Microsoft Jobs in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,642 2,401 3,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.78% 17.92% 18.00%
As % of the Vendors category 53.11% 44.83% 46.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,547 1,727 2,355
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -3.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £64,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,857 5,356 8,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 37.24% 39.96% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,478 3,354 4,772
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
England 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 South East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Thames Valley +2 1,425 £45,000 -1.64% 322
Hampshire +6 779 £45,000 +16.88% 152
Surrey +5 692 £47,500 -9.52% 98
Berkshire +1 628 £48,925 +5.56% 133
Buckinghamshire -1 408 £42,500 +21.43% 103
Oxfordshire +2 389 £43,239 -21.38% 87
Kent +4 301 £42,500 +6.25% 81
East Sussex +3 175 £45,000 -13.83% 36
West Sussex +5 155 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Middlesex +20 77 £35,000 -54.84% 4
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 3
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 393 (10.79%) SharePoint
2 318 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (1.21%) CMS
4 39 (1.07%) IIS
5 27 (0.74%) Kentico
6 24 (0.66%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
7 22 (0.60%) Umbraco
8 21 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
9 15 (0.41%) Confluence
10 11 (0.30%) WordPress
11 9 (0.25%) SAS
12 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.11%) TWiki
15 3 (0.082%) Skype for Business
16 2 (0.055%) Apache Spark
17 1 (0.027%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 762 (20.92%) Microsoft Office
2 756 (20.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 133 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
4 107 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.16%) InVision
9 6 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.14%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
11 4 (0.11%) Simulink
11 4 (0.11%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.082%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.082%) Revit
13 2 (0.055%) MadCap Flare
14 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 108 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 61 (1.67%) Primavera
3 17 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.082%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.082%) SAP MDM
10 2 (0.055%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.055%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,385 (38.03%) Azure
2 1,065 (29.24%) Microsoft 365
3 361 (9.91%) Power Platform
4 287 (7.88%) Entra ID
5 188 (5.16%) AWS
6 168 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
7 143 (3.93%) OneDrive
8 130 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (2.91%) PowerApps
10 100 (2.75%) Power Automate
11 97 (2.66%) SaaS
12 61 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
14 42 (1.15%) PaaS
15 36 (0.99%) IaaS
16 32 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
17 26 (0.71%) Azure Storage
17 26 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 26 (0.71%) Mimecast
18 25 (0.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 401 (11.01%) Firewall
2 295 (8.10%) Broadband
3 243 (6.67%) DNS
4 191 (5.24%) DHCP
5 145 (3.98%) VPN
6 127 (3.49%) TCP/IP
7 123 (3.38%) LAN
8 122 (3.35%) Wireless
9 114 (3.13%) WAN
10 81 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
11 77 (2.11%) 5G
12 73 (2.00%) VoIP
13 71 (1.95%) VLAN
14 67 (1.84%) Internet
15 63 (1.73%) Intranet
16 55 (1.51%) Unified Communications
17 53 (1.46%) Network Security
18 52 (1.43%) SAN
19 35 (0.96%) SD-WAN
20 30 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (12.71%) SQL Server
2 247 (6.78%) Power BI
3 85 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 84 (2.31%) MongoDB
5 76 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
6 60 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 44 (1.21%) Data Lake
9 43 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 29 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 19 (0.52%) MySQL
13 19 (0.52%) Power Query
14 16 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 14 (0.38%) Tableau
16 13 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 10 (0.27%) DB2
17 10 (0.27%) Metadata
17 10 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 86 (2.36%) JIRA
2 83 (2.28%) Visual Studio
3 77 (2.11%) Git
4 43 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.02%) GitLab
6 24 (0.66%) Subversion
7 20 (0.55%) NUnit
8 16 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 14 (0.38%) Selenium
10 12 (0.33%) MSI
11 10 (0.27%) eggPlant
11 10 (0.27%) Postman
11 10 (0.27%) Trac
12 9 (0.25%) JMeter
13 8 (0.22%) MSBuild
14 7 (0.19%) AdminStudio
14 7 (0.19%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.19%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.19%) InstallShield
15 6 (0.16%) MSTest
General
1 1,417 (38.91%) Social Skills
2 714 (19.60%) Finance
3 648 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 295 (8.10%) Retail
5 224 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
6 217 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
7 172 (4.72%) Marketing
8 153 (4.20%) Legal
9 138 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 122 (3.35%) Telecoms
11 106 (2.91%) Law
12 105 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
13 92 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 84 (2.31%) Public Sector
15 62 (1.70%) Games
16 57 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
17 52 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.32%) Advertising
19 38 (1.04%) Electronics
20 37 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 569 (15.62%) Analyst
2 450 (12.36%) Senior
3 435 (11.94%) Developer
4 326 (8.95%) IT Support
5 278 (7.63%) Support Engineer
6 269 (7.39%) .NET Developer
7 226 (6.21%) IT Engineer
8 194 (5.33%) Lead
9 192 (5.27%) Architect
10 171 (4.70%) IT Support Engineer
11 169 (4.64%) Consultant
12 163 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 155 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
14 138 (3.79%) Administrator
15 126 (3.46%) C# Developer
16 112 (3.08%) Coordinator
17 111 (3.05%) IT Analyst
18 110 (3.02%) Support Analyst
19 109 (2.99%) 2nd Line Support
20 108 (2.97%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (12.49%) .NET
2 260 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 254 (6.97%) ASP.NET
4 220 (6.04%) ASP.NET MVC
5 195 (5.35%) .NET Framework
6 175 (4.81%) Entity Framework
7 172 (4.72%) AngularJS
8 157 (4.31%) ASP.NET Web API
9 145 (3.98%) React
10 117 (3.21%) HTML
11 93 (2.55%) Node.js
12 92 (2.53%) HTML5
13 82 (2.25%) RESTful
14 80 (2.20%) CSS
15 78 (2.14%) Vue
16 52 (1.43%) CSS3
17 51 (1.40%) LINQ
17 51 (1.40%) Web Services
18 50 (1.37%) Blazor
19 39 (1.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 278 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
2 130 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 115 (3.16%) Driving Licence
4 101 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 89 (2.44%) Social Media
6 73 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 65 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 57 (1.57%) Product Ownership
9 54 (1.48%) PKI
10 50 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.26%) Replication
12 34 (0.93%) Client/Server
12 34 (0.93%) IoT
13 33 (0.91%) NHS
14 31 (0.85%) Mobile App
15 30 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (0.80%) PMI
17 27 (0.74%) Public Cloud
18 26 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
18 26 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,017 (27.92%) Windows
2 453 (12.44%) Windows Server
3 353 (9.69%) Windows 10
4 291 (7.99%) Linux
5 121 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 114 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 107 (2.94%) Ubuntu
8 90 (2.47%) Android
9 77 (2.11%) Apple iOS
10 75 (2.06%) Windows 7
11 74 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
12 45 (1.24%) Mac OS
13 38 (1.04%) Windows 8
14 33 (0.91%) Unix
15 30 (0.82%) VMS
16 25 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
17 22 (0.60%) CentOS
18 16 (0.44%) Windows XP
19 14 (0.38%) Mac OS X
19 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (24.85%) Agile
2 849 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
3 536 (14.72%) Customer Service
4 367 (10.08%) ITIL
5 348 (9.56%) Project Management
6 345 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
7 341 (9.36%) Mentoring
8 303 (8.32%) Decision-Making
9 301 (8.26%) DevOps
10 280 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
11 275 (7.55%) CRM
12 251 (6.89%) Actionable Insight
13 247 (6.78%) Full Stack Development
14 246 (6.75%) MVC
15 210 (5.77%) Business Case
16 205 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 202 (5.55%) Budgeting
18 197 (5.41%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 191 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence
20 181 (4.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 497 (13.65%) C#
2 439 (12.05%) SQL
3 330 (9.06%) JavaScript
4 218 (5.99%) PowerShell
5 146 (4.01%) Python
6 124 (3.40%) Bash
7 108 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 86 (2.36%) C++
9 74 (2.03%) C
10 63 (1.73%) T-SQL
11 54 (1.48%) Fortran
12 44 (1.21%) Java
13 37 (1.02%) VB
14 29 (0.80%) VBScript
15 21 (0.58%) Bicep
16 20 (0.55%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.33%) Perl
17 12 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.33%) VBA
18 11 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 632 (17.35%) Degree
2 384 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.38%) ACCA
4 195 (5.35%) CIMA
5 192 (5.27%) SC Cleared
6 178 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 152 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 142 (3.90%) DBS Check
9 110 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 80 (2.20%) Azure Certification
10 80 (2.20%) CCNA
11 65 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 57 (1.57%) MCP
13 56 (1.54%) Master's Degree
14 45 (1.24%) CCNP
15 41 (1.13%) A+ Certification
15 41 (1.13%) CISSP
16 39 (1.07%) PMI Certification
17 32 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
17 32 (0.88%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (5.05%) SLA
2 111 (3.05%) GDPR
3 78 (2.14%) QA
4 47 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (0.88%) PMO
7 31 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 25 (0.69%) NIST
9 20 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 18 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
12 13 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 10 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.25%) ISO 13485
16 8 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.16%) NCSC
19 4 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 832 (22.84%) Active Directory
2 231 (6.34%) Hyper-V
3 229 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 58 (1.59%) Docker
6 55 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 47 (1.29%) vSphere
8 42 (1.15%) Firmware
9 34 (0.93%) XenApp
10 28 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
11 27 (0.74%) XenDesktop
12 24 (0.66%) VirtualBox
13 13 (0.36%) NFS
14 12 (0.33%) pfSense
14 12 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 11 (0.30%) KVM
16 7 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 272 (7.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 149 (4.09%) SCCM
3 79 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 72 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
5 66 (1.81%) WSUS
6 53 (1.46%) SCOM
7 35 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 34 (0.93%) vCenter Server
9 29 (0.80%) Terraform
10 24 (0.66%) Ansible
11 20 (0.55%) NetBackup
12 19 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.44%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.41%) Grafana
15 13 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
15 13 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
16 12 (0.33%) Sysprep
17 11 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 346 (9.50%) VMware
2 206 (5.66%) Cisco
3 127 (3.49%) Citrix
4 122 (3.35%) Apple
5 101 (2.77%) Google
6 93 (2.55%) Veeam
7 91 (2.50%) Adobe
8 70 (1.92%) HP
9 67 (1.84%) CyberArk
9 67 (1.84%) Tanium
10 61 (1.67%) Meraki
11 55 (1.51%) Dell
12 54 (1.48%) Fortinet
13 49 (1.35%) Palo Alto
14 48 (1.32%) Juniper
15 47 (1.29%) Oracle
16 41 (1.13%) SAP
17 39 (1.07%) Aruba
18 36 (0.99%) Salesforce
19 32 (0.88%) EMC