Microsoft Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,288 1,179 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.25% 19.83% 19.23%
As % of the Vendors category 49.92% 45.68% 47.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 788 813
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,100 £26,275
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -8.80% -
75th Percentile £58,250 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £79,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.10% -4.21% -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,580 2,581 2,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.55% 43.40% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,796 1,469 1,785
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,450 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,188 £35,302 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.66% -2.22%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the Thames Valley

Microsoft
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Berkshire 0 583 £47,500 +2.48% 131
Buckinghamshire -2 382 £42,500 +21.43% 114
Oxfordshire +1 323 £43,000 -21.82% 80
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 169 (13.12%) SharePoint
2 158 (12.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (3.18%) IIS
4 32 (2.48%) CMS
5 26 (2.02%) Kentico
6 24 (1.86%) Headless CMS
7 19 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2010
7 19 (1.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 19 (1.48%) Umbraco
8 13 (1.01%) Confluence
9 7 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.54%) WordPress
10 6 (0.47%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.16%) IBM Domino
13 1 (0.078%) Alfresco
13 1 (0.078%) Apache
13 1 (0.078%) Documentum
13 1 (0.078%) FileNet
Applications
1 192 (14.91%) Microsoft Office
2 179 (13.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.23%) Revit
8 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.078%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 67 (5.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.62%) Primavera
4 7 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.39%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.23%) ResourceLink
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.078%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.078%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 493 (38.28%) Azure
2 433 (33.62%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (12.73%) Power Platform
4 90 (6.99%) Dynamics 365
5 81 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (6.13%) Entra ID
7 64 (4.97%) OneDrive
8 60 (4.66%) Power Automate
9 58 (4.50%) PowerApps
10 48 (3.73%) AWS
11 40 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (2.80%) SaaS
13 21 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (1.63%) Kontent
14 20 (1.55%) Google Workspace
15 19 (1.48%) Azure Storage
16 18 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (1.16%) PaaS
18 12 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 12 (0.93%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 172 (13.35%) Firewall
2 125 (9.70%) DNS
3 88 (6.83%) DHCP
4 49 (3.80%) Broadband
5 45 (3.49%) WAN
6 42 (3.26%) VPN
7 35 (2.72%) Wireless
8 34 (2.64%) LAN
8 34 (2.64%) TCP/IP
9 33 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (2.41%) VLAN
11 22 (1.71%) SAN
11 22 (1.71%) VoIP
12 21 (1.63%) Internet
13 20 (1.55%) Network Security
14 19 (1.48%) SD-WAN
14 19 (1.48%) SNMP
15 18 (1.40%) Intranet
15 18 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (1.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 100 (7.76%) Power BI
3 28 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 25 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.01%) Power Query
12 12 (0.93%) Tableau
13 10 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.70%) MySQL
14 9 (0.70%) NoSQL
15 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
17 6 (0.47%) InfluxDB
17 6 (0.47%) MariaDB
18 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (2.95%) Visual Studio
2 30 (2.33%) JIRA
3 23 (1.79%) Git
4 19 (1.48%) NUnit
5 16 (1.24%) GitLab
6 13 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.47%) Selenium
9 5 (0.39%) Bugzilla
9 5 (0.39%) MSTest
9 5 (0.39%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.31%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.31%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.31%) MSI
11 3 (0.23%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.16%) PowerBuilder
12 2 (0.16%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 481 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 173 (13.43%) Finance
3 152 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
5 71 (5.51%) Legal
6 69 (5.36%) Law
7 66 (5.12%) Retail
8 45 (3.49%) Marketing
9 43 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (2.80%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 33 (2.56%) Public Sector
15 28 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.63%) Back Office
17 17 (1.32%) Automotive
18 12 (0.93%) Banking
18 12 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 191 (14.83%) Analyst
2 166 (12.89%) Senior
3 156 (12.11%) Developer
4 137 (10.64%) IT Support
5 114 (8.85%) Support Engineer
6 102 (7.92%) IT Engineer
7 91 (7.07%) .NET Developer
8 90 (6.99%) Consultant
9 80 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 80 (6.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 71 (5.51%) Architect
11 62 (4.81%) Lead
12 61 (4.74%) C# Developer
13 55 (4.27%) C# .NET Developer
14 54 (4.19%) IT Analyst
15 50 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
16 48 (3.73%) 3rd Line Support
17 45 (3.49%) Support Analyst
18 41 (3.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 41 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (12.66%) .NET
2 87 (6.75%) ASP.NET
3 81 (6.29%) .NET Framework
4 74 (5.75%) .NET Core
5 65 (5.05%) React
6 57 (4.43%) ASP.NET MVC
7 41 (3.18%) AngularJS
8 38 (2.95%) Entity Framework
9 31 (2.41%) ASP.NET Web API
10 26 (2.02%) Web Services
11 24 (1.86%) Next.js
11 24 (1.86%) Vue
12 23 (1.79%) CSS
12 23 (1.79%) HTML
13 22 (1.71%) RESTful
14 18 (1.40%) Node.js
15 15 (1.16%) ARM Templates
15 15 (1.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 12 (0.93%) WinForms
17 11 (0.85%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.39%) Self-Motivation
2 61 (4.74%) Data Centre
3 50 (3.88%) Driving Licence
4 36 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 36 (2.80%) PKI
5 33 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 24 (1.86%) Replication
7 23 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.40%) Client/Server
8 18 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 16 (1.24%) Biopharmaceutical
11 15 (1.16%) Smartphone
12 14 (1.09%) Educational Technology
12 14 (1.09%) Social Media
13 13 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.01%) CMDB
13 13 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 12 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 377 (29.27%) Windows
2 172 (13.35%) Windows Server
3 163 (12.66%) Windows 10
4 108 (8.39%) Linux
5 80 (6.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 77 (5.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 61 (4.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 45 (3.49%) Windows 7
9 43 (3.34%) Android
10 34 (2.64%) Apple iOS
11 20 (1.55%) Unix
12 18 (1.40%) Mac OS
13 16 (1.24%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.93%) Windows NT
15 11 (0.85%) Mac OS X
16 9 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 8 (0.62%) CentOS
17 8 (0.62%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.62%) VMS
18 7 (0.54%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 234 (18.17%) Agile
3 226 (17.55%) Customer Service
4 186 (14.44%) ITIL
5 166 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
6 163 (12.66%) DevOps
7 125 (9.70%) CRM
8 118 (9.16%) Project Management
9 103 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
10 98 (7.61%) Analytics
11 97 (7.53%) Decision-Making
11 97 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 97 (7.53%) Mentoring
12 91 (7.07%) Presales
13 84 (6.52%) Service Management
14 72 (5.59%) MVC
15 66 (5.12%) Service Delivery
16 61 (4.74%) Computer Science
17 57 (4.43%) Roadmaps
18 56 (4.35%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 202 (15.68%) SQL
2 189 (14.67%) C#
3 109 (8.46%) JavaScript
4 81 (6.29%) PowerShell
5 69 (5.36%) Python
6 39 (3.03%) T-SQL
7 37 (2.87%) Fortran
8 36 (2.80%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.41%) Bash
10 30 (2.33%) C++
11 25 (1.94%) VB
12 24 (1.86%) VBScript
13 18 (1.40%) Java
14 14 (1.09%) Bicep
14 14 (1.09%) C
15 13 (1.01%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.93%) Perl
17 11 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.54%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 309 (23.99%) Degree
2 261 (20.26%) Security Cleared
3 139 (10.79%) DV Cleared
4 130 (10.09%) SC Cleared
5 72 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (4.19%) DBS Check
7 49 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (3.18%) ACCA
8 41 (3.18%) CIMA
9 38 (2.95%) MCP
10 37 (2.87%) CCNA
11 32 (2.48%) Azure Certification
12 30 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (2.25%) NVQ Level 3
14 27 (2.10%) CISSP
14 27 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (2.02%) Master's Degree
16 24 (1.86%) CCNP
17 23 (1.79%) A+ Certification
18 21 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.20%) SLA
2 38 (2.95%) GDPR
3 25 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.94%) QA
4 18 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.16%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 13 (1.01%) NIST
7 8 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
10 4 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.23%) PMO
12 1 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.078%) IASME
12 1 (0.078%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.078%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 349 (27.10%) Active Directory
2 106 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (5.90%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.25%) Firmware
5 19 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.16%) Docker
7 14 (1.09%) KVM
7 14 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.01%) vSphere
9 6 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.31%) XenApp
11 3 (0.23%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.078%) NFS
12 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (9.01%) SCCM
2 107 (8.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 46 (3.57%) SCOM
4 45 (3.49%) WSUS
5 29 (2.25%) Kubernetes
6 27 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (1.55%) NetBackup
8 16 (1.24%) vCenter Server
9 14 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (0.93%) Sysprep
11 11 (0.85%) Terraform
12 7 (0.54%) Ansible
12 7 (0.54%) Stealthwatch
13 5 (0.39%) CASB
13 5 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.39%) Puppet
13 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 5 (0.39%) Suricata
14 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.31%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 152 (11.80%) VMware
2 71 (5.51%) Apple
3 69 (5.36%) Citrix
4 68 (5.28%) Cisco
5 63 (4.89%) Adobe
6 57 (4.43%) Veeam
7 47 (3.65%) HP
8 39 (3.03%) Google
9 36 (2.80%) Dell
10 25 (1.94%) Oracle
11 24 (1.86%) Juniper
12 23 (1.79%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.71%) ServiceNow
14 19 (1.48%) Optimizely
14 19 (1.48%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.48%) Sitecore
15 18 (1.40%) Meraki
16 17 (1.32%) EMC
16 17 (1.32%) SAP
17 14 (1.09%) Sage