Microsoft Certification Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 242 224
Rank change year-on-year +30 -18 +10
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 974 834 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.28% 1.48% 1.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.89% 3.91% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 791 569 786
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +1.93%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,931 £53,188
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,070 £66,875
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.76% +6.11% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,915 21,308 23,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 37.69% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,282 7,936 10,537
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +62 277 £40,000 -15.79% 73
South East +19 235 £39,000 +6.85% 41
Midlands -10 171 £40,000 -4.76% 26
North West -1 126 £40,000 -11.11% 41
South West -13 109 £42,500 +0.59% 33
West Midlands -8 105 £38,000 -9.52% 18
East of England +13 102 £40,000 -5.88% 20
Yorkshire +58 87 £42,500 -22.56% 24
East Midlands -16 66 £45,000 +7.14% 8
North East +45 64 £32,500 - 8
Scotland -61 43 £57,500 +27.78% 19
Wales +10 25 £27,000 -29.87% 4
Northern Ireland +23 11 £45,000 -37.93% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 159 (16.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 126 (12.94%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.03%) CMS
3 10 (1.03%) SharePoint 2010
3 10 (1.03%) SharePoint 2013
4 6 (0.62%) IIS
5 4 (0.41%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.31%) Confluence
7 1 (0.10%) Moodle
Applications
1 127 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Maximo
3 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.21%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 607 (62.32%) Azure
2 412 (42.30%) Microsoft 365
3 200 (20.53%) Power Platform
4 94 (9.65%) Entra ID
5 74 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (7.49%) AWS
7 63 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
8 41 (4.21%) PowerApps
9 40 (4.11%) IBM Cloud
10 38 (3.90%) Power Automate
11 32 (3.29%) OneDrive
12 20 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.85%) GCP
14 13 (1.33%) SaaS
14 13 (1.33%) Serverless
15 12 (1.23%) PaaS
16 11 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (1.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 170 (17.45%) Firewall
2 92 (9.45%) DNS
3 87 (8.93%) Broadband
4 86 (8.83%) DHCP
5 80 (8.21%) SAN
6 75 (7.70%) TCP/IP
7 66 (6.78%) VPN
8 64 (6.57%) WAN
9 60 (6.16%) LAN
10 52 (5.34%) Network Security
10 52 (5.34%) VLAN
11 48 (4.93%) VoIP
12 43 (4.41%) Internet
13 39 (4.00%) NAS
14 36 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (3.08%) Wireless
16 28 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
17 22 (2.26%) Intranet
18 14 (1.44%) MPLS
19 12 (1.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (18.79%) SQL Server
2 169 (17.35%) Power BI
3 101 (10.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 42 (4.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 40 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (3.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 26 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 14 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.72%) MySQL
11 6 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.62%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.62%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.51%) Power Query
12 5 (0.51%) Redis
13 4 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.41%) QlikView
14 3 (0.31%) GIS
14 3 (0.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (1.85%) Git
2 14 (1.44%) JIRA
3 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.31%) GitLab
3 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.21%) Hudson
5 1 (0.10%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.10%) MSI
General
1 444 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 122 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (8.01%) Finance
4 63 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 51 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 29 (2.98%) Law
8 27 (2.77%) Retail
9 26 (2.67%) Legal
9 26 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.54%) General Ledger
11 15 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.44%) Marketing
13 10 (1.03%) Games
13 10 (1.03%) Local Government
14 9 (0.92%) Banking
14 9 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.82%) Police
16 7 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (17.25%) Support Engineer
2 150 (15.40%) IT Support
3 110 (11.29%) IT Engineer
4 108 (11.09%) DBA
5 100 (10.27%) SQL DBA
6 81 (8.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 77 (7.91%) Analyst
8 69 (7.08%) 3rd Line Support
9 67 (6.88%) 2nd Line Support
10 63 (6.47%) Senior
11 59 (6.06%) Developer
12 58 (5.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 56 (5.75%) Lead
14 52 (5.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 52 (5.34%) Architect
15 51 (5.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 48 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 46 (4.72%) IT Technician
18 45 (4.62%) Administrator
19 41 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (4.41%) CSS
2 42 (4.31%) HTML
3 37 (3.80%) .NET
4 21 (2.16%) .NET Core
5 17 (1.75%) .NET Framework
5 17 (1.75%) ASP.NET
5 17 (1.75%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
7 14 (1.44%) Entity Framework
8 10 (1.03%) jQuery
9 9 (0.92%) ADO
9 9 (0.92%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.72%) PySpark
10 7 (0.72%) REST
11 6 (0.62%) Middleware
11 6 (0.62%) React
12 5 (0.51%) Web Services
13 4 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 4 (0.41%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.60%) Data Centre
2 70 (7.19%) Driving Licence
3 47 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 40 (4.11%) Blockchain
7 37 (3.80%) Management Information System
8 34 (3.49%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
10 25 (2.57%) Public Cloud
11 24 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.75%) Replication
13 16 (1.64%) NHS
13 16 (1.64%) Smartphone
14 15 (1.54%) Cloud Native
15 14 (1.44%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.23%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.92%) PKI
18 8 (0.82%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 440 (45.17%) Windows
2 227 (23.31%) Windows Server
3 128 (13.14%) Linux
4 101 (10.37%) Windows 10
5 90 (9.24%) VMS
6 50 (5.13%) Debian
7 46 (4.72%) CentOS
7 46 (4.72%) Mac OS
8 40 (4.11%) Alpine Linux
9 39 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 35 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (2.36%) Apple iOS
13 13 (1.33%) Android
14 11 (1.13%) Windows 8
15 10 (1.03%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.72%) Windows Vista
17 6 (0.62%) Unix
18 3 (0.31%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (32.96%) Problem-Solving
2 246 (25.26%) Customer Service
3 238 (24.44%) ITIL
4 167 (17.15%) Business Intelligence
5 116 (11.91%) DevOps
6 113 (11.60%) Cybersecurity
7 111 (11.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 96 (9.86%) Collaborative Working
9 93 (9.55%) High Availability
10 91 (9.34%) Performance Tuning
11 84 (8.62%) Computer Science
11 84 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 82 (8.42%) Migration
12 82 (8.42%) Project Management
13 80 (8.21%) Agile
14 77 (7.91%) CI/CD
15 60 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence
16 55 (5.65%) Mentoring
17 54 (5.54%) Presales
18 53 (5.44%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 235 (24.13%) SQL
2 89 (9.14%) T-SQL
3 59 (6.06%) C#
4 48 (4.93%) PowerShell
5 41 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 25 (2.57%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.05%) Python
8 10 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.82%) Bash
9 8 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.62%) Java
11 4 (0.41%) Bicep
11 4 (0.41%) C
11 4 (0.41%) C++
11 4 (0.41%) R
12 3 (0.31%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.31%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) Go
14 1 (0.10%) Swift
14 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 251 (25.77%) Degree
2 236 (24.23%) MCSE
3 177 (18.17%) Azure Certification
4 141 (14.48%) MCP
5 138 (14.17%) Cisco Certification
6 136 (13.96%) MCSA
7 128 (13.14%) A+ Certification
8 123 (12.63%) CCNA
9 76 (7.80%) DBS Check
10 61 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 58 (5.95%) Security Cleared
12 52 (5.34%) SC Cleared
13 48 (4.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 40 (4.11%) MCITP
15 38 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
16 26 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
17 25 (2.57%) CCNP
18 21 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 17 (1.75%) DV Cleared
20 16 (1.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.78%) SLA
2 31 (3.18%) GDPR
3 19 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.23%) QA
6 6 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.51%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 412 (42.30%) Active Directory
2 149 (15.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (14.37%) Hyper-V
4 87 (8.93%) Virtual Machines
5 55 (5.65%) Docker
6 36 (3.70%) vSphere
7 21 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (2.05%) XenDesktop
9 15 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (1.03%) XenApp
11 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.72%) Firmware
13 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.41%) KVM
15 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.21%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 90 (9.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (7.70%) Kubernetes
3 65 (6.67%) Terraform
4 58 (5.95%) SCCM
5 12 (1.23%) SCOM
6 11 (1.13%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.92%) WSUS
8 8 (0.82%) Autotask
9 7 (0.72%) SmoothWall
10 5 (0.51%) Grafana
10 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.41%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.10%) Ansible
14 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 865 (88.81%) Microsoft
2 211 (21.66%) VMware
3 69 (7.08%) Cisco
4 51 (5.24%) Apple
5 50 (5.13%) Citrix
6 48 (4.93%) Red Hat
7 43 (4.41%) IBM
8 41 (4.21%) HP
9 40 (4.11%) Veeam
10 34 (3.49%) Adobe
11 26 (2.67%) Meraki
12 23 (2.36%) Google
13 22 (2.26%) Dell
14 20 (2.05%) SolarWinds
15 13 (1.33%) Nimble Storage
16 12 (1.23%) Oracle
16 12 (1.23%) Sophos
17 11 (1.13%) ConnectWise
17 11 (1.13%) Draytek
17 11 (1.13%) Virgin Media