Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,562 18,709 23,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.73% 18.64% 14.61%
As % of the Vendors category 48.24% 44.34% 37.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,387 11,056 14,826
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,094 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,200 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,403 42,194 62,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.76% 42.05% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,864 24,111 33,087
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,981 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK 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
England +4 15,944 £47,500 -9.52% 5,024
UK excluding London +2 12,503 £43,200 -4.00% 3,911
Work from Home +4 7,069 £52,500 -4.55% 2,326
London +5 4,339 £60,500 -3.20% 1,355
South East +3 3,433 £45,000 -1.10% 880
North of England 0 2,944 £43,500 -3.33% 1,006
Midlands +1 2,262 £42,500 -10.53% 787
South West +3 1,604 £46,000 +13.58% 508
North West -2 1,534 £45,000 - 547
West Midlands +1 1,491 £45,000 -10.00% 483
East of England +2 1,226 £38,000 -5.00% 414
Yorkshire +2 986 £42,500 -4.49% 335
East Midlands 0 762 £37,500 -12.30% 304
Scotland -33 570 £45,000 -10.00% 241
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 129
Wales +2 336 £37,750 -1.31% 128
Northern Ireland +6 105 £42,500 -10.53% 65
Isle of Man - 33 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands +1 6 £85,000 +34.92% 1

Microsoft
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 1,881 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 1,660 (9.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 317 (1.81%) IIS
4 212 (1.21%) Confluence
5 148 (0.84%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 73 (0.42%) Apache
8 72 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 64 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 55 (0.31%) Kentico
11 53 (0.30%) SAS
12 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
13 46 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.24%) WordPress
15 41 (0.23%) Headless CMS
16 40 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
17 32 (0.18%) Tomcat
18 23 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
19 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
20 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3,168 (18.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2,340 (13.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 660 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 272 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 128 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 68 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) InDesign
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.091%) SPSS
12 15 (0.085%) Trello
13 11 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
14 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
15 8 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.046%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.046%) Sketch
16 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 635 (3.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 103 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 57 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 44 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 33 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 26 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
10 25 (0.14%) Shopify
11 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 22 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
13 18 (0.10%) PlanetPress Connect
14 17 (0.097%) Magento
15 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
16 15 (0.085%) Elite 3E
16 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
16 15 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
17 13 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,223 (41.13%) Azure
2 5,337 (30.39%) Microsoft 365
3 2,332 (13.28%) Power Platform
4 1,425 (8.11%) AWS
5 1,375 (7.83%) Entra ID
6 1,316 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
7 857 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 731 (4.16%) PowerApps
9 707 (4.03%) SaaS
10 691 (3.93%) Power Automate
11 455 (2.59%) OneDrive
12 428 (2.44%) GCP
13 358 (2.04%) PaaS
14 336 (1.91%) IaaS
15 279 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
16 220 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
17 208 (1.18%) Serverless
18 181 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 156 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
20 155 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,599 (9.10%) Firewall
2 1,140 (6.49%) DNS
3 968 (5.51%) WAN
4 829 (4.72%) DHCP
5 812 (4.62%) Broadband
6 786 (4.48%) LAN
7 613 (3.49%) VPN
8 560 (3.19%) TCP/IP
9 534 (3.04%) Wireless
10 480 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
11 471 (2.68%) SAN
12 356 (2.03%) Internet
13 349 (1.99%) VLAN
14 307 (1.75%) Network Security
15 305 (1.74%) VoIP
16 287 (1.63%) SD-WAN
17 223 (1.27%) 5G
18 208 (1.18%) Intranet
19 195 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
20 143 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,636 (15.01%) SQL Server
2 1,462 (8.32%) Power BI
3 480 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 469 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 436 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 341 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 300 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 282 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 273 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 273 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 177 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 156 (0.89%) Tableau
12 138 (0.79%) MySQL
13 123 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
14 120 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 118 (0.67%) NoSQL
16 114 (0.65%) Big Data
17 92 (0.52%) Oracle Database
18 91 (0.52%) MS Access
19 80 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 493 (2.81%) Git
2 451 (2.57%) JIRA
3 393 (2.24%) Visual Studio
4 124 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 112 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 103 (0.59%) GitLab
7 78 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 68 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 46 (0.26%) NUnit
10 46 (0.26%) Selenium
11 44 (0.25%) Subversion
12 43 (0.24%) Postman
13 38 (0.22%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 17 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,256 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 3,617 (20.60%) Finance
3 2,378 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1,068 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 952 (5.42%) Retail
6 804 (4.58%) Law
7 789 (4.49%) Legal
8 758 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 756 (4.30%) Marketing
10 745 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
11 606 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
12 552 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 527 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
14 458 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 387 (2.20%) Banking
16 280 (1.59%) Games
17 228 (1.30%) Local Government
18 220 (1.25%) Advertising
19 218 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
20 169 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,521 (14.35%) Analyst
2 2,506 (14.27%) Developer
3 2,317 (13.19%) Senior
4 1,498 (8.53%) IT Support
5 1,207 (6.87%) Support Engineer
6 1,139 (6.49%) Architect
7 991 (5.64%) Lead
8 976 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 951 (5.42%) IT Engineer
10 918 (5.23%) Consultant
11 840 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 627 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
13 617 (3.51%) Administrator
14 483 (2.75%) 2nd Line Support
15 471 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 469 (2.67%) Support Analyst
17 468 (2.66%) IT Analyst
18 463 (2.64%) IT Technician
19 461 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
20 448 (2.55%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,151 (12.25%) .NET
2 1,080 (6.15%) ASP.NET
3 1,010 (5.75%) .NET Core
4 830 (4.73%) ASP.NET MVC
5 798 (4.54%) AngularJS
6 787 (4.48%) HTML
7 734 (4.18%) .NET Framework
8 670 (3.82%) Entity Framework
9 664 (3.78%) ASP.NET Web API
10 548 (3.12%) CSS
11 513 (2.92%) React
12 392 (2.23%) HTML5
13 347 (1.98%) RESTful
14 304 (1.73%) Vue
15 302 (1.72%) Node.js
16 283 (1.61%) Web Services
17 255 (1.45%) REST
18 243 (1.38%) JSON
19 205 (1.17%) Blazor
19 205 (1.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 959 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
2 818 (4.66%) Management Information System
3 650 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 567 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 366 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 351 (2.00%) Social Media
7 345 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 257 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 250 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
10 249 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 247 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 232 (1.32%) PKI
13 176 (1.00%) Cloud Native
14 170 (0.97%) Replication
15 155 (0.88%) Clustering
16 134 (0.76%) Mobile App
17 133 (0.76%) NHS
18 130 (0.74%) Low-Code
19 124 (0.71%) Smartphone
20 109 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,684 (26.67%) Windows
2 2,030 (11.56%) Windows Server
3 1,390 (7.91%) Windows 10
4 1,117 (6.36%) Linux
5 492 (2.80%) Android
6 449 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 448 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 335 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 321 (1.83%) Apple iOS
10 293 (1.67%) Ubuntu
11 266 (1.51%) Mac OS
12 234 (1.33%) Windows 7
13 156 (0.89%) Unix
14 142 (0.81%) VMS
15 96 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
16 90 (0.51%) Windows 8
17 72 (0.41%) CentOS
18 71 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 54 (0.31%) Mac OS X
20 37 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,467 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
2 3,464 (19.72%) Agile
3 2,328 (13.26%) Customer Service
4 1,884 (10.73%) ITIL
5 1,744 (9.93%) DevOps
6 1,731 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
7 1,642 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
8 1,591 (9.06%) Mentoring
9 1,506 (8.58%) Project Management
10 1,387 (7.90%) CRM
11 1,100 (6.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,086 (6.18%) Decision-Making
13 1,014 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 998 (5.68%) MVC
15 983 (5.60%) Full Stack Development
16 966 (5.50%) Roadmaps
17 965 (5.49%) Migration
18 894 (5.09%) Scrum
19 878 (5.00%) Analytics
20 874 (4.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,806 (15.98%) SQL
2 2,247 (12.79%) C#
3 1,519 (8.65%) JavaScript
4 1,218 (6.94%) PowerShell
5 664 (3.78%) Python
6 580 (3.30%) T-SQL
7 475 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 443 (2.52%) Bash
9 270 (1.54%) Java
10 137 (0.78%) C++
11 127 (0.72%) VB
12 114 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 111 (0.63%) C
14 93 (0.53%) Bicep
14 93 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 89 (0.51%) R
16 68 (0.39%) VBA
17 53 (0.30%) Shell Script
18 48 (0.27%) PL/SQL
19 46 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,909 (16.56%) Degree
2 1,311 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 1,176 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 790 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 507 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 505 (2.88%) ACCA
7 503 (2.86%) DBS Check
8 482 (2.74%) CIMA
9 461 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 423 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 314 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 297 (1.69%) CCNA
13 257 (1.46%) Master's Degree
14 234 (1.33%) A+ Certification
15 232 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 225 (1.28%) CISSP
17 211 (1.20%) MCP
18 203 (1.16%) MCSE
19 187 (1.06%) PMI Certification
20 163 (0.93%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 820 (4.67%) SLA
2 488 (2.78%) QA
3 480 (2.73%) GDPR
4 409 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 298 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 235 (1.34%) Data Quality
7 168 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 161 (0.92%) NIST
9 134 (0.76%) PMO
10 126 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 117 (0.67%) ISO 9001
12 49 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 45 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 42 (0.24%) GRC
15 37 (0.21%) IFRS
15 37 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 34 (0.19%) NCSC
17 31 (0.18%) COBIT
17 31 (0.18%) SOC 2
18 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4,000 (22.78%) Active Directory
2 1,167 (6.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 884 (5.03%) Hyper-V
4 308 (1.75%) Docker
5 295 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 255 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
7 209 (1.19%) vSphere
8 175 (1.00%) XenApp
9 151 (0.86%) XenDesktop
10 143 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
11 107 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
12 81 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 60 (0.34%) Firmware
14 54 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 53 (0.30%) KVM
16 45 (0.26%) VMware NSX
17 28 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 27 (0.15%) VirtualBox
19 26 (0.15%) VMware Server
20 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,320 (7.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 660 (3.76%) SCCM
3 384 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 359 (2.04%) Terraform
5 276 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
6 152 (0.87%) WSUS
7 148 (0.84%) Ansible
8 133 (0.76%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 107 (0.61%) AirWatch
11 98 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 97 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
13 60 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 45 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
15 44 (0.25%) Grafana
16 41 (0.23%) NetBackup
17 40 (0.23%) Nessus
17 40 (0.23%) Puppet
18 37 (0.21%) CASB
19 36 (0.20%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,765 (10.05%) VMware
2 934 (5.32%) Cisco
3 694 (3.95%) Google
4 611 (3.48%) Citrix
5 530 (3.02%) Apple
6 493 (2.81%) Oracle
7 398 (2.27%) Veeam
8 395 (2.25%) Dell
9 361 (2.06%) ServiceNow
10 337 (1.92%) SAP
11 328 (1.87%) HP
12 300 (1.71%) Adobe
13 237 (1.35%) CyberArk
14 216 (1.23%) Meraki
15 210 (1.20%) Tanium
16 199 (1.13%) Databricks
17 188 (1.07%) Salesforce
18 159 (0.91%) Fortinet
19 155 (0.88%) Sophos
20 139 (0.79%) Red Hat