Microsoft Jobs in the South West

Microsoft
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 June 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,668 1,199 1,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.35% 18.31% 17.99%
As % of the Vendors category 55.42% 50.55% 46.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 699 913
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.58% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,010 2,372 3,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.50% 36.22% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,195 1,433 1,956
10th Percentile £27,403 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,483 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,833 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,050 £76,520
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South West over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol -2 398 £50,000 +11.11% 127
Gloucestershire +11 355 £42,500 +15.65% 73
Wiltshire 0 277 £50,000 +11.11% 87
Dorset -1 211 £40,000 -5.08% 38
Devon +1 209 £45,000 +38.46% 56
Somerset +1 147 £38,000 -5.00% 77
Cornwall +1 49 £40,000 - 10
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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
1 163 (9.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 155 (9.29%) SharePoint
3 90 (5.40%) Confluence
4 28 (1.68%) CMS
5 26 (1.56%) IIS
6 22 (1.32%) Umbraco
7 20 (1.20%) Kentico
8 17 (1.02%) Headless CMS
8 17 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
9 16 (0.96%) SharePoint 2010
9 16 (0.96%) SharePoint 2013
10 10 (0.60%) Apache
11 8 (0.48%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.48%) SAS
12 7 (0.42%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.36%) NServiceBus
13 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.30%) Moodle
15 4 (0.24%) Site Server
16 3 (0.18%) GlassFish
Applications
1 270 (16.19%) Microsoft Office
2 104 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.060%) 1Password
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.060%) Solid Edge
8 1 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 20 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) Maximo
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.30%) Primavera
6 4 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.060%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 616 (36.93%) Azure
2 485 (29.08%) Microsoft 365
3 193 (11.57%) Power Platform
4 148 (8.87%) AWS
5 101 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (5.58%) Entra ID
7 83 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
8 74 (4.44%) PowerApps
9 70 (4.20%) Power Automate
10 65 (3.90%) GCP
11 57 (3.42%) SaaS
12 48 (2.88%) OneDrive
13 33 (1.98%) IaaS
14 30 (1.80%) PaaS
15 20 (1.20%) Kontent
16 15 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (0.84%) GitHub
18 13 (0.78%) Nutanix
18 13 (0.78%) OCI
19 9 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.77%) Firewall
2 82 (4.92%) LAN
3 70 (4.20%) WAN
4 64 (3.84%) DNS
5 55 (3.30%) SAN
6 54 (3.24%) TCP/IP
7 53 (3.18%) DHCP
8 46 (2.76%) VPN
9 40 (2.40%) Wireless
10 33 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
11 31 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (1.80%) Internet
13 27 (1.62%) VLAN
14 20 (1.20%) VoIP
15 17 (1.02%) Broadband
15 17 (1.02%) Network Security
16 12 (0.72%) WLAN
17 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
18 10 (0.60%) NAS
18 10 (0.60%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (13.55%) SQL Server
2 114 (6.83%) Power BI
3 57 (3.42%) MongoDB
4 38 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (1.50%) MySQL
8 20 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (0.90%) Tableau
11 12 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.66%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.54%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.54%) GIS
14 9 (0.54%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.48%) Power Query
16 7 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 108 (6.47%) JIRA
2 96 (5.76%) Visual Studio
3 95 (5.70%) Git
4 74 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.54%) Sourcetree
6 14 (0.84%) Subversion
7 13 (0.78%) Selenium
8 12 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.36%) Postman
13 5 (0.30%) Jenkins
14 4 (0.24%) Toad
15 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.18%) JMeter
15 3 (0.18%) Robot Framework
15 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.18%) xUnit.net
General
1 544 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 292 (17.51%) Finance
3 139 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (5.22%) Law
6 81 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (4.80%) Marketing
8 76 (4.56%) Games
9 75 (4.50%) Banking
10 72 (4.32%) Retail
11 66 (3.96%) Telecoms
12 63 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
13 53 (3.18%) Legal
14 50 (3.00%) Public Sector
15 46 (2.76%) Investment Banking
16 44 (2.64%) Fire and Rescue
17 41 (2.46%) Manufacturing
18 32 (1.92%) Aerospace
19 26 (1.56%) Military
20 19 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (18.76%) Developer
2 242 (14.51%) Senior
3 170 (10.19%) Analyst
4 148 (8.87%) Support Engineer
5 138 (8.27%) IT Support
6 116 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 107 (6.41%) Architect
8 104 (6.24%) IT Engineer
9 102 (6.12%) .NET Developer
10 99 (5.94%) Consultant
11 90 (5.40%) Administrator
11 90 (5.40%) Senior Developer
12 79 (4.74%) Lead
13 72 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (3.90%) IT Support Engineer
15 63 (3.78%) 3D Developer
15 63 (3.78%) Games Developer
15 63 (3.78%) Unity 3D Developer
16 59 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support
16 59 (3.54%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (13.31%) .NET
2 110 (6.59%) ASP.NET
3 93 (5.58%) .NET Core
4 83 (4.98%) ASP.NET MVC
5 80 (4.80%) .NET Framework
6 78 (4.68%) AngularJS
7 77 (4.62%) React
8 72 (4.32%) CSS
9 69 (4.14%) HTML
10 63 (3.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 53 (3.18%) Entity Framework
12 51 (3.06%) ASP.NET Web API
13 50 (3.00%) Vue
14 30 (1.80%) REST
15 29 (1.74%) Blazor
15 29 (1.74%) jQuery
16 23 (1.38%) RESTful
17 19 (1.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 18 (1.08%) HTML5
19 17 (1.02%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 111 (6.65%) Driving Licence
2 86 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 84 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (3.96%) Virtual Reality
5 39 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 32 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 28 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.26%) Clustering
11 17 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.96%) Smartphone
13 14 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.84%) iPhone
14 13 (0.78%) PKI
15 12 (0.72%) Fat Client
15 12 (0.72%) Replication
15 12 (0.72%) Thin Client
15 12 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 518 (31.06%) Windows
2 189 (11.33%) Windows Server
3 158 (9.47%) Windows 10
4 143 (8.57%) Linux
5 83 (4.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 75 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 70 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 46 (2.76%) Mac OS
9 38 (2.28%) CentOS
10 34 (2.04%) Apple iOS
11 33 (1.98%) Windows 7
12 28 (1.68%) Android
13 17 (1.02%) AIX
13 17 (1.02%) VMS
14 14 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 6 (0.36%) Unix
17 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
18 3 (0.18%) Solaris
18 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (15.59%) Agile
3 234 (14.03%) Customer Service
4 220 (13.19%) ITIL
5 210 (12.59%) DevOps
6 150 (8.99%) Mentoring
7 136 (8.15%) Scrum
8 133 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 133 (7.97%) Software Engineering
9 130 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
10 123 (7.37%) User Experience
11 120 (7.19%) Project Delivery
12 116 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (6.65%) Service Delivery
14 108 (6.47%) MVC
15 103 (6.18%) Roadmaps
16 99 (5.94%) Full Stack Development
17 95 (5.70%) Design Patterns
18 93 (5.58%) Analytics
18 93 (5.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 263 (15.77%) SQL
2 256 (15.35%) C#
3 163 (9.77%) PowerShell
4 144 (8.63%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.92%) Python
6 79 (4.74%) Java
7 52 (3.12%) Bash
8 45 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 45 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (0.78%) PHP
11 11 (0.66%) C++
12 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.48%) C
14 7 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.36%) R
15 6 (0.36%) VBA
16 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.18%) Rust
18 2 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 333 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 327 (19.60%) Degree
3 250 (14.99%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 110 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 96 (5.76%) DV Cleared
7 68 (4.08%) DBS Check
8 42 (2.52%) A+ Certification
9 34 (2.04%) MCP
10 31 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (1.50%) MCSE
12 24 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (1.32%) HNC
14 17 (1.02%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.96%) MCITP
16 14 (0.84%) PMP
17 13 (0.78%) CISSP
17 13 (0.78%) ISTQB
18 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.96%) SLA
2 60 (3.60%) QA
3 50 (3.00%) GDPR
4 29 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (0.72%) NIST
7 10 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.30%) SOC 1
9 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.24%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.060%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.060%) GAMP
12 1 (0.060%) GMP
System Software
1 387 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 149 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (5.64%) Hyper-V
4 33 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.68%) XenApp
6 26 (1.56%) vSphere
7 23 (1.38%) Docker
8 22 (1.32%) XenDesktop
9 21 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
11 6 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.30%) RACF
13 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.12%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 103 (6.18%) SCCM
2 86 (5.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.08%) Nagios
5 17 (1.02%) Backup Exec
6 14 (0.84%) Ansible
6 14 (0.84%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.84%) WSUS
7 12 (0.72%) CASB
7 12 (0.72%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.48%) Terraform
9 7 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
9 7 (0.42%) Icinga
9 7 (0.42%) SCOM
10 6 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
11 5 (0.30%) OfficeScan
11 5 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 206 (12.35%) VMware
2 112 (6.71%) Oracle
3 70 (4.20%) Google
4 61 (3.66%) Cisco
5 53 (3.18%) Citrix
5 53 (3.18%) Red Hat
6 49 (2.94%) HP
7 35 (2.10%) Veeam
8 32 (1.92%) Dell
9 31 (1.86%) Apple
10 29 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.74%) Sparx
11 28 (1.68%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.38%) IBM
13 22 (1.32%) Symantec
14 21 (1.26%) SolarWinds
15 17 (1.02%) Optimizely
15 17 (1.02%) Sitecore
15 17 (1.02%) Veritas
16 15 (0.90%) Meraki