Microsoft Jobs in Berkshire

Microsoft
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 582 629 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.99% 20.06% 19.91%
As % of the Vendors category 48.26% 48.35% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 483 371 442
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £29,075
25th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £46,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -7.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £58,875 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

All Vendors
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,206 1,301 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.36% 41.49% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 875 728 919
10th Percentile £29,355 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,713 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Berkshire

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Berkshire

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Berkshire

Microsoft
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Reading +3 355 £50,000 -9.09% 74
Bracknell -15 38 £43,750 +23.59% 9
Slough +6 37 £50,000 +56.25% 16
Newbury -4 29 £50,000 +7.87% 2
Windsor +11 20 £42,500 -2.30% 3
Maidenhead +7 17 £27,000 -3.57% 7
Ascot +6 8 £42,500 - 1
Hungerford +8 6 £50,000 +70.94% 2
Wokingham +4 6 £35,000 -51.72% 5
Thatcham - 3 £24,000 - 1
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 75 (12.89%) SharePoint
2 46 (7.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (4.81%) IIS
4 10 (1.72%) CMS
5 9 (1.55%) Confluence
6 7 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (1.20%) Kentico
7 6 (1.03%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (1.03%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.69%) WordPress
9 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.34%) Documentum
9 2 (0.34%) FileNet
10 1 (0.17%) Apache
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 91 (15.64%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (13.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (3.44%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.69%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 17 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.86%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 230 (39.52%) Azure
2 167 (28.69%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (11.86%) Power Platform
4 31 (5.33%) AWS
5 30 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.81%) Entra ID
7 26 (4.47%) OneDrive
7 26 (4.47%) PowerApps
8 23 (3.95%) SaaS
9 21 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.09%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.41%) Azure Storage
13 12 (2.06%) iTunes
13 12 (2.06%) OCI
14 11 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.89%) ShareGate
15 7 (1.20%) GCP
15 7 (1.20%) Kontent
15 7 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (15.46%) Firewall
2 67 (11.51%) DNS
3 57 (9.79%) DHCP
4 24 (4.12%) Broadband
5 20 (3.44%) Network Security
6 19 (3.26%) SNMP
7 18 (3.09%) LAN
8 17 (2.92%) SAN
9 16 (2.75%) SSL
10 15 (2.58%) Internet
11 14 (2.41%) VPN
12 12 (2.06%) VLAN
13 11 (1.89%) Wireless
14 10 (1.72%) WAN
15 7 (1.20%) Intranet
16 5 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
16 5 (0.86%) NAS
17 4 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
17 4 (0.69%) iSCSI
17 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 46 (7.90%) Power BI
3 16 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (2.23%) Data Lake
5 13 (2.23%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.23%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.86%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.69%) Tableau
10 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.34%) Power Query
11 2 (0.34%) SSDT
11 2 (0.34%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.17%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 19 (3.26%) JIRA
2 17 (2.92%) Visual Studio
3 14 (2.41%) GitLab
4 10 (1.72%) Git
5 8 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.86%) Bugzilla
7 5 (0.86%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.69%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.69%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.69%) MSI
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.34%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.34%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 267 (45.88%) Social Skills
2 82 (14.09%) Finance
3 63 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.45%) Organisational Skills
5 35 (6.01%) Retail
6 21 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (3.44%) Back Office
7 20 (3.44%) Legal
8 18 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.92%) Marketing
10 16 (2.75%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (2.23%) Public Sector
13 12 (2.06%) Banking
14 11 (1.89%) Local Government
15 10 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
16 9 (1.55%) Law
16 9 (1.55%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (13.92%) Senior
2 64 (11.00%) Developer
3 47 (8.08%) Analyst
4 41 (7.04%) Consultant
5 39 (6.70%) Support Engineer
6 37 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 36 (6.19%) IT Engineer
8 34 (5.84%) .NET Developer
9 32 (5.50%) IT Support
10 30 (5.15%) Lead
11 29 (4.98%) Architect
12 28 (4.81%) Systems Engineer
13 25 (4.30%) C# Developer
14 24 (4.12%) Support Specialist
15 20 (3.44%) Active Directory Specialist
15 20 (3.44%) Azure Specialist
15 20 (3.44%) C# .NET Developer
15 20 (3.44%) Software Engineer
16 19 (3.26%) Administrator
16 19 (3.26%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (11.17%) .NET
2 45 (7.73%) ASP.NET
3 37 (6.36%) .NET Core
3 37 (6.36%) React
4 30 (5.15%) ASP.NET MVC
5 28 (4.81%) AngularJS
6 26 (4.47%) .NET Framework
7 24 (4.12%) Entity Framework
8 22 (3.78%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (2.75%) Vue
10 15 (2.58%) ARM Templates
11 14 (2.41%) Node.js
11 14 (2.41%) Web Services
12 11 (1.89%) CSS
12 11 (1.89%) HTML
13 10 (1.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 8 (1.37%) SPFx
15 7 (1.20%) RESTful
16 6 (1.03%) Next.js
16 6 (1.03%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.86%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (4.64%) PKI
3 26 (4.47%) Driving Licence
4 23 (3.95%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.23%) CMDB
7 13 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.06%) Educational Technology
9 11 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.03%) CUDA
11 6 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.03%) Replication
11 6 (1.03%) Social Network
12 5 (0.86%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.86%) Hackathon
13 4 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 166 (28.52%) Windows
2 92 (15.81%) Windows 10
3 91 (15.64%) Windows Server
4 73 (12.54%) Linux
5 61 (10.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 61 (10.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 47 (8.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 44 (7.56%) Windows 7
8 18 (3.09%) Unix
9 15 (2.58%) Android
10 12 (2.06%) Windows NT
10 12 (2.06%) Windows XP
11 6 (1.03%) VMS
12 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.86%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.69%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.69%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
2 143 (24.57%) Agile
3 101 (17.35%) Customer Service
4 97 (16.67%) ITIL
5 81 (13.92%) Project Management
6 72 (12.37%) DevOps
7 59 (10.14%) Decision-Making
8 55 (9.45%) Service Management
9 51 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (8.42%) Mentoring
11 46 (7.90%) Computer Science
11 46 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 45 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
13 43 (7.39%) Analytics
13 43 (7.39%) Roadmaps
14 42 (7.22%) Physics
15 41 (7.04%) Change Management
16 39 (6.70%) Software Testing
17 38 (6.53%) Asset Management
18 37 (6.36%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (17.70%) SQL
2 96 (16.49%) C#
3 70 (12.03%) PowerShell
4 59 (10.14%) Python
5 56 (9.62%) JavaScript
6 37 (6.36%) Fortran
7 30 (5.15%) C++
8 25 (4.30%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.30%) VB
9 24 (4.12%) VBScript
10 23 (3.95%) Bash
11 20 (3.44%) T-SQL
12 18 (3.09%) Java
13 14 (2.41%) Bicep
14 13 (2.23%) C
15 7 (1.20%) Perl
16 6 (1.03%) MATLAB
16 6 (1.03%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.86%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 196 (33.68%) Security Cleared
2 164 (28.18%) Degree
3 110 (18.90%) DV Cleared
4 103 (17.70%) SC Cleared
5 38 (6.53%) DBS Check
6 35 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (4.47%) Master's Degree
8 22 (3.78%) Azure Certification
9 21 (3.61%) A+ Certification
10 20 (3.44%) ACCA
10 20 (3.44%) CIMA
11 18 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 18 (3.09%) MCP
11 18 (3.09%) PhD
12 17 (2.92%) HNC
13 13 (2.23%) CCNA
13 13 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (2.06%) CCNP
14 12 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.98%) SLA
2 16 (2.75%) QA
3 9 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.37%) GDPR
5 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (0.86%) NIST
8 4 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.52%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 187 (32.13%) Active Directory
2 42 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (4.81%) Firmware
4 26 (4.47%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.41%) KVM
6 14 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.06%) Docker
7 12 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.03%) vSphere
9 4 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 92 (15.81%) SCCM
2 46 (7.90%) SCOM
3 45 (7.73%) WSUS
4 40 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (4.30%) Kubernetes
6 20 (3.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (3.26%) NetBackup
8 14 (2.41%) vCenter Server
9 12 (2.06%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (2.06%) Sysprep
10 5 (0.86%) HP Quality Center
10 5 (0.86%) Suricata
11 2 (0.34%) Terraform
12 1 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.17%) Grafana
12 1 (0.17%) Istio
12 1 (0.17%) Kibana
12 1 (0.17%) Nessus
12 1 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 61 (10.48%) VMware
2 31 (5.33%) HP
3 22 (3.78%) Cisco
4 21 (3.61%) Oracle
4 21 (3.61%) Palo Alto
5 17 (2.92%) Juniper
6 16 (2.75%) Dell
6 16 (2.75%) Veeam
7 14 (2.41%) EMC
8 13 (2.23%) 3PAR
8 13 (2.23%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.23%) Sage
9 12 (2.06%) Adobe
9 12 (2.06%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (2.06%) Symantec
10 11 (1.89%) Nintex
11 10 (1.72%) Apple
12 9 (1.55%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.37%) Barracuda Networks
13 8 (1.37%) SAP