Microsoft Certification Jobs

Microsoft Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 259 349
Rank change year-on-year +42 +90 -33
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1,151 1,142 1,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 1.42% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.84% 4.20% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 849 797 1,272
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,625 £75,000 £79,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England +41 1,050 £45,000 -10.00% 187
UK excluding London +26 867 £40,000 -11.11% 177
Work from Home +59 410 £52,500 -4.55% 84
London +48 250 £60,000 -4.00% 34
Midlands +23 230 £40,000 -15.79% 23
North of England +26 224 £38,000 -15.56% 47
South East +3 176 £38,000 -14.92% 40
West Midlands +28 148 £39,000 -22.00% 18
North West -10 105 £40,000 -11.11% 13
South West +3 103 £42,500 - 29
East Midlands -1 82 £41,500 +2.47% 5
Yorkshire +45 78 £37,500 -23.08% 23
East of England -5 61 £42,500 -22.73% 16
North East +24 43 £32,500 - 14
Scotland -33 40 £55,000 +23.60% 11
Wales +26 28 £40,000 +3.90% 4
Northern Ireland +17 6 £45,000 -37.93% 11

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 173 (15.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (12.95%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.56%) SharePoint 2010
3 18 (1.56%) SharePoint 2013
4 7 (0.61%) IIS
5 5 (0.43%) CMS
5 5 (0.43%) Confluence
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.087%) Moodle
7 1 (0.087%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.087%) SAS
7 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.087%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 141 (12.25%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.13%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.17%) Trello
5 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.087%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.43%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.17%) Shopify
5 1 (0.087%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.087%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 655 (56.91%) Azure
2 470 (40.83%) Microsoft 365
3 228 (19.81%) Power Platform
4 124 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
5 111 (9.64%) AWS
6 102 (8.86%) Entra ID
7 91 (7.91%) PowerApps
8 89 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
9 82 (7.12%) Power Automate
10 40 (3.48%) Azure AI
11 39 (3.39%) IBM Cloud
12 38 (3.30%) OneDrive
13 34 (2.95%) PaaS
14 32 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 30 (2.61%) GCP
16 27 (2.35%) IaaS
17 25 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
18 23 (2.00%) SaaS
18 23 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 175 (15.20%) Firewall
2 137 (11.90%) Network Security
3 112 (9.73%) Internet
4 92 (7.99%) DNS
5 87 (7.56%) WLAN
6 83 (7.21%) TCP/IP
7 82 (7.12%) DHCP
8 76 (6.60%) SAN
9 72 (6.26%) WAN
10 70 (6.08%) VPN
11 67 (5.82%) LAN
12 55 (4.78%) Broadband
13 43 (3.74%) VLAN
13 43 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
14 34 (2.95%) Wireless
15 31 (2.69%) NAS
15 31 (2.69%) VoIP
16 20 (1.74%) Remote Desktop
17 18 (1.56%) Intranet
17 18 (1.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (14.34%) Power BI
2 129 (11.21%) SQL Server
3 81 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 34 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 31 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 26 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 24 (2.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 23 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (0.70%) Metadata
12 8 (0.70%) MySQL
13 6 (0.52%) Big Data
13 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.43%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.43%) Power Query
14 5 (0.43%) Redis
15 4 (0.35%) QlikView
15 4 (0.35%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 19 (1.65%) Git
2 17 (1.48%) JIRA
3 16 (1.39%) Axure RP
4 13 (1.13%) Balsamiq
5 5 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.35%) GitLab
6 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.26%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.087%) AdminStudio
8 1 (0.087%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.087%) Hudson
8 1 (0.087%) MSI
8 1 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 476 (41.36%) Social Skills
2 146 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 125 (10.86%) Finance
4 108 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 60 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (3.65%) Marketing
7 41 (3.56%) Retail
8 39 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 36 (3.13%) Law
11 31 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.61%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.43%) Legal
14 16 (1.39%) Automotive
14 16 (1.39%) General Ledger
15 14 (1.22%) Banking
15 14 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.13%) Local Government
17 12 (1.04%) Police
18 10 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 216 (18.77%) Support Engineer
2 210 (18.25%) IT Support
3 166 (14.42%) IT Engineer
4 125 (10.86%) IT Support Engineer
5 119 (10.34%) Architect
6 97 (8.43%) Senior
7 77 (6.69%) Analyst
8 72 (6.26%) Consultant
9 68 (5.91%) 2nd Line Support
10 67 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 63 (5.47%) Lead
12 61 (5.30%) DBA
12 61 (5.30%) Developer
13 59 (5.13%) SQL DBA
14 57 (4.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 56 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
16 51 (4.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 48 (4.17%) IT Technician
18 47 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support
19 46 (4.00%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.91%) HTML
2 43 (3.74%) .NET
3 40 (3.48%) CSS
4 13 (1.13%) ARM Templates
4 13 (1.13%) HTML5 Canvas
5 11 (0.96%) ADO
6 9 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 9 (0.78%) Middleware
7 8 (0.70%) Web Services
8 7 (0.61%) jQuery
8 7 (0.61%) Loki
9 6 (0.52%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.52%) ASP.NET
9 6 (0.52%) React
9 6 (0.52%) XML
9 6 (0.52%) YAML
10 5 (0.43%) Itk
10 5 (0.43%) MDX
11 4 (0.35%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 130 (11.29%) Driving Licence
2 117 (10.17%) Onboarding
3 81 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 56 (4.87%) Management Information System
5 47 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 42 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (3.39%) Blockchain
8 35 (3.04%) Private Cloud
9 33 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (2.43%) Replication
11 20 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
12 19 (1.65%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.56%) Cloud Native
13 18 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.48%) Smartphone
15 16 (1.39%) Security Posture
16 15 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
17 14 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 528 (45.87%) Windows
2 218 (18.94%) Windows Server
3 176 (15.29%) Linux
4 120 (10.43%) Windows 10
5 62 (5.39%) VMS
6 55 (4.78%) Mac OS
7 49 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (3.91%) Debian
9 42 (3.65%) CentOS
10 39 (3.39%) Alpine Linux
11 38 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 34 (2.95%) Windows Server 2012
13 22 (1.91%) Apple iOS
14 17 (1.48%) Android
15 13 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.70%) Mac OS X
17 7 (0.61%) Ubuntu
18 6 (0.52%) Windows 7
19 4 (0.35%) Windows 8
19 4 (0.35%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (34.93%) Problem-Solving
2 315 (27.37%) ITIL
3 237 (20.59%) Computer Science
4 235 (20.42%) Customer Service
5 163 (14.16%) Business Intelligence
6 143 (12.42%) DevOps
7 134 (11.64%) Mentoring
8 127 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
9 114 (9.90%) Agile
10 104 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 95 (8.25%) CI/CD
12 92 (7.99%) Artificial Intelligence
12 92 (7.99%) Disaster Recovery
13 91 (7.91%) Project Management
14 84 (7.30%) Asset Management
15 75 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
16 72 (6.26%) IT Asset Management
16 72 (6.26%) Migration
17 70 (6.08%) Network Management
18 69 (5.99%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 208 (18.07%) SQL
2 101 (8.77%) C#
3 88 (7.65%) PowerShell
4 59 (5.13%) T-SQL
5 52 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 24 (2.09%) Python
7 15 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.22%) Java
9 13 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (0.96%) U-SQL
11 10 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.70%) Bicep
12 8 (0.70%) C++
13 7 (0.61%) C
14 5 (0.43%) Bash
14 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.35%) X++
16 3 (0.26%) Go
17 1 (0.087%) Swift
17 1 (0.087%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 466 (40.49%) Degree
2 305 (26.50%) MCSE
3 213 (18.51%) MCP
4 206 (17.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 202 (17.55%) Azure Certification
6 186 (16.16%) Cisco Certification
7 169 (14.68%) MCSA
8 161 (13.99%) CCNA
9 132 (11.47%) A+ Certification
10 110 (9.56%) Security Cleared
11 97 (8.43%) CCNP
11 97 (8.43%) SC Cleared
12 72 (6.26%) DBS Check
13 68 (5.91%) LPIC
14 65 (5.65%) MCITP
15 44 (3.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 34 (2.95%) Network+ Certification
17 24 (2.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 22 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
19 21 (1.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.34%) SLA
2 47 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (3.04%) GDPR
4 24 (2.09%) QA
5 18 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.13%) WCAG
7 12 (1.04%) ISO 9001
7 12 (1.04%) NIST
8 10 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.43%) NCSC
9 5 (0.43%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.087%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.087%) PMO
System Software
1 419 (36.40%) Active Directory
2 166 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (11.56%) Hyper-V
4 59 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (4.34%) Docker
6 44 (3.82%) vSphere
7 25 (2.17%) XenDesktop
8 20 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (1.74%) XenApp
9 15 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.70%) Firmware
11 6 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.35%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.26%) KVM
13 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.087%) vCloud
15 1 (0.087%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 103 (8.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (7.65%) Terraform
3 82 (7.12%) Kubernetes
4 68 (5.91%) SCCM
5 14 (1.22%) SCOM
6 12 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.04%) WSUS
7 9 (0.78%) Ansible
7 9 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.70%) Autotask
9 5 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.43%) Grafana
9 5 (0.43%) SmoothWall
10 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.35%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.087%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 1,054 (91.57%) Microsoft
2 238 (20.68%) VMware
3 171 (14.86%) Cisco
4 57 (4.95%) HP
5 56 (4.87%) Citrix
6 50 (4.34%) Apple
6 50 (4.34%) IBM
6 50 (4.34%) Veeam
7 45 (3.91%) Red Hat
8 43 (3.74%) Adobe
8 43 (3.74%) Dell
9 38 (3.30%) Google
10 27 (2.35%) Meraki
11 26 (2.26%) Databricks
12 22 (1.91%) SolarWinds
13 21 (1.82%) ServiceNow
14 18 (1.56%) Fortinet
14 18 (1.56%) Sophos
14 18 (1.56%) Symantec
15 17 (1.48%) McAfee