Microsoft Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 16 June 2026, 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
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,080 381 1,026
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 16.12% 13.70% 15.89%
As % of the Vendors category 60.30% 29.86% 51.40%
Number of salaries quoted 494 309 816
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -0.60%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £59,750
90th Percentile £65,640 £73,886 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £48,403 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.30% +1.90% -9.52%

All Vendors
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,791 1,276 1,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 26.74% 45.87% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 884 599 1,453
10th Percentile £27,125 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Yorkshire

Microsoft
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
West Yorkshire +7 390 £40,000 -27.27% 98
South Yorkshire +2 280 £42,500 +21.43% 58
North Yorkshire +19 169 £50,000 +11.11% 29
East Yorkshire +9 143 £30,000 -9.09% 15
Humberside - 5 £24,500 - 13
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 79 (7.31%) SharePoint
2 52 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.02%) Jupyter
4 8 (0.74%) IIS
5 5 (0.46%) WordPress
6 3 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 194 (17.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (9.63%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.02%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) Camtasia
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.093%) Solid Edge
6 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.19%) Magento
4 2 (0.19%) Odoo
4 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.093%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.093%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.093%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 709 (65.65%) Azure
2 258 (23.89%) Microsoft 365
3 225 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 152 (14.07%) Azure AI
5 96 (8.89%) Entra ID
6 63 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
7 56 (5.19%) AWS
8 36 (3.33%) Power Automate
8 36 (3.33%) PowerApps
9 27 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 25 (2.31%) OneDrive
11 24 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (1.67%) GitHub
13 17 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.30%) Google Workspace
15 12 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.02%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.74%) Firewall
2 59 (5.46%) DNS
3 58 (5.37%) DHCP
4 50 (4.63%) LAN
4 50 (4.63%) WAN
5 37 (3.43%) TCP/IP
6 35 (3.24%) VPN
7 26 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (2.13%) VLAN
9 18 (1.67%) Wireless
10 17 (1.57%) Internet
11 6 (0.56%) NAS
11 6 (0.56%) Network Security
11 6 (0.56%) SAN
12 5 (0.46%) VoIP
13 3 (0.28%) IP Telephony
14 2 (0.19%) Broadband
14 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
15 1 (0.093%) BGP
15 1 (0.093%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (17.04%) Power BI
2 158 (14.63%) Tableau
3 20 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (1.30%) Data Mining
6 11 (1.02%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.56%) Metadata
8 6 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.37%) Power Query
9 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.37%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.28%) MySQL
11 2 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.093%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 18 (1.67%) JIRA
2 15 (1.39%) Git
3 12 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 714 (66.11%) Social Skills
2 102 (9.44%) Finance
3 97 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 43 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 29 (2.69%) Retail
8 18 (1.67%) Advertising
9 17 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.57%) Legal
10 16 (1.48%) Multimedia
11 11 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.02%) Marketing
12 10 (0.93%) Law
13 9 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.83%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.46%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.37%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.37%) French Language
Job Titles
1 381 (35.28%) Analyst
2 295 (27.31%) Junior
3 288 (26.67%) Junior Analyst
4 169 (15.65%) Data Analyst
5 145 (13.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 145 (13.43%) Security Analyst
6 144 (13.33%) Junior Data Analyst
6 144 (13.33%) Junior Security Analyst
7 142 (13.15%) IT Support
8 135 (12.50%) Ethical Hacker
9 79 (7.31%) Support Engineer
10 55 (5.09%) Network Engineer
11 49 (4.54%) IT Engineer
12 48 (4.44%) Lead
13 47 (4.35%) Senior
13 47 (4.35%) Support Analyst
14 46 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
15 41 (3.80%) Trainee
16 39 (3.61%) Developer
17 38 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.22%) HTML
2 22 (2.04%) .NET
3 21 (1.94%) CSS
4 16 (1.48%) ASP.NET
4 16 (1.48%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (1.30%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.11%) RESTful
7 11 (1.02%) Hugging Face
7 11 (1.02%) Matplotlib
7 11 (1.02%) NumPy
7 11 (1.02%) Pandas
7 11 (1.02%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.02%) Streamlit
8 9 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (0.83%) React
9 8 (0.74%) ML.NET
10 7 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (0.65%) Blazor
10 7 (0.65%) Entity Framework
10 7 (0.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 136 (12.59%) Cyberattack
2 48 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 29 (2.69%) Onboarding
4 23 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.93%) Operational Technology
10 10 (0.93%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.74%) e-Learning
11 8 (0.74%) Social Media
12 7 (0.65%) CMDB
12 7 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 187 (17.31%) Windows
2 96 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 45 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (1.67%) Android
6 11 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.74%) Linux
9 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (35.19%) Cybersecurity
2 207 (19.17%) Mentoring
3 199 (18.43%) AI
4 192 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
5 165 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 135 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
8 93 (8.61%) Customer Service
9 79 (7.31%) Disaster Recovery
9 79 (7.31%) ITIL
10 62 (5.74%) ERP
11 58 (5.37%) Analytics
12 54 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 52 (4.81%) Agile
14 50 (4.63%) Business Continuity
14 50 (4.63%) Decision-Making
15 48 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 48 (4.44%) Service Delivery
16 47 (4.35%) Service Management
17 46 (4.26%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 230 (21.30%) SQL
2 208 (19.26%) Python
3 41 (3.80%) PowerShell
4 37 (3.43%) JavaScript
5 30 (2.78%) C#
6 14 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.20%) Bash
8 9 (0.83%) R
9 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.56%) VBA
10 5 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.46%) Java
11 2 (0.19%) Bicep
11 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.093%) C++
12 1 (0.093%) PHP
12 1 (0.093%) VB
12 1 (0.093%) VBScript
12 1 (0.093%) XAML
Qualifications
1 508 (47.04%) Azure Certification
2 146 (13.52%) CompTIA Security+
3 144 (13.33%) CompTIA CySA+
4 135 (12.50%) CEH
5 65 (6.02%) Network+ Certification
6 61 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (5.56%) CCNA
8 46 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (3.89%) Degree
10 38 (3.52%) AWS Certification
11 32 (2.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 25 (2.31%) A+ Certification
13 20 (1.85%) Security Cleared
14 19 (1.76%) SC Cleared
15 12 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
19 6 (0.56%) HNC
19 6 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 41 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (3.06%) GDPR
4 22 (2.04%) NIST
5 20 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.74%) GMP
7 8 (0.74%) SLA
8 7 (0.65%) QA
9 4 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.37%) PMO
10 1 (0.093%) GRC
10 1 (0.093%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 151 (13.98%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.69%) Hyper-V
2 29 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.46%) Docker
4 4 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.28%) vSphere
6 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.093%) XenApp
7 1 (0.093%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 76 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.57%) SCCM
3 6 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.56%) Terraform
3 6 (0.56%) VxRail
3 6 (0.56%) WSUS
4 4 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.28%) Autotask
6 1 (0.093%) Grafana
6 1 (0.093%) Nessus
6 1 (0.093%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 333 (30.83%) ForeScout
2 88 (8.15%) Cisco
3 51 (4.72%) VMware
4 27 (2.50%) Google
5 24 (2.22%) Citrix
6 18 (1.67%) Veeam
7 17 (1.57%) Apple
8 16 (1.48%) Meraki
9 14 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.93%) HP
12 8 (0.74%) Oracle
12 8 (0.74%) SAP
13 7 (0.65%) Commvault
13 7 (0.65%) Databricks
13 7 (0.65%) Tenable
14 6 (0.56%) Dell
14 6 (0.56%) Zerto
15 4 (0.37%) HubSpot
15 4 (0.37%) iManage