Microsoft Jobs in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 15,993 16,945 19,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.62% 18.86% 14.80%
As % of the Vendors category 50.30% 44.80% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 12,236 10,027 12,890
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,622
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £35,250
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 median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 31,794 37,824 51,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.01% 42.10% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 22,742 21,726 28,836
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,924 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,413 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.91% +4.39% +4.43%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +5 4,363 £60,500 -3.20% 1,259
South East +3 3,443 £45,000 - 830
North of England 0 2,942 £43,500 -3.33% 920
Midlands +1 2,274 £42,500 -10.53% 709
South West +3 1,609 £46,000 +15.00% 486
North West -2 1,531 £45,000 - 489
West Midlands +1 1,501 £45,000 -10.00% 441
East of England +2 1,229 £38,250 -4.38% 384
Yorkshire +2 987 £42,500 -4.49% 319
East Midlands 0 764 £37,500 -12.30% 269
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 118
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1,706 (10.67%) SharePoint
2 1,570 (9.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 286 (1.79%) IIS
4 187 (1.17%) Confluence
5 142 (0.89%) CMS
6 71 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 71 (0.44%) Umbraco
7 66 (0.41%) Apache
8 60 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 54 (0.34%) Kentico
10 49 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
11 48 (0.30%) SAS
12 45 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.27%) WordPress
14 41 (0.26%) Headless CMS
15 40 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
16 29 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 23 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
18 22 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
19 20 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,933 (18.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2,154 (13.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 592 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 249 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 122 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 63 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 23 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 23 (0.14%) InDesign
10 17 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 17 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 15 (0.094%) Trello
12 13 (0.081%) SPSS
13 11 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
14 8 (0.050%) Acrobat
14 8 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
14 8 (0.050%) Sketch
15 7 (0.044%) Adobe Captivate
15 7 (0.044%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 550 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 99 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 76 (0.48%) Primavera
4 41 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
5 35 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 26 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 25 (0.16%) Shopify
9 24 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 22 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 20 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 19 (0.12%) iTrent
13 17 (0.11%) Magento
14 16 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
15 15 (0.094%) Elite 3E
15 15 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
16 14 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
17 13 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
18 11 (0.069%) Maximo
19 10 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6,557 (41.00%) Azure
2 4,874 (30.48%) Microsoft 365
3 2,067 (12.92%) Power Platform
4 1,280 (8.00%) AWS
5 1,243 (7.77%) Entra ID
6 1,110 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
7 773 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 636 (3.98%) PowerApps
9 618 (3.86%) SaaS
10 606 (3.79%) Power Automate
11 406 (2.54%) OneDrive
12 378 (2.36%) GCP
13 312 (1.95%) PaaS
14 296 (1.85%) IaaS
15 227 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
16 206 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 179 (1.12%) Serverless
18 167 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 139 (0.87%) GitHub
20 131 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,494 (9.34%) Firewall
2 1,045 (6.53%) DNS
3 907 (5.67%) WAN
4 800 (5.00%) Broadband
5 779 (4.87%) DHCP
6 749 (4.68%) LAN
7 572 (3.58%) VPN
8 517 (3.23%) TCP/IP
9 477 (2.98%) Wireless
10 455 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
11 444 (2.78%) SAN
12 325 (2.03%) VLAN
13 324 (2.03%) Internet
14 284 (1.78%) VoIP
15 279 (1.74%) Network Security
16 276 (1.73%) SD-WAN
17 223 (1.39%) 5G
18 200 (1.25%) Intranet
19 159 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
20 145 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,444 (15.28%) SQL Server
2 1,332 (8.33%) Power BI
3 428 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 426 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 407 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 309 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 289 (1.81%) MongoDB
8 260 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 259 (1.62%) Relational Database
10 253 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
11 162 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 135 (0.84%) Tableau
13 129 (0.81%) MySQL
14 123 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
15 116 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
16 98 (0.61%) Big Data
16 98 (0.61%) NoSQL
17 88 (0.55%) MS Access
18 79 (0.49%) Oracle Database
19 71 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 452 (2.83%) Git
2 405 (2.53%) JIRA
3 367 (2.29%) Visual Studio
4 120 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 107 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 97 (0.61%) GitLab
7 72 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 69 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.41%) Sourcetree
10 44 (0.28%) NUnit
10 44 (0.28%) Subversion
11 41 (0.26%) Selenium
12 38 (0.24%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.21%) Postman
14 27 (0.17%) Jasmine
14 27 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
15 23 (0.14%) Moq
16 22 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 16 (0.10%) MSTest
18 15 (0.094%) Balsamiq
General
1 5,754 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 3,296 (20.61%) Finance
3 2,222 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 929 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 905 (5.66%) Retail
6 752 (4.70%) Law
7 736 (4.60%) Legal
8 681 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
9 652 (4.08%) Public Sector
10 640 (4.00%) Marketing
11 586 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
12 475 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 460 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
14 389 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 359 (2.24%) Banking
16 258 (1.61%) Games
17 215 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
18 208 (1.30%) Advertising
19 185 (1.16%) Local Government
20 159 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,363 (14.78%) Analyst
2 2,257 (14.11%) Developer
3 2,078 (12.99%) Senior
4 1,404 (8.78%) IT Support
5 1,093 (6.83%) Support Engineer
6 996 (6.23%) Architect
7 924 (5.78%) .NET Developer
8 887 (5.55%) IT Engineer
9 856 (5.35%) Lead
10 828 (5.18%) Consultant
11 783 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 588 (3.68%) IT Support Engineer
13 581 (3.63%) Administrator
14 451 (2.82%) 2nd Line Support
15 442 (2.76%) IT Analyst
16 436 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
17 432 (2.70%) Support Analyst
18 425 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
19 421 (2.63%) C# Developer
20 413 (2.58%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,968 (12.31%) .NET
2 1,005 (6.28%) ASP.NET
3 950 (5.94%) .NET Core
4 778 (4.86%) ASP.NET MVC
5 735 (4.60%) AngularJS
6 715 (4.47%) HTML
7 683 (4.27%) .NET Framework
8 627 (3.92%) ASP.NET Web API
9 613 (3.83%) Entity Framework
10 496 (3.10%) React
11 491 (3.07%) CSS
12 361 (2.26%) HTML5
13 335 (2.09%) RESTful
14 288 (1.80%) Node.js
14 288 (1.80%) Vue
15 264 (1.65%) Web Services
16 239 (1.49%) JSON
16 239 (1.49%) REST
17 195 (1.22%) Blazor
18 194 (1.21%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 888 (5.55%) Self-Motivation
2 719 (4.50%) Management Information System
3 619 (3.87%) Driving Licence
4 496 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 337 (2.11%) Social Media
6 301 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 296 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 244 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
9 240 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 223 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 211 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 201 (1.26%) PKI
13 154 (0.96%) Cloud Native
14 153 (0.96%) Replication
15 140 (0.88%) Clustering
16 130 (0.81%) Mobile App
17 129 (0.81%) NHS
18 128 (0.80%) Low-Code
19 119 (0.74%) Smartphone
20 103 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,398 (27.50%) Windows
2 1,907 (11.92%) Windows Server
3 1,320 (8.25%) Windows 10
4 1,035 (6.47%) Linux
5 478 (2.99%) Android
6 434 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 429 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 315 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 305 (1.91%) Apple iOS
10 288 (1.80%) Ubuntu
11 242 (1.51%) Mac OS
12 228 (1.43%) Windows 7
13 128 (0.80%) Unix
14 127 (0.79%) VMS
15 92 (0.58%) Windows 8
15 92 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
16 69 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 64 (0.40%) CentOS
18 54 (0.34%) Mac OS X
19 37 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,196 (19.98%) Agile
2 3,180 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
3 2,123 (13.27%) Customer Service
4 1,760 (11.00%) ITIL
5 1,573 (9.84%) DevOps
6 1,532 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
7 1,524 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
8 1,454 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 1,314 (8.22%) Project Management
10 1,277 (7.98%) CRM
11 1,021 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,009 (6.31%) Decision-Making
13 937 (5.86%) MVC
14 923 (5.77%) Full Stack Development
15 888 (5.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 877 (5.48%) Roadmaps
17 855 (5.35%) Migration
18 821 (5.13%) Microservices
19 814 (5.09%) Scrum
20 807 (5.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,597 (16.24%) SQL
2 2,068 (12.93%) C#
3 1,403 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 1,153 (7.21%) PowerShell
5 634 (3.96%) Python
6 521 (3.26%) T-SQL
7 440 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 429 (2.68%) Bash
9 235 (1.47%) Java
10 126 (0.79%) VB
11 124 (0.78%) C++
12 109 (0.68%) VB.NET
13 105 (0.66%) C
14 93 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 85 (0.53%) Bicep
16 81 (0.51%) R
17 59 (0.37%) VBA
18 49 (0.31%) Shell Script
19 47 (0.29%) PL/SQL
19 47 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,627 (16.43%) Degree
2 1,176 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 1,080 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 717 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 491 (3.07%) ACCA
6 472 (2.95%) CIMA
6 472 (2.95%) DBS Check
7 450 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 432 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 383 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 300 (1.88%) DV Cleared
11 262 (1.64%) CCNA
12 244 (1.53%) Master's Degree
13 220 (1.38%) A+ Certification
13 220 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 211 (1.32%) CISSP
15 208 (1.30%) MCP
16 189 (1.18%) MCSE
17 172 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 155 (0.97%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 754 (4.71%) SLA
2 449 (2.81%) GDPR
3 436 (2.73%) QA
4 369 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 275 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 207 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 149 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 148 (0.93%) NIST
9 120 (0.75%) PMO
10 112 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 107 (0.67%) ISO 9001
12 54 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 36 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 36 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 35 (0.22%) GRC
15 31 (0.19%) COBIT
16 30 (0.19%) NCSC
17 28 (0.18%) IFRS
18 27 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
18 27 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3,774 (23.60%) Active Directory
2 1,097 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 846 (5.29%) Hyper-V
4 270 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 266 (1.66%) Docker
6 255 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
7 196 (1.23%) vSphere
8 177 (1.11%) XenApp
9 154 (0.96%) XenDesktop
10 133 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
11 108 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
12 80 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 59 (0.37%) Firmware
14 49 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 45 (0.28%) KVM
16 31 (0.19%) VMware NSX
17 28 (0.18%) VirtualBox
18 27 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 26 (0.16%) VMware Server
20 20 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,238 (7.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 635 (3.97%) SCCM
3 347 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 329 (2.06%) Terraform
5 274 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
6 150 (0.94%) WSUS
7 128 (0.80%) SCOM
8 122 (0.76%) Ansible
9 120 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 109 (0.68%) AirWatch
11 99 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 97 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 59 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 45 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
15 40 (0.25%) NetBackup
15 40 (0.25%) Puppet
16 39 (0.24%) Grafana
17 36 (0.23%) CASB
18 35 (0.22%) EnCase
19 33 (0.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1,652 (10.33%) VMware
2 872 (5.45%) Cisco
3 641 (4.01%) Google
4 595 (3.72%) Citrix
5 501 (3.13%) Apple
6 421 (2.63%) Oracle
7 379 (2.37%) Dell
8 365 (2.28%) Veeam
9 340 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 322 (2.01%) HP
11 289 (1.81%) Adobe
12 240 (1.50%) SAP
13 237 (1.48%) CyberArk
14 210 (1.31%) Tanium
15 194 (1.21%) Meraki
16 185 (1.16%) Databricks
17 163 (1.02%) Salesforce
18 149 (0.93%) Fortinet
19 136 (0.85%) Red Hat
20 132 (0.83%) Sophos