Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,537 12,233 13,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.66% 20.43% 18.48%
As % of the Vendors category 49.86% 47.82% 46.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,910 6,557 8,469
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,239 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,144 25,581 28,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.42% 42.73% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 17,331 13,166 16,792
10th Percentile £25,759 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.31%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,542 £75,200
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 3,443 £45,000 - 829
North of England 0 2,942 £43,500 -3.33% 921
Midlands +1 2,274 £42,500 -10.53% 711
South West +3 1,609 £46,000 +15.00% 490
North West -2 1,531 £45,000 - 491
West Midlands +1 1,501 £45,000 -10.00% 440
East of England +2 1,229 £38,250 -4.38% 387
Yorkshire +2 987 £42,500 -4.49% 319
East Midlands 0 764 £37,500 -12.30% 272
Scotland -33 576 £45,000 -10.00% 234
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 117
Wales +1 336 £37,500 -1.96% 116
Northern Ireland +7 105 £42,500 -10.53% 58
Isle of Man - 33 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands +1 6 £85,000 +34.92% 3
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,369 (10.92%) SharePoint
2 1,195 (9.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 249 (1.99%) IIS
4 195 (1.56%) Confluence
5 102 (0.81%) CMS
6 67 (0.53%) Umbraco
7 48 (0.38%) Kentico
8 47 (0.37%) Skype for Business
9 45 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.33%) Headless CMS
10 41 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
11 39 (0.31%) Apache
12 38 (0.30%) WordPress
13 35 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
13 35 (0.28%) SAS
14 21 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
16 19 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
17 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,383 (19.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1,537 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 430 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 246 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
5 93 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.39%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 11 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.064%) InfoPath
14 8 (0.064%) Sketch
15 7 (0.056%) Chatbot
16 6 (0.048%) InVision
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
17 5 (0.040%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 394 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.65%) Primavera
4 34 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 32 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 27 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
8 20 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.15%) Shopify
10 18 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
10 18 (0.14%) iTrent
11 15 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
11 15 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
12 14 (0.11%) Magento
13 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
14 11 (0.088%) Maximo
15 10 (0.080%) PlanetPress Connect
16 9 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
17 8 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5,012 (39.98%) Azure
2 3,967 (31.64%) Microsoft 365
3 1,523 (12.15%) Power Platform
4 933 (7.44%) AWS
5 920 (7.34%) Entra ID
6 751 (5.99%) Dynamics 365
7 548 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
8 449 (3.58%) PowerApps
9 420 (3.35%) Power Automate
10 390 (3.11%) SaaS
11 343 (2.74%) OneDrive
12 255 (2.03%) GCP
13 203 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
14 167 (1.33%) PaaS
15 160 (1.28%) IaaS
16 139 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 100 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 96 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
19 95 (0.76%) GitHub
20 79 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1,243 (9.91%) Firewall
2 871 (6.95%) DNS
3 681 (5.43%) WAN
4 664 (5.30%) DHCP
5 595 (4.75%) LAN
6 457 (3.65%) TCP/IP
7 445 (3.55%) VPN
8 415 (3.31%) Broadband
9 380 (3.03%) SAN
10 377 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
11 315 (2.51%) Wireless
12 269 (2.15%) Internet
12 269 (2.15%) VoIP
13 265 (2.11%) VLAN
14 193 (1.54%) Network Security
15 165 (1.32%) Intranet
16 148 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
17 132 (1.05%) SD-WAN
18 121 (0.97%) Unified Communications
19 92 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,042 (16.29%) SQL Server
2 1,003 (8.00%) Power BI
3 340 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 332 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 324 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 255 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 213 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
8 211 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 205 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 151 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 115 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 111 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 111 (0.89%) MySQL
13 92 (0.73%) NoSQL
14 87 (0.69%) Tableau
15 79 (0.63%) MS Access
16 75 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
17 56 (0.45%) Big Data
17 56 (0.45%) Oracle Database
18 55 (0.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 392 (3.13%) Git
2 367 (2.93%) JIRA
3 333 (2.66%) Visual Studio
4 116 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 73 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 63 (0.50%) GitLab
7 60 (0.48%) Sourcetree
8 54 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (0.34%) NUnit
10 40 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 39 (0.31%) Subversion
12 36 (0.29%) Selenium
13 33 (0.26%) Postman
14 29 (0.23%) Moq
15 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.20%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.17%) MSTest
18 20 (0.16%) Cucumber
19 14 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4,448 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 2,124 (16.94%) Finance
3 1,413 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 783 (6.25%) Retail
5 561 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
6 545 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 529 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 529 (4.22%) Legal
8 516 (4.12%) Law
9 497 (3.96%) Manufacturing
10 471 (3.76%) Marketing
11 365 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
12 359 (2.86%) Telecoms
13 333 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
14 234 (1.87%) Games
15 169 (1.35%) Local Government
16 163 (1.30%) Advertising
17 159 (1.27%) Banking
18 156 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
19 109 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,914 (15.27%) Developer
2 1,706 (13.61%) Analyst
3 1,332 (10.62%) Senior
4 1,208 (9.64%) IT Support
5 1,007 (8.03%) Support Engineer
6 826 (6.59%) .NET Developer
7 821 (6.55%) IT Engineer
8 679 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 670 (5.34%) Lead
10 630 (5.03%) Architect
11 579 (4.62%) Consultant
12 554 (4.42%) IT Support Engineer
13 504 (4.02%) Administrator
14 421 (3.36%) IT Technician
15 413 (3.29%) 2nd Line Support
16 368 (2.94%) C# Developer
17 344 (2.74%) Support Technician
18 340 (2.71%) IT Analyst
19 337 (2.69%) Support Analyst
20 328 (2.62%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,591 (12.69%) .NET
2 897 (7.15%) ASP.NET
3 838 (6.68%) .NET Core
4 715 (5.70%) ASP.NET MVC
5 646 (5.15%) AngularJS
6 620 (4.95%) HTML
7 585 (4.67%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.52%) Entity Framework
9 551 (4.39%) ASP.NET Web API
10 429 (3.42%) CSS
11 405 (3.23%) React
12 335 (2.67%) HTML5
13 278 (2.22%) RESTful
14 255 (2.03%) Vue
15 245 (1.95%) Node.js
16 207 (1.65%) Web Services
17 199 (1.59%) REST
18 181 (1.44%) Blazor
19 175 (1.40%) LINQ
20 168 (1.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 696 (5.55%) Self-Motivation
2 625 (4.99%) Driving Licence
3 537 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 419 (3.34%) Data Centre
5 274 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 244 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 169 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 167 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 165 (1.32%) PKI
10 155 (1.24%) Social Media
11 150 (1.20%) Clustering
12 146 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 132 (1.05%) Replication
14 110 (0.88%) Mobile App
15 109 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 105 (0.84%) NHS
17 100 (0.80%) Cloud Native
18 98 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
19 88 (0.70%) Smartphone
20 84 (0.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3,613 (28.82%) Windows
2 1,642 (13.10%) Windows Server
3 1,012 (8.07%) Windows 10
4 759 (6.05%) Linux
5 374 (2.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 370 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 305 (2.43%) Android
8 288 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 223 (1.78%) Apple iOS
10 203 (1.62%) Windows 7
11 195 (1.56%) Mac OS
12 132 (1.05%) Ubuntu
13 123 (0.98%) VMS
14 96 (0.77%) Unix
15 93 (0.74%) Windows 8
16 80 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
17 68 (0.54%) CentOS
18 42 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.27%) Mac OS X
20 31 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,650 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
2 2,325 (18.55%) Agile
3 1,929 (15.39%) Customer Service
4 1,470 (11.73%) ITIL
5 1,199 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
6 1,166 (9.30%) DevOps
7 1,068 (8.52%) Project Management
8 1,060 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
9 1,020 (8.14%) Mentoring
10 901 (7.19%) CRM
11 872 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 838 (6.68%) MVC
13 817 (6.52%) Full Stack Development
14 782 (6.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 705 (5.62%) Roadmaps
16 693 (5.53%) Migration
17 679 (5.42%) Decision-Making
18 676 (5.39%) Microservices
19 630 (5.03%) Scrum
20 627 (5.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2,038 (16.26%) SQL
2 1,684 (13.43%) C#
3 1,171 (9.34%) JavaScript
4 816 (6.51%) PowerShell
5 401 (3.20%) T-SQL
6 381 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 368 (2.94%) Python
8 220 (1.75%) Bash
9 192 (1.53%) Java
10 119 (0.95%) VB
11 108 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 103 (0.82%) C++
13 86 (0.69%) C
14 57 (0.45%) R
15 45 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 44 (0.35%) Bicep
16 44 (0.35%) VBA
17 43 (0.34%) VBScript
18 41 (0.33%) Shell Script
19 40 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,993 (15.90%) Degree
2 1,108 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 855 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 663 (5.29%) SC Cleared
5 389 (3.10%) DBS Check
6 300 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
7 290 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 280 (2.23%) Azure Certification
9 246 (1.96%) CCNA
10 242 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 240 (1.91%) CIMA
12 239 (1.91%) ACCA
13 225 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 194 (1.55%) MCP
15 193 (1.54%) A+ Certification
16 144 (1.15%) MCSE
17 137 (1.09%) PMI Certification
18 112 (0.89%) CCNP
19 110 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
20 98 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 584 (4.66%) SLA
2 381 (3.04%) GDPR
3 332 (2.65%) QA
4 242 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 233 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 120 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 107 (0.85%) ISO 9001
8 97 (0.77%) PMO
9 95 (0.76%) Accessibility
10 92 (0.73%) NIST
11 85 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 54 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 27 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 25 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 23 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 21 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
18 17 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.13%) GRC
19 16 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,923 (23.31%) Active Directory
2 915 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 790 (6.30%) Hyper-V
4 233 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 186 (1.48%) Docker
6 162 (1.29%) vSphere
7 127 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 118 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 72 (0.57%) XenApp
10 58 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 52 (0.41%) Firmware
11 52 (0.41%) KVM
12 47 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 46 (0.37%) VMware NSX
14 45 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 28 (0.22%) VirtualBox
16 26 (0.21%) VMware Server
17 21 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 18 (0.14%) pfSense
19 16 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 897 (7.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 422 (3.37%) SCCM
3 237 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 170 (1.36%) Terraform
5 121 (0.97%) SCOM
6 118 (0.94%) WSUS
7 104 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
8 88 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 76 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 76 (0.61%) Ansible
10 42 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
11 41 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 39 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 35 (0.28%) EnCase
14 32 (0.26%) NetBackup
15 31 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 30 (0.24%) ZABBIX
17 29 (0.23%) CASB
18 28 (0.22%) Backup Exec
19 27 (0.22%) Autotask
Vendors
1 1,404 (11.20%) VMware
2 595 (4.75%) Cisco
3 479 (3.82%) Google
4 403 (3.21%) Citrix
5 392 (3.13%) Apple
6 327 (2.61%) Oracle
7 316 (2.52%) Veeam
8 265 (2.11%) Dell
9 251 (2.00%) HP
10 227 (1.81%) Adobe
11 226 (1.80%) SAP
12 199 (1.59%) ServiceNow
13 184 (1.47%) Meraki
14 140 (1.12%) Sophos
15 136 (1.08%) Fortinet
16 127 (1.01%) Salesforce
17 110 (0.88%) Databricks
18 107 (0.85%) Sage
19 105 (0.84%) Red Hat
20 98 (0.78%) NetApp