Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,617 18,878 23,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.75% 18.63% 14.67%
As % of the Vendors category 48.20% 44.34% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,436 11,182 14,713
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,125 £35,750
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 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,239 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.91% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,548 42,576 61,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.82% 42.02% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 24,365 32,872
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +4 15,993 £47,500 -9.52% 4,748
UK excluding London +2 12,537 £43,239 -3.91% 3,696
Work from Home +4 7,095 £52,500 -4.55% 2,065
London +5 4,364 £60,500 -3.20% 1,290
South East +3 3,445 £45,000 - 839
North of England 0 2,942 £43,500 -3.33% 941
Midlands +1 2,272 £42,500 -10.53% 728
South West +3 1,608 £46,000 +15.00% 496
North West -2 1,531 £45,000 - 501
West Midlands +2 1,500 £45,000 -10.00% 452
East of England +2 1,229 £38,250 -4.38% 391
Yorkshire +2 987 £42,500 -4.49% 326
East Midlands 0 763 £37,500 -12.79% 277
Scotland -33 576 £45,000 -10.00% 233
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 120
Wales +2 337 £37,500 -3.85% 120
Northern Ireland +7 105 £42,500 -10.53% 59
Isle of Man - 33 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands +1 6 £85,000 +34.92% 3

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,889 (10.72%) SharePoint
2 1,675 (9.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 325 (1.84%) IIS
4 214 (1.21%) Confluence
5 148 (0.84%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 73 (0.41%) Apache
8 72 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 64 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 55 (0.31%) Kentico
11 53 (0.30%) SAS
12 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
13 46 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.24%) WordPress
15 41 (0.23%) Headless CMS
16 40 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
17 32 (0.18%) Tomcat
18 23 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
19 22 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
20 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3,174 (18.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2,346 (13.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 662 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 273 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 128 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 69 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) InDesign
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 23 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 17 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 17 (0.096%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.091%) SPSS
12 15 (0.085%) Trello
13 11 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
14 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
15 8 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.045%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.045%) Sketch
16 7 (0.040%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 641 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 101 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 57 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 44 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 26 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 25 (0.14%) Shopify
10 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 22 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 20 (0.11%) PlanetPress Connect
13 19 (0.11%) iTrent
14 17 (0.096%) Magento
15 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
16 15 (0.085%) Elite 3E
16 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
16 15 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
17 13 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,251 (41.16%) Azure
2 5,352 (30.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2,338 (13.27%) Power Platform
4 1,438 (8.16%) AWS
5 1,375 (7.80%) Entra ID
6 1,327 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
7 867 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 737 (4.18%) PowerApps
9 711 (4.04%) SaaS
10 694 (3.94%) Power Automate
11 456 (2.59%) OneDrive
12 432 (2.45%) GCP
13 366 (2.08%) PaaS
14 342 (1.94%) IaaS
15 280 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
16 225 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 210 (1.19%) Serverless
18 180 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 158 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
19 158 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,607 (9.12%) Firewall
2 1,142 (6.48%) DNS
3 973 (5.52%) WAN
4 830 (4.71%) DHCP
5 812 (4.61%) Broadband
6 783 (4.44%) LAN
7 616 (3.50%) VPN
8 561 (3.18%) TCP/IP
9 530 (3.01%) Wireless
10 481 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
11 474 (2.69%) SAN
12 356 (2.02%) Internet
13 351 (1.99%) VLAN
14 309 (1.75%) VoIP
15 304 (1.73%) Network Security
16 289 (1.64%) SD-WAN
17 223 (1.27%) 5G
18 208 (1.18%) Intranet
19 194 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
20 145 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,659 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 1,464 (8.31%) Power BI
3 482 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 470 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 440 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 342 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 300 (1.70%) MongoDB
8 286 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 274 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 273 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 178 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 158 (0.90%) Tableau
13 138 (0.78%) MySQL
14 124 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
15 122 (0.69%) NoSQL
16 121 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
17 114 (0.65%) Big Data
18 92 (0.52%) Oracle Database
19 90 (0.51%) MS Access
20 81 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 498 (2.83%) Git
2 456 (2.59%) JIRA
3 395 (2.24%) Visual Studio
4 126 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 113 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 104 (0.59%) GitLab
7 82 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 69 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 46 (0.26%) NUnit
10 46 (0.26%) Selenium
11 44 (0.25%) Subversion
12 43 (0.24%) Postman
13 39 (0.22%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 24 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 17 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,265 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 3,628 (20.59%) Finance
3 2,376 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 1,070 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 951 (5.40%) Retail
6 803 (4.56%) Law
7 793 (4.50%) Legal
8 761 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 751 (4.26%) Marketing
10 747 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
11 607 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
12 552 (3.13%) Manufacturing
13 529 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
14 457 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 387 (2.20%) Banking
16 283 (1.61%) Games
17 228 (1.29%) Local Government
18 221 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
19 220 (1.25%) Advertising
20 169 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,534 (14.38%) Analyst
2 2,520 (14.30%) Developer
3 2,317 (13.15%) Senior
4 1,503 (8.53%) IT Support
5 1,211 (6.87%) Support Engineer
6 1,141 (6.48%) Architect
7 991 (5.63%) Lead
8 977 (5.55%) .NET Developer
9 954 (5.42%) IT Engineer
10 922 (5.23%) Consultant
11 846 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 626 (3.55%) IT Support Engineer
13 622 (3.53%) Administrator
14 488 (2.77%) 2nd Line Support
15 472 (2.68%) IT Analyst
15 472 (2.68%) Support Analyst
16 469 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
17 464 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
18 463 (2.63%) IT Technician
19 448 (2.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,165 (12.29%) .NET
2 1,085 (6.16%) ASP.NET
3 1,016 (5.77%) .NET Core
4 834 (4.73%) ASP.NET MVC
5 801 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 790 (4.48%) HTML
7 739 (4.19%) .NET Framework
8 672 (3.81%) Entity Framework
9 664 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
10 551 (3.13%) CSS
11 514 (2.92%) React
12 393 (2.23%) HTML5
13 349 (1.98%) RESTful
14 304 (1.73%) Vue
15 302 (1.71%) Node.js
16 285 (1.62%) Web Services
17 260 (1.48%) REST
18 247 (1.40%) JSON
19 206 (1.17%) LINQ
20 205 (1.16%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 961 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
2 818 (4.64%) Management Information System
3 656 (3.72%) Driving Licence
4 570 (3.24%) Data Centre
5 370 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 350 (1.99%) Social Media
7 347 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 257 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 251 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
10 250 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 248 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 233 (1.32%) PKI
13 177 (1.00%) Cloud Native
14 170 (0.96%) Replication
15 164 (0.93%) Clustering
16 134 (0.76%) Mobile App
17 131 (0.74%) Low-Code
17 131 (0.74%) NHS
18 125 (0.71%) Smartphone
19 109 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,705 (26.71%) Windows
2 2,049 (11.63%) Windows Server
3 1,396 (7.92%) Windows 10
4 1,117 (6.34%) Linux
5 494 (2.80%) Android
6 451 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 450 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 338 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 321 (1.82%) Apple iOS
10 293 (1.66%) Ubuntu
11 265 (1.50%) Mac OS
12 235 (1.33%) Windows 7
13 158 (0.90%) Unix
14 142 (0.81%) VMS
15 97 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
16 93 (0.53%) Windows 8
17 72 (0.41%) CentOS
17 72 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 56 (0.32%) Mac OS X
19 37 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,479 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
2 3,477 (19.74%) Agile
3 2,330 (13.23%) Customer Service
4 1,884 (10.69%) ITIL
5 1,756 (9.97%) DevOps
6 1,734 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
7 1,649 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
8 1,593 (9.04%) Mentoring
9 1,507 (8.55%) Project Management
10 1,390 (7.89%) CRM
11 1,107 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,084 (6.15%) Decision-Making
13 1,012 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,003 (5.69%) MVC
15 987 (5.60%) Full Stack Development
16 974 (5.53%) Migration
17 965 (5.48%) Roadmaps
18 896 (5.09%) Scrum
19 880 (5.00%) Analytics
20 876 (4.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,833 (16.08%) SQL
2 2,260 (12.83%) C#
3 1,525 (8.66%) JavaScript
4 1,226 (6.96%) PowerShell
5 663 (3.76%) Python
6 580 (3.29%) T-SQL
7 478 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 444 (2.52%) Bash
9 271 (1.54%) Java
10 134 (0.76%) C++
11 127 (0.72%) VB
12 114 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 110 (0.62%) C
14 94 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 93 (0.53%) Bicep
16 89 (0.51%) R
17 68 (0.39%) VBA
18 53 (0.30%) Shell Script
19 49 (0.28%) PL/SQL
20 47 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,917 (16.56%) Degree
2 1,330 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 1,180 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 801 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 507 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 505 (2.87%) ACCA
7 502 (2.85%) DBS Check
8 482 (2.74%) CIMA
9 461 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 423 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
11 315 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 297 (1.69%) CCNA
13 258 (1.46%) Master's Degree
14 238 (1.35%) A+ Certification
15 236 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 225 (1.28%) CISSP
17 213 (1.21%) MCP
18 204 (1.16%) MCSE
19 186 (1.06%) PMI Certification
20 162 (0.92%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 823 (4.67%) SLA
2 489 (2.78%) QA
3 481 (2.73%) GDPR
4 414 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 302 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 236 (1.34%) Data Quality
7 168 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 161 (0.91%) NIST
9 135 (0.77%) PMO
10 127 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 121 (0.69%) ISO 9001
12 53 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 45 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 42 (0.24%) GRC
15 37 (0.21%) IFRS
15 37 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 34 (0.19%) NCSC
17 31 (0.18%) COBIT
17 31 (0.18%) SOC 2
18 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4,017 (22.80%) Active Directory
2 1,178 (6.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 889 (5.05%) Hyper-V
4 309 (1.75%) Docker
5 297 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 258 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
7 208 (1.18%) vSphere
8 178 (1.01%) XenApp
9 154 (0.87%) XenDesktop
10 141 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
11 109 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
12 81 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 60 (0.34%) Firmware
14 53 (0.30%) KVM
14 53 (0.30%) Terminal Services
15 50 (0.28%) VMware NSX
16 28 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 28 (0.16%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.15%) VMware Server
18 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,319 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 664 (3.77%) SCCM
3 385 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 362 (2.05%) Terraform
5 275 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
6 151 (0.86%) WSUS
7 149 (0.85%) Ansible
8 135 (0.77%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 109 (0.62%) AirWatch
11 99 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 98 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 60 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 46 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (0.24%) Grafana
16 41 (0.23%) Puppet
17 40 (0.23%) Nessus
17 40 (0.23%) NetBackup
18 36 (0.20%) Backup Exec
18 36 (0.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,779 (10.10%) VMware
2 937 (5.32%) Cisco
3 691 (3.92%) Google
4 615 (3.49%) Citrix
5 530 (3.01%) Apple
6 494 (2.80%) Oracle
7 396 (2.25%) Dell
7 396 (2.25%) Veeam
8 363 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 338 (1.92%) SAP
10 329 (1.87%) HP
11 300 (1.70%) Adobe
12 237 (1.35%) CyberArk
13 216 (1.23%) Meraki
14 210 (1.19%) Tanium
15 200 (1.14%) Databricks
16 190 (1.08%) Salesforce
17 159 (0.90%) Fortinet
18 155 (0.88%) Sophos
19 140 (0.79%) Red Hat