Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 January 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
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 6,524 7,918 12,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.17% 18.18% 21.15%
As % of the Vendors category 43.44% 47.38% 48.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,301 6,442 7,205
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,941
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,017 16,712 26,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.63% 38.36% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,805 12,442 13,980
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,238 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -8.70% +4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 January 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 -1 1,659 £47,500 +5.56% 429
South East -4 1,499 £50,000 +5.26% 406
Midlands -1 1,213 £46,819 +4.04% 302
North West -3 1,059 £50,000 +11.11% 252
South West 0 861 £46,500 -2.11% 186
West Midlands -2 822 £50,000 +11.11% 173
East of England -2 688 £47,500 +18.75% 200
Yorkshire -4 465 £45,000 - 119
Scotland -4 423 £52,000 +9.93% 58
East Midlands -5 390 £44,750 -0.56% 129
Wales -1 140 £52,592 +26.43% 30
North East -7 137 £42,500 -5.56% 64
Northern Ireland +5 68 £52,500 +23.53% 15
Isle of Man -5 7 £38,000 -15.56% 3
Channel Islands -5 4 £61,500 +30.85%
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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
1 680 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 519 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 73 (1.12%) IIS
4 48 (0.74%) Confluence
5 32 (0.49%) CMS
6 26 (0.40%) OpenEdge
7 23 (0.35%) Apache
7 23 (0.35%) SAS
8 17 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 13 (0.20%) Kentico
10 12 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 11 (0.17%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 11 (0.17%) WordPress
12 9 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (0.14%) nginx
13 7 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.077%) IBM Notes
14 5 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,530 (23.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1,003 (15.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 460 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 179 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.44%) Acrobat
7 25 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 21 (0.32%) Photoshop
9 20 (0.31%) AutoCAD
10 14 (0.21%) Chatbot
11 10 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
12 9 (0.14%) Fireworks
12 9 (0.14%) RoboHelp
13 5 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.077%) Trello
14 4 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.061%) InDesign
15 3 (0.046%) MadCap Flare
15 3 (0.046%) Productboard
16 1 (0.015%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 198 (3.03%) Teamcenter
2 139 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (0.61%) NEC Housing
4 26 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 22 (0.34%) Shopify
6 17 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 17 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.21%) Maximo
7 14 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.18%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.17%) Sage X3
9 11 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 8 (0.12%) Magento
11 8 (0.12%) SAP GTS
11 8 (0.12%) SAP PM
12 7 (0.11%) Primavera
12 7 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.092%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2,360 (36.17%) Azure
2 1,770 (27.13%) Microsoft 365
3 820 (12.57%) Power Platform
4 450 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 437 (6.70%) Entra ID
6 398 (6.10%) AWS
7 338 (5.18%) PowerApps
8 317 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
8 317 (4.86%) Power Automate
9 268 (4.11%) SaaS
10 235 (3.60%) PaaS
11 228 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
12 223 (3.42%) IaaS
13 204 (3.13%) Serverless
14 186 (2.85%) Azure Functions
15 174 (2.67%) OneDrive
16 142 (2.18%) GitHub
17 106 (1.62%) GCP
18 105 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 92 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 577 (8.84%) Firewall
2 475 (7.28%) DNS
3 360 (5.52%) DHCP
4 296 (4.54%) VPN
5 294 (4.51%) LAN
5 294 (4.51%) TCP/IP
6 292 (4.48%) WAN
7 287 (4.40%) Internet
8 276 (4.23%) Network Security
9 236 (3.62%) WLAN
10 177 (2.71%) VLAN
11 152 (2.33%) SAN
12 117 (1.79%) VoIP
12 117 (1.79%) Wireless
13 116 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
14 69 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
15 67 (1.03%) NAS
16 56 (0.86%) SSL
17 54 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
18 47 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 792 (12.14%) SQL Server
2 419 (6.42%) Power BI
3 143 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 129 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 115 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 114 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 88 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 75 (1.15%) Tableau
9 65 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 54 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
12 46 (0.71%) MySQL
13 37 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 32 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
15 22 (0.34%) Redis
16 20 (0.31%) GIS
16 20 (0.31%) Metadata
16 20 (0.31%) NoSQL
17 19 (0.29%) Oracle Database
17 19 (0.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 293 (4.49%) JIRA
2 167 (2.56%) Visual Studio
3 147 (2.25%) Git
4 38 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 33 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 22 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 21 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
8 18 (0.28%) webpack
9 15 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (0.21%) Babel
10 14 (0.21%) GitLab
11 13 (0.20%) Postman
11 13 (0.20%) Selenium
11 13 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 11 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (0.092%) NUnit
14 6 (0.092%) Subversion
15 5 (0.077%) SpecFlow
General
1 2,415 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 847 (12.98%) Finance
3 716 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 534 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 472 (7.23%) Manufacturing
6 332 (5.09%) Retail
7 269 (4.12%) Automotive
8 268 (4.11%) Legal
9 265 (4.06%) Law
10 256 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
11 223 (3.42%) Public Sector
12 205 (3.14%) Marketing
13 196 (3.00%) Aerospace
14 183 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
15 180 (2.76%) Telecoms
16 93 (1.43%) Banking
16 93 (1.43%) Police
17 90 (1.38%) Local Government
18 75 (1.15%) Billing
18 75 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,074 (16.46%) Senior
2 790 (12.11%) Analyst
3 607 (9.30%) Developer
4 593 (9.09%) IT Support
5 528 (8.09%) IT Engineer
6 477 (7.31%) Support Engineer
7 425 (6.51%) Lead
8 329 (5.04%) Project Manager
9 326 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
10 310 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 278 (4.26%) Consultant
12 262 (4.02%) Architect
13 210 (3.22%) Systems Engineer
14 193 (2.96%) Service Analyst
15 186 (2.85%) IT Manager
16 184 (2.82%) Administrator
17 174 (2.67%) Service Desk Analyst
18 171 (2.62%) Senior Manager
19 159 (2.44%) Test Engineer
20 155 (2.38%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (9.67%) .NET
2 227 (3.48%) ASP.NET
3 224 (3.43%) HTML
4 213 (3.26%) .NET Framework
5 203 (3.11%) CSS
6 176 (2.70%) React
7 166 (2.54%) .NET Core
8 119 (1.82%) Entity Framework
9 105 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 103 (1.58%) REST
11 102 (1.56%) XML
12 101 (1.55%) HTML5
13 93 (1.43%) RESTful
14 89 (1.36%) JSON
15 84 (1.29%) Web Services
16 76 (1.16%) ASP.NET Web API
17 64 (0.98%) SOAP
18 58 (0.89%) ASP.NET Core
18 58 (0.89%) ASP.NET MVC
19 55 (0.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 383 (5.87%) Driving Licence
2 325 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 237 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
4 171 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 163 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 155 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 86 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 85 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 76 (1.16%) Replication
9 76 (1.16%) Social Media
10 74 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
11 73 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 64 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 63 (0.97%) Client/Server
13 63 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
13 63 (0.97%) Smartphone
14 61 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 55 (0.84%) CCTV
15 55 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
16 54 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,806 (27.68%) Windows
2 659 (10.10%) Linux
3 646 (9.90%) Windows Server
4 379 (5.81%) Windows 10
5 130 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 127 (1.95%) Android
7 120 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 111 (1.70%) Apple iOS
9 81 (1.24%) Mac OS
10 60 (0.92%) Ubuntu
11 55 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
12 51 (0.78%) Windows Vista
13 47 (0.72%) Mac OS X
14 45 (0.69%) Solaris
15 32 (0.49%) Windows 7
16 21 (0.32%) VMS
17 20 (0.31%) Unix
18 18 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 15 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
20 14 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,535 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 896 (13.73%) Agile
3 882 (13.52%) Customer Service
4 779 (11.94%) ITIL
5 775 (11.88%) Project Management
6 773 (11.85%) DevOps
7 551 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 522 (8.00%) Mentoring
9 512 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
10 455 (6.97%) Computer Science
11 452 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
12 409 (6.27%) Project Delivery
13 392 (6.01%) Analytics
14 382 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 372 (5.70%) Service Delivery
16 342 (5.24%) CRM
17 312 (4.78%) ERP
18 307 (4.71%) Asset Management
19 293 (4.49%) Roadmaps
20 288 (4.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,104 (16.92%) SQL
2 631 (9.67%) C#
3 443 (6.79%) PowerShell
4 415 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 350 (5.36%) Python
6 174 (2.67%) MATLAB
7 151 (2.31%) Java
8 142 (2.18%) T-SQL
9 118 (1.81%) TypeScript
10 101 (1.55%) C
11 94 (1.44%) C++
12 69 (1.06%) Bash
13 53 (0.81%) VB
14 43 (0.66%) R
15 42 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 39 (0.60%) PHP
17 35 (0.54%) Objective-C
18 30 (0.46%) VB.NET
19 29 (0.44%) Bicep
20 28 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,549 (23.74%) Degree
2 633 (9.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 410 (6.28%) Security Cleared
4 403 (6.18%) Azure Certification
5 306 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 276 (4.23%) SC Cleared
7 272 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
8 259 (3.97%) HND
9 250 (3.83%) CCNA
10 248 (3.80%) MCSE
11 234 (3.59%) HNC
12 223 (3.42%) MCP
13 213 (3.26%) DBS Check
14 209 (3.20%) CCNP
15 162 (2.48%) LPIC
16 157 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
17 127 (1.95%) Chartered Engineer
18 90 (1.38%) DV Cleared
19 89 (1.36%) CISSP
20 80 (1.23%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (3.80%) SLA
2 177 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 161 (2.47%) QA
4 155 (2.38%) GDPR
5 132 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 120 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 98 (1.50%) NIST
8 92 (1.41%) Accessibility
9 82 (1.26%) PMO
10 69 (1.06%) ISO 9001
11 38 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 27 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 26 (0.40%) IFRS
14 25 (0.38%) GAAP
15 21 (0.32%) GRC
16 19 (0.29%) NCSC
17 18 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 18 (0.28%) NIST 800
18 12 (0.18%) PERC
18 12 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,214 (18.61%) Active Directory
2 426 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 375 (5.75%) Hyper-V
4 96 (1.47%) Docker
5 91 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 87 (1.33%) vSphere
7 79 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 44 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
10 43 (0.66%) Firmware
11 35 (0.54%) VMware NSX
12 15 (0.23%) BitLocker
13 14 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 12 (0.18%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.14%) XenApp
15 9 (0.14%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.11%) Terminal Server
17 6 (0.092%) KVM
18 5 (0.077%) Terminal Services
19 4 (0.061%) NFS
Systems Management
1 339 (5.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 148 (2.27%) SCCM
3 111 (1.70%) Kubernetes
4 83 (1.27%) Terraform
5 52 (0.80%) vCenter Server
6 51 (0.78%) Ansible
7 49 (0.75%) WSUS
8 38 (0.58%) Grafana
9 27 (0.41%) Puppet
10 26 (0.40%) SCOM
11 25 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
12 23 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (0.28%) Nessus
13 18 (0.28%) Prometheus
14 16 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
15 15 (0.23%) Backup Exec
15 15 (0.23%) QRadar
16 14 (0.21%) VxRail
17 13 (0.20%) Progress Chef
18 12 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 634 (9.72%) VMware
2 460 (7.05%) Cisco
3 247 (3.79%) SAP
4 233 (3.57%) Google
5 173 (2.65%) ANSYS
6 163 (2.50%) Citrix
7 153 (2.35%) Apple
8 145 (2.22%) Oracle
9 116 (1.78%) Veeam
10 103 (1.58%) Dell
11 93 (1.43%) Databricks
12 92 (1.41%) NEC
13 83 (1.27%) ServiceNow
14 80 (1.23%) Meraki
15 72 (1.10%) IBM
16 69 (1.06%) Adobe
17 67 (1.03%) Salesforce
18 65 (1.00%) HP
19 61 (0.94%) Fortinet
20 57 (0.87%) Remedy