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 with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,470 12,774 13,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.80% 20.67% 18.58%
As % of the Vendors category 49.60% 48.44% 46.53%
Number of salaries quoted 9,921 6,794 8,543
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,788 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £58,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,141 26,370 28,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.89% 42.67% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 17,409 13,489 17,011
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
South East +3 3,427 £45,000 - 840
North of England 0 2,888 £43,500 -3.33% 845
Midlands +1 2,264 £42,500 -10.53% 661
South West +3 1,618 £46,958 +15.94% 432
North West -2 1,491 £45,000 - 475
West Midlands +1 1,484 £45,000 -10.00% 410
East of England +2 1,227 £38,000 -5.14% 387
Yorkshire +2 986 £42,500 -5.56% 269
East Midlands 0 771 £37,500 -14.77% 249
Scotland -30 587 £45,000 -10.00% 265
North East +3 410 £42,500 +6.25% 110
Wales +1 331 £36,476 -2.73% 122
Northern Ireland +5 103 £42,500 -5.56% 70
Isle of Man +5 35 £45,000 +28.57% 3
Channel Islands 0 6 £85,000 +136.11% 4
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 1,366 (10.95%) SharePoint
2 1,185 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 250 (2.00%) IIS
4 197 (1.58%) Confluence
5 99 (0.79%) CMS
6 67 (0.54%) Umbraco
7 47 (0.38%) Kentico
8 46 (0.37%) Skype for Business
9 42 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
10 40 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 40 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 37 (0.30%) WordPress
12 36 (0.29%) SAS
13 33 (0.26%) Apache
13 33 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
14 21 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
16 13 (0.10%) SharePoint 2010
16 13 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
16 13 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2,337 (18.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1,466 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 418 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 248 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 88 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.39%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 10 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.064%) Sketch
15 7 (0.056%) InfoPath
16 6 (0.048%) Chatbot
16 6 (0.048%) InVision
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 385 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 86 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 83 (0.67%) Primavera
4 33 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 29 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 20 (0.16%) NEC Housing
7 20 (0.16%) Shopify
8 19 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
10 17 (0.14%) iTrent
11 15 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
12 14 (0.11%) Magento
13 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
14 12 (0.096%) Maximo
14 12 (0.096%) PlanetPress Connect
15 11 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
16 9 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
16 9 (0.072%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5,000 (40.10%) Azure
2 3,986 (31.96%) Microsoft 365
3 1,508 (12.09%) Power Platform
4 923 (7.40%) Entra ID
5 921 (7.39%) AWS
6 721 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
7 542 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 435 (3.49%) PowerApps
9 398 (3.19%) Power Automate
10 394 (3.16%) SaaS
11 332 (2.66%) OneDrive
12 248 (1.99%) GCP
13 198 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
14 175 (1.40%) PaaS
15 164 (1.32%) IaaS
16 134 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 100 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
18 97 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 92 (0.74%) GitHub
20 83 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1,259 (10.10%) Firewall
2 879 (7.05%) DNS
3 720 (5.77%) WAN
4 672 (5.39%) DHCP
5 635 (5.09%) LAN
6 460 (3.69%) TCP/IP
7 445 (3.57%) VPN
8 424 (3.40%) Broadband
9 380 (3.05%) SAN
10 375 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
11 325 (2.61%) Wireless
12 284 (2.28%) VLAN
13 277 (2.22%) VoIP
14 268 (2.15%) Internet
15 193 (1.55%) Network Security
16 164 (1.32%) Intranet
17 144 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
18 127 (1.02%) SD-WAN
19 121 (0.97%) Unified Communications
20 93 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,054 (16.47%) SQL Server
2 993 (7.96%) Power BI
3 341 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 328 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 328 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 250 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 214 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 209 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
8 201 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 149 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 116 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 114 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 105 (0.84%) MySQL
13 92 (0.74%) NoSQL
14 85 (0.68%) Tableau
15 78 (0.63%) MS Access
16 76 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
17 56 (0.45%) Big Data
17 56 (0.45%) Power Query
18 51 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 392 (3.14%) Git
2 367 (2.94%) JIRA
3 327 (2.62%) Visual Studio
4 118 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 72 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 62 (0.50%) GitLab
7 60 (0.48%) Sourcetree
8 56 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.34%) NUnit
10 40 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 37 (0.30%) Subversion
12 36 (0.29%) Selenium
13 33 (0.26%) Postman
14 29 (0.23%) Moq
15 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.20%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.17%) MSTest
18 20 (0.16%) Cucumber
19 13 (0.10%) Cypress.io
General
1 4,404 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 2,086 (16.73%) Finance
3 1,396 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 755 (6.05%) Retail
5 538 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 535 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
7 523 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 517 (4.15%) Legal
9 502 (4.03%) Law
10 486 (3.90%) Manufacturing
11 457 (3.66%) Marketing
12 364 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
13 358 (2.87%) Telecoms
14 336 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
15 234 (1.88%) Games
16 162 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
17 161 (1.29%) Advertising
18 157 (1.26%) Banking
19 156 (1.25%) Local Government
20 104 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,918 (15.38%) Developer
2 1,707 (13.69%) Analyst
3 1,348 (10.81%) Senior
4 1,209 (9.70%) IT Support
5 1,006 (8.07%) Support Engineer
6 831 (6.66%) IT Engineer
7 815 (6.54%) .NET Developer
8 694 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 657 (5.27%) Lead
10 604 (4.84%) Architect
11 571 (4.58%) Consultant
12 549 (4.40%) IT Support Engineer
13 500 (4.01%) Administrator
14 423 (3.39%) IT Technician
15 419 (3.36%) 2nd Line Support
16 362 (2.90%) C# Developer
17 343 (2.75%) IT Analyst
17 343 (2.75%) Support Technician
18 341 (2.73%) Support Analyst
19 338 (2.71%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,568 (12.57%) .NET
2 885 (7.10%) ASP.NET
3 823 (6.60%) .NET Core
4 703 (5.64%) ASP.NET MVC
5 662 (5.31%) AngularJS
6 638 (5.12%) HTML
7 570 (4.57%) .NET Framework
8 552 (4.43%) Entity Framework
9 543 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
10 449 (3.60%) CSS
11 423 (3.39%) React
12 351 (2.81%) HTML5
13 275 (2.21%) RESTful
14 265 (2.13%) Node.js
15 250 (2.00%) Vue
16 203 (1.63%) REST
17 194 (1.56%) Web Services
18 176 (1.41%) Blazor
19 174 (1.40%) LINQ
20 166 (1.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 668 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
2 627 (5.03%) Driving Licence
3 538 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 409 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 267 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 250 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 173 (1.39%) PKI
8 165 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 164 (1.32%) Product Ownership
10 158 (1.27%) Clustering
11 157 (1.26%) Social Media
12 146 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 133 (1.07%) Replication
14 110 (0.88%) Low-Code
15 109 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 106 (0.85%) NHS
17 102 (0.82%) Cloud Native
18 100 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
19 85 (0.68%) Smartphone
20 80 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,662 (29.37%) Windows
2 1,686 (13.52%) Windows Server
3 1,029 (8.25%) Windows 10
4 756 (6.06%) Linux
5 386 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 380 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 303 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 298 (2.39%) Android
9 221 (1.77%) Apple iOS
10 212 (1.70%) Windows 7
11 199 (1.60%) Mac OS
12 132 (1.06%) Ubuntu
13 124 (0.99%) VMS
14 97 (0.78%) Windows 8
15 92 (0.74%) Unix
16 86 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
17 67 (0.54%) CentOS
18 43 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 36 (0.29%) Mac OS X
20 33 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,620 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
2 2,297 (18.42%) Agile
3 1,932 (15.49%) Customer Service
4 1,479 (11.86%) ITIL
5 1,183 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
6 1,161 (9.31%) DevOps
7 1,053 (8.44%) Project Management
8 1,042 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
9 1,001 (8.03%) Mentoring
10 895 (7.18%) CRM
11 886 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 830 (6.66%) Full Stack Development
13 826 (6.62%) MVC
14 764 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 701 (5.62%) Roadmaps
16 698 (5.60%) Migration
17 671 (5.38%) Decision-Making
18 667 (5.35%) Microservices
19 628 (5.04%) Scrum
20 624 (5.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2,070 (16.60%) SQL
2 1,658 (13.30%) C#
3 1,178 (9.45%) JavaScript
4 835 (6.70%) PowerShell
5 401 (3.22%) T-SQL
6 389 (3.12%) Python
7 378 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 221 (1.77%) Bash
9 188 (1.51%) Java
10 138 (1.11%) VB
11 105 (0.84%) VB.NET
12 97 (0.78%) C++
13 86 (0.69%) C
14 63 (0.51%) PHP
15 54 (0.43%) R
16 45 (0.36%) Bicep
16 45 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 43 (0.34%) VBA
17 43 (0.34%) VBScript
18 34 (0.27%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,978 (15.86%) Degree
2 1,128 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 850 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 693 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 379 (3.04%) DBS Check
6 309 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 299 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 277 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 243 (1.95%) CCNA
10 240 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 239 (1.92%) ACCA
12 230 (1.84%) CIMA
13 223 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 197 (1.58%) A+ Certification
15 188 (1.51%) MCP
16 138 (1.11%) MCSE
17 130 (1.04%) PMI Certification
18 111 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
19 109 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
20 104 (0.83%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 588 (4.72%) SLA
2 384 (3.08%) GDPR
3 330 (2.65%) QA
4 246 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 236 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 114 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 109 (0.87%) ISO 9001
8 96 (0.77%) PMO
9 93 (0.75%) NIST
10 84 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 79 (0.63%) Accessibility
12 56 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 29 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 24 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 21 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
17 17 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.13%) SOC 2
19 15 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 2,972 (23.83%) Active Directory
2 947 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 807 (6.47%) Hyper-V
4 234 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 187 (1.50%) Docker
6 168 (1.35%) vSphere
7 125 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
8 118 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 70 (0.56%) XenApp
10 60 (0.48%) Firmware
11 56 (0.45%) XenDesktop
12 53 (0.43%) KVM
13 51 (0.41%) VMware NSX
14 46 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
15 45 (0.36%) Terminal Services
16 29 (0.23%) VirtualBox
17 25 (0.20%) VMware Server
18 21 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 18 (0.14%) pfSense
20 16 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 916 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 449 (3.60%) SCCM
3 236 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 167 (1.34%) Terraform
5 130 (1.04%) SCOM
6 123 (0.99%) WSUS
7 105 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
8 86 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 76 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 76 (0.61%) Ansible
10 48 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
11 45 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 41 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 37 (0.30%) EnCase
14 36 (0.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 33 (0.26%) CASB
16 32 (0.26%) NetBackup
17 30 (0.24%) ZABBIX
18 27 (0.22%) Autotask
19 25 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,435 (11.51%) VMware
2 595 (4.77%) Cisco
3 477 (3.83%) Google
4 400 (3.21%) Citrix
5 389 (3.12%) Apple
6 320 (2.57%) Veeam
7 313 (2.51%) Oracle
8 256 (2.05%) Dell
9 253 (2.03%) HP
10 222 (1.78%) Adobe
11 218 (1.75%) SAP
12 208 (1.67%) ServiceNow
13 183 (1.47%) Meraki
14 143 (1.15%) Sophos
15 134 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 127 (1.02%) Salesforce
17 109 (0.87%) Sage
18 108 (0.87%) Databricks
19 103 (0.83%) Red Hat
20 101 (0.81%) Aruba