Microsoft Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 718 718
Rank change year-on-year +154 0 +110
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 27 39 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.054% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.057% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 24 37 20
10th Percentile £52,875 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £44,942 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £61,563
90th Percentile £87,500 £64,000 £66,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £45,828 £60,000
% change year-on-year +52.75% -23.62% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Midlands +61 12 £62,500 +16.28% 7
West Midlands +59 9 £70,000 +30.23% 3
South East +90 7 £70,000 +52.75% 6
North of England +41 7 £70,000 +55.56% 7
North West -6 4 £70,000 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 4
Yorkshire +72 2 £75,000 +25.00%
North East +30 1 £85,000 +88.89% 2
South West - 1 £32,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 1
Microsoft Developer
UK

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Microsoft Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 26 (96.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (59.26%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) Dynamics 365
2 16 (59.26%) Power Platform
3 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
3 11 (40.74%) .NET
3 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
4 10 (37.04%) C#
4 10 (37.04%) SQL
5 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (33.33%) Finance
5 9 (33.33%) Migration
5 9 (33.33%) T-SQL
6 8 (29.63%) CRM
6 8 (29.63%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (25.93%) Agile
7 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
7 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
7 7 (25.93%) Refactoring
8 6 (22.22%) Workflow
8 6 (22.22%) PowerApps
9 5 (18.52%) Private Cloud
9 5 (18.52%) Power BI
9 5 (18.52%) Fintech
9 5 (18.52%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (18.52%) SQL CLR
9 5 (18.52%) High Availability
9 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
9 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
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 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Azure
1 16 (59.26%) Dynamics 365
1 16 (59.26%) Power Platform
2 6 (22.22%) PowerApps
3 5 (18.52%) SaaS
4 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (18.52%) Data Hub
3 5 (18.52%) Metadata
3 5 (18.52%) Power BI
3 5 (18.52%) SQL CLR
3 5 (18.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Back Office
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Law
4 3 (11.11%) Marketing
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) .NET
2 4 (14.81%) HTML
3 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (11.11%) CSS
3 3 (11.11%) JSON
3 3 (11.11%) WCF
3 3 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (7.41%) Blazor
4 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) WPF
5 1 (3.70%) RESTful
5 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Private Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Migration
2 8 (29.63%) CRM
3 7 (25.93%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Refactoring
4 6 (22.22%) Workflow
5 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
5 5 (18.52%) Fintech
5 5 (18.52%) High Availability
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (18.52%) Statistics
5 5 (18.52%) Wealth Management
6 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) SDLC
7 3 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 3 (11.11%) Data Integration
7 3 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
2 10 (37.04%) C#
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 3 (11.11%) VB
5 2 (7.41%) Python
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 26 (96.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) VMware