Microsoft Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 805 847 1010
Rank change year-on-year +42 +163 -238
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 97 125 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 92 91 136
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £40,113
25th Percentile £40,938 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £67,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £76,316 £77,705
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,155 £47,000
% change year-on-year +6.75% -10.31% +4.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +69 87 £45,000 -25.00% 10
UK excluding London +29 66 £45,000 +6.75% 9
Work from Home +52 39 £45,000 -29.41% 8
South East +24 32 £45,000 - 1
South West -17 20 £50,000 +17.65% 5
London +60 19 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North of England +56 8 £42,250 +11.18% 3
Yorkshire +89 4 £32,500 +14.04% 1
West Midlands +11 4 £36,000 +26.32%
Midlands -12 4 £36,000 +19.01%
North West +16 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Scotland - 2 £66,500 -
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 97 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 61 (62.89%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (59.79%) Azure
4 37 (38.14%) Active Directory
5 33 (34.02%) Windows
6 27 (27.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (27.84%) Windows Server
7 26 (26.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (24.74%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (19.59%) SharePoint
10 18 (18.56%) Entra ID
11 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
11 16 (16.49%) Degree
12 15 (15.46%) OneDrive
13 13 (13.40%) SCCM
13 13 (13.40%) PowerShell
14 11 (11.34%) PaaS
14 11 (11.34%) IaaS
15 10 (10.31%) Mentoring
15 10 (10.31%) Customer Service
15 10 (10.31%) VMware
16 9 (9.28%) Migration
16 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (9.28%) Power Platform
16 9 (9.28%) DevOps
17 8 (8.25%) Roadmaps
17 8 (8.25%) ITIL
18 7 (7.22%) Apple iOS
18 7 (7.22%) Android
18 7 (7.22%) SQL

Microsoft Engineer 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 24 (24.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (19.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) SAS
3 2 (2.06%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.89%) Microsoft 365
2 58 (59.79%) Azure
3 18 (18.56%) Entra ID
4 15 (15.46%) OneDrive
5 11 (11.34%) IaaS
5 11 (11.34%) PaaS
6 9 (9.28%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.19%) Slack
8 6 (6.19%) WhatsApp
9 5 (5.15%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
11 3 (3.09%) AWS
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Storage
11 3 (3.09%) SaaS
12 2 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DHCP
1 5 (5.15%) DNS
1 5 (5.15%) WAN
2 4 (4.12%) Firewall
3 3 (3.09%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.09%) VoIP
4 2 (2.06%) LAN
4 2 (2.06%) Skype
5 1 (1.03%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.03%) Network Security
5 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.06%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.03%) Power BI
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Git
1 2 (2.06%) GitLab
1 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.22%) Finance
3 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.09%) General Ledger
3 3 (3.09%) Law
3 3 (3.09%) Local Government
3 3 (3.09%) Retail
4 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Blackberry
1 6 (6.19%) BYOD
2 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.06%) iPad
4 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.03%) Blog
5 1 (1.03%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (34.02%) Windows
2 27 (27.84%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.22%) Android
3 7 (7.22%) Apple iOS
4 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.06%) VMS
7 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.03%) Linux
8 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (10.31%) Customer Service
2 10 (10.31%) Mentoring
3 9 (9.28%) DevOps
3 9 (9.28%) Migration
3 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (8.25%) ITIL
4 8 (8.25%) Roadmaps
5 7 (7.22%) Zero Trust
6 6 (6.19%) Application Packaging
7 5 (5.15%) Data Management
7 5 (5.15%) Presales
7 5 (5.15%) Security Operations
8 4 (4.12%) Analytics
8 4 (4.12%) CI/CD
8 4 (4.12%) Client Onboarding
8 4 (4.12%) CRM
8 4 (4.12%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (4.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (4.12%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.40%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.22%) SQL
3 4 (4.12%) Bash
3 4 (4.12%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.06%) C#
4 2 (2.06%) Go
4 2 (2.06%) Java
4 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.06%) Python
4 2 (2.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) MCSA
4 2 (2.06%) MCSE
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.06%) QA
System Software
1 37 (38.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.03%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (27.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (13.40%) SCCM
3 3 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.06%) Terraform
5 1 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.03%) SCDPM
5 1 (1.03%) SCOM
5 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) VMware
3 3 (3.09%) CA
4 2 (2.06%) Acronis
4 2 (2.06%) Aruba
4 2 (2.06%) Databricks
4 2 (2.06%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.06%) WatchGuard
5 1 (1.03%) Apple
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco
5 1 (1.03%) Meraki
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.03%) Splunk