Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 5 6 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 9,698 21,941 19,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.17% 17.51% 15.36%
As % of the Vendors category 43.36% 42.70% 39.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,545 13,725 14,542
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £35,745
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £44,345
% change year-on-year - +1.48% -1.46%

All Vendors
UK

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,365 51,388 50,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.91% 41.00% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16,377 30,101 33,469
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +1 8,604 £52,500 - 5,162
UK excluding London 0 6,012 £45,000 - 3,928
Work from Home +5 3,945 £55,000 - 2,336
London +7 3,170 £64,000 +2.40% 1,494
South East +4 1,560 £47,500 - 1,064
North of England -2 1,357 £45,000 - 986
Midlands 0 1,167 £49,000 +4.26% 738
West Midlands +2 820 £47,500 - 497
South West -2 793 £45,000 +5.88% 463
North West -2 652 £45,000 - 541
Yorkshire -2 631 £45,000 - 323
East of England +2 409 £40,000 -5.88% 410
Scotland -2 392 £47,500 -5.00% 222
East Midlands -1 341 £50,000 +11.11% 239
Wales +1 258 £41,598 -2.12% 114
Northern Ireland +21 92 £42,500 -5.56% 59
North East +1 74 £47,261 +18.15% 134
Isle of Man +5 22 £60,000 +71.43% 1
Channel Islands +10 3 £47,000 +30.56%

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 1,044 (10.77%) SharePoint
2 436 (4.50%) MS Exchange
3 247 (2.55%) IIS
4 122 (1.26%) Confluence
5 44 (0.45%) CMS
6 36 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 29 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 26 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 22 (0.23%) Apache
11 19 (0.20%) Skype for Business
12 16 (0.16%) WordPress
13 14 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 14 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
14 12 (0.12%) SAS
15 11 (0.11%) OpenStack
16 10 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
17 9 (0.093%) SharePoint 2010
17 9 (0.093%) Site Server
18 8 (0.082%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1,555 (16.03%) Microsoft Office
2 896 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 444 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 146 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 90 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 11 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 10 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.10%) PTC Creo
9 10 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (0.082%) InDesign
11 8 (0.082%) Simulink
12 7 (0.072%) InCopy
12 7 (0.072%) OrCAD
12 7 (0.072%) Trello
13 4 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
13 4 (0.041%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 622 (6.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 36 (0.37%) PlanetPress Connect
4 34 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 24 (0.25%) Primavera
6 23 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 21 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 19 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 18 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
10 16 (0.16%) Maximo
11 15 (0.15%) iTrent
11 15 (0.15%) SAP Business One
12 14 (0.14%) NetSuite
13 13 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
13 13 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
13 13 (0.13%) Shopify
14 12 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
14 12 (0.12%) SAP ERP
15 9 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
16 8 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4,842 (49.93%) Azure
2 3,169 (32.68%) Microsoft 365
3 1,758 (18.13%) Power Platform
4 1,095 (11.29%) Dynamics 365
5 963 (9.93%) AWS
6 913 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
7 794 (8.19%) Entra ID
8 668 (6.89%) SaaS
9 631 (6.51%) PaaS
10 560 (5.77%) IaaS
11 470 (4.85%) Serverless
12 445 (4.59%) PowerApps
13 349 (3.60%) Azure Functions
14 322 (3.32%) Power Automate
15 274 (2.83%) GCP
16 252 (2.60%) OneDrive
17 196 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
18 165 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
19 156 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
20 138 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,028 (10.60%) Firewall
2 809 (8.34%) DNS
3 690 (7.11%) WAN
4 668 (6.89%) DHCP
5 522 (5.38%) VPN
6 515 (5.31%) LAN
7 378 (3.90%) Wireless
8 331 (3.41%) TCP/IP
9 313 (3.23%) SAN
10 264 (2.72%) VLAN
11 255 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
12 230 (2.37%) SD-WAN
13 215 (2.22%) Network Security
14 203 (2.09%) VoIP
15 169 (1.74%) Internet
16 140 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
17 119 (1.23%) WebEx
18 109 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
19 77 (0.79%) NAS
20 74 (0.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,456 (15.01%) SQL Server
2 894 (9.22%) Power BI
3 319 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 297 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 239 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 182 (1.88%) Data Lake
7 171 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 162 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 117 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
10 116 (1.20%) Tableau
11 109 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 109 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 100 (1.03%) MySQL
13 91 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
14 66 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 64 (0.66%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 63 (0.65%) Big Data
17 58 (0.60%) Power Query
18 57 (0.59%) Oracle Database
19 52 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 340 (3.51%) Git
1 340 (3.51%) JIRA
2 144 (1.48%) Visual Studio
3 110 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 87 (0.90%) GitLab
5 68 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 67 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 51 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 40 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 35 (0.36%) Postman
9 35 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 32 (0.33%) Selenium
11 31 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
12 27 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
13 26 (0.27%) NUnit
14 25 (0.26%) MSI
15 21 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
16 17 (0.18%) Subversion
16 17 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
17 16 (0.16%) InstallShield
General
1 2,803 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 2,256 (23.26%) Finance
3 1,003 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 493 (5.08%) Retail
5 425 (4.38%) Legal
6 403 (4.16%) Law
7 401 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 395 (4.07%) Public Sector
9 367 (3.78%) Banking
10 363 (3.74%) Marketing
11 328 (3.38%) Manufacturing
12 301 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
13 254 (2.62%) Telecoms
14 247 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
15 149 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 117 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
17 92 (0.95%) Electronics
18 91 (0.94%) Local Government
19 85 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
20 83 (0.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,611 (16.61%) Analyst
2 1,218 (12.56%) Senior
3 1,106 (11.40%) Developer
4 941 (9.70%) Architect
5 775 (7.99%) Support Engineer
6 725 (7.48%) IT Support
7 629 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 581 (5.99%) Lead
9 535 (5.52%) IT Engineer
10 487 (5.02%) Support Analyst
11 426 (4.39%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 400 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 392 (4.04%) Consultant
14 321 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support
15 296 (3.05%) IT Analyst
16 280 (2.89%) IT Support Engineer
17 275 (2.84%) Administrator
18 270 (2.78%) .NET Developer
19 264 (2.72%) IT Manager
20 258 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,146 (11.82%) .NET
2 440 (4.54%) HTML
3 386 (3.98%) CSS
4 309 (3.19%) ASP.NET
5 262 (2.70%) .NET Framework
6 258 (2.66%) AngularJS
7 245 (2.53%) React
8 244 (2.52%) .NET Core
9 200 (2.06%) REST
10 165 (1.70%) Web Services
11 150 (1.55%) ASP.NET MVC
12 144 (1.48%) XML
13 139 (1.43%) JSON
14 136 (1.40%) RESTful
15 131 (1.35%) Entity Framework
16 119 (1.23%) HTML5
17 110 (1.13%) Node.js
18 102 (1.05%) jQuery
19 101 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web API
20 90 (0.93%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 509 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
2 445 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 407 (4.20%) Data Centre
4 264 (2.72%) Driving Licence
5 212 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 193 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
7 174 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 166 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 156 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 146 (1.51%) Clustering
11 122 (1.26%) Replication
12 110 (1.13%) Cloud Native
13 98 (1.01%) Low-Code
13 98 (1.01%) PKI
14 96 (0.99%) Wiki
15 83 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 79 (0.81%) NHS
16 79 (0.81%) Virtual Team
17 69 (0.71%) Private Cloud
18 67 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3,162 (32.60%) Windows
2 1,469 (15.15%) Windows Server
3 916 (9.45%) Windows 10
4 510 (5.26%) Linux
5 403 (4.16%) Android
6 348 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 346 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 305 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 235 (2.42%) Apple iOS
10 189 (1.95%) Mac OS
11 136 (1.40%) Windows 7
12 98 (1.01%) Unix
13 61 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
14 57 (0.59%) Windows 8
15 50 (0.52%) Mac OS X
16 49 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
17 46 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 44 (0.45%) CentOS
19 40 (0.41%) VMS
20 34 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,010 (20.73%) Agile
2 1,912 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
3 1,475 (15.21%) DevOps
4 1,257 (12.96%) ITIL
5 1,156 (11.92%) Customer Service
6 1,017 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
7 851 (8.78%) Roadmaps
8 819 (8.45%) CRM
9 812 (8.37%) Mentoring
10 770 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 682 (7.03%) Project Management
12 636 (6.56%) Migration
13 629 (6.49%) Cybersecurity
14 613 (6.32%) Analytics
15 610 (6.29%) Actionable Insight
16 592 (6.10%) Project Delivery
17 591 (6.09%) CI/CD
18 520 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
19 467 (4.82%) Service Management
20 454 (4.68%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,844 (19.01%) SQL
2 1,150 (11.86%) C#
3 1,147 (11.83%) PowerShell
4 696 (7.18%) JavaScript
5 521 (5.37%) Python
6 313 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 211 (2.18%) Bash
8 210 (2.17%) Java
9 136 (1.40%) TypeScript
10 93 (0.96%) VB
11 82 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 80 (0.82%) Bicep
13 73 (0.75%) C++
14 68 (0.70%) PHP
15 57 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 53 (0.55%) Ruby
17 45 (0.46%) VB.NET
18 41 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 36 (0.37%) Go
19 36 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,503 (15.50%) Degree
2 943 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 714 (7.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 657 (6.77%) SC Cleared
5 369 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 335 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 243 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 226 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 200 (2.06%) MCSE
10 168 (1.73%) Master's Degree
11 143 (1.47%) CCNA
12 115 (1.19%) CISSP
12 115 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
13 112 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 111 (1.14%) MCSA
15 99 (1.02%) DBS Check
15 99 (1.02%) MCP
16 96 (0.99%) CCNP
17 76 (0.78%) A+ Certification
18 72 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (4.74%) SLA
2 279 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 255 (2.63%) QA
4 196 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 163 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 148 (1.53%) GDPR
7 112 (1.15%) PMO
8 101 (1.04%) NIST
9 77 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 75 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 61 (0.63%) Accessibility
12 39 (0.40%) NCSC
13 37 (0.38%) ISO 9001
14 17 (0.18%) GRC
14 17 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 17 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 16 (0.16%) COBIT
16 15 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 12 (0.12%) IFRS
18 11 (0.11%) GAAP
System Software
1 2,682 (27.66%) Active Directory
2 888 (9.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 595 (6.14%) Hyper-V
4 261 (2.69%) Docker
5 215 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 176 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
7 161 (1.66%) XenApp
8 160 (1.65%) vSphere
9 123 (1.27%) XenDesktop
10 121 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 118 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
12 98 (1.01%) Firmware
13 57 (0.59%) VMware NSX
14 52 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
15 28 (0.29%) vCloud
16 27 (0.28%) BitLocker
17 19 (0.20%) Terminal Services
18 15 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 14 (0.14%) DFS Replication
20 12 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 776 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 663 (6.84%) SCCM
3 318 (3.28%) Terraform
4 307 (3.17%) Kubernetes
5 151 (1.56%) SCOM
6 149 (1.54%) Ansible
7 121 (1.25%) AirWatch
8 102 (1.05%) WSUS
9 96 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 89 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
11 72 (0.74%) FortiGate
12 61 (0.63%) vCenter Server
13 60 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
14 57 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
15 52 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
15 52 (0.54%) Nessus
16 50 (0.52%) Puppet
17 41 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 36 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
19 30 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,299 (13.39%) VMware
2 702 (7.24%) Cisco
3 537 (5.54%) Citrix
4 386 (3.98%) Oracle
5 298 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 288 (2.97%) Google
7 281 (2.90%) Apple
8 250 (2.58%) SAP
9 225 (2.32%) HP
10 204 (2.10%) Veeam
11 148 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 147 (1.52%) Dell
13 146 (1.51%) Meraki
14 136 (1.40%) Palo Alto
15 130 (1.34%) Databricks
16 99 (1.02%) SolarWinds
17 91 (0.94%) Aruba
18 87 (0.90%) Adobe
19 85 (0.88%) IBM
19 85 (0.88%) Red Hat