Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 13,204 11,459 14,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.83% 20.47% 18.59%
As % of the Vendors category 50.67% 49.06% 47.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,943 6,370 8,620
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £59,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 26,057 23,359 29,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.21% 41.73% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,449 12,807 16,929
10th Percentile £25,994 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +3 3,632 £45,000 -2.91% 813
North of England -1 3,080 £43,742 -2.80% 973
Midlands +2 2,521 £42,500 -15.00% 699
South West +2 1,669 £46,000 +13.58% 475
North West -2 1,631 £45,000 -2.17% 541
West Midlands +2 1,614 £45,000 -10.00% 423
East of England +2 1,249 £38,000 -5.00% 364
Yorkshire +2 1,017 £42,500 -0.02% 321
East Midlands 0 899 £37,500 -16.67% 275
Scotland -34 571 £45,000 - 273
North East +3 431 £42,500 - 122
Wales +1 354 £40,000 +5.65% 102
Northern Ireland +2 108 £42,500 -15.00% 62
Isle of Man +5 32 £46,250 -36.21% 4
Channel Islands +3 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 1,377 (10.43%) SharePoint
2 1,200 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 232 (1.76%) IIS
4 167 (1.26%) Confluence
5 103 (0.78%) CMS
6 63 (0.48%) Umbraco
7 50 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 47 (0.36%) Kentico
9 45 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 41 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
11 40 (0.30%) Apache
12 38 (0.29%) WordPress
13 35 (0.27%) SAS
14 34 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
15 21 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 21 (0.16%) Tomcat
16 20 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
17 17 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
18 16 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,704 (20.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1,853 (14.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 481 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 256 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
5 98 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 62 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.43%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.098%) Trello
12 12 (0.091%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 10 (0.076%) Chatbot
14 9 (0.068%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.061%) Sketch
16 6 (0.045%) Adobe Captivate
16 6 (0.045%) InVision
17 5 (0.038%) Revit
17 5 (0.038%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 405 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 92 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 83 (0.63%) Primavera
4 43 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 29 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 28 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 26 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 21 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 21 (0.16%) Shopify
9 19 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
10 17 (0.13%) iTrent
11 15 (0.11%) Magento
11 15 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
12 13 (0.098%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.098%) NetSuite
13 11 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
13 11 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
13 11 (0.083%) ResourceLink
14 9 (0.068%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 5,100 (38.62%) Azure
2 4,009 (30.36%) Microsoft 365
3 1,560 (11.81%) Power Platform
4 991 (7.51%) Entra ID
5 936 (7.09%) AWS
6 815 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
7 554 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 471 (3.57%) PowerApps
9 423 (3.20%) Power Automate
10 403 (3.05%) SaaS
11 357 (2.70%) OneDrive
12 252 (1.91%) GCP
13 192 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
14 161 (1.22%) IaaS
15 160 (1.21%) PaaS
16 141 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 103 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 97 (0.73%) GitHub
19 91 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
20 84 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,249 (9.46%) Firewall
2 877 (6.64%) DNS
3 677 (5.13%) WAN
4 675 (5.11%) DHCP
5 597 (4.52%) LAN
6 470 (3.56%) TCP/IP
7 455 (3.45%) VPN
8 411 (3.11%) Broadband
9 394 (2.98%) SAN
10 386 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
11 329 (2.49%) Wireless
12 277 (2.10%) Internet
13 273 (2.07%) VLAN
14 267 (2.02%) VoIP
15 201 (1.52%) Network Security
16 167 (1.26%) Intranet
17 152 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
18 139 (1.05%) SD-WAN
19 110 (0.83%) Unified Communications
20 95 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,049 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 1,025 (7.76%) Power BI
3 339 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 332 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
5 325 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 263 (1.99%) MongoDB
7 214 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
8 207 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 206 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 148 (1.12%) Data Lake
11 120 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 115 (0.87%) MySQL
13 113 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
14 83 (0.63%) Tableau
15 81 (0.61%) MS Access
15 81 (0.61%) NoSQL
16 76 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
17 61 (0.46%) Power Query
18 58 (0.44%) Oracle Database
19 56 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 376 (2.85%) Git
2 346 (2.62%) JIRA
3 311 (2.36%) Visual Studio
4 89 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 74 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 68 (0.51%) GitLab
7 60 (0.45%) Sourcetree
8 55 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.33%) NUnit
10 40 (0.30%) Subversion
11 39 (0.30%) Selenium
12 33 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 32 (0.24%) Postman
14 29 (0.22%) Moq
15 28 (0.21%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.21%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.19%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.16%) Cucumber
17 21 (0.16%) MSTest
18 19 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4,650 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 2,504 (18.96%) Finance
3 1,650 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1,043 (7.90%) Retail
5 672 (5.09%) Marketing
6 620 (4.70%) Legal
7 579 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
8 538 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 526 (3.98%) Law
10 522 (3.95%) Public Sector
11 511 (3.87%) Manufacturing
12 373 (2.82%) Telecoms
13 369 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
14 331 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
15 212 (1.61%) Games
16 195 (1.48%) Banking
17 178 (1.35%) Local Government
18 174 (1.32%) Advertising
19 150 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
20 118 (0.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,940 (14.69%) Developer
2 1,768 (13.39%) Analyst
3 1,436 (10.88%) Senior
4 1,238 (9.38%) IT Support
5 1,020 (7.72%) Support Engineer
6 851 (6.45%) .NET Developer
7 823 (6.23%) IT Engineer
8 718 (5.44%) Architect
9 705 (5.34%) Lead
10 701 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 641 (4.85%) Consultant
12 557 (4.22%) IT Support Engineer
13 502 (3.80%) Administrator
14 441 (3.34%) IT Technician
15 422 (3.20%) 2nd Line Support
16 386 (2.92%) C# Developer
17 355 (2.69%) Support Technician
18 351 (2.66%) IT Analyst
19 350 (2.65%) Support Analyst
20 342 (2.59%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,631 (12.35%) .NET
2 900 (6.82%) ASP.NET
3 851 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 714 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 651 (4.93%) AngularJS
6 615 (4.66%) HTML
7 594 (4.50%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.29%) Entity Framework
9 566 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web API
10 421 (3.19%) CSS
11 414 (3.14%) React
12 334 (2.53%) HTML5
13 276 (2.09%) RESTful
14 268 (2.03%) Vue
15 244 (1.85%) Node.js
16 216 (1.64%) Web Services
17 187 (1.42%) REST
18 182 (1.38%) Blazor
19 176 (1.33%) LINQ
20 167 (1.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 711 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
2 619 (4.69%) Driving Licence
3 572 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 436 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 275 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 245 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 170 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 169 (1.28%) PKI
9 168 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 159 (1.20%) Social Media
11 147 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 139 (1.05%) Replication
13 135 (1.02%) Clustering
14 112 (0.85%) Mobile App
15 109 (0.83%) NHS
16 100 (0.76%) Low-Code
17 98 (0.74%) Cloud Native
18 96 (0.73%) Smartphone
19 95 (0.72%) Algorithms
20 91 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,675 (27.83%) Windows
2 1,656 (12.54%) Windows Server
3 1,041 (7.88%) Windows 10
4 805 (6.10%) Linux
5 392 (2.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 377 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 318 (2.41%) Android
8 293 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 232 (1.76%) Apple iOS
10 199 (1.51%) Windows 7
11 194 (1.47%) Mac OS
12 137 (1.04%) Ubuntu
13 130 (0.98%) VMS
14 102 (0.77%) Unix
15 90 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
16 82 (0.62%) Windows 8
17 71 (0.54%) CentOS
18 40 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.26%) Mac OS X
20 28 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,705 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
2 2,614 (19.80%) Agile
3 1,989 (15.06%) Customer Service
4 1,495 (11.32%) ITIL
5 1,224 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
6 1,160 (8.79%) DevOps
7 1,095 (8.29%) Project Management
8 1,089 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
9 1,041 (7.88%) Mentoring
10 923 (6.99%) CRM
11 884 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 830 (6.29%) MVC
13 823 (6.23%) Full Stack Development
14 810 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 760 (5.76%) Roadmaps
16 746 (5.65%) Decision-Making
17 700 (5.30%) Migration
18 681 (5.16%) Microservices
19 652 (4.94%) ERP
20 611 (4.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,095 (15.87%) SQL
2 1,722 (13.04%) C#
3 1,183 (8.96%) JavaScript
4 852 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 398 (3.01%) T-SQL
6 393 (2.98%) Python
7 383 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 234 (1.77%) Bash
9 188 (1.42%) Java
10 124 (0.94%) VB
11 122 (0.92%) C++
12 118 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 97 (0.73%) C
14 54 (0.41%) R
15 53 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 52 (0.39%) Fortran
17 50 (0.38%) Bicep
18 47 (0.36%) VBA
19 44 (0.33%) VBScript
20 42 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,095 (15.87%) Degree
2 1,084 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 876 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 637 (4.82%) SC Cleared
5 415 (3.14%) DBS Check
6 307 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 287 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 280 (2.12%) DV Cleared
9 260 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 254 (1.92%) CCNA
11 245 (1.86%) CIMA
12 244 (1.85%) ACCA
13 203 (1.54%) MCP
14 201 (1.52%) A+ Certification
15 198 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
16 141 (1.07%) MCSE
16 141 (1.07%) PMI Certification
17 126 (0.95%) CCNP
18 112 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
19 109 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 591 (4.48%) SLA
2 397 (3.01%) GDPR
3 351 (2.66%) QA
4 241 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 234 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 120 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 106 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 96 (0.73%) PMO
9 95 (0.72%) ISO 9001
10 90 (0.68%) NIST
11 85 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 28 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 26 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 21 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.15%) ISO 14001
17 15 (0.11%) Good Clinical Practice
17 15 (0.11%) GRC
17 15 (0.11%) SOC 2
18 13 (0.098%) NCSC
System Software
1 2,993 (22.67%) Active Directory
2 936 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 785 (5.95%) Hyper-V
4 235 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 190 (1.44%) Docker
6 181 (1.37%) vSphere
7 129 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 129 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
8 74 (0.56%) XenApp
9 61 (0.46%) XenDesktop
10 56 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
11 49 (0.37%) Firmware
11 49 (0.37%) KVM
12 46 (0.35%) Terminal Services
13 44 (0.33%) RACF
14 39 (0.30%) VMware NSX
15 27 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 26 (0.20%) VirtualBox
17 24 (0.18%) VMware Server
18 19 (0.14%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 897 (6.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 423 (3.20%) SCCM
3 251 (1.90%) Kubernetes
4 181 (1.37%) Terraform
5 134 (1.01%) WSUS
6 117 (0.89%) SCOM
7 106 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 91 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 85 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 79 (0.60%) Ansible
11 39 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
11 39 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 33 (0.25%) NetBackup
14 32 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 31 (0.23%) Backup Exec
15 31 (0.23%) Stealthwatch
16 30 (0.23%) Autotask
16 30 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 28 (0.21%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,426 (10.80%) VMware
2 611 (4.63%) Cisco
3 495 (3.75%) Google
4 399 (3.02%) Citrix
5 396 (3.00%) Apple
6 339 (2.57%) Oracle
7 329 (2.49%) Veeam
8 269 (2.04%) Dell
9 247 (1.87%) HP
10 237 (1.79%) SAP
11 225 (1.70%) Adobe
12 200 (1.51%) Meraki
13 198 (1.50%) ServiceNow
14 148 (1.12%) Sophos
15 137 (1.04%) Fortinet
16 128 (0.97%) Salesforce
17 123 (0.93%) CyberArk
18 114 (0.86%) Red Hat
19 110 (0.83%) Databricks
20 108 (0.82%) Sage