Microsoft Jobs in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 16,001 16,781 19,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.50% 19.02% 14.78%
As % of the Vendors category 50.35% 45.13% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12,187 9,858 12,916
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,744
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,350
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 median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 31,782 37,185 52,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.75% 42.15% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 22,637 21,385 28,844
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £91,250
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +5 4,328 £60,500 -3.20% 1,427
South East +3 3,436 £45,000 -1.32% 959
North of England 0 2,975 £43,500 -3.33% 1,016
Midlands +1 2,281 £42,500 -10.53% 790
South West +4 1,622 £46,958 +17.39% 488
North West -2 1,551 £45,000 - 524
West Midlands +1 1,499 £45,000 -10.00% 502
East of England +2 1,223 £38,000 -5.00% 395
Yorkshire +2 993 £42,500 -1.16% 361
East Midlands +1 773 £37,500 -11.76% 289
North East +3 430 £42,500 +6.25% 140
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,697 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 1,547 (9.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 282 (1.76%) IIS
4 181 (1.13%) Confluence
5 142 (0.89%) CMS
6 72 (0.45%) Apache
6 72 (0.45%) Skype for Business
7 69 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 58 (0.36%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.33%) Kentico
10 49 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
11 48 (0.30%) SAS
12 44 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.27%) WordPress
14 41 (0.26%) Headless CMS
15 40 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
16 32 (0.20%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
18 22 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
19 21 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,947 (18.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2,171 (13.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 595 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 248 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 123 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 63 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 23 (0.14%) InDesign
11 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 17 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.100%) Trello
13 13 (0.081%) SPSS
14 11 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
15 8 (0.050%) Acrobat
15 8 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.050%) Sketch
16 7 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
16 7 (0.044%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 545 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 103 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
3 76 (0.47%) Primavera
4 41 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
5 39 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 32 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 26 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 25 (0.16%) Shopify
9 24 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 22 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 20 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 18 (0.11%) iTrent
13 17 (0.11%) Magento
14 16 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
15 15 (0.094%) Elite 3E
15 15 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
16 13 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
17 12 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
18 11 (0.069%) ResourceLink
19 10 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6,544 (40.90%) Azure
2 4,846 (30.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2,073 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 1,266 (7.91%) AWS
5 1,251 (7.82%) Entra ID
6 1,110 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
7 772 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 638 (3.99%) PowerApps
9 612 (3.82%) SaaS
10 606 (3.79%) Power Automate
11 405 (2.53%) OneDrive
12 376 (2.35%) GCP
13 301 (1.88%) PaaS
14 289 (1.81%) IaaS
15 227 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
16 202 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
17 177 (1.11%) Serverless
18 170 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 140 (0.87%) GitHub
20 130 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,481 (9.26%) Firewall
2 1,039 (6.49%) DNS
3 897 (5.61%) WAN
4 797 (4.98%) Broadband
5 772 (4.82%) DHCP
6 746 (4.66%) LAN
7 563 (3.52%) VPN
8 515 (3.22%) TCP/IP
9 474 (2.96%) Wireless
10 456 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
11 440 (2.75%) SAN
12 325 (2.03%) Internet
13 320 (2.00%) VLAN
14 279 (1.74%) Network Security
14 279 (1.74%) VoIP
15 272 (1.70%) SD-WAN
16 221 (1.38%) 5G
17 199 (1.24%) Intranet
18 163 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
19 141 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,432 (15.20%) SQL Server
2 1,341 (8.38%) Power BI
3 427 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 425 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 406 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 307 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 293 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 259 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 254 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 250 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 164 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 134 (0.84%) Tableau
13 132 (0.82%) MySQL
14 121 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
15 116 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
16 99 (0.62%) Big Data
17 95 (0.59%) NoSQL
18 89 (0.56%) MS Access
19 83 (0.52%) Oracle Database
20 70 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 444 (2.77%) Git
2 397 (2.48%) JIRA
3 364 (2.27%) Visual Studio
4 113 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 113 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 100 (0.62%) GitLab
6 69 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 69 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
7 65 (0.41%) Sourcetree
8 44 (0.27%) NUnit
8 44 (0.27%) Subversion
9 41 (0.26%) Selenium
10 37 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 33 (0.21%) Postman
12 27 (0.17%) Jasmine
12 27 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
13 23 (0.14%) Cucumber
13 23 (0.14%) Moq
14 16 (0.100%) MSTest
15 15 (0.094%) Balsamiq
General
1 5,769 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 3,327 (20.79%) Finance
3 2,236 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 925 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 923 (5.77%) Retail
6 751 (4.69%) Law
7 745 (4.66%) Legal
8 678 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 650 (4.06%) Marketing
10 646 (4.04%) Public Sector
11 584 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
12 473 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 453 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
14 391 (2.44%) Telecoms
15 370 (2.31%) Banking
16 250 (1.56%) Games
17 212 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
18 211 (1.32%) Advertising
19 189 (1.18%) Local Government
20 160 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,351 (14.69%) Analyst
2 2,249 (14.06%) Developer
3 2,086 (13.04%) Senior
4 1,401 (8.76%) IT Support
5 1,091 (6.82%) Support Engineer
6 1,000 (6.25%) Architect
7 930 (5.81%) .NET Developer
8 882 (5.51%) IT Engineer
9 875 (5.47%) Lead
10 826 (5.16%) Consultant
11 777 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 588 (3.67%) IT Support Engineer
13 580 (3.62%) Administrator
14 448 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
15 440 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
16 439 (2.74%) IT Analyst
17 430 (2.69%) Support Analyst
18 428 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
19 421 (2.63%) C# Developer
20 413 (2.58%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,961 (12.26%) .NET
2 998 (6.24%) ASP.NET
3 945 (5.91%) .NET Core
4 775 (4.84%) ASP.NET MVC
5 737 (4.61%) AngularJS
6 708 (4.42%) HTML
7 677 (4.23%) .NET Framework
8 629 (3.93%) ASP.NET Web API
9 612 (3.82%) Entity Framework
10 496 (3.10%) React
11 484 (3.02%) CSS
12 362 (2.26%) HTML5
13 331 (2.07%) RESTful
14 291 (1.82%) Vue
15 287 (1.79%) Node.js
16 264 (1.65%) Web Services
17 232 (1.45%) REST
18 230 (1.44%) JSON
19 197 (1.23%) Blazor
20 193 (1.21%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 880 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
2 728 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 619 (3.87%) Driving Licence
4 495 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 337 (2.11%) Social Media
6 304 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 296 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 243 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
9 241 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 223 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 213 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 200 (1.25%) PKI
13 155 (0.97%) Cloud Native
14 154 (0.96%) Replication
15 132 (0.82%) Clustering
16 131 (0.82%) NHS
17 130 (0.81%) Mobile App
18 125 (0.78%) Low-Code
19 120 (0.75%) Smartphone
20 99 (0.62%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,384 (27.40%) Windows
2 1,888 (11.80%) Windows Server
3 1,317 (8.23%) Windows 10
4 1,048 (6.55%) Linux
5 472 (2.95%) Android
6 432 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 431 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 313 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 302 (1.89%) Apple iOS
10 287 (1.79%) Ubuntu
11 240 (1.50%) Mac OS
12 229 (1.43%) Windows 7
13 131 (0.82%) Unix
14 127 (0.79%) VMS
15 96 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
16 89 (0.56%) Windows 8
17 71 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 66 (0.41%) CentOS
19 53 (0.33%) Mac OS X
20 36 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,218 (20.11%) Agile
2 3,176 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
3 2,122 (13.26%) Customer Service
4 1,753 (10.96%) ITIL
5 1,573 (9.83%) DevOps
6 1,533 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
7 1,520 (9.50%) Cybersecurity
8 1,457 (9.11%) Mentoring
9 1,320 (8.25%) Project Management
10 1,275 (7.97%) CRM
11 1,019 (6.37%) Decision-Making
12 1,014 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 930 (5.81%) MVC
14 921 (5.76%) Full Stack Development
15 892 (5.57%) Roadmaps
16 889 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 847 (5.29%) Migration
18 819 (5.12%) Microservices
19 815 (5.09%) Scrum
20 804 (5.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,593 (16.21%) SQL
2 2,057 (12.86%) C#
3 1,396 (8.72%) JavaScript
4 1,150 (7.19%) PowerShell
5 641 (4.01%) Python
6 517 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 435 (2.72%) Bash
7 435 (2.72%) TypeScript
8 241 (1.51%) Java
9 129 (0.81%) C++
10 126 (0.79%) VB
11 109 (0.68%) VB.NET
12 106 (0.66%) C
13 98 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 86 (0.54%) Bicep
15 80 (0.50%) R
16 60 (0.37%) VBA
17 53 (0.33%) Shell Script
18 48 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 46 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,638 (16.49%) Degree
2 1,160 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 1,084 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 707 (4.42%) SC Cleared
5 491 (3.07%) ACCA
6 474 (2.96%) DBS Check
7 472 (2.95%) CIMA
8 454 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 434 (2.71%) Azure Certification
10 381 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
11 302 (1.89%) DV Cleared
12 262 (1.64%) CCNA
13 241 (1.51%) Master's Degree
14 218 (1.36%) A+ Certification
15 211 (1.32%) CISSP
16 210 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
17 207 (1.29%) MCP
18 193 (1.21%) MCSE
19 174 (1.09%) PMI Certification
20 159 (0.99%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 745 (4.66%) SLA
2 446 (2.79%) GDPR
3 442 (2.76%) QA
4 354 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 265 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 204 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 155 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 146 (0.91%) NIST
9 118 (0.74%) PMO
10 112 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 99 (0.62%) ISO 9001
12 46 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 36 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 35 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 35 (0.22%) GRC
15 31 (0.19%) COBIT
16 29 (0.18%) NCSC
17 28 (0.17%) IFRS
18 26 (0.16%) SOC 2
19 24 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 3,753 (23.45%) Active Directory
2 1,075 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 830 (5.19%) Hyper-V
4 272 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 267 (1.67%) Docker
6 252 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
7 198 (1.24%) vSphere
8 177 (1.11%) XenApp
9 155 (0.97%) XenDesktop
10 135 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 104 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
12 78 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
13 58 (0.36%) Firmware
14 50 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 45 (0.28%) KVM
16 29 (0.18%) VMware NSX
17 27 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 27 (0.17%) VirtualBox
18 25 (0.16%) VMware Server
19 21 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,235 (7.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 628 (3.92%) SCCM
3 350 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 339 (2.12%) Terraform
5 275 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
6 150 (0.94%) WSUS
7 125 (0.78%) SCOM
8 123 (0.77%) Ansible
9 120 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 104 (0.65%) AirWatch
11 99 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 99 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 57 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 43 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
14 41 (0.26%) NetBackup
15 40 (0.25%) Grafana
16 39 (0.24%) Puppet
17 37 (0.23%) CASB
18 33 (0.21%) Backup Exec
18 33 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,629 (10.18%) VMware
2 872 (5.45%) Cisco
3 648 (4.05%) Google
4 585 (3.66%) Citrix
5 500 (3.12%) Apple
6 429 (2.68%) Oracle
7 378 (2.36%) Dell
8 363 (2.27%) Veeam
9 338 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 317 (1.98%) HP
11 291 (1.82%) Adobe
12 246 (1.54%) CyberArk
13 242 (1.51%) SAP
14 210 (1.31%) Tanium
15 198 (1.24%) Meraki
16 188 (1.17%) Databricks
17 160 (1.00%) Salesforce
18 151 (0.94%) Fortinet
19 140 (0.87%) Red Hat
20 134 (0.84%) Sophos