Microsoft Jobs in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,435 2,508 3,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.48% 17.52% 18.22%
As % of the Vendors category 52.35% 43.35% 46.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,518 1,808 2,379
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.74% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,562 5,786 7,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.12% 40.42% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,429 3,495 4,865
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,950 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.77%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the South East.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Thames Valley +2 1,291 £45,000 -1.32% 328
Hampshire +7 753 £45,000 +14.65% 178
Surrey +7 658 £47,500 -9.52% 89
Berkshire 0 583 £47,500 +2.48% 135
Buckinghamshire -2 383 £42,500 +21.43% 111
Oxfordshire +1 325 £43,000 -21.82% 82
Kent +5 297 £42,500 +6.25% 74
West Sussex +6 160 £50,000 -16.67% 39
East Sussex +1 159 £42,500 -19.81% 44
Middlesex +21 81 £39,190 -49.43% 3
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 2
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 390 (11.35%) SharePoint
2 308 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.37%) IIS
4 44 (1.28%) CMS
5 27 (0.79%) Kentico
6 24 (0.70%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
7 22 (0.64%) Umbraco
8 20 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
9 14 (0.41%) Confluence
10 11 (0.32%) WordPress
11 9 (0.26%) SAS
12 6 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
12 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.12%) TWiki
15 3 (0.087%) Skype for Business
16 2 (0.058%) Apache Spark
16 2 (0.058%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 659 (19.18%) Microsoft Office
2 631 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 130 (3.78%) Microsoft Project
4 109 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.17%) InVision
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.12%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.12%) Simulink
10 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.087%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.087%) Revit
12 2 (0.058%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 105 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (1.75%) Primavera
3 18 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 5 (0.15%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.087%) SAP MDM
9 2 (0.058%) assyst
9 2 (0.058%) Magento
9 2 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,363 (39.68%) Azure
2 1,042 (30.33%) Microsoft 365
3 343 (9.99%) Power Platform
4 271 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 188 (5.47%) AWS
6 157 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
7 136 (3.96%) OneDrive
8 126 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (2.97%) Power Automate
10 101 (2.94%) PowerApps
11 88 (2.56%) SaaS
12 64 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
13 41 (1.19%) PaaS
14 40 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
15 35 (1.02%) IaaS
16 32 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
17 28 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 24 (0.70%) GitHub
18 24 (0.70%) Mimecast
19 23 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 394 (11.47%) Firewall
2 298 (8.68%) Broadband
3 244 (7.10%) DNS
4 193 (5.62%) DHCP
5 148 (4.31%) VPN
6 127 (3.70%) LAN
6 127 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 119 (3.46%) Wireless
8 116 (3.38%) WAN
9 79 (2.30%) VLAN
9 79 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
10 77 (2.24%) 5G
11 73 (2.13%) VoIP
12 67 (1.95%) Intranet
13 66 (1.92%) Internet
14 55 (1.60%) Unified Communications
15 52 (1.51%) SAN
16 50 (1.46%) Network Security
17 33 (0.96%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (13.65%) SQL Server
2 239 (6.96%) Power BI
3 84 (2.45%) MongoDB
4 80 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 76 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
6 64 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 42 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 29 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.61%) Power Query
14 18 (0.52%) MySQL
15 15 (0.44%) NoSQL
16 14 (0.41%) Tableau
17 13 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 10 (0.29%) Oracle Database
20 9 (0.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 82 (2.39%) Visual Studio
2 81 (2.36%) JIRA
3 71 (2.07%) Git
4 45 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 34 (0.99%) GitLab
6 21 (0.61%) NUnit
6 21 (0.61%) Subversion
7 12 (0.35%) Selenium
7 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (0.32%) eggPlant
9 10 (0.29%) Postman
9 10 (0.29%) Trac
10 9 (0.26%) JMeter
10 9 (0.26%) MSI
11 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.17%) Newman
12 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,354 (39.42%) Social Skills
2 602 (17.53%) Finance
3 565 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (6.49%) Retail
5 220 (6.40%) Influencing Skills
6 203 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
7 151 (4.40%) Legal
8 133 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 121 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 106 (3.09%) Law
11 96 (2.79%) Marketing
12 91 (2.65%) Public Sector
13 88 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 84 (2.45%) Manufacturing
15 62 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
16 59 (1.72%) Games
17 52 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.40%) Advertising
19 39 (1.14%) Back Office
20 38 (1.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 566 (16.48%) Analyst
2 426 (12.40%) Developer
3 425 (12.37%) Senior
4 323 (9.40%) IT Support
5 273 (7.95%) Support Engineer
6 269 (7.83%) .NET Developer
7 228 (6.64%) IT Engineer
8 181 (5.27%) Lead
9 170 (4.95%) IT Support Engineer
10 163 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 160 (4.66%) Architect
12 158 (4.60%) Consultant
13 156 (4.54%) Senior Analyst
14 142 (4.13%) Administrator
15 123 (3.58%) C# Developer
16 109 (3.17%) IT Analyst
17 108 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
17 108 (3.14%) Support Analyst
18 101 (2.94%) 2nd Line Support
19 97 (2.82%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (13.07%) .NET
2 265 (7.71%) ASP.NET
3 257 (7.48%) .NET Core
4 220 (6.40%) ASP.NET MVC
5 191 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 177 (5.15%) AngularJS
7 173 (5.04%) Entity Framework
8 155 (4.51%) ASP.NET Web API
9 146 (4.25%) React
10 123 (3.58%) HTML
11 94 (2.74%) Node.js
12 93 (2.71%) HTML5
13 86 (2.50%) CSS
14 80 (2.33%) RESTful
15 78 (2.27%) Vue
16 52 (1.51%) CSS3
17 50 (1.46%) Blazor
17 50 (1.46%) LINQ
18 48 (1.40%) Web Services
19 44 (1.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 241 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
2 128 (3.73%) Management Information System
3 119 (3.46%) Driving Licence
4 95 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 89 (2.59%) Social Media
6 77 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 69 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 54 (1.57%) Product Ownership
9 50 (1.46%) PKI
10 44 (1.28%) Replication
11 38 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.02%) NHS
13 34 (0.99%) Client/Server
14 33 (0.96%) IoT
15 30 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 29 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.84%) PMI
16 29 (0.84%) Public Cloud
17 27 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
17 27 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,016 (29.58%) Windows
2 450 (13.10%) Windows Server
3 347 (10.10%) Windows 10
4 264 (7.69%) Linux
5 119 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 112 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 103 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 89 (2.59%) Android
9 81 (2.36%) Windows 7
10 78 (2.27%) Apple iOS
11 74 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 45 (1.31%) Mac OS
13 43 (1.25%) Windows 8
14 30 (0.87%) VMS
15 23 (0.67%) CentOS
16 20 (0.58%) Unix
17 19 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 16 (0.47%) Windows XP
19 14 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
2 808 (23.52%) Agile
3 536 (15.60%) Customer Service
4 368 (10.71%) ITIL
5 346 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
6 331 (9.64%) Mentoring
7 328 (9.55%) Project Management
8 303 (8.82%) DevOps
9 298 (8.68%) Decision-Making
10 275 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
11 269 (7.83%) CRM
12 249 (7.25%) Full Stack Development
13 248 (7.22%) Actionable Insight
14 247 (7.19%) MVC
15 210 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 209 (6.08%) Business Case
17 200 (5.82%) Budgeting
18 197 (5.74%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 187 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence
20 184 (5.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 476 (13.86%) C#
2 446 (12.98%) SQL
3 326 (9.49%) JavaScript
4 211 (6.14%) PowerShell
5 122 (3.55%) Python
6 110 (3.20%) Bash
7 108 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 73 (2.13%) T-SQL
9 70 (2.04%) C++
10 59 (1.72%) C
11 43 (1.25%) Java
12 38 (1.11%) Fortran
13 30 (0.87%) VB
14 28 (0.82%) VBScript
15 17 (0.49%) Bicep
16 13 (0.38%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.35%) Perl
18 11 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.32%) MATLAB
18 11 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 567 (16.51%) Degree
2 371 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.71%) ACCA
4 195 (5.68%) CIMA
5 189 (5.50%) SC Cleared
6 178 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 164 (4.77%) DV Cleared
8 143 (4.16%) DBS Check
9 110 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
10 80 (2.33%) CCNA
11 76 (2.21%) Azure Certification
12 62 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 55 (1.60%) MCP
14 40 (1.16%) CCNP
14 40 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 40 (1.16%) NVQ Level 3
15 39 (1.14%) A+ Certification
16 37 (1.08%) CISSP
16 37 (1.08%) PMI Certification
17 35 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (5.18%) SLA
2 104 (3.03%) GDPR
3 74 (2.15%) QA
4 43 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 28 (0.82%) PMO
8 23 (0.67%) NIST
9 21 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 14 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) ISO 13485
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.17%) NCSC
17 5 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
18 4 (0.12%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 816 (23.76%) Active Directory
2 233 (6.78%) Hyper-V
3 229 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (1.57%) Docker
6 48 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 44 (1.28%) Firmware
8 42 (1.22%) vSphere
9 37 (1.08%) XenApp
10 32 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
11 30 (0.87%) XenDesktop
12 27 (0.79%) VirtualBox
13 14 (0.41%) KVM
14 12 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
15 11 (0.32%) NFS
16 10 (0.29%) pfSense
17 8 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.15%) Terminal Services
19 4 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 277 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 141 (4.10%) SCCM
3 73 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 71 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
5 58 (1.69%) WSUS
6 54 (1.57%) SCOM
7 34 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 33 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 29 (0.84%) Terraform
10 26 (0.76%) Ansible
11 20 (0.58%) NetBackup
12 18 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.47%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.44%) Grafana
15 13 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
15 13 (0.38%) ServiceCenter
16 12 (0.35%) Sysprep
17 10 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 339 (9.87%) VMware
2 197 (5.74%) Cisco
3 128 (3.73%) Citrix
4 121 (3.52%) Apple
5 98 (2.85%) Google
6 91 (2.65%) Adobe
7 90 (2.62%) Veeam
8 71 (2.07%) HP
9 67 (1.95%) CyberArk
9 67 (1.95%) Tanium
10 57 (1.66%) Meraki
11 56 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 54 (1.57%) Dell
13 49 (1.43%) Juniper
14 48 (1.40%) Oracle
15 47 (1.37%) Palo Alto
16 44 (1.28%) SAP
17 37 (1.08%) Salesforce
18 36 (1.05%) Aruba
19 33 (0.96%) Red Hat