Senior Microsoft Developer Jobs

Senior Microsoft Developer
UK

The median Senior Microsoft Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 894 983
Rank change year-on-year +219 +89 +201
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Microsoft Developer 17 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.002% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 16 1 4
10th Percentile £53,750 - -
25th Percentile £65,313 £61,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -30.30%
75th Percentile £76,875 £63,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 - £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Microsoft Developer in the UK

Senior Microsoft Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Microsoft Developer.

Salary trend for Senior Microsoft Developer in the UK

Senior Microsoft Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Microsoft Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Microsoft Developer in the UK

Senior Microsoft Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Microsoft Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +187 15 £70,000 +12.00% 14
Work from Home +207 13 £70,000 +12.00% 11
UK excluding London - 11 £70,000 - 10
London +113 5 £73,750 +18.00% 5
Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 3
North of England - 5 £70,000 - 2
North West - 4 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £57,500 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 1
North East - 1 £85,000 -

Senior Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Microsoft Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
3 15 (88.24%) Azure
4 12 (70.59%) SQL
4 12 (70.59%) SQL Server
5 11 (64.71%) T-SQL
5 11 (64.71%) Finance
5 11 (64.71%) Refactoring
6 9 (52.94%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (52.94%) Power BI
6 9 (52.94%) Migration
6 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (52.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (47.06%) VMware
7 8 (47.06%) Back Office
7 8 (47.06%) Workflow
7 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (47.06%) Fintech
7 8 (47.06%) Private Cloud
7 8 (47.06%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (47.06%) SaaS
7 8 (47.06%) Data Privacy
7 8 (47.06%) Wealth Management
7 8 (47.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (47.06%) Statistics
7 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (47.06%) SQL CLR
7 8 (47.06%) High Availability
7 8 (47.06%) Data Hub
7 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering

Senior Microsoft Developer Skill Set
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 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 15 (88.24%) Azure
3 8 (47.06%) SaaS
4 6 (35.29%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
6 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (52.94%) Power BI
2 9 (52.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (47.06%) Data Hub
3 8 (47.06%) Metadata
3 8 (47.06%) SQL CLR
3 8 (47.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Back Office
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Law
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) Blazor
2 3 (17.65%) Middleware
2 3 (17.65%) WPF
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Refactoring
2 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (52.94%) Migration
2 9 (52.94%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (47.06%) Data Privacy
3 8 (47.06%) Fintech
3 8 (47.06%) High Availability
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Statistics
3 8 (47.06%) Wealth Management
3 8 (47.06%) Workflow
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) CRM
4 3 (17.65%) Data Development
4 3 (17.65%) Data Management
4 3 (17.65%) ERP
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 11 (64.71%) T-SQL
3 4 (23.53%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks