Microsoft Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 679 781
Rank change year-on-year -33 +102 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 68 49 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.089% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.100% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64 35 37
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,873 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,155 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -15.69% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50,000 £48,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £54,888 £72,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.50% +8.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East -5 30 £45,000 +2.86% 3
South West -35 22 £50,000 +25.00% 4
North of England +12 10 £41,250 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire +66 5 £32,500 +14.04% 1
Midlands -37 5 £48,000 +68.42% 4
North West -23 4 £50,000 +2.17% 1
West Midlands -11 3 £36,000 +27.43%
East Midlands -28 2 £60,000 +87.50% 4
Scotland - 2 £66,500 -
North East - 1 £45,000 - 1
Microsoft Engineer
UK

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (58.82%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (50.00%) Azure
4 23 (33.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (33.82%) Active Directory
5 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (20.59%) Windows
6 14 (20.59%) Degree
7 13 (19.12%) Windows Server
8 10 (14.71%) SCCM
8 10 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (13.24%) VMware
9 9 (13.24%) Entra ID
9 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
10 8 (11.76%) Customer Service
10 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 8 (11.76%) IaaS
10 8 (11.76%) PaaS
11 6 (8.82%) OneDrive
11 6 (8.82%) SharePoint
12 5 (7.35%) ITIL
12 5 (7.35%) SQL
12 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
12 5 (7.35%) Presales
12 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (5.88%) Security Operations
13 4 (5.88%) Client Onboarding

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 10 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (13.24%) Entra ID
4 8 (11.76%) IaaS
4 8 (11.76%) PaaS
5 6 (8.82%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Table
7 2 (2.94%) SaaS
8 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Firewall
2 3 (4.41%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.41%) Unified Communications
2 3 (4.41%) VoIP
2 3 (4.41%) WAN
3 2 (2.94%) DHCP
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.94%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.47%) Power BI
General
1 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.41%) Local Government
2 3 (4.41%) Retail
3 2 (2.94%) Finance
3 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.47%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Windows
2 13 (19.12%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.41%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (11.76%) Customer Service
2 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 5 (7.35%) ITIL
3 5 (7.35%) Presales
3 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (5.88%) Application Packaging
4 4 (5.88%) Client Onboarding
4 4 (5.88%) ITSM
4 4 (5.88%) Security Operations
5 3 (4.41%) Data Security
5 3 (4.41%) Zero Trust
6 2 (2.94%) Analytics
6 2 (2.94%) Data Engineering
6 2 (2.94%) Data Governance
6 2 (2.94%) Data Management
6 2 (2.94%) Data Modelling
6 2 (2.94%) DevOps
6 2 (2.94%) ETL
6 2 (2.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.35%) SQL
2 4 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 23 (33.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (14.71%) SCCM
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) VMware
3 2 (2.94%) Acronis
3 2 (2.94%) Aruba
3 2 (2.94%) Databricks
3 2 (2.94%) WatchGuard
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle