Microsoft Certification Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Certification
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 200 147
Rank change year-on-year +27 -53 +31
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 125 90 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.25% 1.16% 2.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.24% 3.35% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 110 66 104
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,133 -
25th Percentile £35,098 £31,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +22.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £55,175
90th Percentile £68,750 £63,125 £56,300
England median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,385 2,689 2,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.92% 34.80% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,632 916 1,312
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £48,167
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +19.38% -3.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,515 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the North West

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester +26 68 £40,000 -20.00% 16
Cheshire +14 33 £35,196 -17.19% 14
Lancashire -9 11 £47,500 +93.88% 5
Merseyside +6 10 £61,500 +36.67% 9
Cumbria - 3 £57,500 -
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.20%) CMS
2 4 (3.20%) Skype for Business
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (60.80%) Azure
2 65 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (19.20%) Power Platform
4 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.80%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.40%) AWS
7 7 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.60%) OneDrive
8 6 (4.80%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.80%) IaaS
9 5 (4.00%) PaaS
9 5 (4.00%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.20%) Google Workspace
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.60%) SaaS
12 2 (1.60%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (0.80%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.40%) Broadband
2 14 (11.20%) Firewall
3 13 (10.40%) Internet
4 10 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 10 (8.00%) VoIP
5 9 (7.20%) WAN
6 8 (6.40%) DHCP
6 8 (6.40%) DNS
6 8 (6.40%) LAN
7 7 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (4.80%) VLAN
9 4 (3.20%) Skype
9 4 (3.20%) VPN
10 3 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.80%) SNMP
11 1 (0.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.20%) Power BI
2 16 (12.80%) SQL Server
3 15 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.40%) Big Data
5 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.60%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.60%) QlikView
6 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (1.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.80%) AdminStudio
2 1 (0.80%) MSI
General
1 49 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.20%) Telecoms
3 11 (8.80%) Retail
4 7 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.80%) Finance
5 6 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Marketing
7 4 (3.20%) Law
8 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.60%) Banking
9 2 (1.60%) Billing
9 2 (1.60%) Games
9 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.80%) Automotive
10 1 (0.80%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 19 (15.20%) Analyst
2 14 (11.20%) DBA
2 14 (11.20%) Service Analyst
2 14 (11.20%) Service Desk Analyst
2 14 (11.20%) SQL DBA
3 13 (10.40%) IT Analyst
4 12 (9.60%) Lead
5 10 (8.00%) IT Manager
5 10 (8.00%) IT Support
6 9 (7.20%) Azure Consultant
6 9 (7.20%) Consultant
6 9 (7.20%) Technical Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Senior
8 7 (5.60%) Lead Consultant
8 7 (5.60%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Cloud Consultant
9 6 (4.80%) Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) CSS
1 6 (4.80%) HTML
2 4 (3.20%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.40%) PySpark
4 1 (0.80%) .NET
4 1 (0.80%) SAML
4 1 (0.80%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Driving Licence
2 11 (8.80%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.80%) Smartphone
3 9 (7.20%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.40%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.60%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.60%) NHS
7 2 (1.60%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (34.40%) Windows
2 17 (13.60%) VMS
3 16 (12.80%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.80%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.60%) Windows Vista
6 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.80%) Linux
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.20%) Customer Service
2 32 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (20.80%) ITIL
4 23 (18.40%) DevOps
5 19 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (14.40%) CI/CD
6 18 (14.40%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (14.40%) Time Management
7 16 (12.80%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (11.20%) Agile
8 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (11.20%) Project Management
9 13 (10.40%) High Availability
9 13 (10.40%) ITSM
9 13 (10.40%) Mentoring
10 12 (9.60%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (9.60%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (7.20%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.40%) SQL
2 14 (11.20%) T-SQL
3 10 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (6.40%) C#
5 7 (5.60%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.20%) Bicep
7 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (32.80%) Degree
2 17 (13.60%) A+ Certification
2 17 (13.60%) MCP
3 15 (12.00%) CCNA
3 15 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (11.20%) Azure Certification
4 14 (11.20%) MCSE
5 11 (8.80%) MCSA
6 8 (6.40%) DBS Check
7 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 4 (3.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.40%) CISSP
10 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.60%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) GDPR
1 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
1 4 (3.20%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) SLA
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 51 (40.80%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.60%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.60%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.80%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.20%) Terraform
3 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.60%) SCCM
5 4 (3.20%) Autotask
6 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 119 (95.20%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.40%) VMware
3 11 (8.80%) Virgin Media
4 9 (7.20%) Adobe
4 9 (7.20%) Apple
5 4 (3.20%) Citrix
5 4 (3.20%) Datto
5 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.40%) Cisco
6 3 (2.40%) Databricks
6 3 (2.40%) Meraki
7 2 (1.60%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.60%) SYSPRO
8 1 (0.80%) Aderant
8 1 (0.80%) CA
8 1 (0.80%) Veeam