Microsoft Office Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Office
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 26 56
Rank change year-on-year -52 +30 +66
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Office 45 103 94
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.43% 7.18% 4.59%
As % of the Applications category 19.23% 59.54% 51.09%
Number of salaries quoted 42 12 80
10th Percentile £25,845 £24,313 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £30,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £36,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +20.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £41,075 £46,281 £35,773
90th Percentile £63,500 £47,500 £57,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -7.69%

All Software Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 234 173 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.62% 12.06% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 80 58 144
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £25,250 £27,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £34,000 £33,109
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +2.69% -22.10%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £51,563
90th Percentile £59,000 £55,750 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £39,000 £38,000 £34,104
% change year-on-year +2.63% +11.42% -19.76%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Office
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Microsoft Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Office in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Office
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Office within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Leeds -34 36 £34,000 +4.62% 17
Brighouse - 6 £30,500 -
Bradford -17 1 £28,250 - 5
Dewsbury - 1 £35,000 - 1
Wakefield - 1 £26,450 - 3
Microsoft Office
Yorkshire

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (8.89%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (8.89%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (4.44%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (8.89%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) DHCP
1 9 (20.00%) DNS
1 9 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 4 (8.89%) Network Security
2 4 (8.89%) VPN
3 3 (6.67%) Unified Communications
3 3 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.44%) LAN
4 2 (4.44%) WAN
5 1 (2.22%) Broadband
5 1 (2.22%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Law
4 6 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 6 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.89%) Legal
6 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.44%) Military
7 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) IT Support
2 10 (22.22%) Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
3 9 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 8 (17.78%) IT Analyst
4 8 (17.78%) IT Support Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (8.89%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 4 (8.89%) Graduate
6 4 (8.89%) IT Support Technician
6 4 (8.89%) IT Technician
6 4 (8.89%) Service Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Software Support Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Support Technician
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Support
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (40.00%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Windows 10
2 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.11%) Customer Service
3 10 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 10 (22.22%) ITSM
4 9 (20.00%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) Project Management
4 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (17.78%) Project Delivery
6 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.33%) ITIL
6 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.11%) ERP
7 5 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
8 4 (8.89%) Business Development
8 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.89%) CRM
8 4 (8.89%) Customer Engagement
8 4 (8.89%) PRINCE2
8 4 (8.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) C#
1 4 (8.89%) Delphi
2 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Degree
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.22%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) SLA
2 4 (8.89%) ISO 9001
3 3 (6.67%) QA
4 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.44%) vSphere
4 2 (4.44%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 41 (91.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.67%) VMware
3 6 (13.33%) Adobe
3 6 (13.33%) Citrix
3 6 (13.33%) SAP
4 4 (8.89%) Autodesk
4 4 (8.89%) Sage
4 4 (8.89%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco
5 2 (4.44%) Dell
5 2 (4.44%) HP
5 2 (4.44%) JDA
5 2 (4.44%) RedPrairie
6 1 (2.22%) Freshdesk
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) Planon
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow