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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 16,037 16,665 20,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 19.03% 14.69%
As % of the Vendors category 50.47% 45.17% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,175 9,736 12,927
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,625
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,000
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 £86,500 £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 31,776 36,891 53,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.37% 42.12% 38.86%
Number of salaries quoted 22,599 21,187 28,884
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,025 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,924 £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 £92,500 £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 23 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 23 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 4,307 £60,500 -3.20% 1,301
South East +3 3,462 £45,000 -1.32% 823
North of England 0 2,978 £43,500 -3.33% 1,024
Midlands +1 2,303 £42,500 -11.10% 771
South West +3 1,631 £46,000 +15.00% 485
North West -2 1,558 £45,000 - 558
West Midlands +1 1,515 £45,000 -10.00% 470
East of England +2 1,223 £38,500 -3.75% 378
Yorkshire +2 992 £42,500 -3.48% 345
East Midlands +1 779 £37,500 -11.81% 302
North East +3 427 £42,500 +6.25% 128
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 1,685 (10.51%) SharePoint
2 1,536 (9.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 277 (1.73%) IIS
4 180 (1.12%) Confluence
5 141 (0.88%) CMS
6 75 (0.47%) Apache
7 71 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 69 (0.43%) Umbraco
9 58 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.33%) Kentico
11 49 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
12 47 (0.29%) SAS
13 44 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.27%) WordPress
15 41 (0.26%) Headless CMS
16 39 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
17 32 (0.20%) Tomcat
18 25 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
19 22 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
19 22 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,947 (18.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2,185 (13.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 577 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 249 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 125 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 63 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 51 (0.32%) 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%) Chatbot
15 8 (0.050%) Sketch
16 7 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 543 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 104 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
3 76 (0.47%) Primavera
4 40 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 40 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 31 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.16%) Sage 200
7 25 (0.16%) Shopify
8 24 (0.15%) NetSuite
9 22 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
10 21 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 17 (0.11%) iTrent
11 17 (0.11%) Magento
12 16 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
13 15 (0.094%) Elite 3E
13 15 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
14 12 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
14 12 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
15 11 (0.069%) ResourceLink
16 10 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6,541 (40.79%) Azure
2 4,811 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2,072 (12.92%) Power Platform
4 1,283 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 1,266 (7.89%) AWS
6 1,121 (6.99%) Dynamics 365
7 765 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
8 642 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 607 (3.78%) Power Automate
9 607 (3.78%) SaaS
10 408 (2.54%) OneDrive
11 378 (2.36%) GCP
12 297 (1.85%) PaaS
13 286 (1.78%) IaaS
14 226 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
15 199 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
16 171 (1.07%) Serverless
17 170 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 136 (0.85%) GitHub
19 130 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,479 (9.22%) Firewall
2 1,036 (6.46%) DNS
3 891 (5.56%) WAN
4 796 (4.96%) Broadband
5 768 (4.79%) DHCP
6 739 (4.61%) LAN
7 560 (3.49%) VPN
8 514 (3.21%) TCP/IP
9 471 (2.94%) Wireless
10 454 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
11 437 (2.72%) SAN
12 325 (2.03%) Internet
13 320 (2.00%) VLAN
14 281 (1.75%) Network Security
15 274 (1.71%) VoIP
16 269 (1.68%) SD-WAN
17 221 (1.38%) 5G
18 199 (1.24%) Intranet
19 167 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
20 136 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,426 (15.13%) SQL Server
2 1,343 (8.37%) Power BI
3 429 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 420 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 403 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 309 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 295 (1.84%) MongoDB
8 260 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 258 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 249 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 168 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 131 (0.82%) MySQL
13 129 (0.80%) Tableau
14 117 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
15 113 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 100 (0.62%) Big Data
17 95 (0.59%) NoSQL
18 89 (0.55%) MS Access
19 86 (0.54%) Oracle Database
20 72 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 442 (2.76%) Git
2 394 (2.46%) JIRA
3 360 (2.24%) Visual Studio
4 115 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 109 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 100 (0.62%) GitLab
7 69 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 67 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.41%) Sourcetree
10 44 (0.27%) NUnit
11 42 (0.26%) Subversion
12 41 (0.26%) Selenium
13 34 (0.21%) TeamCity
14 33 (0.21%) Postman
15 27 (0.17%) Jasmine
15 27 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
16 23 (0.14%) Cucumber
16 23 (0.14%) Moq
17 16 (0.100%) MSTest
18 15 (0.094%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5,740 (35.79%) Social Skills
2 3,412 (21.28%) Finance
3 2,261 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 953 (5.94%) Retail
5 925 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 784 (4.89%) Legal
7 747 (4.66%) Law
8 673 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
9 671 (4.18%) Marketing
10 634 (3.95%) Public Sector
11 581 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
12 468 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 454 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
14 396 (2.47%) Banking
15 395 (2.46%) Telecoms
16 247 (1.54%) Games
17 210 (1.31%) Advertising
17 210 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
18 190 (1.18%) Local Government
19 161 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,375 (14.81%) Analyst
2 2,247 (14.01%) Developer
3 2,124 (13.24%) Senior
4 1,406 (8.77%) IT Support
5 1,091 (6.80%) Support Engineer
6 1,002 (6.25%) Architect
7 933 (5.82%) .NET Developer
8 882 (5.50%) IT Engineer
9 878 (5.47%) Lead
10 840 (5.24%) Consultant
11 781 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 592 (3.69%) IT Support Engineer
13 583 (3.64%) Administrator
14 472 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
15 449 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
16 443 (2.76%) IT Analyst
17 434 (2.71%) Support Analyst
18 431 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
19 424 (2.64%) C# Developer
20 414 (2.58%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,954 (12.18%) .NET
2 996 (6.21%) ASP.NET
3 947 (5.91%) .NET Core
4 775 (4.83%) ASP.NET MVC
5 731 (4.56%) AngularJS
6 705 (4.40%) HTML
7 677 (4.22%) .NET Framework
8 630 (3.93%) ASP.NET Web API
9 610 (3.80%) Entity Framework
10 497 (3.10%) React
11 484 (3.02%) CSS
12 360 (2.24%) HTML5
13 330 (2.06%) RESTful
14 290 (1.81%) Vue
15 288 (1.80%) Node.js
16 263 (1.64%) Web Services
17 231 (1.44%) REST
18 226 (1.41%) JSON
19 196 (1.22%) Blazor
20 193 (1.20%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 861 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
2 746 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 617 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 491 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 337 (2.10%) Social Media
6 304 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 292 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 241 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 240 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
10 224 (1.40%) Product Ownership
11 211 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 196 (1.22%) PKI
13 155 (0.97%) Cloud Native
14 154 (0.96%) Replication
15 135 (0.84%) Clustering
16 134 (0.84%) NHS
17 128 (0.80%) Mobile App
18 124 (0.77%) Low-Code
19 121 (0.75%) Smartphone
20 96 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,361 (27.19%) Windows
2 1,874 (11.69%) Windows Server
3 1,304 (8.13%) Windows 10
4 1,059 (6.60%) Linux
5 466 (2.91%) Android
6 431 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 426 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 312 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 299 (1.86%) Apple iOS
10 287 (1.79%) Ubuntu
11 237 (1.48%) Mac OS
12 225 (1.40%) Windows 7
13 133 (0.83%) Unix
14 126 (0.79%) VMS
15 97 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
16 85 (0.53%) Windows 8
17 71 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 67 (0.42%) CentOS
19 52 (0.32%) Mac OS X
20 37 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,281 (20.46%) Agile
2 3,160 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2,125 (13.25%) Customer Service
4 1,754 (10.94%) ITIL
5 1,568 (9.78%) DevOps
6 1,535 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
7 1,533 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
8 1,466 (9.14%) Mentoring
9 1,319 (8.22%) Project Management
10 1,270 (7.92%) CRM
11 1,013 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,007 (6.28%) Decision-Making
13 927 (5.78%) MVC
14 920 (5.74%) Full Stack Development
14 920 (5.74%) Roadmaps
15 889 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 845 (5.27%) Migration
17 819 (5.11%) Microservices
18 807 (5.03%) Scrum
19 799 (4.98%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,623 (16.36%) SQL
2 2,053 (12.80%) C#
3 1,394 (8.69%) JavaScript
4 1,183 (7.38%) PowerShell
5 646 (4.03%) Python
6 520 (3.24%) T-SQL
7 441 (2.75%) Bash
8 434 (2.71%) TypeScript
9 243 (1.52%) Java
10 131 (0.82%) C++
11 126 (0.79%) VB
12 113 (0.70%) VB.NET
13 106 (0.66%) C
14 99 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 86 (0.54%) Bicep
16 78 (0.49%) R
17 59 (0.37%) VBA
18 54 (0.34%) Shell Script
19 48 (0.30%) PL/SQL
20 47 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,629 (16.39%) Degree
2 1,148 (7.16%) Security Cleared
3 1,073 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 695 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 491 (3.06%) ACCA
6 480 (2.99%) DBS Check
7 472 (2.94%) CIMA
8 451 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 433 (2.70%) Azure Certification
10 382 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
11 299 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 264 (1.65%) CCNA
13 238 (1.48%) Master's Degree
14 219 (1.37%) A+ Certification
15 212 (1.32%) CISSP
16 208 (1.30%) MCP
17 205 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
18 188 (1.17%) MCSE
19 175 (1.09%) PMI Certification
20 160 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 735 (4.58%) SLA
2 445 (2.77%) GDPR
3 440 (2.74%) QA
4 348 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 260 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 202 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 157 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 146 (0.91%) NIST
9 117 (0.73%) PMO
10 112 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 95 (0.59%) ISO 9001
12 43 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 36 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 35 (0.22%) GRC
15 34 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 31 (0.19%) COBIT
17 29 (0.18%) NCSC
18 28 (0.17%) IFRS
19 26 (0.16%) SOC 2
20 24 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 3,759 (23.44%) Active Directory
2 1,068 (6.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 825 (5.14%) Hyper-V
4 275 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 269 (1.68%) Docker
6 244 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 200 (1.25%) vSphere
8 177 (1.10%) XenApp
9 155 (0.97%) XenDesktop
10 137 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
11 101 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
12 75 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
13 57 (0.36%) Firmware
14 50 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 44 (0.27%) KVM
16 43 (0.27%) RACF
17 29 (0.18%) VMware NSX
18 27 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 26 (0.16%) VirtualBox
20 25 (0.16%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,231 (7.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 619 (3.86%) SCCM
3 355 (2.21%) Kubernetes
4 349 (2.18%) Terraform
5 275 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
6 153 (0.95%) WSUS
7 131 (0.82%) Ansible
8 124 (0.77%) SCOM
9 120 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 100 (0.62%) AirWatch
11 98 (0.61%) vCenter Server
12 95 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
13 54 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 44 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
15 41 (0.26%) NetBackup
15 41 (0.26%) Puppet
16 40 (0.25%) Grafana
17 37 (0.23%) CASB
18 35 (0.22%) Backup Exec
19 34 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,614 (10.06%) VMware
2 870 (5.42%) Cisco
3 648 (4.04%) Google
4 580 (3.62%) Citrix
5 495 (3.09%) Apple
6 431 (2.69%) Oracle
7 382 (2.38%) Dell
8 363 (2.26%) Veeam
9 337 (2.10%) ServiceNow
10 313 (1.95%) HP
11 285 (1.78%) Adobe
12 280 (1.75%) CyberArk
13 238 (1.48%) SAP
14 210 (1.31%) Tanium
15 198 (1.23%) Meraki
16 184 (1.15%) Databricks
17 159 (0.99%) Salesforce
18 151 (0.94%) Fortinet
19 143 (0.89%) Red Hat
20 132 (0.82%) Sophos