Microsoft Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,306 1,154 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.67% 22.73% 21.84%
As % of the Vendors category 55.55% 52.19% 51.08%
Number of salaries quoted 846 806 1,192
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,781 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +14.13% +7.29%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,351 2,211 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.60% 43.56% 42.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,629 1,535 2,279
10th Percentile £26,700 £29,750 £29,096
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,000 £62,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +0.92%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +1 457 £55,000 - 82
Warwickshire +3 214 £45,000 -18.18% 40
Staffordshire 0 191 £40,000 -9.60% 38
Worcestershire +3 85 £35,000 -22.65% 19
Coventry +2 54 £54,000 +12.38% 13
Solihull +4 43 £62,500 +31.58% 10
Shropshire +16 37 £36,500 -16.57% 17
Wolverhampton -9 23 £31,454 -37.09% 6
Dudley -2 12 £40,000 -33.33% 2
Herefordshire +6 11 £55,000 +62.58% 7
Walsall +1 11 £26,000 +23.81% 6
Wednesbury -4 6 £30,000 -14.29% 3
Halesowen - 6 £33,750 - 2
Tipton - 5 £25,000 - 1
Stourbridge - 4 £55,000 -
West Bromwich +2 3 - - 1
Sutton Coldfield -9 2 - - 3
Brierley Hill - 2 £35,000 -
Smethwick - 2 £42,500 - 1
Bilston -4 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - - 1
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
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
1 131 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 102 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.76%) IIS
4 20 (1.53%) Skype for Business
5 15 (1.15%) Confluence
6 9 (0.69%) Apache
7 8 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.38%) WordPress
9 4 (0.31%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.077%) CMS
12 1 (0.077%) nginx
Applications
1 333 (25.50%) Microsoft Office
2 209 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.92%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.61%) Trello
7 3 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.077%) Blender
9 1 (0.077%) InDesign
9 1 (0.077%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 69 (5.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 14 (1.07%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.61%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 6 (0.46%) Magento
6 5 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.38%) SAP WM
7 4 (0.31%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
8 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.077%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 409 (31.32%) Azure
2 364 (27.87%) Microsoft 365
3 212 (16.23%) Power Platform
4 141 (10.80%) Dynamics 365
5 86 (6.58%) Entra ID
6 69 (5.28%) PowerApps
7 61 (4.67%) AWS
8 59 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (4.44%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.99%) IaaS
11 25 (1.91%) SaaS
12 24 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (1.84%) Azure Stack
13 23 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (1.61%) PaaS
15 20 (1.53%) OneDrive
16 16 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (0.92%) Google Workspace
19 9 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 87 (6.66%) DNS
1 87 (6.66%) Firewall
2 82 (6.28%) DHCP
3 77 (5.90%) Network Security
4 71 (5.44%) WAN
5 61 (4.67%) Internet
6 57 (4.36%) WLAN
7 48 (3.68%) TCP/IP
8 43 (3.29%) LAN
8 43 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (2.76%) VPN
10 31 (2.37%) VLAN
11 29 (2.22%) SAN
12 22 (1.68%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.53%) Skype
14 19 (1.45%) Wireless
15 18 (1.38%) VoIP
16 14 (1.07%) Intranet
17 12 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
17 12 (0.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 136 (10.41%) Power BI
3 55 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 38 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (2.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 28 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.30%) Metadata
10 14 (1.07%) Big Data
11 12 (0.92%) MySQL
12 10 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 10 (0.77%) Power Query
13 9 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (0.61%) Tableau
15 7 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.38%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (2.37%) Git
2 27 (2.07%) JIRA
3 26 (1.99%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.54%) Postman
5 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.38%) Jasmine
6 5 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (0.38%) MSTest
6 5 (0.38%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.15%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.077%) CMake
8 1 (0.077%) GitLab
8 1 (0.077%) Moq
8 1 (0.077%) NUnit
8 1 (0.077%) Selenium
8 1 (0.077%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.077%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 404 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 307 (23.51%) Finance
3 228 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (16.39%) Retail
5 118 (9.04%) Marketing
6 87 (6.66%) Legal
7 70 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 63 (4.82%) Manufacturing
9 55 (4.21%) Law
10 45 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (2.83%) Public Sector
12 36 (2.76%) Local Government
13 35 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.68%) Police
16 20 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.23%) Banking
18 12 (0.92%) Games
18 12 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
19 9 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 172 (13.17%) Developer
2 148 (11.33%) IT Support
3 147 (11.26%) Analyst
4 132 (10.11%) Senior
5 107 (8.19%) IT Engineer
6 106 (8.12%) Development Manager
6 106 (8.12%) Support Engineer
7 98 (7.50%) Architect
8 86 (6.58%) Consultant
9 82 (6.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 60 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 54 (4.13%) Lead
12 52 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
13 39 (2.99%) IT Manager
14 38 (2.91%) .NET Developer
15 35 (2.68%) Administrator
15 35 (2.68%) Business Manager
16 33 (2.53%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.37%) IT Technician
17 31 (2.37%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (10.41%) .NET
2 48 (3.68%) HTML
3 39 (2.99%) ASP.NET
4 33 (2.53%) CSS
5 29 (2.22%) Entity Framework
6 27 (2.07%) .NET Framework
6 27 (2.07%) REST
6 27 (2.07%) Web Services
7 25 (1.91%) .NET Core
8 23 (1.76%) AngularJS
9 22 (1.68%) ASP.NET MVC
9 22 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
10 20 (1.53%) JSON
11 19 (1.45%) React
12 18 (1.38%) XML
13 15 (1.15%) Vue
14 11 (0.84%) SOAP
15 10 (0.77%) CSS3
15 10 (0.77%) jQuery
15 10 (0.77%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 90 (6.89%) Driving Licence
2 67 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 65 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 63 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
8 22 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 19 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.30%) FMCG
12 16 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.23%) Operational Technology
12 16 (1.23%) PKI
13 15 (1.15%) Clustering
13 15 (1.15%) NHS
14 13 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
15 12 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 406 (31.09%) Windows
2 161 (12.33%) Windows Server
3 103 (7.89%) Windows 10
4 102 (7.81%) Linux
5 32 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 27 (2.07%) Android
9 25 (1.91%) Windows 7
10 23 (1.76%) Apple iOS
11 13 (1.00%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.84%) Windows 8
13 10 (0.77%) Unix
14 8 (0.61%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.61%) Solaris
15 7 (0.54%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.46%) VMS
17 4 (0.31%) CentOS
17 4 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
17 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
2 248 (18.99%) Agile
3 191 (14.62%) Customer Service
4 183 (14.01%) ITIL
5 163 (12.48%) Logistics
6 150 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
7 131 (10.03%) Business Development
7 131 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
8 126 (9.65%) DevOps
9 118 (9.04%) Mentoring
10 116 (8.88%) Data Management
11 114 (8.73%) Customer Requirements
12 107 (8.19%) Computer Science
13 102 (7.81%) CAD
14 101 (7.73%) Project Management
15 100 (7.66%) CRM
16 99 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 92 (7.04%) Commercial Awareness
17 92 (7.04%) Facilities Management
18 91 (6.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 224 (17.15%) SQL
2 132 (10.11%) C#
3 81 (6.20%) JavaScript
4 73 (5.59%) PowerShell
5 52 (3.98%) T-SQL
6 22 (1.68%) Python
7 19 (1.45%) VB.NET
8 17 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.07%) Bicep
9 14 (1.07%) Java
9 14 (1.07%) VB
10 13 (1.00%) Bash
10 13 (1.00%) C++
11 11 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.69%) R
13 8 (0.61%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.38%) VB6
15 4 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.15%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 248 (18.99%) Degree
2 139 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 80 (6.13%) Cisco Certification
4 79 (6.05%) CCNA
4 79 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (5.74%) MCSE
6 74 (5.67%) CCNP
7 73 (5.59%) Security Cleared
8 64 (4.90%) MCP
9 50 (3.83%) LPIC
10 48 (3.68%) SC Cleared
11 36 (2.76%) DBS Check
12 30 (2.30%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.68%) PMI Certification
14 16 (1.23%) A+ Certification
15 15 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.77%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.77%) PMP
16 10 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.29%) GDPR
2 36 (2.76%) SLA
3 34 (2.60%) QA
4 29 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.15%) PMO
8 14 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.77%) NIST
10 4 (0.31%) GRC
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.15%) COSHH
12 2 (0.15%) IASME
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.15%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.15%) SOX 404
13 1 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 247 (18.91%) Active Directory
2 83 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (5.67%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.53%) Docker
5 19 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.30%) vSphere
7 13 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.69%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 8 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.38%) RACF
11 5 (0.38%) XenApp
11 5 (0.38%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.31%) NFS
12 4 (0.31%) pfSense
12 4 (0.31%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.077%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (4.06%) Terraform
3 39 (2.99%) SCCM
4 22 (1.68%) Kubernetes
5 14 (1.07%) vCenter Server
6 13 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.92%) Stealthwatch
8 10 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.61%) AirWatch
9 8 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.54%) SCOM
11 5 (0.38%) CASB
12 3 (0.23%) Ansible
12 3 (0.23%) Autotask
12 3 (0.23%) Backup Exec
12 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) VxRail
13 2 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 134 (10.26%) VMware
2 112 (8.58%) Cisco
3 53 (4.06%) Apple
4 49 (3.75%) Dell
5 40 (3.06%) Oracle
6 39 (2.99%) Adobe
7 32 (2.45%) Veeam
8 28 (2.14%) Citrix
8 28 (2.14%) Meraki
9 27 (2.07%) Databricks
10 25 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.68%) SAP
12 20 (1.53%) Google
13 18 (1.38%) Sage
14 17 (1.30%) Fortinet
15 16 (1.23%) NEC
16 15 (1.15%) Sophos
17 14 (1.07%) HP
18 13 (1.00%) Ubiquiti