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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,589 19,208 23,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 18.51% 14.76%
As % of the Vendors category 47.96% 44.23% 37.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,452 11,406 14,895
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,000 £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 £43,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -

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 36,672 43,426 60,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 41.84% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25,141 24,776 33,270
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 £76,250 £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 3 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 3 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 15,968 £47,500 -9.52% 4,477
UK excluding London +2 12,508 £43,000 -4.44% 3,502
Work from Home +4 7,095 £52,500 -4.55% 2,078
London +6 4,370 £60,500 -3.20% 1,278
South East +3 3,440 £45,000 - 822
North of England 0 2,893 £43,500 -3.33% 855
Midlands +1 2,280 £42,500 -10.53% 681
South West +3 1,621 £46,000 +15.00% 460
North West -2 1,499 £45,000 - 470
West Midlands +1 1,498 £45,000 -10.00% 424
East of England +2 1,224 £38,250 -4.38% 373
Yorkshire +2 978 £41,500 -7.26% 291
East Midlands +2 773 £37,500 -12.79% 255
Scotland -28 585 £45,000 -10.00% 255
North East +3 415 £42,500 +6.25% 102
Wales +2 335 £36,476 -2.73% 116
Northern Ireland +7 105 £41,000 -8.89% 60
Isle of Man - 34 £45,000 - 3
Channel Islands 0 6 £85,000 +136.11% 4

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 1,890 (10.75%) SharePoint
2 1,691 (9.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 320 (1.82%) IIS
4 218 (1.24%) Confluence
5 147 (0.84%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 71 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 69 (0.39%) Apache Spark
9 65 (0.37%) Apache
10 54 (0.31%) Kentico
10 54 (0.31%) SAS
11 50 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 45 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 44 (0.25%) WordPress
14 40 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 38 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 23 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
18 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
19 20 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3,143 (17.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2,296 (13.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 663 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 274 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 125 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 68 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 58 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) InDesign
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 18 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.091%) SPSS
13 15 (0.085%) Trello
14 11 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
15 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
16 8 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.045%) Sketch
17 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
17 7 (0.040%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 634 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 101 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 61 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 35 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 34 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 29 (0.16%) NEC Housing
8 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 26 (0.15%) Shopify
10 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 23 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 23 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
12 22 (0.13%) PlanetPress Connect
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
13 18 (0.10%) Magento
14 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
15 15 (0.085%) Elite 3E
15 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
16 14 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
17 12 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,241 (41.17%) Azure
2 5,386 (30.62%) Microsoft 365
3 2,340 (13.30%) Power Platform
4 1,435 (8.16%) AWS
5 1,372 (7.80%) Entra ID
6 1,305 (7.42%) Dynamics 365
7 864 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
8 735 (4.18%) PowerApps
9 715 (4.07%) SaaS
10 688 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 454 (2.58%) OneDrive
12 427 (2.43%) GCP
13 368 (2.09%) PaaS
14 344 (1.96%) IaaS
15 277 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 221 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
17 212 (1.21%) Serverless
18 174 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 162 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
20 159 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,622 (9.22%) Firewall
2 1,158 (6.58%) DNS
3 1,015 (5.77%) WAN
4 846 (4.81%) DHCP
5 818 (4.65%) LAN
6 817 (4.64%) Broadband
7 627 (3.56%) VPN
8 566 (3.22%) TCP/IP
9 553 (3.14%) Wireless
10 481 (2.73%) SAN
11 479 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
12 369 (2.10%) VLAN
13 352 (2.00%) Internet
14 313 (1.78%) VoIP
15 305 (1.73%) Network Security
16 294 (1.67%) SD-WAN
17 224 (1.27%) 5G
18 202 (1.15%) Intranet
19 195 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
20 155 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,666 (15.16%) SQL Server
2 1,468 (8.35%) Power BI
3 483 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 471 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 431 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 341 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 294 (1.67%) MongoDB
8 281 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 272 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 272 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 175 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 157 (0.89%) Tableau
12 135 (0.77%) MySQL
13 126 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
14 124 (0.70%) NoSQL
15 122 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
16 113 (0.64%) Big Data
17 89 (0.51%) MS Access
18 77 (0.44%) Oracle Database
19 73 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 503 (2.86%) Git
2 459 (2.61%) JIRA
3 397 (2.26%) Visual Studio
4 128 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 114 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 104 (0.59%) GitLab
7 82 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 70 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 47 (0.27%) NUnit
11 45 (0.26%) Selenium
12 44 (0.25%) Subversion
13 43 (0.24%) Postman
14 40 (0.23%) TeamCity
15 32 (0.18%) Moq
16 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
16 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
17 24 (0.14%) Cucumber
18 23 (0.13%) MSTest
19 17 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,222 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 3,583 (20.37%) Finance
3 2,353 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1,067 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 927 (5.27%) Retail
6 800 (4.55%) Law
7 772 (4.39%) Legal
8 753 (4.28%) Marketing
9 752 (4.28%) Public Sector
10 727 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
11 609 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 550 (3.13%) Manufacturing
13 529 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 458 (2.60%) Telecoms
15 399 (2.27%) Banking
16 286 (1.63%) Games
17 222 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
18 218 (1.24%) Advertising
19 213 (1.21%) Local Government
20 168 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,541 (14.45%) Analyst
2 2,538 (14.43%) Developer
3 2,325 (13.22%) Senior
4 1,516 (8.62%) IT Support
5 1,221 (6.94%) Support Engineer
6 1,136 (6.46%) Architect
7 970 (5.51%) IT Engineer
8 969 (5.51%) Lead
9 966 (5.49%) .NET Developer
10 915 (5.20%) Consultant
11 859 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 628 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
13 616 (3.50%) Administrator
14 495 (2.81%) 2nd Line Support
15 477 (2.71%) Support Analyst
16 472 (2.68%) IT Analyst
17 467 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
18 464 (2.64%) IT Technician
19 461 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
20 449 (2.55%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,148 (12.21%) .NET
2 1,076 (6.12%) ASP.NET
3 1,005 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 821 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 817 (4.64%) AngularJS
6 812 (4.62%) HTML
7 731 (4.16%) .NET Framework
8 663 (3.77%) Entity Framework
9 657 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
10 574 (3.26%) CSS
11 533 (3.03%) React
12 411 (2.34%) HTML5
13 348 (1.98%) RESTful
14 322 (1.83%) Node.js
15 299 (1.70%) Vue
16 270 (1.54%) Web Services
17 263 (1.50%) REST
18 252 (1.43%) JSON
19 218 (1.24%) XML
20 205 (1.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 956 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
2 810 (4.61%) Management Information System
3 659 (3.75%) Driving Licence
4 566 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 358 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 352 (2.00%) Social Media
7 350 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 261 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
9 253 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 252 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 249 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 239 (1.36%) PKI
13 178 (1.01%) Cloud Native
14 171 (0.97%) Replication
15 169 (0.96%) Clustering
16 135 (0.77%) Mobile App
17 133 (0.76%) Low-Code
18 131 (0.74%) NHS
19 123 (0.70%) Smartphone
20 111 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,752 (27.02%) Windows
2 2,093 (11.90%) Windows Server
3 1,420 (8.07%) Windows 10
4 1,111 (6.32%) Linux
5 500 (2.84%) Android
6 461 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 458 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 355 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
9 321 (1.83%) Apple iOS
10 294 (1.67%) Ubuntu
11 270 (1.54%) Mac OS
12 243 (1.38%) Windows 7
13 147 (0.84%) Unix
14 144 (0.82%) VMS
15 100 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 95 (0.54%) Windows 8
17 73 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 72 (0.41%) CentOS
19 56 (0.32%) Mac OS X
20 38 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,463 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
2 3,459 (19.67%) Agile
3 2,329 (13.24%) Customer Service
4 1,890 (10.75%) ITIL
5 1,757 (9.99%) DevOps
6 1,735 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
7 1,645 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
8 1,589 (9.03%) Mentoring
9 1,492 (8.48%) Project Management
10 1,381 (7.85%) CRM
11 1,119 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,076 (6.12%) Decision-Making
13 1,008 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 997 (5.67%) Full Stack Development
15 992 (5.64%) MVC
16 983 (5.59%) Migration
17 965 (5.49%) Roadmaps
18 896 (5.09%) Scrum
19 876 (4.98%) Analytics
20 867 (4.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,848 (16.19%) SQL
2 2,240 (12.74%) C#
3 1,537 (8.74%) JavaScript
4 1,236 (7.03%) PowerShell
5 696 (3.96%) Python
6 583 (3.31%) T-SQL
7 476 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 446 (2.54%) Bash
9 276 (1.57%) Java
10 149 (0.85%) VB
11 138 (0.78%) C++
12 112 (0.64%) VB.NET
13 110 (0.63%) C
14 97 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 92 (0.52%) Bicep
16 90 (0.51%) R
17 70 (0.40%) PHP
18 69 (0.39%) VBA
19 46 (0.26%) VBScript
20 45 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,915 (16.57%) Degree
2 1,346 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 1,180 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 824 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 513 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 502 (2.85%) ACCA
7 496 (2.82%) DBS Check
8 473 (2.69%) CIMA
9 457 (2.60%) Azure Certification
10 425 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 328 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 296 (1.68%) CCNA
13 266 (1.51%) Master's Degree
14 240 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 239 (1.36%) A+ Certification
16 225 (1.28%) CISSP
17 209 (1.19%) MCP
18 199 (1.13%) MCSE
19 181 (1.03%) PMI Certification
20 160 (0.91%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 827 (4.70%) SLA
2 487 (2.77%) QA
3 477 (2.71%) GDPR
4 416 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 304 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 226 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 162 (0.92%) NIST
8 152 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 133 (0.76%) PMO
10 125 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 123 (0.70%) ISO 9001
12 56 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 46 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 41 (0.23%) GRC
15 36 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 35 (0.20%) IFRS
17 34 (0.19%) NCSC
18 30 (0.17%) COBIT
18 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4,062 (23.09%) Active Directory
2 1,198 (6.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 906 (5.15%) Hyper-V
4 317 (1.80%) Docker
5 298 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 264 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 215 (1.22%) vSphere
8 184 (1.05%) XenApp
9 160 (0.91%) XenDesktop
10 143 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
11 117 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
12 80 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 65 (0.37%) Firmware
14 54 (0.31%) VMware NSX
15 53 (0.30%) KVM
15 53 (0.30%) Terminal Services
16 29 (0.16%) VirtualBox
17 27 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
19 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,331 (7.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 687 (3.91%) SCCM
3 387 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 357 (2.03%) Terraform
5 275 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
6 155 (0.88%) WSUS
7 147 (0.84%) Ansible
8 137 (0.78%) SCOM
9 122 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 119 (0.68%) AirWatch
11 98 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 97 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 64 (0.36%) FortiGate
14 51 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
15 46 (0.26%) Grafana
16 44 (0.25%) Nessus
16 44 (0.25%) Puppet
17 40 (0.23%) NetBackup
18 37 (0.21%) CASB
18 37 (0.21%) EnCase
Vendors
1 1,800 (10.23%) VMware
2 949 (5.40%) Cisco
3 699 (3.97%) Google
4 622 (3.54%) Citrix
5 532 (3.02%) Apple
6 477 (2.71%) Oracle
7 394 (2.24%) Veeam
8 384 (2.18%) Dell
9 369 (2.10%) ServiceNow
10 337 (1.92%) HP
11 333 (1.89%) SAP
12 300 (1.71%) Adobe
13 239 (1.36%) CyberArk
14 215 (1.22%) Meraki
15 210 (1.19%) Tanium
16 200 (1.14%) Databricks
17 189 (1.07%) Salesforce
18 157 (0.89%) Sophos
19 156 (0.89%) Fortinet
20 142 (0.81%) Red Hat