Microsoft Office
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Office skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 78 118
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Office 4,440 4,170 4,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 4.02% 3.16%
As % of the Applications category 45.29% 45.65% 37.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,016 2,412 3,368
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £38,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -10.29% +4.62% -4.41%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft Office is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 9,804 9,135 13,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 8.80% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,122 4,972 7,110
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,965 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,494 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% -1.12% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £39,322
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.63% -1.70%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Office 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 +31 4,040 £32,500 -14.47% 1,831
UK excluding London +22 3,367 £30,500 -10.29% 1,500
Work from Home +10 1,051 £36,539 -18.80% 558
London +38 977 £42,500 -10.53% 424
South East +27 914 £30,500 -10.29% 406
Midlands +21 795 £32,000 -17.42% 297
North of England +19 621 £29,000 -10.77% 343
West Midlands +25 541 £32,004 -19.26% 194
East of England +16 360 £30,000 -4.94% 164
South West +19 349 £32,500 -7.14% 183
North West -5 292 £28,500 -8.80% 195
Yorkshire +49 268 £29,000 -17.14% 111
East Midlands +23 254 £32,000 -12.33% 103
Scotland -55 176 £33,250 +2.31% 107
Wales +26 107 £27,500 - 48
North East -5 61 £27,750 +4.72% 40
Northern Ireland +39 29 £42,500 +30.77% 19
Isle of Man - 20 £45,000 - 2

Microsoft Office
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
1 434 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 426 (9.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (1.24%) Confluence
4 48 (1.08%) Skype for Business
5 45 (1.01%) Oracle Service Bus
5 45 (1.01%) WebLogic
6 42 (0.95%) CMS
6 42 (0.95%) SAS
7 37 (0.83%) IIS
8 14 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
9 12 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 10 (0.23%) WordPress
11 9 (0.20%) Office Communications Server
12 8 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
13 7 (0.16%) IBM Notes
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.090%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.090%) Moodle
15 3 (0.068%) Apache
15 3 (0.068%) GlassFish
Applications
1 1,323 (29.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 537 (12.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 131 (2.95%) MS Visio
4 97 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (1.13%) AutoCAD
6 41 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 35 (0.79%) Photoshop
8 25 (0.56%) InDesign
9 20 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 18 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
12 9 (0.20%) Revit
12 9 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
13 8 (0.18%) SPSS
13 8 (0.18%) Trello
14 7 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
15 6 (0.14%) Simulink
16 5 (0.11%) Solid Edge
17 4 (0.090%) EPLAN
17 4 (0.090%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 47 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 25 (0.56%) Primavera
3 23 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.41%) Sage 200
5 14 (0.32%) iTrent
6 13 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
7 12 (0.27%) Elite 3E
8 10 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
9 9 (0.20%) Relativity
9 9 (0.20%) Shopify
10 6 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
11 5 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
11 5 (0.11%) FastStats
11 5 (0.11%) FastStats PeopleStage
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.11%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1,141 (25.70%) Microsoft 365
2 547 (12.32%) Azure
3 226 (5.09%) Power Platform
4 196 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 99 (2.23%) AWS
6 78 (1.76%) OneDrive
7 67 (1.51%) Google Workspace
8 58 (1.31%) PowerApps
8 58 (1.31%) SaaS
9 54 (1.22%) Power Automate
10 53 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 45 (1.01%) GitHub
12 44 (0.99%) Mimecast
13 26 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (0.47%) WhatsApp
15 15 (0.34%) GCP
16 13 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (0.27%) Azure Sentinel
17 12 (0.27%) Smartsheet
18 11 (0.25%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 303 (6.82%) Firewall
2 253 (5.70%) DNS
3 217 (4.89%) LAN
4 197 (4.44%) TCP/IP
5 196 (4.41%) DHCP
6 186 (4.19%) WAN
7 178 (4.01%) VPN
8 152 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
9 138 (3.11%) Wireless
10 110 (2.48%) VoIP
11 94 (2.12%) VLAN
12 93 (2.09%) Internet
13 64 (1.44%) Skype
14 59 (1.33%) FTP
15 58 (1.31%) Network Security
16 55 (1.24%) SAN
17 43 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
18 37 (0.83%) Intranet
19 36 (0.81%) Broadband
19 36 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (4.53%) Power BI
2 152 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 58 (1.31%) Oracle Database
4 45 (1.01%) Oracle Database 10g
4 45 (1.01%) Oracle Database 11g
4 45 (1.01%) Tableau
4 45 (1.01%) VLDB
5 40 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 33 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 30 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (0.59%) Big Data
10 24 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 14 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
14 10 (0.23%) EDRMS
14 10 (0.23%) MySQL
15 9 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
15 9 (0.20%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 138 (3.11%) JIRA
2 33 (0.74%) Git
2 33 (0.74%) Visual Studio
3 25 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 15 (0.34%) LabVIEW
5 11 (0.25%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.23%) Subversion
6 10 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
7 6 (0.14%) Mercurial
7 6 (0.14%) Postman
8 5 (0.11%) eggPlant
8 5 (0.11%) MSI
8 5 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.090%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.090%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.090%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.090%) GitLab
9 4 (0.090%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.090%) TeamCity
General
1 2,148 (48.38%) Social Skills
2 933 (21.01%) Finance
3 744 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 599 (13.49%) Organisational Skills
5 335 (7.55%) Legal
6 275 (6.19%) Marketing
7 259 (5.83%) Retail
8 250 (5.63%) Law
9 240 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 195 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
11 185 (4.17%) Banking
12 168 (3.78%) Manufacturing
13 157 (3.54%) Public Sector
14 156 (3.51%) Telecoms
15 140 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
16 123 (2.77%) Military
17 102 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
18 98 (2.21%) Investment Banking
19 75 (1.69%) Automotive
20 71 (1.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,057 (23.81%) Analyst
2 500 (11.26%) IT Support
3 395 (8.90%) Support Engineer
4 294 (6.62%) Senior
5 262 (5.90%) Support Analyst
6 252 (5.68%) IT Engineer
7 217 (4.89%) Project Manager
8 204 (4.59%) Administrator
9 203 (4.57%) Coordinator
9 203 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
10 196 (4.41%) IT Analyst
11 176 (3.96%) Service Analyst
12 166 (3.74%) IT Technician
13 161 (3.63%) 1st Line Support
13 161 (3.63%) 2nd Line Support
14 158 (3.56%) Service Desk Analyst
15 140 (3.15%) Lead
16 138 (3.11%) Support Technician
17 133 (3.00%) Consultant
18 125 (2.82%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (1.98%) .NET
2 71 (1.60%) HTML
3 32 (0.72%) CSS
4 27 (0.61%) HTML5
5 26 (0.59%) XML
6 24 (0.54%) JSON
7 21 (0.47%) Blazor
7 21 (0.47%) EDI
8 17 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (0.32%) LDAP
9 14 (0.32%) REST
10 13 (0.29%) Web Services
11 11 (0.25%) Flash
12 9 (0.20%) .NET Framework
13 8 (0.18%) jQuery
13 8 (0.18%) pytest
14 7 (0.16%) XSL
15 6 (0.14%) ASP.NET
15 6 (0.14%) Classic ASP
15 6 (0.14%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 494 (11.13%) Self-Motivation
2 282 (6.35%) Driving Licence
3 241 (5.43%) Onboarding
4 229 (5.16%) Management Information System
5 122 (2.75%) Social Media
6 79 (1.78%) Video Conferencing
7 71 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 65 (1.46%) Replication
9 61 (1.37%) Smartphone
10 50 (1.13%) CCTV
11 45 (1.01%) NHS
12 40 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
13 37 (0.83%) Life Science
14 35 (0.79%) EPoS
15 31 (0.70%) Blog
15 31 (0.70%) Graphic Design
16 30 (0.68%) FMCG
16 30 (0.68%) Reinsurance
17 28 (0.63%) Product Ownership
18 27 (0.61%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,409 (31.73%) Windows
2 608 (13.69%) Windows 10
3 402 (9.05%) Windows Server
4 133 (3.00%) Linux
5 127 (2.86%) Windows 7
6 119 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 112 (2.52%) Android
7 112 (2.52%) Mac OS
8 97 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 86 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 79 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 78 (1.76%) Unix
12 48 (1.08%) Solaris
13 39 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
14 21 (0.47%) Windows 8
15 19 (0.43%) Mac OS X
16 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
16 10 (0.23%) Windows XP
17 6 (0.14%) Windows 2000
18 5 (0.11%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,301 (29.30%) Problem-Solving
2 1,133 (25.52%) Customer Service
3 542 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 517 (11.64%) ITIL
5 507 (11.42%) Project Management
6 342 (7.70%) Time Management
7 293 (6.60%) CRM
8 291 (6.55%) Agile
9 257 (5.79%) Cybersecurity
10 255 (5.74%) Data Analysis
11 252 (5.68%) Mathematics
12 238 (5.36%) ITSM
13 237 (5.34%) Business Intelligence
14 235 (5.29%) Process Improvement
15 228 (5.14%) Decision-Making
16 219 (4.93%) Customer Experience
17 206 (4.64%) Creative Thinking
18 203 (4.57%) Customer Requirements
19 187 (4.21%) Logistics
20 179 (4.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 423 (9.53%) SQL
2 167 (3.76%) PowerShell
3 82 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 74 (1.67%) Python
5 62 (1.40%) C#
6 48 (1.08%) PL/SQL
7 40 (0.90%) T-SQL
8 31 (0.70%) VBA
9 27 (0.61%) MATLAB
10 24 (0.54%) VB
11 19 (0.43%) R
12 15 (0.34%) PHP
13 13 (0.29%) VB.NET
14 12 (0.27%) VBScript
15 10 (0.23%) Bash
15 10 (0.23%) C++
15 10 (0.23%) Java
16 7 (0.16%) C
17 6 (0.14%) Perl
17 6 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,419 (31.96%) Degree
2 294 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 209 (4.71%) DBS Check
4 171 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 171 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 84 (1.89%) MCP
6 81 (1.82%) A+ Certification
7 62 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
8 59 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 57 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.22%) HND
12 52 (1.17%) HNC
13 50 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
14 48 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 45 (1.01%) CCNA
16 42 (0.95%) MCSE
16 42 (0.95%) PMI Certification
17 38 (0.86%) MCSA
17 38 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (8.20%) SLA
2 125 (2.82%) QA
3 114 (2.57%) GDPR
4 79 (1.78%) ISO 9001
5 70 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 63 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 59 (1.33%) PMO
8 55 (1.24%) Accessibility
9 53 (1.19%) Data Quality
10 41 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 25 (0.56%) ISO 14001
12 15 (0.34%) NEBOSH
13 13 (0.29%) COSHH
13 13 (0.29%) GRC
14 11 (0.25%) COBIT
14 11 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.18%) CDISC
15 8 (0.18%) IFRS
15 8 (0.18%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.16%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 946 (21.31%) Active Directory
2 200 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 45 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
5 23 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.47%) Firmware
7 17 (0.38%) vSphere
8 15 (0.34%) KVM
9 14 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
12 9 (0.20%) Docker
12 9 (0.20%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.20%) XenApp
13 7 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
13 7 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.045%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 173 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 154 (3.47%) SCCM
3 45 (1.01%) Data Guard
3 45 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
4 37 (0.83%) EnCase
5 27 (0.61%) WSUS
6 25 (0.56%) Terraform
7 24 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (0.43%) SCOM
9 17 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
10 16 (0.36%) Ansible
11 12 (0.27%) SmoothWall
12 10 (0.23%) Autotask
13 9 (0.20%) AirWatch
13 9 (0.20%) Functional Safety
13 9 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 7 (0.16%) Icinga
16 6 (0.14%) CSIRT
16 6 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3,143 (70.79%) Microsoft
2 248 (5.59%) VMware
3 162 (3.65%) Google
4 159 (3.58%) Apple
5 146 (3.29%) Cisco
6 116 (2.61%) SAP
7 115 (2.59%) Oracle
8 107 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 89 (2.00%) Citrix
10 84 (1.89%) Adobe
11 72 (1.62%) Veeam
12 70 (1.58%) Salesforce
13 62 (1.40%) HP
14 60 (1.35%) Remedy
15 57 (1.28%) Dell
15 57 (1.28%) iManage
16 53 (1.19%) Sun
17 49 (1.10%) Sage
18 43 (0.97%) Sophos
19 38 (0.86%) Meraki