Microsoft Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,675 1,451 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.83% 25.08% 21.02%
As % of the Vendors category 56.42% 55.47% 49.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,203 820 1,118
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +0.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £58,236
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,969 2,616 3,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.16% 45.22% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,179 1,554 2,071
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £28,321
25th Percentile £31,533 £37,500 £35,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,700 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +6.74% -
75th Percentile £62,809 £64,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,154 £75,525 £76,250
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

Microsoft
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +1 566 £50,000 -9.09% 148
Warwickshire +9 251 £45,000 -16.67% 58
Staffordshire 0 238 £40,000 -11.11% 68
Worcestershire +1 128 £35,000 -15.15% 29
Coventry +4 58 £54,000 +13.42% 41
Solihull +6 56 £62,500 +47.06% 23
Shropshire +15 55 £41,250 - 18
Wolverhampton -4 36 £26,500 -47.00% 9
Dudley 0 17 £25,000 -58.33% 4
Herefordshire +6 14 £40,000 +3.02% 9
Tipton - 13 £25,000 - 2
Walsall -1 11 £26,000 +23.81% 4
Wednesbury -2 10 £30,000 -14.29% 3
Halesowen - 8 £38,000 - 2
Brierley Hill - 4 £32,500 - 1
Stourbridge - 4 £55,000 -
West Bromwich -1 3 - - 3
Sutton Coldfield -11 2 - -
Smethwick - 2 £42,500 - 3
Bilston - 1 - - 1
Kingswinford - 1 - - 1
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - - 1
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 187 (11.16%) SharePoint
2 139 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (2.75%) IIS
4 19 (1.13%) Skype for Business
5 16 (0.96%) Confluence
6 11 (0.66%) Apache
7 8 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.30%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.30%) WordPress
9 4 (0.24%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (0.18%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.18%) nginx
10 3 (0.18%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.12%) Liferay
11 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 389 (23.22%) Microsoft Office
2 241 (14.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.96%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.42%) Trello
8 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.24%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.12%) InDesign
10 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.060%) Blender
11 1 (0.060%) Revit
11 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 75 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 13 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 5 (0.30%) Magento
5 5 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.12%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.060%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 577 (34.45%) Azure
2 476 (28.42%) Microsoft 365
3 288 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 181 (10.81%) Dynamics 365
5 115 (6.87%) Entra ID
6 99 (5.91%) PowerApps
7 89 (5.31%) AWS
8 86 (5.13%) Power Automate
9 73 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (1.97%) SaaS
12 28 (1.67%) IaaS
13 27 (1.61%) PaaS
14 26 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (1.55%) Azure Stack
15 22 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.25%) OneDrive
17 14 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (0.72%) Serverless
19 9 (0.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 120 (7.16%) Firewall
2 113 (6.75%) WAN
3 109 (6.51%) DNS
4 101 (6.03%) DHCP
5 80 (4.78%) Network Security
6 75 (4.48%) LAN
7 64 (3.82%) Internet
8 63 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (3.70%) TCP/IP
10 58 (3.46%) WLAN
11 49 (2.93%) SAN
12 45 (2.69%) VPN
13 32 (1.91%) Intranet
14 30 (1.79%) SD-WAN
14 30 (1.79%) VLAN
15 28 (1.67%) Wireless
16 20 (1.19%) VoIP
17 19 (1.13%) Skype
18 16 (0.96%) Unified Communications
19 13 (0.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (15.82%) SQL Server
2 209 (12.48%) Power BI
3 69 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 49 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 39 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 39 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 29 (1.73%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (1.07%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.01%) Metadata
10 14 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.78%) MySQL
12 11 (0.66%) Oracle Database
12 11 (0.66%) Tableau
13 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 9 (0.54%) Power Query
15 8 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
15 8 (0.48%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 44 (2.63%) Git
2 37 (2.21%) Visual Studio
3 34 (2.03%) JIRA
4 8 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (0.36%) Postman
5 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) Jasmine
6 5 (0.30%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (0.30%) MSTest
6 5 (0.30%) SoapUI
6 5 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.18%) GitLab
7 3 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.18%) Moq
8 2 (0.12%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Bower
8 2 (0.12%) CANoe
8 2 (0.12%) gulp
9 1 (0.060%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.060%) CMake
General
1 541 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 367 (21.91%) Finance
3 210 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (11.10%) Retail
5 114 (6.81%) Marketing
6 105 (6.27%) Manufacturing
7 84 (5.01%) Law
8 82 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 80 (4.78%) Legal
10 70 (4.18%) Public Sector
11 50 (2.99%) Local Government
12 49 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.73%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.37%) Police
16 19 (1.13%) Advertising
16 19 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.07%) Banking
18 16 (0.96%) Back Office
19 14 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 252 (15.04%) Developer
2 225 (13.43%) Analyst
3 204 (12.18%) IT Support
4 176 (10.51%) Senior
5 149 (8.90%) Support Engineer
6 138 (8.24%) IT Engineer
7 111 (6.63%) Consultant
8 109 (6.51%) Architect
9 107 (6.39%) IT Support Engineer
10 75 (4.48%) Development Manager
10 75 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 69 (4.12%) .NET Developer
12 65 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
13 60 (3.58%) Lead
14 48 (2.87%) Power Platform Developer
14 48 (2.87%) Support Analyst
15 46 (2.75%) Senior Developer
16 45 (2.69%) IT Technician
17 44 (2.63%) IT Manager
18 42 (2.51%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (10.99%) .NET
2 78 (4.66%) HTML
3 73 (4.36%) ASP.NET
4 62 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 57 (3.40%) AngularJS
6 53 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web API
7 52 (3.10%) Entity Framework
8 51 (3.04%) ASP.NET MVC
9 48 (2.87%) CSS
10 44 (2.63%) REST
11 43 (2.57%) .NET Framework
12 34 (2.03%) React
13 31 (1.85%) Web Services
14 29 (1.73%) RESTful
15 27 (1.61%) Vue
16 26 (1.55%) JSON
17 24 (1.43%) HTML5
18 21 (1.25%) Node.js
19 20 (1.19%) XML
20 17 (1.01%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 125 (7.46%) Driving Licence
2 99 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
3 73 (4.36%) Data Centre
4 71 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 56 (3.34%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 33 (1.97%) Clustering
8 27 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 25 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 24 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 22 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
12 21 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.19%) Low-Code
13 20 (1.19%) NHS
14 19 (1.13%) Cloud Native
14 19 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.07%) PKI
16 17 (1.01%) CCTV
17 16 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 495 (29.55%) Windows
2 197 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 116 (6.93%) Linux
3 116 (6.93%) Windows 10
4 44 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 39 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (1.97%) Windows 7
7 29 (1.73%) Android
8 24 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.96%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.78%) Windows 8
11 12 (0.72%) Unix
12 11 (0.66%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.48%) Solaris
14 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.36%) VMS
16 5 (0.30%) CentOS
16 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
2 293 (17.49%) Agile
3 233 (13.91%) Customer Service
4 218 (13.01%) Business Intelligence
5 216 (12.90%) ITIL
6 204 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
7 165 (9.85%) DevOps
8 138 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 130 (7.76%) Mentoring
10 126 (7.52%) Logistics
11 119 (7.10%) ERP
12 115 (6.87%) Roadmaps
13 113 (6.75%) CRM
14 108 (6.45%) Computer Science
15 105 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 101 (6.03%) Analytics
17 100 (5.97%) Project Management
18 99 (5.91%) Decision-Making
19 97 (5.79%) Business Development
20 94 (5.61%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 294 (17.55%) SQL
2 176 (10.51%) C#
3 123 (7.34%) JavaScript
4 83 (4.96%) PowerShell
5 64 (3.82%) T-SQL
6 48 (2.87%) Python
7 36 (2.15%) TypeScript
8 24 (1.43%) VB.NET
9 23 (1.37%) Java
9 23 (1.37%) VB
10 20 (1.19%) Bash
11 15 (0.90%) Bicep
12 13 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.72%) C++
14 10 (0.60%) R
15 9 (0.54%) C
16 8 (0.48%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.48%) ActionScript 2.0
16 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.48%) VB6
Qualifications
1 301 (17.97%) Degree
2 149 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 113 (6.75%) Security Cleared
4 83 (4.96%) Cisco Certification
5 81 (4.84%) CCNA
6 76 (4.54%) CCNP
7 74 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 73 (4.36%) MCSE
9 71 (4.24%) MCP
10 63 (3.76%) SC Cleared
11 51 (3.04%) DBS Check
12 50 (2.99%) LPIC
13 26 (1.55%) A+ Certification
14 24 (1.43%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.84%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.84%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
18 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
19 10 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.72%) GDPR
2 69 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 45 (2.69%) QA
4 43 (2.57%) SLA
5 32 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.73%) Data Quality
8 26 (1.55%) ISO 9001
9 22 (1.31%) PMO
10 21 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 12 (0.72%) NIST
12 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.24%) GRC
14 3 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.12%) COSHH
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.12%) NCSC
15 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.12%) SOX 404
System Software
1 320 (19.10%) Active Directory
2 118 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (5.73%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.61%) Docker
5 22 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (1.19%) vSphere
7 19 (1.13%) VMware NSX
8 18 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
9 17 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (0.36%) pfSense
13 5 (0.30%) NFS
13 5 (0.30%) RACF
13 5 (0.30%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.24%) XenApp
14 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.060%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 56 (3.34%) Terraform
3 40 (2.39%) SCCM
4 25 (1.49%) Kubernetes
5 20 (1.19%) EnCase
6 14 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.66%) Stealthwatch
8 9 (0.54%) AirWatch
8 9 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.36%) SCOM
10 5 (0.30%) Ansible
10 5 (0.30%) Backup Exec
10 5 (0.30%) CASB
11 4 (0.24%) Autotask
11 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.18%) WSUS
13 2 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 181 (10.81%) VMware
2 126 (7.52%) Cisco
3 52 (3.10%) Apple
4 47 (2.81%) Veeam
5 46 (2.75%) Dell
6 43 (2.57%) Citrix
7 42 (2.51%) Adobe
7 42 (2.51%) Sophos
8 40 (2.39%) Oracle
9 39 (2.33%) Databricks
10 32 (1.91%) HP
11 29 (1.73%) Meraki
12 28 (1.67%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.49%) Salesforce
14 24 (1.43%) Sage
15 20 (1.19%) SAP
16 19 (1.13%) Google
17 18 (1.07%) Fortinet
18 17 (1.01%) Facebook
19 16 (0.96%) CheckPoint