Microsoft Jobs

Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 24 March 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
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,484 16,431 20,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.50% 18.20% 18.42%
As % of the Vendors category 39.45% 48.32% 44.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,011 13,228 12,166
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,995 £31,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% -3.33% +2.16%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,969 34,007 46,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.75% 37.67% 41.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,089 24,776 26,304
10th Percentile £29,625 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,822 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +5.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK over the 6 months to 24 March 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 -5 6,838 £50,055 +5.38% 3,989
UK excluding London -5 4,999 £47,500 +9.20% 3,025
Work from Home -3 2,268 £55,000 +4.76% 1,954
London -6 2,057 £65,000 +5.69% 1,402
North of England -5 1,361 £47,592 +8.49% 730
South East -4 1,223 £47,500 +5.56% 835
North West -3 967 £50,000 +11.11% 392
Midlands -5 966 £45,000 +5.88% 530
West Midlands -4 664 £47,500 +5.56% 314
South West -3 569 £46,500 +1.09% 334
East of England -2 555 £47,500 +20.25% 394
Yorkshire -9 318 £42,500 -1.73% 240
East Midlands -5 301 £42,500 +13.33% 202
Scotland +7 230 £52,000 +16.20% 174
North East -10 78 £40,000 -5.88% 112
Northern Ireland +3 59 £52,500 +23.53% 39
Wales -21 57 £53,809 +47.52% 101
Isle of Man -1 8 £38,000 -15.56% 2
Channel Islands -2 1 £70,000 -17.65%

Microsoft
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
1 892 (11.92%) SharePoint
2 595 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (1.16%) CMS
4 76 (1.02%) IIS
5 57 (0.76%) Confluence
6 50 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 41 (0.55%) WordPress
8 38 (0.51%) OpenEdge
9 31 (0.41%) Apache
10 24 (0.32%) IBM Domino
11 19 (0.25%) Skype for Business
12 18 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 17 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
14 13 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
14 13 (0.17%) Kentico
15 12 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 11 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
17 10 (0.13%) nginx
17 10 (0.13%) SAS
18 7 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,662 (22.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1,048 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 498 (6.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 163 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
5 86 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 50 (0.67%) Simulink
7 36 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 24 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
9 23 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 23 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
10 19 (0.25%) Acrobat
10 19 (0.25%) Trello
11 16 (0.21%) AutoCAD
12 13 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
12 13 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
13 12 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.16%) InDesign
14 9 (0.12%) CapCut
15 7 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.053%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 268 (3.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 180 (2.41%) Teamcenter
3 44 (0.59%) NEC Housing
4 37 (0.49%) Shopify
5 36 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
6 35 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
7 20 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 17 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 16 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
10 13 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
11 10 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 10 (0.13%) Elite 3E
11 10 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 10 (0.13%) Sage 50
11 10 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.12%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
13 8 (0.11%) SAP Business One
13 8 (0.11%) SAP GTS
14 7 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,980 (39.82%) Azure
2 2,060 (27.53%) Microsoft 365
3 1,052 (14.06%) Power Platform
4 575 (7.68%) Entra ID
5 564 (7.54%) AWS
6 538 (7.19%) Dynamics 365
7 531 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
8 429 (5.73%) PowerApps
9 425 (5.68%) Power Automate
10 330 (4.41%) SaaS
11 287 (3.83%) PaaS
12 268 (3.58%) Azure Logic Apps
13 267 (3.57%) IaaS
14 236 (3.15%) OneDrive
15 225 (3.01%) Serverless
16 195 (2.61%) Azure Functions
17 186 (2.49%) GCP
18 163 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
19 154 (2.06%) GitHub
20 138 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 644 (8.61%) Firewall
2 498 (6.65%) DNS
3 383 (5.12%) DHCP
4 363 (4.85%) LAN
5 359 (4.80%) WAN
6 312 (4.17%) VPN
7 311 (4.16%) Network Security
8 294 (3.93%) Internet
9 266 (3.55%) TCP/IP
10 223 (2.98%) WLAN
11 196 (2.62%) VLAN
12 173 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
13 166 (2.22%) VoIP
14 152 (2.03%) SAN
15 138 (1.84%) Wireless
16 71 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
17 70 (0.94%) SD-WAN
18 58 (0.77%) SMTP
19 57 (0.76%) HTTP
20 49 (0.65%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 831 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 507 (6.77%) Power BI
3 188 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
4 160 (2.14%) Data Lake
5 155 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 138 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 132 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 109 (1.46%) Tableau
9 100 (1.34%) Relational Database
10 70 (0.94%) Metadata
11 68 (0.91%) Big Data
11 68 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
12 49 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 47 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
14 46 (0.61%) MySQL
15 45 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 44 (0.59%) MongoDB
17 43 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
17 43 (0.57%) Data Mining
18 31 (0.41%) DB2
Development Applications
1 367 (4.90%) JIRA
2 174 (2.32%) Git
3 160 (2.14%) Visual Studio
4 41 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 22 (0.29%) Selenium
7 21 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 21 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 20 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 18 (0.24%) webpack
10 15 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.19%) Babel
11 14 (0.19%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.16%) Postman
13 11 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.13%) MSI
15 8 (0.11%) GitLab
15 8 (0.11%) NUnit
15 8 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (0.094%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,775 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 1,402 (18.73%) Finance
3 918 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 667 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 466 (6.23%) Law
6 438 (5.85%) Manufacturing
7 399 (5.33%) Retail
8 332 (4.44%) Marketing
9 317 (4.24%) Legal
10 316 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
11 251 (3.35%) Aerospace
12 244 (3.26%) Automotive
12 244 (3.26%) Public Sector
13 220 (2.94%) Banking
14 175 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
15 151 (2.02%) Telecoms
16 111 (1.48%) Local Government
17 109 (1.46%) Advertising
18 90 (1.20%) Police
19 82 (1.10%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,122 (14.99%) Senior
2 965 (12.89%) Analyst
3 748 (9.99%) IT Support
4 662 (8.85%) Developer
5 651 (8.70%) Lead
6 602 (8.04%) Support Engineer
7 497 (6.64%) IT Engineer
8 412 (5.51%) Architect
9 367 (4.90%) IT Support Engineer
10 326 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 325 (4.34%) Project Manager
12 302 (4.04%) Support Analyst
13 273 (3.65%) Consultant
14 253 (3.38%) Systems Engineer
15 222 (2.97%) IT Analyst
16 187 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
17 185 (2.47%) IT Manager
18 181 (2.42%) 2nd Line Support
18 181 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
19 176 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 610 (8.15%) .NET
2 232 (3.10%) HTML
3 217 (2.90%) .NET Framework
4 214 (2.86%) CSS
5 199 (2.66%) React
6 172 (2.30%) ASP.NET
7 154 (2.06%) .NET Core
8 114 (1.52%) REST
9 107 (1.43%) AngularJS
10 99 (1.32%) Entity Framework
11 92 (1.23%) JSON
12 89 (1.19%) RESTful
12 89 (1.19%) Web Services
13 85 (1.14%) XML
14 82 (1.10%) HTML5
15 71 (0.95%) ASP.NET Web API
16 63 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
17 57 (0.76%) SOAP
18 50 (0.67%) Kafka
19 43 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 397 (5.30%) Management Information System
2 350 (4.68%) Driving Licence
3 241 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 226 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 190 (2.54%) Data Centre
6 177 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 144 (1.92%) Social Media
8 136 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 92 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 90 (1.20%) Cloud Native
11 88 (1.18%) Security Posture
11 88 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
12 85 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 76 (1.02%) Public Cloud
14 73 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
15 69 (0.92%) CCTV
16 65 (0.87%) Client/Server
16 65 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
17 60 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
18 57 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2,073 (27.70%) Windows
2 776 (10.37%) Windows Server
3 651 (8.70%) Linux
4 507 (6.77%) Windows 10
5 155 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 140 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 130 (1.74%) Mac OS
8 129 (1.72%) Android
9 112 (1.50%) Apple iOS
10 82 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
11 54 (0.72%) Ubuntu
12 47 (0.63%) Solaris
13 46 (0.61%) Mac OS X
14 39 (0.52%) Windows 7
15 35 (0.47%) Windows Vista
16 29 (0.39%) VMS
17 27 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 22 (0.29%) CentOS
19 21 (0.28%) Unix
20 17 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,806 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
2 1,176 (15.71%) Agile
3 948 (12.67%) ITIL
4 931 (12.44%) DevOps
5 926 (12.37%) Customer Service
6 876 (11.70%) Project Management
7 740 (9.89%) Mentoring
8 638 (8.52%) Analytics
9 614 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
10 603 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 600 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
12 546 (7.30%) Computer Science
13 498 (6.65%) CRM
14 458 (6.12%) Roadmaps
15 415 (5.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 412 (5.51%) CI/CD
17 401 (5.36%) Project Delivery
18 397 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 392 (5.24%) ERP
20 384 (5.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,185 (15.83%) SQL
2 645 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 629 (8.40%) C#
4 559 (7.47%) Python
5 464 (6.20%) JavaScript
6 179 (2.39%) Java
7 164 (2.19%) MATLAB
8 142 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 107 (1.43%) TypeScript
10 91 (1.22%) Bash
11 72 (0.96%) C
12 69 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 67 (0.90%) C++
14 53 (0.71%) R
15 52 (0.69%) PHP
16 48 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
17 42 (0.56%) VB.NET
18 37 (0.49%) Bicep
18 37 (0.49%) Scala
18 37 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,736 (23.20%) Degree
2 708 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 407 (5.44%) Azure Certification
4 378 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 359 (4.80%) Security Cleared
6 326 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
7 309 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 278 (3.71%) CCNA
9 244 (3.26%) SC Cleared
10 235 (3.14%) MCSE
11 232 (3.10%) CCNP
12 220 (2.94%) HND
13 214 (2.86%) MCP
14 212 (2.83%) DBS Check
15 206 (2.75%) HNC
16 162 (2.16%) LPIC
17 115 (1.54%) A+ Certification
18 110 (1.47%) CISSP
19 102 (1.36%) Master's Degree
20 89 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (3.69%) SLA
2 212 (2.83%) GDPR
3 199 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 183 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 145 (1.94%) QA
6 135 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 125 (1.67%) NIST
8 105 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 75 (1.00%) ISO 9001
10 57 (0.76%) PMO
11 49 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 36 (0.48%) NCSC
13 24 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 20 (0.27%) HIPAA
14 20 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.20%) COBIT
16 15 (0.20%) GRC
17 9 (0.12%) IFRS
17 9 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1,404 (18.76%) Active Directory
2 427 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 304 (4.06%) Hyper-V
4 149 (1.99%) Docker
5 137 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 99 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 86 (1.15%) vSphere
8 83 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
9 46 (0.61%) Firmware
10 35 (0.47%) VMware NSX
11 31 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
12 23 (0.31%) XenApp
13 17 (0.23%) BitLocker
14 12 (0.16%) DFS Replication
15 10 (0.13%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.11%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.080%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.067%) Postfix
18 5 (0.067%) Samba
Systems Management
1 484 (6.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 265 (3.54%) SCCM
3 206 (2.75%) Terraform
4 161 (2.15%) Kubernetes
5 92 (1.23%) Ansible
6 76 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (0.64%) vCenter Server
7 48 (0.64%) WSUS
8 36 (0.48%) QRadar
9 33 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 31 (0.41%) Grafana
10 31 (0.41%) SCOM
11 27 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 23 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 23 (0.31%) Puppet
13 21 (0.28%) Prometheus
14 19 (0.25%) Nessus
15 16 (0.21%) CASB
16 15 (0.20%) Progress Chef
17 14 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 628 (8.39%) VMware
2 614 (8.20%) Cisco
3 415 (5.55%) Google
4 289 (3.86%) SAP
5 238 (3.18%) Citrix
6 223 (2.98%) Apple
7 201 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 168 (2.24%) Databricks
9 163 (2.18%) ANSYS
10 152 (2.03%) Oracle
11 148 (1.98%) Salesforce
12 128 (1.71%) Dell
13 116 (1.55%) Veeam
14 108 (1.44%) Meraki
15 100 (1.34%) Adobe
16 90 (1.20%) HP
17 76 (1.02%) NEC
18 75 (1.00%) Palo Alto
19 70 (0.94%) IBM
20 68 (0.91%) Fortinet