Microsoft Jobs 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 11 May 2025, 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 378 986 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.50% 16.98% 19.29%
As % of the Vendors category 36.99% 49.52% 39.62%
Number of salaries quoted 312 837 698
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,938 £29,750 £32,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £71,233 £77,715
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

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 1,022 1,991 3,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.50% 34.29% 48.69%
Number of salaries quoted 634 1,474 1,532
10th Percentile £25,267 £25,825 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £37,029
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,697
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +3.64%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

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 11 May 2025. 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 -8 156 £53,864 +13.40% 191
South Yorkshire +2 74 £40,000 - 105
North Yorkshire -16 63 £43,750 +9.38% 46
East Yorkshire -10 16 £33,000 +24.53% 35
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 34 (8.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 3 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.79%) IIS
4 3 (0.79%) WordPress
5 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 58 (15.34%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (3.17%) MS Visio
5 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
1 7 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.06%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 150 (39.68%) Azure
2 121 (32.01%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (10.32%) Entra ID
4 37 (9.79%) Power Platform
5 31 (8.20%) SaaS
6 27 (7.14%) AWS
6 27 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (5.82%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.76%) PowerApps
9 17 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.23%) GitHub
11 11 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.85%) PaaS
15 5 (1.32%) Azure Stack
15 5 (1.32%) Boomi
15 5 (1.32%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.32%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 5 (1.32%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.64%) Firewall
2 34 (8.99%) LAN
3 25 (6.61%) VPN
3 25 (6.61%) WAN
4 22 (5.82%) VoIP
5 21 (5.56%) Wireless
6 20 (5.29%) TCP/IP
7 16 (4.23%) DNS
8 12 (3.17%) Internet
9 10 (2.65%) DKIM
9 10 (2.65%) DMARC
9 10 (2.65%) DNSSEC
9 10 (2.65%) SMTP
10 9 (2.38%) DHCP
10 9 (2.38%) SAN
11 8 (2.12%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (2.12%) Network Security
12 7 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (1.85%) Multicast
13 6 (1.59%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (23.02%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.41%) Power BI
3 21 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.12%) Big Data
7 8 (2.12%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.32%) DB2
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.79%) Tableau
11 2 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.53%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (2.38%) JIRA
2 8 (2.12%) Git
2 8 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (2.12%) TeamCity
3 6 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) ERwin
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 153 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.20%) Finance
3 39 (10.32%) Organisational Skills
4 34 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.14%) Banking
6 25 (6.61%) Retail
7 20 (5.29%) Law
7 20 (5.29%) Public Sector
8 19 (5.03%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.17%) Legal
11 8 (2.12%) Marketing
12 6 (1.59%) Advertising
12 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.06%) Back Office
14 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.79%) Billing
15 3 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (18.25%) IT Support
2 49 (12.96%) Developer
3 48 (12.70%) Analyst
4 42 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 38 (10.05%) IT Engineer
6 34 (8.99%) Senior
7 33 (8.73%) IT Analyst
8 32 (8.47%) SQL Developer
9 30 (7.94%) IT Support Engineer
10 26 (6.88%) Lead
10 26 (6.88%) Support Analyst
11 17 (4.50%) Architect
11 17 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (4.50%) IT Support Analyst
12 16 (4.23%) Database Developer
12 16 (4.23%) IT Manager
12 16 (4.23%) Software Support Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) SQL Database Developer
13 15 (3.97%) Applications Support
13 15 (3.97%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.88%) .NET
2 15 (3.97%) .NET Core
3 13 (3.44%) HTML
3 13 (3.44%) React
4 12 (3.17%) ASP.NET
5 10 (2.65%) CSS
6 9 (2.38%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (2.12%) Bootstrap
8 7 (1.85%) .NET Framework
8 7 (1.85%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.59%) Entity Framework
9 6 (1.59%) LINQ
9 6 (1.59%) NHibernate
10 5 (1.32%) EDI
10 5 (1.32%) Middleware
10 5 (1.32%) REST
11 4 (1.06%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.79%) J2EE
12 3 (0.79%) JSR 170
12 3 (0.79%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.58%) Management Information System
2 37 (9.79%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (5.82%) Mobile App
4 20 (5.29%) Driving Licence
4 20 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.65%) NHS
7 9 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.85%) Replication
9 7 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.32%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.32%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.32%) PMI
11 5 (1.32%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 126 (33.33%) Windows
2 49 (12.96%) Windows Server
3 35 (9.26%) Windows 10
4 29 (7.67%) Android
5 19 (5.03%) Linux
6 10 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.06%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.79%) Unix
10 3 (0.79%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.53%) Solaris
12 1 (0.26%) Debian
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (21.69%) Customer Service
3 56 (14.81%) Agile
4 48 (12.70%) ITIL
5 38 (10.05%) Cybersecurity
6 37 (9.79%) DevOps
7 35 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (7.67%) CRM
10 27 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
11 25 (6.61%) Migration
12 24 (6.35%) Service Delivery
13 23 (6.08%) Software Engineering
13 23 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (5.56%) Mentoring
15 20 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 19 (5.03%) Risk Management
17 18 (4.76%) CI/CD
17 18 (4.76%) Incident Management
17 18 (4.76%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 97 (25.66%) SQL
2 39 (10.32%) T-SQL
3 27 (7.14%) C#
3 27 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.61%) Python
5 19 (5.03%) Java
6 16 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.32%) Bicep
8 5 (1.32%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.79%) Bash
9 3 (0.79%) PHP
10 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.53%) R
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (15.34%) Degree
2 36 (9.52%) DBS Check
3 28 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (5.29%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.03%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.59%) CCNA
9 6 (1.59%) CCNP
9 6 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (1.59%) JNCIA
9 6 (1.59%) JNCIS
9 6 (1.59%) MCSE
10 5 (1.32%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.32%) MBA
10 5 (1.32%) PhD
10 5 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.06%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.50%) SLA
2 16 (4.23%) GDPR
3 14 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.79%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) NIST
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 83 (21.96%) Active Directory
2 32 (8.47%) Hyper-V
3 18 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.79%) NFS
5 2 (0.53%) KVM
5 2 (0.53%) SRDF
5 2 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.53%) Xen
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) XenApp
6 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (6.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.23%) Ansible
2 16 (4.23%) Terraform
3 11 (2.91%) SCCM
4 10 (2.65%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.85%) WSUS
6 6 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.32%) AirWatch
8 4 (1.06%) PaperCut
9 3 (0.79%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.79%) SCOM
9 3 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.53%) Puppet
10 2 (0.53%) QRadar
11 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.26%) Nessus
11 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (9.52%) Cisco
2 28 (7.41%) VMware
3 16 (4.23%) Zoho
4 13 (3.44%) IBM
4 13 (3.44%) IFS
4 13 (3.44%) Veritas
5 12 (3.17%) Oracle
6 10 (2.65%) Google
6 10 (2.65%) IronPort
6 10 (2.65%) SAP
7 9 (2.38%) Apple
8 8 (2.12%) Dell
9 6 (1.59%) Arista
10 5 (1.32%) Draytek
10 5 (1.32%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (1.06%) Adobe
11 4 (1.06%) Databricks
11 4 (1.06%) HP
11 4 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow