android
11 7 (1.53%) CentOS
11 7 (1.53%) Windows 7
11 7 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.87%) Unix
12 4 (0.87%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (43.79%) Problem-Solving
2 147 (32.03%) ITIL
3 120 (26.14%) Customer Service
4 78 (16.99%) Mentoring
5 69 (15.03%) Computer Science
6 53 (11.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 50 (10.89%) Service Management
8 42 (9.15%) Agile
9 40 (8.71%) ITSM
10 38 (8.28%) Asset Management
11 36 (7.84%) Migration
12 35 (7.63%) Coaching
13 33 (7.19%) IT Asset Management
14 31 (6.75%) Network Management
14 31 (6.75%) Roadmaps
15 30 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (6.32%) Proactive Monitoring
16 29 (6.32%) Service Delivery
17 28 (6.10%) Collaborative Working
17 28 (6.10%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.34%) PowerShell
2 72 (15.69%) SQL
3 31 (6.75%) Python
4 22 (4.79%) C#
5 14 (3.05%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.74%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.53%) C++
7 7 (1.53%) X++
8 4 (0.87%) Bash
8 4 (0.87%) VB
9 3 (0.65%) Bicep
9 3 (0.65%) C
9 3 (0.65%) Java
9 3 (0.65%) Objective-C
9 3 (0.65%) PHP
10 2 (0.44%) VBScript
11 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.22%) Delphi
11 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 128 (27.89%) MCSE
2 115 (25.05%) Degree
3 95 (20.70%) MCP
4 94 (20.48%) MCSA
5 86 (18.74%) Azure Certification
6 80 (17.43%) Cisco Certification
7 72 (15.69%) A+ Certification
8 68 (14.81%) CCNA
9 65 (14.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (12.64%) CCNP
11 53 (11.55%) Network+ Certification
12 35 (7.63%) Security Cleared
13 32 (6.97%) MCITP
14 30 (6.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 28 (6.10%) LPIC
15 28 (6.10%) SC Cleared
16 17 (3.70%) HND
17 15 (3.27%) AWS Certification
17 15 (3.27%) DBS Check
18 14 (3.05%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.97%) SLA
2 20 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (2.61%) GDPR
5 4 (0.87%) NIST
5 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.87%) QA
6 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 2 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 207 (45.10%) Active Directory
2 54 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (9.37%) Hyper-V
4 28 (6.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.18%) vSphere
7 8 (1.74%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.09%) Docker
9 3 (0.65%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.44%) Firmware
11 1 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.22%) LXC
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.22%) Samba
11 1 (0.22%) XenApp
11 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (4.79%) SCCM
3 18 (3.92%) Terraform
4 7 (1.53%) PaperCut
5 5 (1.09%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (1.09%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.87%) Ansible
6 4 (0.87%) Autotask
6 4 (0.87%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.87%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.65%) Iperf
7 3 (0.65%) SmoothWall
7 3 (0.65%) WMI
8 2 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.44%) Nessus
8 2 (0.44%) vRealize
8 2 (0.44%) VxRail
8 2 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 395 (86.06%) Microsoft
2 96 (20.92%) Cisco
3 73 (15.90%) VMware
4 38 (8.28%) Google
5 29 (6.32%) Apple
6 26 (5.66%) Dell
7 25 (5.45%) Fortinet
8 16 (3.49%) Palo Alto
9 15 (3.27%) Ubiquiti
10 13 (2.83%) Citrix
11 11 (2.40%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.18%) Veeam
13 9 (1.96%) SonicWALL
13 9 (1.96%) WatchGuard
14 8 (1.74%) HP
14 8 (1.74%) Oracle
14 8 (1.74%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.53%) SAP
15 7 (1.53%) SolarWinds
16 6 (1.31%) Aruba