Microsoft Office Job Trends

Microsoft Office
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 60 34
Rank change year-on-year -49 -26 +44
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Office 1,843 2,051 4,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.12% 5.32%
As % of the Applications category 34.10% 35.61% 52.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 1,193 1,746
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £23,800
25th Percentile £28,000 £28,125 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.17% -8.86%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,000 £33,607 £32,500
% change year-on-year -4.78% +3.41% -7.14%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 5,404 5,760 8,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.10% 11.57% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,036 2,586 3,751
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,137 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% -3.21% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year - -5.06% -

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Office relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Office
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Office within the UK over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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 -47 1,647 £32,500 -12.16% 1,442
UK excluding London -30 1,390 £32,000 -4.78% 1,192
Work from Home +6 542 £36,338 -0.44% 449
London -64 395 £41,000 -13.68% 478
South East -28 355 £31,000 -4.62% 347
North of England -37 293 £34,000 -2.86% 244
South West -10 221 £32,500 +4.84% 153
Midlands -35 212 £31,000 -4.62% 189
East of England -27 167 £32,000 -1.54% 126
North West -43 141 £34,000 -9.33% 128
West Midlands -54 120 £35,000 +7.69% 102
Yorkshire -31 97 £32,500 -4.41% 88
East Midlands -13 92 £29,625 -5.95% 87
Scotland +42 73 £33,000 -16.46% 81
North East -17 55 £34,500 -13.75% 29
Wales -32 43 £28,500 -40.78% 36
Northern Ireland -52 36 £42,500 +63.46% 37

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 143 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 125 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.19%) Confluence
4 21 (1.14%) WordPress
5 14 (0.76%) IIS
6 13 (0.71%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.49%) CMS
8 6 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 6 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.054%) WildFly
Applications
1 497 (26.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 222 (12.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 106 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.19%) Acrobat
6 21 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.27%) CorelDRAW
10 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.22%) InDesign
11 4 (0.22%) Trello
12 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.054%) Revit
13 1 (0.054%) SketchUp
13 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 22 (1.19%) Primavera
3 12 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.54%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.22%) Magento
8 3 (0.16%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.16%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 2 (0.11%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
10 1 (0.054%) FastStats
10 1 (0.054%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.054%) Shopify
10 1 (0.054%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.054%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 468 (25.39%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (7.00%) Azure
3 128 (6.95%) AWS
4 80 (4.34%) Power Platform
5 57 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 41 (2.22%) SaaS
7 32 (1.74%) OneDrive
8 27 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 25 (1.36%) Google Workspace
10 17 (0.92%) Power Automate
11 16 (0.87%) GitHub
12 15 (0.81%) ChatGPT
13 14 (0.76%) PowerApps
14 11 (0.60%) Canva
14 11 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (0.49%) GCP
15 9 (0.49%) Google Analytics
16 7 (0.38%) Google Ads
16 7 (0.38%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.96%) Firewall
2 65 (3.53%) DNS
3 59 (3.20%) VPN
4 55 (2.98%) DHCP
5 54 (2.93%) LAN
6 53 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (2.82%) WAN
8 50 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 50 (2.71%) Wireless
9 25 (1.36%) Internet
10 24 (1.30%) Broadband
11 22 (1.19%) 4G
12 18 (0.98%) Skype
12 18 (0.98%) VLAN
13 17 (0.92%) Network Security
14 15 (0.81%) VoIP
15 13 (0.71%) WLAN
16 11 (0.60%) NGN
17 10 (0.54%) Unified Communications
17 10 (0.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.58%) Power BI
2 49 (2.66%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (0.60%) GIS
4 11 (0.60%) Power Query
5 9 (0.49%) Tableau
6 8 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.27%) MySQL
10 4 (0.22%) EDMS
11 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.16%) Db2
11 3 (0.16%) DB2 UDB
11 3 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.16%) QlikView
11 3 (0.16%) Spatial Data
11 3 (0.16%) Spotfire
12 2 (0.11%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 62 (3.36%) JIRA
2 18 (0.98%) Git
3 4 (0.22%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.16%) GitLab
4 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.11%) JMeter
5 2 (0.11%) Postman
6 1 (0.054%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.054%) Maven
6 1 (0.054%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.054%) Selenium
6 1 (0.054%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,145 (62.13%) Social Skills
2 356 (19.32%) Organisational Skills
3 352 (19.10%) Finance
4 248 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (9.88%) Marketing
6 156 (8.46%) Legal
7 127 (6.89%) Retail
8 110 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 109 (5.91%) Law
10 88 (4.77%) Manufacturing
11 80 (4.34%) Public Sector
12 77 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (3.42%) Telecoms
14 48 (2.60%) Swedish Language
15 37 (2.01%) Advertising
15 37 (2.01%) Banking
15 37 (2.01%) French Language
16 36 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
16 36 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
17 33 (1.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 326 (17.69%) Analyst
2 238 (12.91%) IT Support
3 181 (9.82%) Support Engineer
4 142 (7.70%) Senior
5 128 (6.95%) Administrator
6 123 (6.67%) Service Analyst
7 119 (6.46%) Service Desk Analyst
8 113 (6.13%) Support Analyst
9 111 (6.02%) IT Engineer
10 96 (5.21%) Project Manager
11 95 (5.15%) IT Support Engineer
12 83 (4.50%) Technical Support
13 79 (4.29%) Senior Manager
14 76 (4.12%) 1st Line Support
15 75 (4.07%) IT Analyst
16 71 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
17 69 (3.74%) Senior Project Manager
17 69 (3.74%) Technical Support Engineer
18 67 (3.64%) Coordinator
19 61 (3.31%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.92%) CSS
1 17 (0.92%) HTML
2 9 (0.49%) .NET
3 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.33%) EDI
4 6 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (0.33%) REST
5 5 (0.27%) .NET Core
5 5 (0.27%) FreeMarker
5 5 (0.27%) XML
6 4 (0.22%) ASP.NET
6 4 (0.22%) JSON
6 4 (0.22%) pytest
7 3 (0.16%) Godot
7 3 (0.16%) SOAP
7 3 (0.16%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.11%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (0.11%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 199 (10.80%) Onboarding
2 188 (10.20%) Driving Licence
3 134 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
4 124 (6.73%) Management Information System
5 55 (2.98%) Web Conferencing
6 40 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 34 (1.84%) Social Media
8 29 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (1.30%) EPoS
10 20 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
10 20 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (0.81%) e-Learning
11 15 (0.81%) IoT
12 12 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (0.65%) Life Science
13 11 (0.60%) NHS
14 10 (0.54%) Blog
14 10 (0.54%) Product Ownership
15 9 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 428 (23.22%) Windows
2 143 (7.76%) Windows 10
3 141 (7.65%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.33%) Android
5 38 (2.06%) Linux
6 23 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.49%) Windows 7
9 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.43%) Unix
11 5 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.16%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
2 488 (26.48%) Customer Service
3 317 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 315 (17.09%) CRM
5 236 (12.81%) ITIL
6 213 (11.56%) Project Management
7 167 (9.06%) Customer Experience
8 162 (8.79%) Project Delivery
9 153 (8.30%) Agile
10 152 (8.25%) ITSM
11 149 (8.08%) ERP
12 142 (7.70%) Business Development
13 135 (7.33%) Time Management
14 111 (6.02%) Coaching
15 110 (5.97%) Mentoring
16 109 (5.91%) Decision-Making
16 109 (5.91%) Logistics
17 108 (5.86%) Stakeholder Management
18 99 (5.37%) Collaborative Working
19 97 (5.26%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.14%) SQL
2 77 (4.18%) PowerShell
3 46 (2.50%) Python
4 40 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 26 (1.41%) VBA
6 19 (1.03%) VBScript
7 16 (0.87%) C#
8 11 (0.60%) VB
9 10 (0.54%) R
9 10 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.49%) Ruby
11 6 (0.33%) C++
11 6 (0.33%) Java
12 5 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.22%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (0.22%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.16%) C
15 2 (0.11%) COBOL
15 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 616 (33.42%) Degree
2 149 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 79 (4.29%) MCSE
4 76 (4.12%) Security Cleared
5 73 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 70 (3.80%) A+ Certification
7 67 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 50 (2.71%) SC Cleared
9 47 (2.55%) HNC
10 41 (2.22%) HND
11 40 (2.17%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.60%) ACCA
15 10 (0.54%) CCNA
15 10 (0.54%) CIMA
15 10 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.43%) PhD
17 8 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (8.46%) QA
2 99 (5.37%) SLA
3 67 (3.64%) GDPR
4 49 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.44%) PMO
6 44 (2.39%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.57%) ISO 9001
9 18 (0.98%) NIST
10 14 (0.76%) GMP
11 8 (0.43%) GRC
12 7 (0.38%) TickIT
13 5 (0.27%) ISO 31000
13 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.22%) IEC 61508
14 4 (0.22%) IFRS
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 14001
14 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.22%) MiFID
14 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 243 (13.19%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.12%) Hyper-V
3 32 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.60%) BitLocker
5 10 (0.54%) vSphere
6 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.22%) Docker
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.054%) KVM
9 1 (0.054%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 71 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (2.12%) SCCM
3 6 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.16%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (0.16%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) Ansible
6 2 (0.11%) WSUS
6 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.054%) SCOM
7 1 (0.054%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,412 (76.61%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.04%) Adobe
4 55 (2.98%) Oracle
4 55 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 52 (2.82%) Google
6 51 (2.77%) VMware
7 45 (2.44%) Cisco
8 40 (2.17%) SAP
9 34 (1.84%) Apple
10 33 (1.79%) Sage
11 31 (1.68%) HubSpot
12 25 (1.36%) HP
12 25 (1.36%) Meraki
13 23 (1.25%) iManage
14 19 (1.03%) Starlink
15 17 (0.92%) JD Edwards
15 17 (0.92%) Xero
16 16 (0.87%) Citrix
16 16 (0.87%) Remedy