Microsoft Developer Jobs

Microsoft Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 863 866
Rank change year-on-year +207 +3 +268
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 52 51 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.050% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.052% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 39 48 63
10th Percentile £56,000 £33,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £44,942 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,828 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.75% -23.62% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £60,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £79,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £45,414 £57,500
% change year-on-year +54.14% -21.02% +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,581 97,268 88,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.79% 91.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,819 69,389 56,377
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England +173 48 £70,000 +52.75% 19
Work from Home +132 37 £70,000 +52.75% 9
UK excluding London +180 25 £70,000 +54.14% 12
London +112 23 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Midlands +60 10 £66,250 +23.26% 3
West Midlands +55 9 £70,000 +30.23% 1
South East +100 7 £70,000 +52.75% 3
North of England +36 7 £70,000 +55.56% 4
North West +9 4 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire +59 2 £75,000 +25.00%
South West +117 1 £32,500 -45.83%
North East +35 1 £85,000 +88.89% 2
East Midlands - 1 £48,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 1

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 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 featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 50 (96.15%) Microsoft
2 38 (73.08%) Power Platform
3 37 (71.15%) Azure
4 28 (53.85%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (46.15%) Power BI
5 24 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (46.15%) SQL Server
6 23 (44.23%) .NET
7 21 (40.38%) SQL
7 21 (40.38%) PowerApps
8 20 (38.46%) Power Automate
8 20 (38.46%) Finance
8 20 (38.46%) Migration
8 20 (38.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (34.62%) C#
9 18 (34.62%) JavaScript
10 16 (30.77%) CRM
10 16 (30.77%) Dynamics CRM
11 14 (26.92%) T-SQL
12 13 (25.00%) Workflow
12 13 (25.00%) SaaS
12 13 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (23.08%) Data Privacy
13 12 (23.08%) SQL CLR
13 12 (23.08%) High Availability
13 12 (23.08%) Fintech
13 12 (23.08%) Failover Clustering
13 12 (23.08%) Private Cloud
13 12 (23.08%) Back Office
13 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
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 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (30.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (73.08%) Power Platform
2 37 (71.15%) Azure
3 28 (53.85%) Dynamics 365
4 21 (40.38%) PowerApps
5 20 (38.46%) Power Automate
6 13 (25.00%) SaaS
7 10 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (11.54%) Azure Functions
8 6 (11.54%) Serverless
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.77%) GitHub
10 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.92%) Azure App Service
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.92%) IaaS
11 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) Power BI
1 24 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 20 (38.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (23.08%) Data Hub
3 12 (23.08%) Metadata
3 12 (23.08%) SQL CLR
3 12 (23.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
General
1 20 (38.46%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Back Office
3 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.69%) Marketing
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (44.23%) .NET
2 8 (15.38%) HTML
3 7 (13.46%) ASP.NET Web API
3 7 (13.46%) CSS
3 7 (13.46%) JSON
3 7 (13.46%) XML
4 5 (9.62%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 4 (7.69%) RESTful
6 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.77%) React
6 3 (5.77%) Vue
6 3 (5.77%) WCF
7 2 (3.85%) SOAP
8 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.92%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (1.92%) OAuth
8 1 (1.92%) OpenID
8 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (38.46%) Migration
3 16 (30.77%) CRM
4 13 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (25.00%) Workflow
5 12 (23.08%) Data Privacy
5 12 (23.08%) Fintech
5 12 (23.08%) High Availability
5 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (23.08%) Refactoring
5 12 (23.08%) Statistics
5 12 (23.08%) Wealth Management
6 10 (19.23%) Agile
6 10 (19.23%) DevOps
7 7 (13.46%) Data Integration
7 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
8 6 (11.54%) ERP
9 5 (9.62%) API Development
9 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) SQL
2 18 (34.62%) C#
2 18 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 14 (26.92%) T-SQL
4 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 50 (96.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.08%) VMware
3 1 (1.92%) Databricks