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 with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,494 1,704 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.59% 25.87% 21.17%
As % of the Vendors category 54.11% 56.33% 49.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,221 864 1,106
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,719 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,375 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,761 3,025 3,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.05% 45.92% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,186 1,604 2,077
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £28,321
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +11.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +3.77%

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

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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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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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 4 May 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 -2 512 £50,000 -9.09% 162
Staffordshire 0 199 £40,000 -11.11% 78
Warwickshire +10 193 £47,500 -9.52% 51
Worcestershire +1 114 £36,298 -9.26% 26
Coventry +1 67 £45,000 -12.20% 39
Solihull +3 58 £62,500 +47.06% 10
Shropshire +16 56 £41,500 -2.35% 18
Wolverhampton -4 35 £32,500 -35.00% 10
Dudley 0 16 £25,000 -58.33% 11
Herefordshire +4 15 £33,750 -4.00% 13
Wednesbury 0 11 £30,000 +3.45%
Tipton - 11 £25,000 - 1
Walsall -4 8 £26,000 +23.81% 6
Halesowen -6 6 £38,000 +13.43% 4
Stourbridge - 5 £55,000 - 3
Brierley Hill - 3 £32,500 -
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
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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
1 199 (13.32%) SharePoint
2 145 (9.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (3.35%) IIS
4 16 (1.07%) Confluence
5 13 (0.87%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.47%) Apache
7 5 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.33%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.33%) WordPress
8 4 (0.27%) Office Communications Server
8 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.20%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.13%) Liferay
10 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 306 (20.48%) Microsoft Office
2 179 (11.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.74%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.47%) Trello
7 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.27%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) InDesign
9 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.067%) Blender
10 1 (0.067%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 71 (4.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.33%) Sage 200
3 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Magento
4 4 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.067%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.067%) Scribe Insight
6 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 568 (38.02%) Azure
2 478 (31.99%) Microsoft 365
3 282 (18.88%) Power Platform
4 169 (11.31%) Dynamics 365
5 115 (7.70%) Entra ID
6 95 (6.36%) PowerApps
7 90 (6.02%) AWS
8 80 (5.35%) Power Automate
9 59 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (2.41%) SaaS
11 30 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 28 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (1.74%) PaaS
14 25 (1.67%) IaaS
15 23 (1.54%) Azure Stack
16 22 (1.47%) OneDrive
17 17 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
18 13 (0.87%) Serverless
19 11 (0.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 134 (8.97%) Firewall
2 118 (7.90%) WAN
3 114 (7.63%) DNS
4 102 (6.83%) DHCP
5 77 (5.15%) LAN
6 61 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 61 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (3.48%) SAN
8 43 (2.88%) VPN
9 32 (2.14%) Intranet
10 28 (1.87%) VLAN
10 28 (1.87%) Wireless
11 25 (1.67%) SD-WAN
12 24 (1.61%) Network Security
13 21 (1.41%) VoIP
14 16 (1.07%) Unified Communications
15 13 (0.87%) HTTP
15 13 (0.87%) Internet
15 13 (0.87%) Skype
16 12 (0.80%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 199 (13.32%) Power BI
3 59 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (2.81%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 30 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 26 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.07%) Tableau
11 14 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.87%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.67%) Metadata
13 10 (0.67%) MySQL
14 8 (0.54%) Data Mining
14 8 (0.54%) Power Query
15 7 (0.47%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 42 (2.81%) Git
2 34 (2.28%) JIRA
3 32 (2.14%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.47%) Postman
5 6 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.33%) Jasmine
6 5 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (0.33%) MSTest
6 5 (0.33%) SoapUI
6 5 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.20%) GitLab
7 3 (0.20%) Moq
8 2 (0.13%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.13%) Bower
8 2 (0.13%) CANoe
8 2 (0.13%) gulp
9 1 (0.067%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 513 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 266 (17.80%) Finance
3 142 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.43%) Retail
5 100 (6.69%) Manufacturing
6 82 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (5.29%) Law
8 78 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 60 (4.02%) Marketing
10 49 (3.28%) Legal
11 47 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (3.01%) Local Government
13 39 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.20%) Advertising
16 17 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.07%) Police
18 15 (1.00%) Back Office
18 15 (1.00%) Banking
19 14 (0.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 232 (15.53%) Developer
2 220 (14.73%) Analyst
3 158 (10.58%) Senior
4 141 (9.44%) IT Support
5 103 (6.89%) Consultant
6 94 (6.29%) Support Engineer
7 89 (5.96%) IT Engineer
8 87 (5.82%) Architect
9 80 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 65 (4.35%) .NET Developer
11 56 (3.75%) Lead
12 55 (3.68%) IT Support Engineer
13 52 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
14 47 (3.15%) Support Analyst
15 43 (2.88%) IT Manager
15 43 (2.88%) IT Technician
16 42 (2.81%) Power Platform Developer
17 41 (2.74%) Senior Developer
18 37 (2.48%) Administrator
18 37 (2.48%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (11.71%) .NET
2 75 (5.02%) HTML
3 71 (4.75%) ASP.NET
4 61 (4.08%) .NET Core
5 55 (3.68%) AngularJS
6 53 (3.55%) ASP.NET Web API
7 50 (3.35%) ASP.NET MVC
7 50 (3.35%) Entity Framework
8 49 (3.28%) REST
9 45 (3.01%) CSS
10 38 (2.54%) .NET Framework
11 34 (2.28%) React
12 32 (2.14%) RESTful
13 26 (1.74%) JSON
13 26 (1.74%) Vue
14 25 (1.67%) HTML5
14 25 (1.67%) Web Services
15 22 (1.47%) Node.js
16 18 (1.20%) WebRTC
16 18 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
2 91 (6.09%) Driving Licence
3 72 (4.82%) Data Centre
4 60 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 46 (3.08%) Clustering
6 38 (2.54%) Public Cloud
7 27 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 26 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 24 (1.61%) Low-Code
10 23 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.20%) Cloud Native
12 18 (1.20%) NHS
12 18 (1.20%) PKI
12 18 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
13 17 (1.14%) CCTV
14 16 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 435 (29.12%) Windows
2 206 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 108 (7.23%) Windows 10
4 56 (3.75%) Linux
5 47 (3.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 38 (2.54%) Windows 7
7 37 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.47%) Android
10 19 (1.27%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.14%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.94%) Windows 8
13 13 (0.87%) Unix
14 10 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
15 9 (0.60%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
17 6 (0.40%) VMS
18 5 (0.33%) CentOS
18 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 4 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
2 225 (15.06%) Agile
3 213 (14.26%) Cybersecurity
4 207 (13.86%) Customer Service
5 198 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
6 157 (10.51%) ITIL
7 149 (9.97%) DevOps
8 126 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 114 (7.63%) ERP
10 113 (7.56%) CRM
11 110 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 100 (6.69%) Roadmaps
13 99 (6.63%) Project Management
14 84 (5.62%) Analytics
15 78 (5.22%) Service Delivery
16 77 (5.15%) CI/CD
17 76 (5.09%) Artificial Intelligence
17 76 (5.09%) Decision-Making
17 76 (5.09%) Line Management
17 76 (5.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 284 (19.01%) SQL
2 160 (10.71%) C#
3 117 (7.83%) JavaScript
4 82 (5.49%) PowerShell
5 60 (4.02%) T-SQL
6 48 (3.21%) Python
7 36 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 25 (1.67%) VB
9 22 (1.47%) Java
9 22 (1.47%) VB.NET
10 20 (1.34%) Bash
11 13 (0.87%) Bicep
12 10 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.67%) R
13 9 (0.60%) C
14 8 (0.54%) ActionScript
14 8 (0.54%) ActionScript 2.0
14 8 (0.54%) VB6
15 6 (0.40%) C++
15 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 232 (15.53%) Degree
2 124 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 63 (4.22%) SC Cleared
5 41 (2.74%) DBS Check
6 28 (1.87%) A+ Certification
7 26 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.67%) CCNA
9 23 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 23 (1.54%) MCSE
10 19 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.27%) MCP
11 18 (1.20%) CCNP
12 14 (0.94%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.80%) MCSA
13 12 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
13 12 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (0.67%) HND
15 10 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 73 (4.89%) GDPR
3 47 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.88%) ISO 9001
5 40 (2.68%) SLA
6 38 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 37 (2.48%) QA
8 23 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 23 (1.54%) PMO
9 22 (1.47%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.94%) NIST
11 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.27%) GRC
13 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.20%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.13%) COSHH
14 2 (0.13%) IASME
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 26262
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 323 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 123 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (6.49%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.87%) Docker
5 23 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 20 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
8 17 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (1.07%) vSphere
10 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.40%) pfSense
12 5 (0.33%) NFS
12 5 (0.33%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.13%) XenApp
15 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.067%) Firmware
16 1 (0.067%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 83 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (3.01%) Terraform
3 43 (2.88%) SCCM
4 37 (2.48%) EnCase
5 25 (1.67%) Kubernetes
6 13 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
6 13 (0.87%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.74%) AirWatch
7 11 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.47%) SCOM
10 6 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
11 5 (0.33%) Ansible
11 5 (0.33%) Backup Exec
11 5 (0.33%) CASB
11 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.27%) Autotask
13 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 189 (12.65%) VMware
2 71 (4.75%) Cisco
3 55 (3.68%) Apple
4 49 (3.28%) Dell
5 45 (3.01%) Veeam
6 42 (2.81%) Sophos
7 41 (2.74%) Adobe
8 40 (2.68%) Citrix
9 37 (2.48%) HP
10 35 (2.34%) Databricks
11 27 (1.81%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.67%) Oracle
12 25 (1.67%) Salesforce
13 24 (1.61%) Sage
14 22 (1.47%) Meraki
15 20 (1.34%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.20%) Google
17 17 (1.14%) Facebook
17 17 (1.14%) Fortinet
18 16 (1.07%) SAP