Microsoft Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 830 1035
Rank change year-on-year +11 +205 -249
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 95 122 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 88 92 120
10th Percentile £33,175 £36,250 £38,258
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,929 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £55,000 £76,316 £73,125
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £41,078 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.55% -17.85% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +51 86 £45,000 -20.00% 16
UK excluding London -8 61 £45,000 +9.55% 10
Work from Home +44 38 £45,000 -18.18% 12
South East +23 28 £45,000 +5.88% 1
London +114 22 £77,500 +10.71% 6
South West -23 20 £50,000 +25.00% 4
North of England +47 8 £35,000 -22.22% 4
Yorkshire +79 5 £32,500 +14.04% 1
West Midlands +9 3 £36,000 +27.43%
North West +5 3 £50,000 +2.17% 2
Midlands -7 3 £36,000 +26.32% 1
Scotland - 2 £66,500 -

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 61 (64.21%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (58.95%) Azure
4 31 (32.63%) Active Directory
4 31 (32.63%) Windows
5 25 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (26.32%) Windows Server
6 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
9 17 (17.89%) Entra ID
10 16 (16.84%) SharePoint
10 16 (16.84%) Degree
11 13 (13.68%) OneDrive
11 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
11 13 (13.68%) PaaS
12 12 (12.63%) IaaS
13 11 (11.58%) DevOps
13 11 (11.58%) Customer Service
13 11 (11.58%) SCCM
14 10 (10.53%) VMware
14 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
14 10 (10.53%) Mentoring
15 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (8.42%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (8.42%) ITIL
16 8 (8.42%) SQL
17 7 (7.37%) Finance
17 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
17 7 (7.37%) Android

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (16.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.11%) SAS
3 2 (2.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (64.21%) Microsoft 365
2 56 (58.95%) Azure
3 17 (17.89%) Entra ID
4 13 (13.68%) OneDrive
4 13 (13.68%) PaaS
5 12 (12.63%) IaaS
6 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
7 8 (8.42%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.32%) Slack
9 6 (6.32%) WhatsApp
10 5 (5.26%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.21%) Azure Storage
11 4 (4.21%) Power Automate
11 4 (4.21%) SaaS
12 2 (2.11%) AWS
12 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (3.16%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.16%) VoIP
2 3 (3.16%) WAN
3 2 (2.11%) DHCP
3 2 (2.11%) DNS
3 2 (2.11%) Skype
4 1 (1.05%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.05%) Network Security
4 1 (1.05%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.05%) Power BI
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) GitLab
2 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.37%) Finance
3 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.16%) General Ledger
3 3 (3.16%) Local Government
3 3 (3.16%) Retail
4 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.16%) .NET
2 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.05%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.05%) Blazor
2 1 (1.05%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Blackberry
1 6 (6.32%) BYOD
2 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.11%) iPad
4 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.05%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (32.63%) Windows
2 25 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.37%) Android
3 7 (7.37%) Apple iOS
3 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.21%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.11%) Linux
7 2 (2.11%) VMS
8 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (11.58%) Customer Service
2 11 (11.58%) DevOps
3 10 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (8.42%) ITIL
6 6 (6.32%) Application Packaging
6 6 (6.32%) Migration
6 6 (6.32%) Roadmaps
7 5 (5.26%) CI/CD
7 5 (5.26%) Data Management
7 5 (5.26%) Presales
7 5 (5.26%) Security Operations
7 5 (5.26%) Zero Trust
8 4 (4.21%) Analytics
8 4 (4.21%) Client Onboarding
8 4 (4.21%) CRM
8 4 (4.21%) ITSM
8 4 (4.21%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (4.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.42%) SQL
3 5 (5.26%) Bash
4 4 (4.21%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (3.16%) C#
6 2 (2.11%) Go
6 2 (2.11%) Java
6 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.11%) Python
6 2 (2.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (16.84%) Degree
2 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.11%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (32.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.16%) Docker
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.58%) SCCM
3 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.11%) Terraform
5 1 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.05%) SCDPM
5 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.53%) VMware
3 4 (4.21%) CA
4 2 (2.11%) Acronis
4 2 (2.11%) Aruba
4 2 (2.11%) Databricks
4 2 (2.11%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.11%) WatchGuard
5 1 (1.05%) Apple
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco
5 1 (1.05%) Meraki
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.05%) Splunk