Microsoft Certification Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 183 157
Rank change year-on-year +32 -26 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 99 92 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.37% 1.37% 1.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.22% 3.32% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 75 70 107
10th Percentile £21,500 £25,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,125 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -2.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year - -4.26% +4.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,896 2,768 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.23% 41.15% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 975 1,153
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £28,602
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £35,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -2 29 £43,227 -19.58% 7
Staffordshire -10 26 £50,000 +11.73% 4
Worcestershire - 9 £33,500 -
Wolverhampton +13 7 £25,500 -53.64% 1
Wednesbury - 5 £26,500 -
Warwickshire +53 4 - - 5
Herefordshire +1 4 £27,500 -45.00% 1
Solihull +1 2 £62,500 +123.21%
Shropshire -6 1 £14,000 -46.15%
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 33 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (26.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.02%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (69.70%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (46.46%) Azure
3 26 (26.26%) Entra ID
4 22 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.10%) PowerApps
6 8 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.05%) AWS
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.04%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.03%) GCP
10 2 (2.02%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.02%) Serverless
11 1 (1.01%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.15%) DHCP
1 15 (15.15%) DNS
1 15 (15.15%) Firewall
2 11 (11.11%) VPN
2 11 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (8.08%) LAN
3 8 (8.08%) WAN
4 7 (7.07%) Internet
4 7 (7.07%) SAN
5 6 (6.06%) Intranet
5 6 (6.06%) Network Security
5 6 (6.06%) Wireless
6 4 (4.04%) VSAN
7 3 (3.03%) VLAN
8 2 (2.02%) Broadband
8 2 (2.02%) HTTP
8 2 (2.02%) IPv6
8 2 (2.02%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (2.02%) VoIP
9 1 (1.01%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.19%) Power BI
2 10 (10.10%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.06%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.04%) MySQL
4 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.02%) Metadata
6 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (2.02%) MSBuild
General
1 48 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.10%) Retail
4 7 (7.07%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.06%) Finance
6 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.04%) Local Government
6 4 (4.04%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.04%) Police
7 3 (3.03%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.01%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 32 (32.32%) IT Support
2 20 (20.20%) IT Engineer
3 13 (13.13%) Analyst
3 13 (13.13%) Support Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) IT Support Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Support Technician
5 11 (11.11%) IT Support Technician
5 11 (11.11%) IT Technician
6 10 (10.10%) Consultant
7 6 (6.06%) Architect
7 6 (6.06%) Functional Consultant
7 6 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Server Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) DBA
9 4 (4.04%) Help Desk Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) SQL DBA
9 4 (4.04%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) .NET
1 2 (2.02%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.10%) Private Cloud
3 8 (8.08%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.07%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.06%) Virtual Team
6 5 (5.05%) EPoS
7 4 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (4.04%) PKI
8 3 (3.03%) CCTV
8 3 (3.03%) Clustering
8 3 (3.03%) iPad
8 3 (3.03%) Media Streaming
8 3 (3.03%) Mobile Computing
8 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.01%) IoT
10 1 (1.01%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 63 (63.64%) Windows
2 33 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.15%) Windows 10
4 9 (9.09%) Linux
5 6 (6.06%) Mac OS
5 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.03%) Unix
8 2 (2.02%) Android
8 2 (2.02%) VMS
8 2 (2.02%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.01%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.31%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (19.19%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (19.19%) ITIL
3 18 (18.18%) Presales
4 16 (16.16%) Agile
4 16 (16.16%) Customer Service
4 16 (16.16%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (11.11%) Migration
6 10 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.10%) Software Engineering
6 10 (10.10%) Software Licensing
7 8 (8.08%) Change Management
8 7 (7.07%) Computer Science
8 7 (7.07%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (7.07%) Roadmaps
8 7 (7.07%) Server Management
8 7 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.06%) CI/CD
9 6 (6.06%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (6.06%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.23%) SQL
2 8 (8.08%) C#
3 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.05%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.02%) PHP
5 2 (2.02%) Python
5 2 (2.02%) R
6 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 37 (37.37%) Degree
2 29 (29.29%) MCSE
3 23 (23.23%) A+ Certification
4 18 (18.18%) MCP
5 14 (14.14%) CCNA
5 14 (14.14%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (13.13%) MCSA
7 10 (10.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (8.08%) Azure Certification
10 6 (6.06%) MCITP
11 5 (5.05%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (5.05%) HND
11 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
11 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
12 4 (4.04%) DBS Check
12 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
12 4 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (4.04%) MCTS
13 3 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.13%) SLA
2 4 (4.04%) GDPR
3 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (59.60%) Active Directory
2 25 (25.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (16.16%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.07%) vSphere
5 2 (2.02%) Docker
5 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.08%) SCCM
2 4 (4.04%) AirWatch
3 3 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.03%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.03%) SCOM
4 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (93.94%) Microsoft
2 31 (31.31%) VMware
3 14 (14.14%) Apple
4 11 (11.11%) HP
5 10 (10.10%) Adobe
5 10 (10.10%) Cisco
6 7 (7.07%) Dell
7 6 (6.06%) Citrix
8 5 (5.05%) ConnectWise
9 4 (4.04%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (3.03%) Meraki
10 3 (3.03%) Sage
11 2 (2.02%) EMC
11 2 (2.02%) Mitel
11 2 (2.02%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (2.02%) OpenAI
11 2 (2.02%) Remedy
11 2 (2.02%) SonicWALL
11 2 (2.02%) Veeam
11 2 (2.02%) Zerto