Microsoft Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,303 2,341 2,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.66% 25.94% 21.65%
As % of the Vendors category 53.45% 57.73% 49.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,828 1,158 1,614
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,805 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.10% +6.23% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,325 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,309 4,055 4,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.90% 44.94% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,205 2,154 3,091
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.17% +2.72%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £60,402
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,953 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.77%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the Midlands

Microsoft
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +1 1,515 £45,000 -10.00% 475
East Midlands +1 779 £37,500 -11.81% 290
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 268 (11.64%) SharePoint
2 204 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 76 (3.30%) IIS
4 23 (1.00%) Confluence
5 15 (0.65%) Skype for Business
6 13 (0.56%) Apache
7 10 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.35%) WordPress
9 5 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
10 4 (0.17%) SAS
11 3 (0.13%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.087%) Liferay
12 2 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 510 (22.15%) Microsoft Office
2 291 (12.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 71 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.83%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.43%) Trello
7 9 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.35%) InDesign
8 8 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.17%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.087%) Sketch
12 1 (0.043%) Blender
12 1 (0.043%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 92 (3.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.48%) NEC Housing
4 8 (0.35%) Sage 200
5 6 (0.26%) ResourceLink
6 5 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.17%) Magento
7 4 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.087%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 2 (0.087%) Primavera
9 2 (0.087%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.087%) Shopify
9 2 (0.087%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.043%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 863 (37.47%) Azure
2 729 (31.65%) Microsoft 365
3 357 (15.50%) Power Platform
4 205 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
5 178 (7.73%) Entra ID
6 150 (6.51%) AWS
7 112 (4.86%) PowerApps
8 87 (3.78%) Power Automate
9 84 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (2.21%) SaaS
11 41 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 37 (1.61%) OneDrive
13 35 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (1.17%) Azure Stack
16 26 (1.13%) IaaS
16 26 (1.13%) PaaS
17 25 (1.09%) GCP
18 17 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
18 17 (0.74%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 233 (10.12%) Firewall
2 201 (8.73%) DNS
3 166 (7.21%) DHCP
4 138 (5.99%) WAN
5 101 (4.39%) SAN
5 101 (4.39%) TCP/IP
6 100 (4.34%) LAN
7 91 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
8 81 (3.52%) VPN
9 66 (2.87%) VLAN
10 40 (1.74%) VoIP
11 39 (1.69%) Wireless
12 35 (1.52%) Internet
12 35 (1.52%) Network Security
13 34 (1.48%) Intranet
14 33 (1.43%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.87%) Broadband
16 18 (0.78%) Unified Communications
17 15 (0.65%) Skype
18 14 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 255 (11.07%) Power BI
3 78 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 58 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 46 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 43 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 43 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 32 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (1.09%) MySQL
10 25 (1.09%) Tableau
11 22 (0.96%) Oracle Database
12 19 (0.83%) NoSQL
13 18 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (0.78%) Metadata
14 17 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (0.61%) Power Query
16 13 (0.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 54 (2.34%) JIRA
2 51 (2.21%) Git
3 45 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 14 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 11 (0.48%) Jasmine
5 11 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
6 7 (0.30%) Postman
6 7 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.26%) GitLab
7 6 (0.26%) Moq
8 5 (0.22%) MSTest
8 5 (0.22%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.17%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.17%) gulp
9 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.087%) Bower
11 2 (0.087%) Yeoman
General
1 783 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 408 (17.72%) Finance
3 241 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (10.03%) Retail
5 156 (6.77%) Manufacturing
6 121 (5.25%) Marketing
7 98 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 94 (4.08%) Law
9 92 (3.99%) Legal
10 90 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
11 88 (3.82%) Public Sector
12 57 (2.48%) Local Government
13 47 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
14 45 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 39 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (1.43%) Advertising
17 25 (1.09%) Banking
18 24 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.91%) Police
20 20 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 324 (14.07%) Developer
2 311 (13.50%) Analyst
3 225 (9.77%) Senior
4 222 (9.64%) IT Support
5 162 (7.03%) Support Engineer
6 134 (5.82%) IT Engineer
7 125 (5.43%) Consultant
8 124 (5.38%) Architect
9 120 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 109 (4.73%) .NET Developer
11 106 (4.60%) Lead
12 90 (3.91%) IT Technician
13 79 (3.43%) IT Support Engineer
14 77 (3.34%) Administrator
15 74 (3.21%) 1st Line Support
16 72 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
17 67 (2.91%) Support Analyst
18 65 (2.82%) 2nd Line Support
18 65 (2.82%) Support Technician
19 55 (2.39%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (11.29%) .NET
2 125 (5.43%) HTML
3 119 (5.17%) .NET Core
4 118 (5.12%) ASP.NET
5 97 (4.21%) AngularJS
6 91 (3.95%) ASP.NET MVC
7 83 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
8 68 (2.95%) CSS
8 68 (2.95%) Entity Framework
9 64 (2.78%) REST
10 56 (2.43%) RESTful
11 55 (2.39%) HTML5
12 50 (2.17%) React
13 49 (2.13%) .NET Framework
14 39 (1.69%) JSON
14 39 (1.69%) LINQ
14 39 (1.69%) Web Services
15 36 (1.56%) Node.js
16 34 (1.48%) Vue
17 32 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (6.47%) Driving Licence
2 140 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (4.56%) Data Centre
4 87 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 58 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 52 (2.26%) Clustering
7 37 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (1.52%) PKI
9 31 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.17%) Product Ownership
10 27 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.13%) Low-Code
12 24 (1.04%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.00%) NHS
14 21 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
15 20 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (0.83%) CCTV
16 19 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 701 (30.44%) Windows
2 348 (15.11%) Windows Server
3 142 (6.17%) Windows 10
4 101 (4.39%) Linux
5 75 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 48 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 45 (1.95%) Android
9 36 (1.56%) Windows 7
10 35 (1.52%) Apple iOS
11 26 (1.13%) Mac OS
12 19 (0.83%) Unix
13 17 (0.74%) Windows 8
14 13 (0.56%) VMS
15 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.43%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.35%) Solaris
17 8 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
18 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 6 (0.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
2 386 (16.76%) Agile
3 347 (15.07%) Customer Service
4 268 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
5 248 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
6 228 (9.90%) ITIL
7 213 (9.25%) DevOps
8 167 (7.25%) Project Management
9 166 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 165 (7.16%) ERP
11 160 (6.95%) CRM
12 155 (6.73%) Mentoring
13 154 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 150 (6.51%) Roadmaps
15 135 (5.86%) Migration
16 111 (4.82%) MVC
17 110 (4.78%) Logistics
18 106 (4.60%) Analytics
18 106 (4.60%) Decision-Making
19 105 (4.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 423 (18.37%) SQL
2 246 (10.68%) C#
3 178 (7.73%) JavaScript
4 123 (5.34%) PowerShell
5 77 (3.34%) T-SQL
6 69 (3.00%) Python
7 58 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 38 (1.65%) VB
8 38 (1.65%) VB.NET
9 32 (1.39%) Java
10 22 (0.96%) Bash
11 17 (0.74%) R
12 15 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.61%) C
13 14 (0.61%) VB6
14 13 (0.56%) Bicep
15 11 (0.48%) C++
16 8 (0.35%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
16 8 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 351 (15.24%) Degree
2 155 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 129 (5.60%) Security Cleared
4 74 (3.21%) DBS Check
5 67 (2.91%) SC Cleared
6 51 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.78%) MCP
9 37 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.56%) CCNA
11 34 (1.48%) A+ Certification
12 32 (1.39%) MCSE
13 22 (0.96%) CCNP
14 20 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 16 (0.69%) DV Cleared
16 16 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.61%) MCSA
17 14 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.04%) GDPR
2 79 (3.43%) QA
3 78 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 56 (2.43%) SLA
5 47 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.56%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.56%) ISO 9001
8 24 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 24 (1.04%) PMO
9 15 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.61%) NIST
11 8 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.22%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.17%) GRC
14 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.087%) COSHH
15 2 (0.087%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.087%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 517 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 174 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 146 (6.34%) Hyper-V
4 46 (2.00%) Docker
5 32 (1.39%) vSphere
6 28 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 19 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
9 18 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.56%) KVM
11 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 10 (0.43%) RACF
12 9 (0.39%) Terminal Services
12 9 (0.39%) VMware Server
13 8 (0.35%) pfSense
14 5 (0.22%) NFS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 148 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (2.39%) SCCM
2 55 (2.39%) Terraform
3 45 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 23 (1.00%) EnCase
5 17 (0.74%) SCOM
6 12 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.52%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.48%) SmoothWall
8 10 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (0.39%) AirWatch
9 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.35%) Stealthwatch
11 7 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.26%) Backup Exec
12 6 (0.26%) WSUS
13 5 (0.22%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 258 (11.20%) VMware
2 97 (4.21%) Cisco
3 89 (3.86%) Veeam
4 78 (3.39%) Dell
5 73 (3.17%) Apple
6 61 (2.65%) HP
7 53 (2.30%) Citrix
8 52 (2.26%) Adobe
9 51 (2.21%) Oracle
10 49 (2.13%) Sophos
11 46 (2.00%) Databricks
12 43 (1.87%) ServiceNow
13 41 (1.78%) Google
13 41 (1.78%) Meraki
14 38 (1.65%) Salesforce
15 31 (1.35%) SAP
16 28 (1.22%) Sage
17 25 (1.09%) Facebook
18 23 (1.00%) Aruba
19 22 (0.96%) Nimble Storage