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 26 July 2024, 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
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 14,559 14,420 26,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.11% 17.87% 14.96%
As % of the Vendors category 47.47% 44.26% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,863 10,002 15,287
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 30,670 32,578 68,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 40.37% 39.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19,230 21,852 34,342
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,372
25th Percentile £36,963 £41,250 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £91,973
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,501
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 +2 13,198 £47,500 -9.52% 2,567
UK excluding London +3 10,429 £45,000 - 2,377
Work from Home +2 5,476 £55,000 - 1,186
London 0 3,475 £62,500 - 525
South East +3 2,892 £45,000 -1.32% 597
North of England -1 2,460 £45,000 - 606
Midlands +2 2,118 £45,000 -10.00% 391
North West -1 1,327 £47,250 +0.53% 308
West Midlands +2 1,306 £47,500 -9.52% 261
South West +2 1,278 £45,000 +5.88% 351
Yorkshire +1 855 £42,500 -0.02% 205
East of England +2 825 £37,500 -1.66% 229
East Midlands +2 805 £40,000 -15.79% 130
Scotland -25 478 £45,000 +5.88% 115
North East +3 279 £40,000 -6.98% 110
Wales 0 273 £40,500 +0.27% 69
Northern Ireland +1 94 £42,500 -15.00% 109
Isle of Man +1 20 £45,000 -37.93% 6
Channel Islands 0 6 £60,000 -11.11% 2

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 1,447 (9.94%) SharePoint
2 1,242 (8.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 198 (1.36%) IIS
4 144 (0.99%) Confluence
5 96 (0.66%) CMS
6 78 (0.54%) Apache
7 62 (0.43%) SAS
8 61 (0.42%) Skype for Business
9 49 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 47 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 37 (0.25%) Kentico
12 31 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
13 30 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
13 30 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 28 (0.19%) Headless CMS
15 26 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
16 24 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
17 23 (0.16%) WordPress
18 22 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
19 18 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2,995 (20.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2,494 (17.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 529 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 246 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 114 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 51 (0.35%) AutoCAD
7 46 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 23 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 17 (0.12%) InDesign
10 16 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 16 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 16 (0.11%) Trello
11 15 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 15 (0.10%) SPSS
12 12 (0.082%) InfoPath
13 10 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
14 8 (0.055%) Adobe Captivate
15 7 (0.048%) Sketch
16 6 (0.041%) InVision
16 6 (0.041%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 534 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 89 (0.61%) Primavera
3 81 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
4 71 (0.49%) NEC Housing
5 53 (0.36%) iTrent
6 44 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
7 36 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
8 28 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 23 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 22 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 21 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 19 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
12 19 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 18 (0.12%) Elite 3E
14 17 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
15 15 (0.10%) Magento
15 15 (0.10%) Shopify
16 14 (0.096%) Infor SunSystems
16 14 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
17 11 (0.076%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 5,445 (37.40%) Azure
2 4,121 (28.31%) Microsoft 365
3 1,805 (12.40%) Power Platform
4 1,266 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 1,239 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
6 1,008 (6.92%) AWS
7 693 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 648 (4.45%) PowerApps
9 576 (3.96%) Power Automate
10 533 (3.66%) SaaS
11 381 (2.62%) OneDrive
12 355 (2.44%) GCP
13 289 (1.99%) PaaS
14 274 (1.88%) IaaS
15 206 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
16 193 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
17 162 (1.11%) Serverless
18 154 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 147 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
19 147 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,270 (8.72%) Firewall
2 856 (5.88%) DNS
3 753 (5.17%) Broadband
4 720 (4.95%) WAN
5 657 (4.51%) LAN
6 629 (4.32%) DHCP
7 521 (3.58%) VPN
8 462 (3.17%) TCP/IP
9 384 (2.64%) Wireless
10 376 (2.58%) SAN
11 368 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
12 335 (2.30%) Network Security
13 297 (2.04%) VLAN
14 292 (2.01%) Internet
15 221 (1.52%) 5G
16 212 (1.46%) VoIP
17 174 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
18 173 (1.19%) SD-WAN
19 169 (1.16%) WLAN
20 113 (0.78%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,543 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 1,071 (7.36%) Power BI
3 284 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 265 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 264 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 263 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
7 235 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 189 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 138 (0.95%) Tableau
10 135 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 123 (0.84%) MongoDB
12 103 (0.71%) MySQL
13 100 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
14 96 (0.66%) Oracle Database
15 88 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
15 88 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
16 84 (0.58%) Big Data
17 81 (0.56%) NoSQL
18 76 (0.52%) Metadata
19 72 (0.49%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 346 (2.38%) Git
2 325 (2.23%) JIRA
3 255 (1.75%) Visual Studio
4 97 (0.67%) GitLab
4 97 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 50 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 43 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 38 (0.26%) Selenium
7 38 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 31 (0.21%) Postman
9 28 (0.19%) Jasmine
9 28 (0.19%) Karma Test Runner
9 28 (0.19%) Subversion
10 26 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
11 25 (0.17%) Sourcetree
12 20 (0.14%) MSI
12 20 (0.14%) NUnit
13 19 (0.13%) Moq
14 18 (0.12%) Cucumber
15 17 (0.12%) MSTest
General
1 5,147 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 3,332 (22.89%) Finance
3 2,547 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 1,182 (8.12%) Retail
5 944 (6.48%) Marketing
6 908 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 868 (5.96%) Legal
8 665 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
9 649 (4.46%) Law
10 556 (3.82%) Public Sector
11 548 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
12 519 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
13 453 (3.11%) Manufacturing
14 372 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 331 (2.27%) Banking
16 207 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
17 190 (1.31%) Local Government
18 169 (1.16%) Games
19 156 (1.07%) Advertising
20 134 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,215 (15.21%) Analyst
2 1,987 (13.65%) Senior
3 1,540 (10.58%) Developer
4 1,115 (7.66%) IT Support
5 991 (6.81%) Architect
6 960 (6.59%) Support Engineer
7 928 (6.37%) Lead
8 876 (6.02%) Consultant
9 772 (5.30%) IT Engineer
10 747 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 524 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
12 491 (3.37%) IT Support Engineer
13 480 (3.30%) Development Manager
14 423 (2.91%) .NET Developer
15 410 (2.82%) IT Analyst
16 409 (2.81%) IT Manager
17 404 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
18 400 (2.75%) 2nd Line Support
19 388 (2.67%) Support Analyst
20 355 (2.44%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,309 (8.99%) .NET
2 443 (3.04%) ASP.NET
3 421 (2.89%) .NET Core
4 420 (2.88%) HTML
5 367 (2.52%) .NET Framework
6 330 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 300 (2.06%) CSS
8 283 (1.94%) React
9 272 (1.87%) ASP.NET MVC
10 244 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
11 230 (1.58%) Entity Framework
12 217 (1.49%) Web Services
13 172 (1.18%) RESTful
14 157 (1.08%) REST
15 146 (1.00%) XML
16 145 (1.00%) JSON
17 141 (0.97%) HTML5
18 136 (0.93%) Vue
19 121 (0.83%) Node.js
20 84 (0.58%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 733 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
2 731 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 509 (3.50%) Driving Licence
4 478 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 337 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 304 (2.09%) Social Media
7 289 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 206 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 202 (1.39%) PKI
10 165 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 162 (1.11%) Cloud Native
12 158 (1.09%) Replication
13 126 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
14 113 (0.78%) Smartphone
15 112 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
16 111 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
17 104 (0.71%) Clustering
18 103 (0.71%) Algorithms
19 94 (0.65%) Low-Code
20 85 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3,794 (26.06%) Windows
2 1,571 (10.79%) Windows Server
3 1,079 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 1,075 (7.38%) Linux
5 366 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 358 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 317 (2.18%) Android
8 281 (1.93%) Ubuntu
9 263 (1.81%) Apple iOS
10 250 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 222 (1.52%) Mac OS
12 143 (0.98%) Unix
12 143 (0.98%) Windows 7
13 109 (0.75%) VMS
14 78 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
15 74 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 56 (0.38%) CentOS
17 52 (0.36%) Mac OS X
18 43 (0.30%) Windows 8
19 30 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,962 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
2 2,834 (19.47%) Agile
3 1,864 (12.80%) Customer Service
4 1,536 (10.55%) ITIL
5 1,391 (9.55%) Mentoring
6 1,351 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
7 1,330 (9.14%) DevOps
8 1,281 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
9 1,260 (8.65%) Project Management
10 1,210 (8.31%) CRM
11 1,089 (7.48%) Decision-Making
12 923 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 907 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 800 (5.49%) Analytics
15 783 (5.38%) Computer Science
16 740 (5.08%) Roadmaps
17 727 (4.99%) Logistics
18 726 (4.99%) Business Development
19 708 (4.86%) Actionable Insight
20 694 (4.77%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,073 (14.24%) SQL
2 1,432 (9.84%) C#
3 1,013 (6.96%) PowerShell
4 838 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 641 (4.40%) Python
6 452 (3.10%) Bash
7 361 (2.48%) T-SQL
8 260 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 184 (1.26%) Java
10 153 (1.05%) C++
11 120 (0.82%) VB.NET
12 106 (0.73%) VB
13 105 (0.72%) C
14 96 (0.66%) Bicep
15 90 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 88 (0.60%) VBA
17 83 (0.57%) R
18 73 (0.50%) Fortran
19 67 (0.46%) Scala
20 50 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,574 (17.68%) Degree
2 1,057 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 1,054 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 637 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 567 (3.89%) ACCA
6 499 (3.43%) CIMA
7 487 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 411 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
9 406 (2.79%) Azure Certification
10 387 (2.66%) DBS Check
11 316 (2.17%) CCNA
12 245 (1.68%) MCP
13 233 (1.60%) MCSE
14 222 (1.52%) CCNP
15 204 (1.40%) A+ Certification
16 200 (1.37%) DV Cleared
17 190 (1.31%) CISSP
18 173 (1.19%) Master's Degree
19 165 (1.13%) PMI Certification
20 145 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 579 (3.98%) SLA
2 426 (2.93%) QA
3 378 (2.60%) GDPR
4 322 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 226 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 204 (1.40%) Data Quality
7 176 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 130 (0.89%) NIST
9 117 (0.80%) PMO
10 91 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 81 (0.56%) IFRS
12 64 (0.44%) GAAP
13 55 (0.38%) ISO 9001
14 37 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 32 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 31 (0.21%) GRC
17 30 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 26 (0.18%) SOC 2
19 23 (0.16%) ITGC
20 21 (0.14%) COBIT
System Software
1 3,179 (21.84%) Active Directory
2 957 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 643 (4.42%) Hyper-V
4 258 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 198 (1.36%) vSphere
6 197 (1.35%) Docker
7 142 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
8 123 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 93 (0.64%) XenApp
10 85 (0.58%) XenDesktop
11 53 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
12 51 (0.35%) RACF
13 44 (0.30%) Firmware
14 40 (0.27%) Terminal Services
15 27 (0.19%) VMware NSX
16 26 (0.18%) KVM
16 26 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 24 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
18 21 (0.14%) pfSense
19 20 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,098 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 452 (3.10%) SCCM
3 373 (2.56%) Terraform
4 301 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 273 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
6 171 (1.17%) Ansible
7 147 (1.01%) WSUS
8 109 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 88 (0.60%) SCOM
10 84 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 83 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 42 (0.29%) Grafana
13 37 (0.25%) Stealthwatch
14 36 (0.25%) Backup Exec
15 34 (0.23%) CASB
15 34 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
15 34 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 33 (0.23%) Puppet
17 32 (0.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 27 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,439 (9.88%) VMware
2 825 (5.67%) Cisco
3 536 (3.68%) Google
4 436 (2.99%) Oracle
5 408 (2.80%) Apple
6 391 (2.69%) Citrix
7 321 (2.20%) SAP
8 302 (2.07%) Dell
9 297 (2.04%) Veeam
10 287 (1.97%) CyberArk
11 269 (1.85%) Adobe
12 253 (1.74%) HP
13 230 (1.58%) ServiceNow
14 211 (1.45%) Tanium
15 210 (1.44%) Meraki
16 174 (1.20%) Salesforce
17 172 (1.18%) Databricks
18 145 (1.00%) Red Hat
19 144 (0.99%) Fortinet
20 125 (0.86%) Palo Alto