Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,503 12,221 13,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.64% 20.49% 18.48%
As % of the Vendors category 49.97% 47.93% 46.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,875 6,527 8,526
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,200 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £58,688
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,022 25,495 28,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.31% 42.76% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 17,231 13,094 16,877
10th Percentile £25,759 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £77,542 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 3,433 £45,000 -1.10% 871
North of England 0 2,944 £43,500 -3.33% 996
Midlands +1 2,262 £42,500 -10.53% 778
South West +3 1,604 £46,000 +13.58% 506
North West -2 1,534 £45,000 - 535
West Midlands +1 1,491 £45,000 -10.00% 483
East of England +2 1,226 £38,000 -5.00% 412
Yorkshire +2 986 £42,500 -4.49% 335
East Midlands 0 762 £37,500 -12.30% 296
Scotland -33 570 £45,000 -10.00% 250
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 132
Wales +2 336 £37,750 -1.31% 129
Northern Ireland +6 105 £42,500 -10.53% 66
Isle of Man - 33 £45,000 - 1
Channel Islands +1 6 £85,000 +34.92% 3
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,366 (10.93%) SharePoint
2 1,185 (9.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 242 (1.94%) IIS
4 192 (1.54%) Confluence
5 102 (0.82%) CMS
6 67 (0.54%) Umbraco
7 48 (0.38%) Kentico
8 47 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 45 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.33%) Headless CMS
10 41 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
11 39 (0.31%) Apache
12 38 (0.30%) WordPress
13 35 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
13 35 (0.28%) SAS
14 21 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
16 19 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
17 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,379 (19.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1,537 (12.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 429 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 245 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
5 93 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.39%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 11 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.064%) InfoPath
14 8 (0.064%) Sketch
15 7 (0.056%) Chatbot
16 6 (0.048%) InVision
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
17 5 (0.040%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 393 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 87 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.66%) Primavera
4 33 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 32 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 27 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
8 20 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.15%) Shopify
10 18 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
11 17 (0.14%) iTrent
12 15 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
12 15 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
13 14 (0.11%) Magento
14 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
14 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
15 10 (0.080%) Maximo
16 9 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
16 9 (0.072%) PlanetPress Connect
17 8 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4,994 (39.94%) Azure
2 3,954 (31.62%) Microsoft 365
3 1,522 (12.17%) Power Platform
4 924 (7.39%) AWS
5 920 (7.36%) Entra ID
6 749 (5.99%) Dynamics 365
7 544 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 445 (3.56%) PowerApps
9 419 (3.35%) Power Automate
10 389 (3.11%) SaaS
11 345 (2.76%) OneDrive
12 253 (2.02%) GCP
13 200 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
14 164 (1.31%) PaaS
15 158 (1.26%) IaaS
16 139 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 102 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 96 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
19 95 (0.76%) GitHub
20 78 (0.62%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1,235 (9.88%) Firewall
2 872 (6.97%) DNS
3 678 (5.42%) WAN
4 663 (5.30%) DHCP
5 598 (4.78%) LAN
6 456 (3.65%) TCP/IP
7 442 (3.54%) VPN
8 415 (3.32%) Broadband
9 378 (3.02%) SAN
10 376 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
11 319 (2.55%) Wireless
12 269 (2.15%) Internet
13 265 (2.12%) VoIP
14 263 (2.10%) VLAN
15 194 (1.55%) Network Security
16 165 (1.32%) Intranet
17 149 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
18 132 (1.06%) SD-WAN
19 121 (0.97%) Unified Communications
20 94 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,027 (16.21%) SQL Server
2 1,005 (8.04%) Power BI
3 340 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 332 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 324 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 255 (2.04%) MongoDB
7 213 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
8 210 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 204 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 153 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 114 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 111 (0.89%) MySQL
13 110 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
14 88 (0.70%) NoSQL
15 87 (0.70%) Tableau
16 79 (0.63%) MS Access
17 74 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
18 56 (0.45%) Big Data
19 55 (0.44%) Oracle Database
19 55 (0.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 389 (3.11%) Git
2 362 (2.90%) JIRA
3 330 (2.64%) Visual Studio
4 113 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 72 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 63 (0.50%) GitLab
7 60 (0.48%) Sourcetree
8 53 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (0.34%) NUnit
10 39 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 39 (0.31%) Subversion
11 36 (0.29%) Selenium
12 33 (0.26%) Postman
13 29 (0.23%) Moq
14 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
14 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
15 25 (0.20%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.17%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.17%) MSTest
17 14 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4,446 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 2,124 (16.99%) Finance
3 1,417 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 782 (6.25%) Retail
5 559 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
6 541 (4.33%) Public Sector
7 528 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 525 (4.20%) Legal
9 516 (4.13%) Law
10 498 (3.98%) Manufacturing
11 474 (3.79%) Marketing
12 363 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 360 (2.88%) Telecoms
14 332 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
15 230 (1.84%) Games
16 169 (1.35%) Local Government
17 163 (1.30%) Advertising
18 161 (1.29%) Banking
19 153 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
20 109 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,905 (15.24%) Developer
2 1,699 (13.59%) Analyst
3 1,334 (10.67%) Senior
4 1,206 (9.65%) IT Support
5 1,006 (8.05%) Support Engineer
6 825 (6.60%) .NET Developer
7 820 (6.56%) IT Engineer
8 675 (5.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 672 (5.37%) Lead
10 630 (5.04%) Architect
11 579 (4.63%) Consultant
12 556 (4.45%) IT Support Engineer
13 500 (4.00%) Administrator
14 421 (3.37%) IT Technician
15 408 (3.26%) 2nd Line Support
16 366 (2.93%) C# Developer
17 343 (2.74%) Support Technician
18 338 (2.70%) IT Analyst
19 335 (2.68%) Support Analyst
20 327 (2.62%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,582 (12.65%) .NET
2 893 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 834 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 712 (5.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 643 (5.14%) AngularJS
6 618 (4.94%) HTML
7 582 (4.65%) .NET Framework
8 565 (4.52%) Entity Framework
9 551 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
10 427 (3.42%) CSS
11 404 (3.23%) React
12 335 (2.68%) HTML5
13 277 (2.22%) RESTful
14 255 (2.04%) Vue
15 245 (1.96%) Node.js
16 207 (1.66%) Web Services
17 194 (1.55%) REST
18 181 (1.45%) Blazor
19 174 (1.39%) LINQ
20 168 (1.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 695 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 618 (4.94%) Driving Licence
3 537 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 417 (3.34%) Data Centre
5 271 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 243 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 169 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 165 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 164 (1.31%) PKI
10 156 (1.25%) Social Media
11 146 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 142 (1.14%) Clustering
13 132 (1.06%) Replication
14 110 (0.88%) Mobile App
15 108 (0.86%) Low-Code
16 107 (0.86%) NHS
17 99 (0.79%) Cloud Native
18 95 (0.76%) Virtual Reality
19 88 (0.70%) Smartphone
20 84 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,603 (28.82%) Windows
2 1,633 (13.06%) Windows Server
3 1,010 (8.08%) Windows 10
4 759 (6.07%) Linux
5 374 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 368 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 304 (2.43%) Android
8 285 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 222 (1.78%) Apple iOS
10 202 (1.62%) Windows 7
11 195 (1.56%) Mac OS
12 132 (1.06%) Ubuntu
13 123 (0.98%) VMS
14 94 (0.75%) Unix
15 90 (0.72%) Windows 8
16 79 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
17 68 (0.54%) CentOS
18 42 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 33 (0.26%) Mac OS X
20 31 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,642 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
2 2,320 (18.56%) Agile
3 1,925 (15.40%) Customer Service
4 1,469 (11.75%) ITIL
5 1,200 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
6 1,159 (9.27%) DevOps
7 1,067 (8.53%) Project Management
8 1,053 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
9 1,020 (8.16%) Mentoring
10 902 (7.21%) CRM
11 867 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 834 (6.67%) MVC
13 814 (6.51%) Full Stack Development
14 785 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 706 (5.65%) Roadmaps
16 687 (5.49%) Migration
17 679 (5.43%) Decision-Making
18 675 (5.40%) Microservices
19 626 (5.01%) Scrum
20 624 (4.99%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2,022 (16.17%) SQL
2 1,675 (13.40%) C#
3 1,167 (9.33%) JavaScript
4 808 (6.46%) PowerShell
5 400 (3.20%) T-SQL
6 378 (3.02%) TypeScript
7 369 (2.95%) Python
8 220 (1.76%) Bash
9 189 (1.51%) Java
10 119 (0.95%) VB
11 108 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 104 (0.83%) C++
13 86 (0.69%) C
14 57 (0.46%) R
15 45 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 44 (0.35%) Bicep
16 44 (0.35%) VBA
17 42 (0.34%) VBScript
18 41 (0.33%) Shell Script
19 40 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,989 (15.91%) Degree
2 1,090 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 850 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 653 (5.22%) SC Cleared
5 390 (3.12%) DBS Check
6 300 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
7 290 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 281 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 246 (1.97%) CCNA
10 245 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 241 (1.93%) CIMA
12 240 (1.92%) ACCA
13 220 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 192 (1.54%) MCP
15 189 (1.51%) A+ Certification
16 143 (1.14%) MCSE
17 138 (1.10%) PMI Certification
18 113 (0.90%) CCNP
19 112 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
20 99 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 582 (4.65%) SLA
2 380 (3.04%) GDPR
3 333 (2.66%) QA
4 237 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 228 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 119 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 102 (0.82%) ISO 9001
8 96 (0.77%) PMO
9 95 (0.76%) Accessibility
10 92 (0.74%) NIST
11 85 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 49 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 25 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 24 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 23 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 21 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
18 17 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.13%) GRC
19 16 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,912 (23.29%) Active Directory
2 906 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 786 (6.29%) Hyper-V
4 232 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 186 (1.49%) Docker
6 163 (1.30%) vSphere
7 127 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 120 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 71 (0.57%) XenApp
10 57 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 52 (0.42%) Firmware
11 52 (0.42%) KVM
12 47 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
13 45 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 41 (0.33%) VMware NSX
15 27 (0.22%) VirtualBox
16 26 (0.21%) VMware Server
17 21 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 18 (0.14%) pfSense
19 16 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 897 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 420 (3.36%) SCCM
3 237 (1.90%) Kubernetes
4 170 (1.36%) Terraform
5 119 (0.95%) SCOM
5 119 (0.95%) WSUS
6 104 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
7 87 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 76 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 76 (0.61%) Ansible
9 41 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
10 40 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 39 (0.31%) FortiGate
12 33 (0.26%) NetBackup
13 31 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 31 (0.25%) ZABBIX
14 30 (0.24%) EnCase
15 29 (0.23%) CASB
16 28 (0.22%) Backup Exec
17 27 (0.22%) Autotask
Vendors
1 1,391 (11.13%) VMware
2 593 (4.74%) Cisco
3 481 (3.85%) Google
4 400 (3.20%) Citrix
5 391 (3.13%) Apple
6 323 (2.58%) Oracle
7 317 (2.54%) Veeam
8 263 (2.10%) Dell
9 250 (2.00%) HP
10 227 (1.82%) Adobe
11 225 (1.80%) SAP
12 198 (1.58%) ServiceNow
13 183 (1.46%) Meraki
14 140 (1.12%) Sophos
15 136 (1.09%) Fortinet
16 125 (1.00%) Salesforce
17 112 (0.90%) Databricks
18 107 (0.86%) Sage
19 105 (0.84%) Red Hat
20 98 (0.78%) NetApp