Microsoft Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,975 3,835 3,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.82% 22.77% 18.73%
As % of the Vendors category 49.33% 48.46% 47.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,631 2,117
10th Percentile £24,846 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -1.62%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,031 7,913 7,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.10% 46.97% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,491 3,590 4,125
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £77,542 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.77%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North of 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
North West -2 1,551 £45,000 - 524
Yorkshire +2 993 £42,500 -1.16% 360
North East +3 430 £42,500 +6.25% 140
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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
1 263 (8.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 262 (8.81%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.95%) IIS
4 19 (0.64%) Confluence
5 15 (0.50%) WordPress
6 13 (0.44%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.37%) CMS
8 10 (0.34%) Apache
8 10 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
9 8 (0.27%) SAS
9 8 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.17%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.067%) Resin
14 1 (0.034%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.034%) Moodle
14 1 (0.034%) Site Server
Applications
1 508 (17.08%) Microsoft Office
2 227 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 87 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.13%) InDesign
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.13%) Solid Edge
10 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.067%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.067%) SPSS
11 2 (0.067%) Stata
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 113 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.50%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.50%) Sage 200
4 13 (0.44%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.44%) iTrent
5 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
5 8 (0.27%) Magento
6 7 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.17%) Sage 50
8 5 (0.17%) Sage CRM
8 5 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.13%) Epicor Tropos
9 4 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
10 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,280 (43.03%) Azure
2 957 (32.17%) Microsoft 365
3 368 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 260 (8.74%) AWS
5 231 (7.76%) Entra ID
6 220 (7.39%) Dynamics 365
7 154 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (3.93%) PowerApps
9 114 (3.83%) SaaS
10 112 (3.76%) Power Automate
11 93 (3.13%) GCP
12 60 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 54 (1.82%) OneDrive
14 47 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (1.45%) IaaS
16 41 (1.38%) PaaS
17 32 (1.08%) GitHub
17 32 (1.08%) Google Workspace
18 28 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
19 27 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 282 (9.48%) Firewall
2 215 (7.23%) WAN
3 207 (6.96%) DNS
4 187 (6.29%) LAN
5 163 (5.48%) DHCP
6 116 (3.90%) SAN
7 109 (3.66%) TCP/IP
8 105 (3.53%) VPN
9 89 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
10 80 (2.69%) Internet
11 73 (2.45%) Network Security
12 72 (2.42%) VoIP
13 66 (2.22%) Wireless
14 50 (1.68%) VLAN
15 44 (1.48%) Broadband
16 39 (1.31%) NAS
17 38 (1.28%) SD-WAN
17 38 (1.28%) WLAN
18 29 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
19 26 (0.87%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 543 (18.25%) SQL Server
2 203 (6.82%) Power BI
3 109 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 109 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 63 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 60 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.55%) MongoDB
8 42 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 33 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (1.01%) MySQL
12 24 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 23 (0.77%) NoSQL
14 21 (0.71%) MS Access
15 19 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 16 (0.54%) DB2
17 15 (0.50%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 97 (3.26%) Git
2 52 (1.75%) JIRA
3 29 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.81%) GitLab
5 19 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.54%) Jasmine
6 16 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
7 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.30%) JUnit
9 9 (0.30%) Selenium
10 8 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.20%) Dreamweaver
12 6 (0.20%) Postman
13 5 (0.17%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.17%) JetBrains Rider
13 5 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 975 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 492 (16.54%) Finance
3 297 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 191 (6.42%) Retail
6 166 (5.58%) Law
7 165 (5.55%) Legal
8 132 (4.44%) Marketing
9 118 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 104 (3.50%) Manufacturing
11 62 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 57 (1.92%) Advertising
13 55 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 46 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (1.48%) Banking
16 43 (1.45%) Local Government
17 36 (1.21%) Police
18 29 (0.97%) Games
19 27 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
20 18 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 486 (16.34%) Developer
2 406 (13.65%) Analyst
3 268 (9.01%) Senior
4 260 (8.74%) IT Support
5 203 (6.82%) .NET Developer
6 193 (6.49%) Lead
7 184 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 179 (6.02%) IT Engineer
9 178 (5.98%) Support Engineer
10 158 (5.31%) Architect
11 149 (5.01%) Consultant
12 134 (4.50%) Service Analyst
13 131 (4.40%) IT Manager
14 126 (4.24%) Service Desk Analyst
15 102 (3.43%) IT Support Engineer
16 95 (3.19%) Administrator
16 95 (3.19%) IT Analyst
17 92 (3.09%) C# Developer
18 89 (2.99%) 2nd Line Support
19 87 (2.92%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (12.30%) .NET
2 218 (7.33%) ASP.NET
3 209 (7.03%) .NET Core
4 170 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 161 (5.41%) HTML
6 149 (5.01%) AngularJS
7 142 (4.77%) ASP.NET Web API
8 139 (4.67%) Entity Framework
9 119 (4.00%) .NET Framework
10 98 (3.29%) CSS
10 98 (3.29%) HTML5
11 77 (2.59%) React
12 68 (2.29%) RESTful
13 55 (1.85%) Node.js
13 55 (1.85%) Web Services
14 54 (1.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 51 (1.71%) Blazor
16 48 (1.61%) JSON
17 47 (1.58%) Vue
17 47 (1.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (4.94%) Driving Licence
2 126 (4.24%) Management Information System
3 101 (3.39%) Data Centre
4 94 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 79 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 49 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 40 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 39 (1.31%) PKI
10 36 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.21%) Smartphone
11 33 (1.11%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
12 31 (1.04%) PMI
13 30 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.01%) Low-Code
14 29 (0.97%) Mobile App
15 28 (0.94%) NHS
16 27 (0.91%) Clustering
17 24 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 767 (25.78%) Windows
2 344 (11.56%) Windows Server
3 198 (6.66%) Windows 10
4 134 (4.50%) Linux
5 76 (2.55%) Android
6 71 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 52 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 45 (1.51%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.24%) VMS
11 32 (1.08%) Mac OS
12 31 (1.04%) Windows 7
13 25 (0.84%) Unix
14 16 (0.54%) Windows 8
14 16 (0.54%) Windows Vista
15 12 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 9 (0.30%) Windows Phone
18 8 (0.27%) Solaris
19 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
2 553 (18.59%) Agile
3 448 (15.06%) Customer Service
4 411 (13.82%) ITIL
5 286 (9.61%) DevOps
6 283 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
7 265 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 250 (8.40%) CRM
9 246 (8.27%) Project Management
10 242 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
11 228 (7.66%) Migration
12 225 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 217 (7.29%) Roadmaps
14 212 (7.13%) Mentoring
15 200 (6.72%) Full Stack Development
16 197 (6.62%) ERP
17 193 (6.49%) Microservices
18 189 (6.35%) MVC
19 169 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
20 167 (5.61%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 552 (18.55%) SQL
2 397 (13.34%) C#
3 290 (9.75%) JavaScript
4 196 (6.59%) PowerShell
5 122 (4.10%) T-SQL
6 82 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 72 (2.42%) Python
8 33 (1.11%) VB.NET
9 32 (1.08%) VB
10 27 (0.91%) Bash
11 18 (0.61%) R
12 16 (0.54%) VB6
13 14 (0.47%) PHP
14 13 (0.44%) VBScript
15 11 (0.37%) Delphi
15 11 (0.37%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.34%) Java
16 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 396 (13.31%) Degree
2 259 (8.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 111 (3.73%) Azure Certification
4 109 (3.66%) Security Cleared
5 87 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
6 76 (2.55%) DBS Check
7 68 (2.29%) CCNA
8 60 (2.02%) SC Cleared
9 59 (1.98%) PMI Certification
10 50 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 50 (1.68%) MCP
11 45 (1.51%) CCNP
12 41 (1.38%) A+ Certification
13 33 (1.11%) MCSE
14 31 (1.04%) CISSP
14 31 (1.04%) PMP
15 27 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (0.84%) MCSA
17 23 (0.77%) AWS Certification
18 21 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (5.24%) SLA
2 86 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (2.49%) GDPR
4 66 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 57 (1.92%) QA
6 33 (1.11%) NIST
7 28 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.91%) Data Quality
9 25 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 25 (0.84%) PMO
10 18 (0.61%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.30%) GRC
13 8 (0.27%) PSD2
14 7 (0.24%) COSHH
14 7 (0.24%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.24%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.17%) COBIT
15 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 734 (24.67%) Active Directory
2 184 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 182 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 61 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (0.91%) Terminal Services
6 27 (0.91%) vSphere
7 26 (0.87%) Docker
8 20 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.50%) VMware Server
10 9 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.24%) KVM
11 7 (0.24%) XenApp
11 7 (0.24%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.20%) RACF
13 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.13%) Firmware
14 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.067%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 236 (7.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 82 (2.76%) SCCM
3 66 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 54 (1.82%) Terraform
5 32 (1.08%) SCOM
6 25 (0.84%) WSUS
7 23 (0.77%) vCenter Server
8 21 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
10 17 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.50%) Autotask
12 14 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 13 (0.44%) Ansible
14 12 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.40%) VxRail
15 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.30%) AirWatch
16 9 (0.30%) Grafana
16 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 338 (11.36%) VMware
2 188 (6.32%) Google
3 166 (5.58%) Cisco
4 113 (3.80%) Apple
5 97 (3.26%) Citrix
6 82 (2.76%) Oracle
7 76 (2.55%) SAP
8 68 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 66 (2.22%) Adobe
10 62 (2.08%) Dell
11 60 (2.02%) Veeam
12 45 (1.51%) SolarWinds
13 42 (1.41%) HP
14 41 (1.38%) Fortinet
15 34 (1.14%) NetApp
16 33 (1.11%) Facebook
17 32 (1.08%) Sophos
18 30 (1.01%) Datto
19 26 (0.87%) IBM
19 26 (0.87%) Meraki