Microsoft Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 694 714
Rank change year-on-year +135 +20 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 17 66 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.093% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.098% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 16 65 29
10th Percentile - £31,250 £30,350
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,155
Median % change year-on-year - +6.75% -11.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £55,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +4.44% -29.41% +10.87%

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 35,491 67,312 53,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.80% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,637 47,638 30,603
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer 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
North of England +49 7 £45,000 +6.51% 5
North West +15 6 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Midlands +72 5 £32,500 -9.72% 2
East Midlands - 5 £32,500 -
South East +71 4 £50,000 +11.11% 10
North East +45 1 £42,500 -15.00%
East of England - 1 £32,500 - 4
Microsoft Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Microsoft Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
4 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (35.29%) Windows
6 6 (35.29%) Degree
6 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
6 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
7 5 (29.41%) Migration
8 4 (23.53%) CCNA
8 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (23.53%) Azure
8 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
9 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
9 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
9 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
9 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
9 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
10 2 (11.76%) AWS
10 2 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
10 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (11.76%) Linux
10 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
10 2 (11.76%) Data Security
10 2 (11.76%) VMware
10 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
10 2 (11.76%) Power Platform

Microsoft Engineer 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 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (11.76%) Data Security
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.88%) E-Discovery
5 1 (5.88%) High Availability
5 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (5.88%) ITSM
5 1 (5.88%) Line Management
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.88%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) CCNA
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.88%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Dovecot
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Imperva
3 1 (5.88%) Okta
3 1 (5.88%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat