Microsoft Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,274 2,362 2,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.13% 25.55% 21.75%
As % of the Vendors category 53.06% 57.03% 49.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 1,184 1,629
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,955 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,286 4,142 4,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.06% 44.80% 44.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,216 2,187 3,112
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,181
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £60,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,905 £74,225
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,413 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.91% +4.39% +4.43%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the Midlands

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the Midlands

Microsoft
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +1 1,501 £45,000 -10.00% 440
East Midlands 0 764 £37,500 -12.30% 269
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 271 (11.92%) SharePoint
2 211 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 77 (3.39%) IIS
4 23 (1.01%) Confluence
5 14 (0.62%) Skype for Business
6 12 (0.53%) Apache
7 9 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.35%) WordPress
9 6 (0.26%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Office Communications Server
11 4 (0.18%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2003
13 2 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (0.088%) Liferay
Applications
1 500 (21.99%) Microsoft Office
2 283 (12.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 91 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.75%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.44%) Trello
7 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.35%) InDesign
8 8 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.18%) EPLAN
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.088%) Sketch
12 1 (0.044%) Blender
12 1 (0.044%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 91 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.35%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.35%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.18%) Magento
5 4 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.13%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.088%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.088%) Primavera
7 2 (0.088%) Shopify
7 2 (0.088%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.044%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.044%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.044%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 862 (37.91%) Azure
2 731 (32.15%) Microsoft 365
3 354 (15.57%) Power Platform
4 201 (8.84%) Dynamics 365
5 172 (7.56%) Entra ID
6 152 (6.68%) AWS
7 111 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 86 (3.78%) Power Automate
9 82 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (2.33%) SaaS
11 39 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 37 (1.63%) OneDrive
13 36 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
14 33 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 28 (1.23%) PaaS
16 27 (1.19%) GCP
16 27 (1.19%) IaaS
17 24 (1.06%) Azure Stack
18 19 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
19 16 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 236 (10.38%) Firewall
2 201 (8.84%) DNS
3 167 (7.34%) DHCP
4 141 (6.20%) WAN
5 103 (4.53%) SAN
6 101 (4.44%) TCP/IP
7 100 (4.40%) LAN
8 89 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
9 79 (3.47%) VPN
10 66 (2.90%) VLAN
11 41 (1.80%) VoIP
12 37 (1.63%) Wireless
13 34 (1.50%) Internet
13 34 (1.50%) Intranet
13 34 (1.50%) Network Security
14 31 (1.36%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.88%) Broadband
16 18 (0.79%) Unified Communications
17 15 (0.66%) HTTP
18 14 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (17.19%) SQL Server
2 250 (10.99%) Power BI
3 77 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 55 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 45 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 43 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 42 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 32 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (1.19%) Tableau
12 23 (1.01%) MySQL
13 21 (0.92%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.92%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (0.75%) Metadata
16 16 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
17 14 (0.62%) Power Query
18 13 (0.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 54 (2.37%) JIRA
2 50 (2.20%) Git
3 43 (1.89%) Visual Studio
4 13 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 11 (0.48%) Jasmine
5 11 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
6 7 (0.31%) Postman
6 7 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.26%) GitLab
7 6 (0.26%) Moq
8 5 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.22%) MSTest
8 5 (0.22%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.18%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.18%) gulp
9 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.088%) Bower
10 2 (0.088%) Yeoman
General
1 796 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 353 (15.52%) Finance
3 214 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (8.75%) Retail
5 158 (6.95%) Manufacturing
6 100 (4.40%) Marketing
7 96 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (4.22%) Law
7 96 (4.22%) Public Sector
8 90 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 70 (3.08%) Legal
10 54 (2.37%) Local Government
11 47 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 44 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 37 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.45%) Advertising
15 24 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (0.88%) Automotive
17 19 (0.84%) Police
18 18 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 318 (13.98%) Developer
2 301 (13.24%) Analyst
3 219 (9.63%) IT Support
4 211 (9.28%) Senior
5 162 (7.12%) Support Engineer
6 135 (5.94%) IT Engineer
7 124 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 120 (5.28%) Consultant
9 114 (5.01%) Architect
10 106 (4.66%) .NET Developer
10 106 (4.66%) Lead
11 90 (3.96%) IT Technician
12 79 (3.47%) IT Support Engineer
13 78 (3.43%) Administrator
14 74 (3.25%) 1st Line Support
15 66 (2.90%) Support Analyst
16 65 (2.86%) Support Technician
17 64 (2.81%) 2nd Line Support
17 64 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
18 55 (2.42%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (11.35%) .NET
2 125 (5.50%) HTML
3 121 (5.32%) ASP.NET
4 119 (5.23%) .NET Core
5 97 (4.27%) AngularJS
6 91 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 82 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
8 69 (3.03%) CSS
9 66 (2.90%) Entity Framework
9 66 (2.90%) REST
10 57 (2.51%) RESTful
11 54 (2.37%) HTML5
12 52 (2.29%) React
13 49 (2.15%) .NET Framework
14 40 (1.76%) LINQ
15 38 (1.67%) JSON
16 36 (1.58%) Node.js
16 36 (1.58%) Web Services
17 34 (1.50%) Vue
18 30 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (6.99%) Driving Licence
2 156 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
3 107 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 98 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 57 (2.51%) Clustering
6 56 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 36 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.50%) PKI
9 31 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 27 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 26 (1.14%) Cloud Native
12 26 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.01%) Algorithms
14 22 (0.97%) NHS
14 22 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
15 20 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (0.79%) CCTV
18 17 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 702 (30.87%) Windows
2 346 (15.22%) Windows Server
3 141 (6.20%) Windows 10
4 98 (4.31%) Linux
5 73 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 54 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 51 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 46 (2.02%) Android
9 38 (1.67%) Windows 7
10 35 (1.54%) Apple iOS
11 28 (1.23%) Mac OS
12 20 (0.88%) Unix
13 17 (0.75%) Windows 8
14 12 (0.53%) VMS
14 12 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (0.44%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.31%) Solaris
16 7 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
17 6 (0.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
2 347 (15.26%) Agile
3 343 (15.08%) Customer Service
4 262 (11.52%) Business Intelligence
5 254 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
6 228 (10.03%) ITIL
7 211 (9.28%) DevOps
8 168 (7.39%) Project Management
9 162 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 161 (7.08%) ERP
11 160 (7.04%) CRM
12 158 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 149 (6.55%) Mentoring
14 136 (5.98%) Migration
15 134 (5.89%) Roadmaps
16 121 (5.32%) Time Management
17 113 (4.97%) MVC
18 112 (4.93%) Decision-Making
19 104 (4.57%) CI/CD
20 101 (4.44%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 415 (18.25%) SQL
2 244 (10.73%) C#
3 179 (7.87%) JavaScript
4 114 (5.01%) PowerShell
5 77 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 69 (3.03%) Python
7 60 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 39 (1.72%) VB
9 37 (1.63%) VB.NET
10 34 (1.50%) Java
11 22 (0.97%) Bash
12 17 (0.75%) R
13 14 (0.62%) C
13 14 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.62%) VB6
14 13 (0.57%) Bicep
15 9 (0.40%) C++
16 8 (0.35%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
17 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 342 (15.04%) Degree
2 153 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 144 (6.33%) Security Cleared
4 71 (3.12%) DBS Check
5 69 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 45 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 45 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (1.76%) MCP
8 35 (1.54%) A+ Certification
9 34 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.45%) CCNA
11 32 (1.41%) MCSE
12 20 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.84%) CCNP
14 18 (0.79%) MCSA
14 18 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.70%) DV Cleared
16 15 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.66%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.05%) GDPR
2 90 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 77 (3.39%) QA
4 59 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (2.59%) SLA
5 48 (2.11%) ISO 9001
6 36 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 36 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 35 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 25 (1.10%) PMO
9 15 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.62%) NIST
11 8 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.22%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.18%) GRC
14 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.088%) IASME
15 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 511 (22.47%) Active Directory
2 177 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (6.33%) Hyper-V
4 47 (2.07%) Docker
5 30 (1.32%) vSphere
6 28 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.57%) KVM
12 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 8 (0.35%) pfSense
13 8 (0.35%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.35%) VMware Server
14 5 (0.22%) NFS
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.088%) XenApp
16 2 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 147 (6.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (2.42%) SCCM
3 51 (2.24%) Terraform
4 44 (1.93%) Kubernetes
5 35 (1.54%) EnCase
6 17 (0.75%) SCOM
7 13 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
8 12 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.48%) SmoothWall
10 10 (0.44%) AirWatch
11 8 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.31%) Stealthwatch
13 6 (0.26%) Backup Exec
13 6 (0.26%) WSUS
14 5 (0.22%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 262 (11.52%) VMware
2 94 (4.13%) Cisco
3 89 (3.91%) Veeam
4 80 (3.52%) Dell
5 76 (3.34%) Apple
6 64 (2.81%) HP
7 53 (2.33%) Adobe
7 53 (2.33%) Citrix
8 49 (2.15%) Sophos
9 48 (2.11%) Oracle
10 43 (1.89%) Databricks
11 42 (1.85%) Google
12 41 (1.80%) ServiceNow
13 40 (1.76%) Meraki
14 38 (1.67%) Salesforce
15 28 (1.23%) Sage
15 28 (1.23%) SAP
16 25 (1.10%) Facebook
17 23 (1.01%) Aruba
18 22 (0.97%) Fortinet