Microsoft Jobs in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,443 2,537 3,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.47% 17.53% 18.28%
As % of the Vendors category 52.17% 43.29% 46.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,533 1,837 2,391
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,599 5,861 7,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.24% 40.50% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,478 3,549 4,884
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £78,750
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South East

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East 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
Thames Valley +2 1,293 £45,000 -1.32% 292
Hampshire +7 756 £45,000 +12.50% 183
Surrey +7 661 £47,500 -7.77% 88
Berkshire 0 582 £47,750 +4.37% 107
Buckinghamshire -2 387 £42,500 +21.43% 105
Oxfordshire +1 324 £43,000 -18.10% 80
Kent +5 295 £42,500 +6.25% 82
West Sussex +5 162 £50,000 -16.67% 42
East Sussex +1 159 £42,500 -20.19% 41
Middlesex +22 81 £39,190 -49.43% 1
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 1
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 392 (11.39%) SharePoint
2 310 (9.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.37%) IIS
4 44 (1.28%) CMS
5 27 (0.78%) Kentico
6 24 (0.70%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
7 22 (0.64%) Umbraco
8 20 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
9 15 (0.44%) Confluence
10 11 (0.32%) WordPress
11 9 (0.26%) SAS
12 7 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
13 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
15 4 (0.12%) TWiki
16 3 (0.087%) Skype for Business
17 2 (0.058%) Alfresco
17 2 (0.058%) Documentum
Applications
1 655 (19.02%) Microsoft Office
2 626 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 131 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
4 109 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.17%) InVision
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.12%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.12%) Simulink
10 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.087%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.087%) Revit
12 2 (0.058%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 106 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (1.74%) Primavera
3 18 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.15%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.087%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.087%) SAP MDM
9 2 (0.058%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.058%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,368 (39.73%) Azure
2 1,049 (30.47%) Microsoft 365
3 344 (9.99%) Power Platform
4 271 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 187 (5.43%) AWS
6 158 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
7 136 (3.95%) OneDrive
8 125 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (2.96%) Power Automate
9 102 (2.96%) PowerApps
10 89 (2.58%) SaaS
11 63 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
12 43 (1.25%) PaaS
13 40 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
14 36 (1.05%) IaaS
15 32 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
16 29 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 24 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
17 24 (0.70%) GitHub
17 24 (0.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 396 (11.50%) Firewall
2 298 (8.66%) Broadband
3 247 (7.17%) DNS
4 196 (5.69%) DHCP
5 149 (4.33%) VPN
6 130 (3.78%) TCP/IP
7 127 (3.69%) LAN
8 117 (3.40%) Wireless
9 116 (3.37%) WAN
10 80 (2.32%) VLAN
10 80 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
11 77 (2.24%) 5G
12 74 (2.15%) VoIP
13 67 (1.95%) Intranet
14 66 (1.92%) Internet
15 55 (1.60%) Unified Communications
16 52 (1.51%) SAN
17 50 (1.45%) Network Security
18 33 (0.96%) SD-WAN
19 30 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (13.53%) SQL Server
2 238 (6.91%) Power BI
3 84 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 80 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 76 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
6 65 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 43 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 29 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.61%) Power Query
14 18 (0.52%) MySQL
15 14 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 14 (0.41%) Tableau
16 13 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 10 (0.29%) Oracle Database
19 9 (0.26%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 83 (2.41%) JIRA
2 81 (2.35%) Visual Studio
3 71 (2.06%) Git
4 46 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.96%) GitLab
6 21 (0.61%) NUnit
6 21 (0.61%) Subversion
7 12 (0.35%) Selenium
7 12 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.29%) Postman
8 10 (0.29%) Trac
9 9 (0.26%) eggPlant
9 9 (0.26%) JMeter
9 9 (0.26%) MSI
10 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.17%) Newman
11 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.15%) MSBuild
General
1 1,355 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 600 (17.43%) Finance
3 562 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (6.42%) Influencing Skills
4 221 (6.42%) Retail
5 204 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
6 150 (4.36%) Legal
7 133 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 120 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 106 (3.08%) Law
10 93 (2.70%) Marketing
11 91 (2.64%) Public Sector
12 86 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 83 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 64 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
15 59 (1.71%) Games
16 52 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 48 (1.39%) Advertising
18 38 (1.10%) Automotive
18 38 (1.10%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 565 (16.41%) Analyst
2 428 (12.43%) Developer
2 428 (12.43%) Senior
3 322 (9.35%) IT Support
4 274 (7.96%) Support Engineer
5 268 (7.78%) .NET Developer
6 230 (6.68%) IT Engineer
7 178 (5.17%) Lead
8 170 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
9 164 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 162 (4.71%) Consultant
11 160 (4.65%) Architect
12 156 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
13 143 (4.15%) Administrator
14 123 (3.57%) C# Developer
15 108 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
15 108 (3.14%) IT Analyst
16 106 (3.08%) Support Analyst
17 103 (2.99%) 2nd Line Support
18 98 (2.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 451 (13.10%) .NET
2 263 (7.64%) ASP.NET
3 256 (7.44%) .NET Core
4 218 (6.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 190 (5.52%) .NET Framework
6 176 (5.11%) AngularJS
7 172 (5.00%) Entity Framework
8 153 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
9 146 (4.24%) React
10 122 (3.54%) HTML
11 94 (2.73%) Node.js
12 92 (2.67%) HTML5
13 86 (2.50%) CSS
14 80 (2.32%) RESTful
15 78 (2.27%) Vue
16 52 (1.51%) CSS3
17 50 (1.45%) Blazor
18 49 (1.42%) LINQ
19 48 (1.39%) Web Services
20 43 (1.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 242 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
2 126 (3.66%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.43%) Driving Licence
4 96 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 89 (2.58%) Social Media
6 78 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 68 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 55 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 52 (1.51%) PKI
10 44 (1.28%) Replication
11 38 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.02%) NHS
13 34 (0.99%) Client/Server
13 34 (0.99%) IoT
14 30 (0.87%) Mobile App
15 29 (0.84%) PMI
15 29 (0.84%) Public Cloud
16 28 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
17 27 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,020 (29.63%) Windows
2 455 (13.22%) Windows Server
3 346 (10.05%) Windows 10
4 264 (7.67%) Linux
5 124 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 115 (3.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 103 (2.99%) Ubuntu
8 90 (2.61%) Android
9 82 (2.38%) Windows 7
10 80 (2.32%) Apple iOS
11 76 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
12 46 (1.34%) Windows 8
13 45 (1.31%) Mac OS
14 30 (0.87%) VMS
15 23 (0.67%) CentOS
16 20 (0.58%) Unix
17 16 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 16 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
17 16 (0.46%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.44%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
2 806 (23.41%) Agile
3 536 (15.57%) Customer Service
4 364 (10.57%) ITIL
5 346 (10.05%) Cybersecurity
6 331 (9.61%) Mentoring
7 328 (9.53%) Project Management
8 303 (8.80%) DevOps
9 298 (8.66%) Decision-Making
10 275 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
11 269 (7.81%) CRM
12 248 (7.20%) Full Stack Development
13 247 (7.17%) Actionable Insight
14 245 (7.12%) MVC
15 211 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 209 (6.07%) Business Case
17 200 (5.81%) Budgeting
18 197 (5.72%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 189 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence
20 183 (5.32%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 477 (13.85%) C#
2 450 (13.07%) SQL
3 326 (9.47%) JavaScript
4 214 (6.22%) PowerShell
5 124 (3.60%) Python
6 110 (3.19%) Bash
7 108 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 73 (2.12%) T-SQL
9 69 (2.00%) C++
10 59 (1.71%) C
11 43 (1.25%) Java
12 37 (1.07%) Fortran
13 30 (0.87%) VB
14 29 (0.84%) VBScript
15 17 (0.49%) Bicep
16 13 (0.38%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.35%) Perl
18 11 (0.32%) MATLAB
18 11 (0.32%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 565 (16.41%) Degree
2 372 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.69%) ACCA
4 195 (5.66%) CIMA
5 191 (5.55%) SC Cleared
6 179 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 162 (4.71%) DV Cleared
8 143 (4.15%) DBS Check
9 110 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
10 80 (2.32%) CCNA
11 76 (2.21%) Azure Certification
12 62 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 55 (1.60%) MCP
14 40 (1.16%) CCNP
14 40 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 40 (1.16%) NVQ Level 3
15 39 (1.13%) A+ Certification
16 37 (1.07%) CISSP
16 37 (1.07%) PMI Certification
17 35 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (5.14%) SLA
2 105 (3.05%) GDPR
3 72 (2.09%) QA
4 43 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 29 (0.84%) PMO
8 23 (0.67%) NIST
9 21 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 14 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) ISO 13485
17 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.17%) NCSC
18 4 (0.12%) Automotive SPICE
18 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 823 (23.90%) Active Directory
2 240 (6.97%) Hyper-V
3 235 (6.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (1.57%) Docker
6 48 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 44 (1.28%) Firmware
8 41 (1.19%) vSphere
9 38 (1.10%) XenApp
10 32 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
11 31 (0.90%) XenDesktop
12 28 (0.81%) VirtualBox
13 14 (0.41%) KVM
14 12 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
15 11 (0.32%) NFS
16 10 (0.29%) pfSense
17 8 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.15%) Terminal Services
19 4 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 278 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 140 (4.07%) SCCM
3 73 (2.12%) Kubernetes
4 71 (2.06%) Jamf Pro
5 58 (1.68%) WSUS
6 54 (1.57%) SCOM
7 34 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 33 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 29 (0.84%) Terraform
10 26 (0.76%) Ansible
11 19 (0.55%) NetBackup
12 18 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.46%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.44%) Grafana
15 13 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
15 13 (0.38%) ServiceCenter
16 12 (0.35%) Sysprep
17 10 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 345 (10.02%) VMware
2 197 (5.72%) Cisco
3 128 (3.72%) Citrix
4 122 (3.54%) Apple
5 98 (2.85%) Google
6 92 (2.67%) Adobe
7 90 (2.61%) Veeam
8 71 (2.06%) HP
9 67 (1.95%) CyberArk
9 67 (1.95%) Tanium
10 57 (1.66%) Meraki
11 56 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 55 (1.60%) Dell
13 50 (1.45%) Oracle
14 49 (1.42%) Juniper
15 47 (1.37%) Palo Alto
16 43 (1.25%) SAP
17 40 (1.16%) Salesforce
18 36 (1.05%) Aruba
19 33 (0.96%) Red Hat