Microsoft Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,978 3,830 3,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.66% 22.76% 18.87%
As % of the Vendors category 49.29% 48.53% 47.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,487 1,620 2,142
10th Percentile £24,876 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -1.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,563 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,042 7,892 7,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.80% 46.90% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,485 3,587 4,145
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,906 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £77,542 £73,750
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North of 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
North West -2 1,558 £45,000 - 560
Yorkshire +2 992 £42,500 -3.48% 351
North East +3 427 £42,500 +6.25% 127
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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
1 259 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 258 (8.66%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.91%) IIS
4 19 (0.64%) Confluence
5 15 (0.50%) WordPress
6 13 (0.44%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.37%) CMS
8 10 (0.34%) Apache
9 9 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.27%) SAS
10 8 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.13%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.067%) Resin
15 1 (0.034%) Documentum
15 1 (0.034%) Moodle
15 1 (0.034%) Site Server
Applications
1 508 (17.06%) Microsoft Office
2 229 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 89 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.13%) InDesign
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.13%) Solid Edge
10 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.067%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.067%) SPSS
11 2 (0.067%) Stata
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 110 (3.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.50%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.50%) Sage 200
4 13 (0.44%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.44%) iTrent
5 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
5 8 (0.27%) Magento
6 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.17%) Sage 50
8 5 (0.17%) Sage CRM
8 5 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.13%) Epicor Tropos
9 4 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
10 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,278 (42.91%) Azure
2 946 (31.77%) Microsoft 365
3 365 (12.26%) Power Platform
4 256 (8.60%) AWS
5 248 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 219 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
7 155 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (3.96%) PowerApps
9 113 (3.79%) Power Automate
10 110 (3.69%) SaaS
11 92 (3.09%) GCP
12 58 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
13 55 (1.85%) OneDrive
14 47 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (1.44%) IaaS
16 41 (1.38%) PaaS
17 33 (1.11%) Google Workspace
18 32 (1.07%) GitHub
19 28 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
20 25 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 277 (9.30%) Firewall
2 216 (7.25%) WAN
3 207 (6.95%) DNS
4 185 (6.21%) LAN
5 164 (5.51%) DHCP
6 116 (3.90%) SAN
7 110 (3.69%) TCP/IP
8 106 (3.56%) VPN
9 87 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
10 79 (2.65%) Internet
11 74 (2.48%) Network Security
12 70 (2.35%) VoIP
13 66 (2.22%) Wireless
14 51 (1.71%) VLAN
15 44 (1.48%) Broadband
16 41 (1.38%) SD-WAN
17 39 (1.31%) NAS
18 37 (1.24%) WLAN
19 28 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
20 26 (0.87%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 539 (18.10%) SQL Server
2 202 (6.78%) Power BI
3 108 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 108 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 64 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 60 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 43 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 31 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (0.94%) MySQL
12 24 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 23 (0.77%) NoSQL
14 21 (0.71%) MS Access
15 20 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 18 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (0.54%) DB2
18 15 (0.50%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 100 (3.36%) Git
2 51 (1.71%) JIRA
3 28 (0.94%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.81%) GitLab
5 20 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.54%) Jasmine
6 16 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
7 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.30%) JUnit
9 9 (0.30%) Selenium
10 8 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.20%) Dreamweaver
11 6 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.20%) NUnit
11 6 (0.20%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.17%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 964 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 514 (17.26%) Finance
3 300 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (6.48%) Retail
5 189 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 182 (6.11%) Legal
7 162 (5.44%) Law
8 129 (4.33%) Marketing
9 117 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
10 102 (3.43%) Manufacturing
11 61 (2.05%) Banking
11 61 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 57 (1.91%) Advertising
13 55 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 46 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.44%) Local Government
16 36 (1.21%) Police
17 28 (0.94%) Games
18 27 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 488 (16.39%) Developer
2 417 (14.00%) Analyst
3 282 (9.47%) Senior
4 257 (8.63%) IT Support
5 205 (6.88%) .NET Developer
6 193 (6.48%) Lead
7 185 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 180 (6.04%) IT Engineer
9 178 (5.98%) Support Engineer
10 157 (5.27%) Architect
11 151 (5.07%) Consultant
12 134 (4.50%) Service Analyst
13 129 (4.33%) IT Manager
14 126 (4.23%) Service Desk Analyst
15 103 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
16 95 (3.19%) Administrator
17 94 (3.16%) C# Developer
18 93 (3.12%) IT Analyst
19 88 (2.96%) 2nd Line Support
19 88 (2.96%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (12.29%) .NET
2 218 (7.32%) ASP.NET
3 209 (7.02%) .NET Core
4 170 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 162 (5.44%) HTML
6 149 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 141 (4.73%) ASP.NET Web API
8 139 (4.67%) Entity Framework
9 119 (4.00%) .NET Framework
10 99 (3.32%) CSS
11 98 (3.29%) HTML5
12 78 (2.62%) React
13 68 (2.28%) RESTful
14 55 (1.85%) Node.js
14 55 (1.85%) Web Services
15 54 (1.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 51 (1.71%) Blazor
17 48 (1.61%) JSON
18 47 (1.58%) REST
18 47 (1.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (4.97%) Driving Licence
2 142 (4.77%) Management Information System
3 99 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 96 (3.22%) Public Cloud
5 79 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 50 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 39 (1.31%) PKI
9 38 (1.28%) Product Ownership
10 36 (1.21%) Smartphone
11 34 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.07%) Cloud Native
13 31 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
13 31 (1.04%) PMI
14 30 (1.01%) Low-Code
14 30 (1.01%) NHS
15 29 (0.97%) Clustering
15 29 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
16 28 (0.94%) Mobile App
17 24 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 755 (25.35%) Windows
2 336 (11.28%) Windows Server
3 194 (6.51%) Windows 10
4 133 (4.47%) Linux
5 75 (2.52%) Android
6 70 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 53 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 52 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 44 (1.48%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.24%) VMS
11 30 (1.01%) Mac OS
12 29 (0.97%) Windows 7
13 25 (0.84%) Unix
14 16 (0.54%) Windows Vista
15 14 (0.47%) Windows 8
16 12 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 9 (0.30%) Windows Phone
19 8 (0.27%) Solaris
20 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
2 566 (19.01%) Agile
3 447 (15.01%) Customer Service
4 402 (13.50%) ITIL
5 284 (9.54%) DevOps
6 282 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
7 265 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 257 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
9 246 (8.26%) CRM
10 240 (8.06%) Project Management
11 230 (7.72%) Roadmaps
12 229 (7.69%) Migration
13 225 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 213 (7.15%) Mentoring
15 201 (6.75%) Full Stack Development
16 196 (6.58%) ERP
17 192 (6.45%) Microservices
18 188 (6.31%) MVC
19 185 (6.21%) Coaching
20 169 (5.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 568 (19.07%) SQL
2 395 (13.26%) C#
3 292 (9.81%) JavaScript
4 218 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 123 (4.13%) T-SQL
6 82 (2.75%) TypeScript
7 73 (2.45%) Python
8 33 (1.11%) VB.NET
9 32 (1.07%) VB
10 27 (0.91%) Bash
11 18 (0.60%) R
12 16 (0.54%) VB6
13 14 (0.47%) PHP
14 13 (0.44%) VBScript
15 11 (0.37%) Delphi
15 11 (0.37%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.34%) Java
16 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 391 (13.13%) Degree
2 254 (8.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 109 (3.66%) Azure Certification
3 109 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 88 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
5 77 (2.59%) DBS Check
6 69 (2.32%) CCNA
7 60 (2.01%) SC Cleared
8 58 (1.95%) PMI Certification
9 50 (1.68%) MCP
10 49 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 46 (1.54%) CCNP
12 41 (1.38%) A+ Certification
13 31 (1.04%) CISSP
13 31 (1.04%) MCSE
14 30 (1.01%) PMP
15 27 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
16 23 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 23 (0.77%) MCSA
17 21 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.17%) SLA
2 86 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (2.45%) GDPR
4 66 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (1.88%) QA
6 33 (1.11%) NIST
7 28 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 28 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 25 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 23 (0.77%) PMO
10 17 (0.57%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.30%) GRC
13 8 (0.27%) PSD2
14 7 (0.24%) COSHH
14 7 (0.24%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.24%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.17%) COBIT
15 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 746 (25.05%) Active Directory
2 183 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 181 (6.08%) Hyper-V
4 61 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (0.91%) vSphere
7 26 (0.87%) Docker
8 25 (0.84%) Terminal Services
9 23 (0.77%) RACF
10 20 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (0.50%) VMware Server
12 9 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.24%) KVM
13 7 (0.24%) XenApp
13 7 (0.24%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.13%) Firmware
15 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.067%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 237 (7.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (2.69%) SCCM
3 69 (2.32%) Kubernetes
4 56 (1.88%) Terraform
5 30 (1.01%) SCOM
6 27 (0.91%) WSUS
7 23 (0.77%) vCenter Server
8 21 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 20 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
10 16 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.50%) Ansible
11 15 (0.50%) Autotask
12 14 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 12 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.40%) VxRail
14 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.30%) AirWatch
15 9 (0.30%) Grafana
15 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 335 (11.25%) VMware
2 188 (6.31%) Google
3 167 (5.61%) Cisco
4 113 (3.79%) Apple
5 97 (3.26%) Citrix
6 80 (2.69%) Oracle
7 75 (2.52%) SAP
8 67 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 64 (2.15%) Adobe
10 61 (2.05%) Dell
11 60 (2.01%) Veeam
12 45 (1.51%) SolarWinds
13 42 (1.41%) HP
14 41 (1.38%) Fortinet
15 35 (1.18%) CyberArk
16 34 (1.14%) NetApp
17 33 (1.11%) Facebook
18 32 (1.07%) Sophos
19 30 (1.01%) Datto
20 26 (0.87%) Meraki