Microsoft Certification Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 62 155
Rank change year-on-year -63 +93 +30
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 72 129 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.91% 3.86% 1.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.10% 8.95% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 65 49 76
10th Percentile - £27,750 £21,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,000 £37,786
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -7.37% -15.56%
75th Percentile £45,590 £48,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,250 £58,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £32,119 £45,074 £45,000
% change year-on-year -28.74% +0.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,321 1,442 1,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.49% 43.19% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 613 578 1,273
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,925 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £51,675 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +3.35% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,325 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -4.35%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 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
Birmingham 0 29 £30,500 -27.00% 2
Staffordshire -28 17 £35,000 - 2
Herefordshire -23 7 £52,500 +31.25% 2
Worcestershire -24 7 £31,000 - 1
Shropshire -23 6 £34,810 -36.71%
Solihull +14 2 £52,500 -
Dudley +2 2 £30,250 - 1
Wolverhampton -21 1 £32,500 - 2
Coventry -22 1 £29,500 -37.89% 5
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 21 (29.17%) SharePoint
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 61 (84.72%) Azure
2 31 (43.06%) AWS
3 29 (40.28%) GitHub
4 28 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (29.17%) Entra ID
6 13 (18.06%) Power Platform
7 11 (15.28%) OneDrive
8 7 (9.72%) Power Automate
8 7 (9.72%) PowerApps
9 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.39%) Datadog
11 1 (1.39%) Serverless
11 1 (1.39%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (38.89%) Internet
2 17 (23.61%) DHCP
2 17 (23.61%) DNS
3 15 (20.83%) LAN
3 15 (20.83%) VPN
3 15 (20.83%) WAN
4 11 (15.28%) Firewall
5 7 (9.72%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (5.56%) RFID
7 3 (4.17%) FTP
8 2 (2.78%) Broadband
8 2 (2.78%) Ethernet
8 2 (2.78%) MPLS
8 2 (2.78%) PBX
8 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.78%) Unified Communications
8 2 (2.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Power BI
2 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (38.89%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) LabVIEW
3 3 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (38.89%) Multimedia
2 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.72%) Finance
6 3 (4.17%) Retail
7 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Trainee
2 15 (20.83%) Developer
3 14 (19.44%) Analyst
4 13 (18.06%) IT Engineer
4 13 (18.06%) Software Developer
4 13 (18.06%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (18.06%) Trainee Software Developer
5 12 (16.67%) IT Support
6 10 (13.89%) Senior
7 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Support Analyst
9 6 (8.33%) Support Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Administrator
10 5 (6.94%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (5.56%) Help Desk Analyst
11 4 (5.56%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (38.89%) CSS
1 28 (38.89%) HTML
2 1 (1.39%) .NET
2 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.39%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) 3D Printing
6 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.39%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (36.11%) Mentoring
3 21 (29.17%) ITIL
4 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.28%) Customer Service
5 11 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (15.28%) Migration
6 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 8 (11.11%) ERP
8 7 (9.72%) Agile
8 7 (9.72%) Cloud Security
8 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
8 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.72%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (9.72%) Service Delivery
9 6 (8.33%) CRM
9 6 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (6.94%) Analytics
10 5 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.28%) JavaScript
1 29 (40.28%) Python
2 15 (20.83%) R
3 8 (11.11%) SQL
4 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.39%) Bash
5 1 (1.39%) Bicep
5 1 (1.39%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 29 (40.28%) Azure Certification
3 28 (38.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 19 (26.39%) Degree
5 11 (15.28%) A+ Certification
6 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 8 (11.11%) MCSA
8 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (8.33%) MCITP
10 4 (5.56%) HNC
11 3 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.78%) CITP
12 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (2.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (9.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (9.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.78%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.78%) BitLocker
3 2 (2.78%) XenApp
4 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.39%) SCCM
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (98.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) Cisco
2 9 (12.50%) Meraki
3 7 (9.72%) VMware
4 6 (8.33%) Veeam
5 5 (6.94%) Citrix
6 2 (2.78%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.78%) IBM
6 2 (2.78%) Kaseya
6 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.78%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.39%) Epicor
7 1 (1.39%) Infor
7 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds