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 27 April 2024 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,535 19,543 22,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.89% 18.67% 14.86%
As % of the Vendors category 48.02% 44.57% 38.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13,450 11,531 14,870
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,125 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -

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 36,515 43,852 60,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.25% 41.90% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25,094 24,954 33,291
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +4 15,920 £47,500 -9.52% 4,381
UK excluding London +2 12,470 £43,000 -4.44% 3,469
Work from Home +4 7,090 £52,500 -4.55% 2,037
London +6 4,364 £60,500 -3.20% 1,244
South East +3 3,427 £45,000 - 832
North of England 0 2,888 £43,500 -3.33% 840
Midlands +1 2,264 £42,500 -10.53% 660
South West +3 1,618 £46,958 +15.94% 430
North West -2 1,491 £45,000 - 474
West Midlands +1 1,484 £45,000 -10.00% 410
East of England +2 1,227 £38,000 -5.14% 383
Yorkshire +2 986 £42,500 -5.56% 266
East Midlands 0 771 £37,500 -14.77% 248
Scotland -30 587 £45,000 -10.00% 264
North East +3 410 £42,500 +6.25% 109
Wales +1 331 £36,476 -2.73% 122
Northern Ireland +5 103 £42,500 -5.56% 70
Isle of Man +5 35 £45,000 +28.57% 3
Channel Islands 0 6 £85,000 +136.11% 4

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 1,890 (10.78%) SharePoint
2 1,694 (9.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 324 (1.85%) IIS
4 217 (1.24%) Confluence
5 146 (0.83%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 72 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 70 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 65 (0.37%) Apache
10 54 (0.31%) Kentico
10 54 (0.31%) SAS
11 48 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
12 45 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 44 (0.25%) WordPress
14 40 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 38 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 24 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
18 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
19 18 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3,121 (17.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2,268 (12.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 674 (3.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 276 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 123 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 68 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) InDesign
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 18 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.091%) SPSS
13 15 (0.086%) Trello
14 10 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
15 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
16 8 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.046%) Sketch
17 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
17 7 (0.040%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 637 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 102 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 90 (0.51%) Primavera
4 60 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 36 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
6 33 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 28 (0.16%) NEC Housing
7 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 26 (0.15%) Shopify
9 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
9 24 (0.14%) PlanetPress Connect
10 23 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 20 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
12 18 (0.10%) iTrent
12 18 (0.10%) Magento
13 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
14 15 (0.086%) Elite 3E
14 15 (0.086%) Infor SunSystems
15 13 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
16 12 (0.068%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7,236 (41.27%) Azure
2 5,397 (30.78%) Microsoft 365
3 2,328 (13.28%) Power Platform
4 1,427 (8.14%) AWS
5 1,369 (7.81%) Entra ID
6 1,284 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
7 864 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
8 730 (4.16%) PowerApps
9 718 (4.09%) SaaS
10 671 (3.83%) Power Automate
11 449 (2.56%) OneDrive
12 419 (2.39%) GCP
13 371 (2.12%) PaaS
14 346 (1.97%) IaaS
15 275 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 222 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 216 (1.23%) Serverless
18 171 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 166 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
20 157 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,630 (9.30%) Firewall
2 1,161 (6.62%) DNS
3 1,028 (5.86%) WAN
4 850 (4.85%) DHCP
5 826 (4.71%) LAN
6 820 (4.68%) Broadband
7 629 (3.59%) VPN
8 567 (3.23%) TCP/IP
9 560 (3.19%) Wireless
10 485 (2.77%) SAN
11 483 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
12 381 (2.17%) VLAN
13 353 (2.01%) Internet
14 316 (1.80%) VoIP
15 307 (1.75%) Network Security
16 298 (1.70%) SD-WAN
17 225 (1.28%) 5G
18 202 (1.15%) Intranet
19 193 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
20 163 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,670 (15.23%) SQL Server
2 1,457 (8.31%) Power BI
3 483 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 470 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 431 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 336 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 293 (1.67%) MongoDB
8 274 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 272 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 272 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 175 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 152 (0.87%) Tableau
12 131 (0.75%) MySQL
13 127 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
14 125 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
15 124 (0.71%) NoSQL
16 113 (0.64%) Big Data
17 90 (0.51%) MS Access
18 75 (0.43%) Oracle Database
19 73 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 502 (2.86%) Git
2 461 (2.63%) JIRA
3 390 (2.22%) Visual Studio
4 129 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 113 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 104 (0.59%) GitLab
7 84 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 71 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 47 (0.27%) NUnit
11 44 (0.25%) Selenium
12 42 (0.24%) Postman
12 42 (0.24%) Subversion
13 40 (0.23%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 24 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 16 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,170 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 3,585 (20.44%) Finance
3 2,347 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1,058 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 926 (5.28%) Retail
6 791 (4.51%) Law
7 771 (4.40%) Legal
8 743 (4.24%) Marketing
9 738 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 691 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
11 610 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
12 544 (3.10%) Manufacturing
13 531 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 458 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 409 (2.33%) Banking
16 284 (1.62%) Games
17 221 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
18 219 (1.25%) Advertising
19 210 (1.20%) Local Government
20 165 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,553 (14.56%) Analyst
2 2,524 (14.39%) Developer
3 2,324 (13.25%) Senior
4 1,522 (8.68%) IT Support
5 1,217 (6.94%) Support Engineer
6 1,117 (6.37%) Architect
7 967 (5.51%) IT Engineer
8 966 (5.51%) .NET Developer
8 966 (5.51%) Lead
9 918 (5.24%) Consultant
10 868 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 626 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
12 613 (3.50%) Administrator
13 496 (2.83%) 2nd Line Support
14 480 (2.74%) Support Analyst
15 475 (2.71%) IT Analyst
16 467 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
17 465 (2.65%) IT Technician
18 451 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
19 449 (2.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,140 (12.20%) .NET
2 1,073 (6.12%) ASP.NET
3 1,004 (5.73%) .NET Core
4 821 (4.68%) ASP.NET MVC
5 816 (4.65%) AngularJS
6 811 (4.63%) HTML
7 723 (4.12%) .NET Framework
8 657 (3.75%) Entity Framework
9 653 (3.72%) ASP.NET Web API
10 574 (3.27%) CSS
11 532 (3.03%) React
12 410 (2.34%) HTML5
13 348 (1.98%) RESTful
14 323 (1.84%) Node.js
15 298 (1.70%) Vue
16 265 (1.51%) Web Services
17 264 (1.51%) REST
18 257 (1.47%) JSON
19 214 (1.22%) XML
20 205 (1.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 934 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
2 794 (4.53%) Management Information System
3 659 (3.76%) Driving Licence
4 566 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 357 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 351 (2.00%) Social Media
7 348 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 267 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
9 254 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 254 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 245 (1.40%) Product Ownership
11 241 (1.37%) PKI
12 173 (0.99%) Cloud Native
13 171 (0.98%) Clustering
13 171 (0.98%) Replication
14 134 (0.76%) Mobile App
15 132 (0.75%) Low-Code
16 131 (0.75%) NHS
17 125 (0.71%) Smartphone
18 119 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,774 (27.23%) Windows
2 2,102 (11.99%) Windows Server
3 1,434 (8.18%) Windows 10
4 1,111 (6.34%) Linux
5 505 (2.88%) Android
6 459 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 458 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 358 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 320 (1.82%) Apple iOS
10 296 (1.69%) Ubuntu
11 273 (1.56%) Mac OS
12 246 (1.40%) Windows 7
13 147 (0.84%) Unix
14 144 (0.82%) VMS
15 102 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
16 97 (0.55%) Windows 8
17 74 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 71 (0.40%) CentOS
19 58 (0.33%) Mac OS X
20 39 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,449 (19.67%) Agile
2 3,433 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
3 2,332 (13.30%) Customer Service
4 1,901 (10.84%) ITIL
5 1,758 (10.03%) DevOps
6 1,717 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
7 1,629 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
8 1,577 (8.99%) Mentoring
9 1,483 (8.46%) Project Management
10 1,386 (7.90%) CRM
11 1,129 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,067 (6.08%) Decision-Making
13 998 (5.69%) Full Stack Development
14 993 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 992 (5.66%) MVC
16 976 (5.57%) Migration
17 960 (5.47%) Roadmaps
18 889 (5.07%) Scrum
19 865 (4.93%) Microservices
20 864 (4.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,855 (16.28%) SQL
2 2,229 (12.71%) C#
3 1,533 (8.74%) JavaScript
4 1,241 (7.08%) PowerShell
5 703 (4.01%) Python
6 581 (3.31%) T-SQL
7 475 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 447 (2.55%) Bash
9 270 (1.54%) Java
10 145 (0.83%) VB
11 134 (0.76%) C++
12 111 (0.63%) C
12 111 (0.63%) VB.NET
13 98 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 94 (0.54%) Bicep
15 90 (0.51%) R
16 69 (0.39%) PHP
17 67 (0.38%) VBA
18 46 (0.26%) PL/SQL
19 45 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,910 (16.60%) Degree
2 1,346 (7.68%) Security Cleared
3 1,173 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 830 (4.73%) SC Cleared
5 519 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 502 (2.86%) ACCA
7 489 (2.79%) DBS Check
8 471 (2.69%) CIMA
9 454 (2.59%) Azure Certification
10 424 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 334 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 295 (1.68%) CCNA
13 270 (1.54%) Master's Degree
14 244 (1.39%) A+ Certification
15 236 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
16 223 (1.27%) CISSP
17 208 (1.19%) MCP
18 197 (1.12%) MCSE
19 176 (1.00%) PMI Certification
20 155 (0.88%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 830 (4.73%) SLA
2 483 (2.75%) QA
3 479 (2.73%) GDPR
4 414 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 304 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 223 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 162 (0.92%) NIST
8 148 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 134 (0.76%) PMO
10 126 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 122 (0.70%) ISO 9001
12 56 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 48 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 41 (0.23%) GRC
15 35 (0.20%) IFRS
15 35 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 33 (0.19%) NCSC
17 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
18 29 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 4,095 (23.35%) Active Directory
2 1,216 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 909 (5.18%) Hyper-V
4 317 (1.81%) Docker
5 297 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 269 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
7 216 (1.23%) vSphere
8 187 (1.07%) XenApp
9 163 (0.93%) XenDesktop
10 144 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
11 124 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
12 80 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 68 (0.39%) Firmware
14 55 (0.31%) VMware NSX
15 53 (0.30%) KVM
15 53 (0.30%) Terminal Services
16 29 (0.17%) VirtualBox
17 27 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
19 19 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,338 (7.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 704 (4.01%) SCCM
3 385 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 350 (2.00%) Terraform
5 275 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
6 158 (0.90%) WSUS
7 148 (0.84%) Ansible
8 143 (0.82%) SCOM
9 127 (0.72%) AirWatch
10 119 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 98 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 95 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 64 (0.36%) FortiGate
14 53 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
15 47 (0.27%) Puppet
16 46 (0.26%) Grafana
16 46 (0.26%) Nessus
17 40 (0.23%) CASB
17 40 (0.23%) NetBackup
18 37 (0.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1,819 (10.37%) VMware
2 952 (5.43%) Cisco
3 687 (3.92%) Google
4 630 (3.59%) Citrix
5 529 (3.02%) Apple
6 468 (2.67%) Oracle
7 400 (2.28%) Veeam
8 376 (2.14%) Dell
9 371 (2.12%) ServiceNow
10 334 (1.90%) HP
11 331 (1.89%) SAP
12 296 (1.69%) Adobe
13 238 (1.36%) CyberArk
14 215 (1.23%) Meraki
15 210 (1.20%) Tanium
16 203 (1.16%) Databricks
17 188 (1.07%) Salesforce
18 160 (0.91%) Sophos
19 154 (0.88%) Fortinet
20 139 (0.79%) Red Hat