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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7,477 17,584 19,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.34% 17.88% 18.65%
As % of the Vendors category 38.97% 48.26% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,208 13,477 11,451
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,898 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% -4.67% -

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 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £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 £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 6,844 £50,000 +5.26% 4,771
UK excluding London -6 4,905 £45,628 +6.36% 3,267
Work from Home -2 2,374 £55,000 +4.76% 2,576
London -3 2,128 £62,500 +3.31% 1,755
North of England -8 1,325 £47,683 +9.62% 915
South East -3 1,310 £45,000 - 854
Midlands -6 966 £42,500 - 546
North West -8 885 £50,000 +11.11% 523
West Midlands -6 628 £47,000 +4.44% 341
East of England -2 549 £45,000 +18.42% 323
South West -6 468 £45,000 -4.17% 354
Yorkshire -7 365 £42,500 - 293
East Midlands -6 338 £38,500 +2.67% 201
Scotland +6 185 £52,000 +15.56% 183
North East -14 79 £45,000 +5.88% 110
Wales -20 68 £40,000 +9.66% 115
Northern Ireland +6 47 £52,500 +25.75% 58
Isle of Man 0 8 £38,000 -15.56% 8
Channel Islands -3 2 £78,750 -7.35%

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
1 898 (12.01%) SharePoint
2 624 (8.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (1.22%) IIS
4 88 (1.18%) CMS
5 51 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 49 (0.66%) Confluence
7 44 (0.59%) WordPress
8 34 (0.45%) IBM Domino
9 30 (0.40%) OpenEdge
10 29 (0.39%) Apache
11 21 (0.28%) Skype for Business
11 21 (0.28%) Umbraco
12 14 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
13 13 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
14 11 (0.15%) Kentico
15 10 (0.13%) SAS
15 10 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 10 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 9 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1,625 (21.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1,009 (13.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 480 (6.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 128 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
5 87 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 50 (0.67%) Simulink
7 33 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 31 (0.41%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 18 (0.24%) Trello
11 17 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
12 16 (0.21%) Acrobat
13 14 (0.19%) Maya
13 14 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
14 10 (0.13%) AutoCAD
15 9 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
15 9 (0.12%) CapCut
16 7 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 7 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
17 6 (0.080%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 288 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 151 (2.02%) Teamcenter
3 49 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
4 39 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 33 (0.44%) Shopify
6 25 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 22 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 17 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 16 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 16 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 14 (0.19%) NEC Housing
10 14 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
11 11 (0.15%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.12%) Sage 50
13 8 (0.11%) Sage 200
13 8 (0.11%) SAP ERP
14 7 (0.094%) Magento
14 7 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
15 6 (0.080%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,937 (39.28%) Azure
2 2,141 (28.63%) Microsoft 365
3 1,041 (13.92%) Power Platform
4 609 (8.14%) Dynamics 365
5 599 (8.01%) AWS
6 586 (7.84%) Entra ID
7 382 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
8 354 (4.73%) Power Automate
9 347 (4.64%) PowerApps
10 330 (4.41%) SaaS
11 252 (3.37%) OneDrive
12 213 (2.85%) GCP
13 166 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 153 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 148 (1.98%) PaaS
16 126 (1.69%) GitHub
16 126 (1.69%) IaaS
17 125 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 117 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
19 111 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 656 (8.77%) Firewall
2 497 (6.65%) DNS
3 398 (5.32%) DHCP
4 382 (5.11%) WAN
5 377 (5.04%) LAN
6 331 (4.43%) VPN
7 260 (3.48%) TCP/IP
8 251 (3.36%) Network Security
9 220 (2.94%) VoIP
10 211 (2.82%) Internet
11 204 (2.73%) VLAN
12 183 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
13 148 (1.98%) SAN
14 134 (1.79%) WLAN
15 126 (1.69%) Wireless
16 74 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
17 72 (0.96%) SD-WAN
18 55 (0.74%) SMTP
19 51 (0.68%) HTTP
19 51 (0.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 780 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 578 (7.73%) Power BI
3 184 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 176 (2.35%) Data Lake
5 172 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 154 (2.06%) Tableau
7 147 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 122 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 97 (1.30%) Metadata
10 89 (1.19%) Relational Database
11 82 (1.10%) Big Data
12 70 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
13 52 (0.70%) MySQL
14 47 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
15 44 (0.59%) MongoDB
16 42 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 38 (0.51%) Data Mining
18 37 (0.49%) NoSQL
19 33 (0.44%) DB2
20 28 (0.37%) GIS
Development Applications
1 338 (4.52%) JIRA
2 140 (1.87%) Git
3 137 (1.83%) Visual Studio
4 39 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 22 (0.29%) Selenium
7 16 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 16 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
8 15 (0.20%) GitLab
8 15 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 13 (0.17%) Postman
9 13 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (0.17%) webpack
10 12 (0.16%) MSI
11 10 (0.13%) Balsamiq
11 10 (0.13%) NUnit
11 10 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
11 10 (0.13%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,890 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 1,442 (19.29%) Finance
3 954 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 543 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 537 (7.18%) Law
6 406 (5.43%) Retail
7 399 (5.34%) Manufacturing
8 375 (5.02%) Marketing
9 327 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
10 319 (4.27%) Legal
11 241 (3.22%) Aerospace
12 229 (3.06%) Automotive
13 210 (2.81%) Public Sector
14 206 (2.76%) Banking
15 183 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
16 167 (2.23%) Telecoms
17 120 (1.60%) Advertising
18 88 (1.18%) Electronics
18 88 (1.18%) Local Government
19 82 (1.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 991 (13.25%) Analyst
2 988 (13.21%) Senior
3 775 (10.37%) IT Support
4 680 (9.09%) Developer
5 587 (7.85%) Lead
6 576 (7.70%) Support Engineer
7 417 (5.58%) IT Engineer
8 410 (5.48%) Architect
9 394 (5.27%) Support Analyst
10 315 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 296 (3.96%) IT Support Engineer
12 285 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
13 261 (3.49%) Consultant
14 254 (3.40%) IT Analyst
15 243 (3.25%) Project Manager
16 211 (2.82%) 2nd Line Support
17 191 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
18 188 (2.51%) Administrator
19 186 (2.49%) IT Manager
20 171 (2.29%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 570 (7.62%) .NET
2 216 (2.89%) HTML
3 201 (2.69%) React
4 190 (2.54%) CSS
5 184 (2.46%) .NET Framework
6 162 (2.17%) ASP.NET
7 140 (1.87%) .NET Core
8 138 (1.85%) REST
9 100 (1.34%) AngularJS
10 96 (1.28%) JSON
10 96 (1.28%) Web Services
11 92 (1.23%) XML
12 79 (1.06%) RESTful
13 77 (1.03%) SOAP
14 75 (1.00%) Entity Framework
15 69 (0.92%) ASP.NET Web API
16 66 (0.88%) ASP.NET MVC
17 61 (0.82%) HTML5
18 45 (0.60%) Kafka
19 39 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 379 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 300 (4.01%) Driving Licence
3 258 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 249 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 169 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 161 (2.15%) Social Media
7 159 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 105 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 100 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 99 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
11 98 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 88 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 72 (0.96%) CCTV
13 72 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 71 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 70 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 69 (0.92%) Private Cloud
17 68 (0.91%) Client/Server
18 64 (0.86%) Data Structures
19 63 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2,086 (27.90%) Windows
2 816 (10.91%) Windows Server
3 559 (7.48%) Linux
4 493 (6.59%) Windows 10
5 170 (2.27%) Mac OS
6 160 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 133 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 130 (1.74%) Android
9 105 (1.40%) Apple iOS
10 81 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 49 (0.66%) Ubuntu
12 40 (0.53%) Mac OS X
13 36 (0.48%) Windows Vista
14 35 (0.47%) Windows 7
15 27 (0.36%) Unix
16 25 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 24 (0.32%) CentOS
17 24 (0.32%) VMS
18 17 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
19 16 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,872 (25.04%) Problem-Solving
2 1,103 (14.75%) Agile
3 1,037 (13.87%) Customer Service
4 920 (12.30%) ITIL
5 791 (10.58%) Project Management
6 768 (10.27%) DevOps
7 707 (9.46%) Analytics
8 704 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
9 685 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
10 664 (8.88%) Mentoring
11 608 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 541 (7.24%) CRM
13 500 (6.69%) Computer Science
14 495 (6.62%) Roadmaps
15 447 (5.98%) Migration
16 437 (5.84%) CI/CD
17 418 (5.59%) ERP
18 406 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
19 384 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 366 (4.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,091 (14.59%) SQL
2 705 (9.43%) PowerShell
3 637 (8.52%) C#
4 549 (7.34%) Python
5 453 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 196 (2.62%) Java
7 179 (2.39%) T-SQL
8 152 (2.03%) MATLAB
9 105 (1.40%) Bash
10 104 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 54 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 54 (0.72%) R
12 52 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
13 51 (0.68%) C++
14 50 (0.67%) C
15 42 (0.56%) PHP
16 39 (0.52%) VB.NET
17 31 (0.41%) VB
18 30 (0.40%) Bicep
18 30 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,684 (22.52%) Degree
2 687 (9.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 351 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 347 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 323 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 303 (4.05%) Azure Certification
7 269 (3.60%) DBS Check
8 250 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
9 222 (2.97%) SC Cleared
10 208 (2.78%) CCNA
11 194 (2.59%) HND
12 186 (2.49%) HNC
13 185 (2.47%) MCSE
14 163 (2.18%) MCP
15 145 (1.94%) CCNP
16 140 (1.87%) A+ Certification
17 116 (1.55%) Master's Degree
18 105 (1.40%) CISSP
19 95 (1.27%) LPIC
20 92 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (3.92%) SLA
2 256 (3.42%) GDPR
3 221 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 212 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 164 (2.19%) QA
6 136 (1.82%) NIST
7 125 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 114 (1.52%) Accessibility
9 50 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 49 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 45 (0.60%) PMO
12 40 (0.53%) NCSC
13 26 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 21 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 21 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 19 (0.25%) COBIT
17 15 (0.20%) GRC
17 15 (0.20%) WCAG
18 11 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1,427 (19.09%) Active Directory
2 477 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 318 (4.25%) Hyper-V
4 130 (1.74%) Docker
4 130 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 100 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 99 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 81 (1.08%) vSphere
8 42 (0.56%) Firmware
9 26 (0.35%) BitLocker
10 23 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 21 (0.28%) Terminal Services
12 17 (0.23%) XenApp
13 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
14 12 (0.16%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.11%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.067%) Postfix
19 4 (0.053%) Samba
Systems Management
1 535 (7.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 243 (3.25%) SCCM
3 213 (2.85%) Terraform
4 162 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 116 (1.55%) Ansible
6 78 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 40 (0.53%) WSUS
8 39 (0.52%) vCenter Server
9 38 (0.51%) Puppet
10 36 (0.48%) SCOM
11 34 (0.45%) QRadar
12 31 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 29 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 27 (0.36%) Grafana
15 19 (0.25%) Prometheus
16 17 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
16 17 (0.23%) Progress Chef
17 16 (0.21%) Nessus
17 16 (0.21%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 646 (8.64%) VMware
2 545 (7.29%) Cisco
3 418 (5.59%) Google
4 280 (3.74%) SAP
5 233 (3.12%) Apple
6 226 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 213 (2.85%) Citrix
8 164 (2.19%) Databricks
9 153 (2.05%) Oracle
10 151 (2.02%) ANSYS
11 148 (1.98%) Salesforce
12 138 (1.85%) Dell
13 127 (1.70%) Veeam
14 116 (1.55%) Meraki
15 105 (1.40%) Adobe
16 104 (1.39%) HP
17 78 (1.04%) IBM
18 72 (0.96%) Palo Alto
19 71 (0.95%) Fortinet
20 59 (0.79%) SolarWinds