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 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,649 12,067 13,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.28% 20.68% 18.44%
As % of the Vendors category 50.13% 48.50% 46.57%
Number of salaries quoted 9,896 6,402 8,519
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £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 25,231 24,881 28,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.46% 42.63% 39.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,281 12,899 16,799
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £77,500 £76,250
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 25 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 25 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 3,473 £45,000 -1.64% 1,234
North of England -1 2,983 £43,500 -3.33% 1,076
Midlands +1 2,312 £42,500 -10.63% 761
South West +2 1,635 £46,000 +15.00% 517
North West -2 1,559 £45,000 - 587
West Midlands +1 1,520 £45,000 -10.00% 470
East of England +2 1,222 £38,500 -3.75% 477
Yorkshire +2 993 £42,500 -3.48% 358
East Midlands 0 783 £37,500 -12.30% 281
Scotland -33 566 £45,000 -5.26% 268
North East +3 430 £42,500 +6.25% 140
Wales +2 334 £37,750 -1.77% 116
Northern Ireland +2 104 £41,750 -12.11% 64
Isle of Man +6 31 £46,250 -36.21%
Channel Islands +2 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
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 1,347 (10.65%) SharePoint
2 1,180 (9.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 239 (1.89%) IIS
4 184 (1.45%) Confluence
5 102 (0.81%) CMS
6 64 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 48 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 47 (0.37%) Kentico
9 45 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.32%) Apache
10 41 (0.32%) Headless CMS
11 40 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
12 38 (0.30%) WordPress
13 35 (0.28%) SAS
14 34 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
15 21 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 21 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
17 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
17 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,420 (19.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1,579 (12.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 416 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 247 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
5 94 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 51 (0.40%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 11 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.063%) Chatbot
14 8 (0.063%) InfoPath
14 8 (0.063%) Sketch
15 6 (0.047%) InVision
16 5 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
16 5 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.040%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 395 (3.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 90 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.65%) Primavera
4 38 (0.30%) NEC Housing
5 31 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 27 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
8 19 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 19 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
8 19 (0.15%) Shopify
9 17 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 16 (0.13%) iTrent
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 (0.087%) ResourceLink
15 9 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
16 8 (0.063%) Maximo
16 8 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5,001 (39.54%) Azure
2 3,923 (31.01%) Microsoft 365
3 1,531 (12.10%) Power Platform
4 961 (7.60%) Entra ID
5 926 (7.32%) AWS
6 772 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
7 548 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
8 459 (3.63%) PowerApps
9 423 (3.34%) Power Automate
10 382 (3.02%) SaaS
11 348 (2.75%) OneDrive
12 254 (2.01%) GCP
13 198 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
14 160 (1.26%) PaaS
15 158 (1.25%) IaaS
16 135 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 102 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 96 (0.76%) GitHub
19 93 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
20 78 (0.62%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1,233 (9.75%) Firewall
2 869 (6.87%) DNS
3 674 (5.33%) WAN
4 664 (5.25%) DHCP
5 589 (4.66%) LAN
6 458 (3.62%) TCP/IP
7 443 (3.50%) VPN
8 410 (3.24%) Broadband
9 385 (3.04%) SAN
10 377 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
11 318 (2.51%) Wireless
12 270 (2.13%) Internet
13 265 (2.10%) VLAN
14 258 (2.04%) VoIP
15 195 (1.54%) Network Security
16 164 (1.30%) Intranet
17 151 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
18 139 (1.10%) SD-WAN
19 122 (0.96%) Unified Communications
20 94 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,028 (16.03%) SQL Server
2 1,011 (7.99%) Power BI
3 333 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 332 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 322 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 262 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 215 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
8 206 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 205 (1.62%) Relational Database
10 153 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 116 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 115 (0.91%) MySQL
13 109 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
14 86 (0.68%) NoSQL
15 85 (0.67%) Tableau
16 79 (0.62%) MS Access
17 73 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
18 58 (0.46%) Power Query
19 57 (0.45%) Big Data
20 55 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 385 (3.04%) Git
2 353 (2.79%) JIRA
3 326 (2.58%) Visual Studio
4 106 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 77 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 67 (0.53%) GitLab
7 60 (0.47%) Sourcetree
8 52 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.34%) NUnit
10 38 (0.30%) Selenium
10 38 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 38 (0.30%) Subversion
11 33 (0.26%) Postman
12 29 (0.23%) Moq
13 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
13 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
14 25 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.17%) Cucumber
15 21 (0.17%) MSTest
16 14 (0.11%) eggPlant
General
1 4,456 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 2,245 (17.75%) Finance
3 1,459 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 829 (6.55%) Retail
5 573 (4.53%) Legal
6 551 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
7 532 (4.21%) Public Sector
8 530 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 510 (4.03%) Law
10 509 (4.02%) Marketing
11 490 (3.87%) Manufacturing
12 369 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
13 362 (2.86%) Telecoms
14 329 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
15 224 (1.77%) Games
16 202 (1.60%) Banking
17 175 (1.38%) Local Government
18 168 (1.33%) Advertising
19 149 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
20 114 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,918 (15.16%) Developer
2 1,733 (13.70%) Analyst
3 1,400 (11.07%) Senior
4 1,211 (9.57%) IT Support
5 1,002 (7.92%) Support Engineer
6 839 (6.63%) .NET Developer
7 816 (6.45%) IT Engineer
8 693 (5.48%) Lead
9 679 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 657 (5.19%) Architect
11 597 (4.72%) Consultant
12 552 (4.36%) IT Support Engineer
13 504 (3.98%) Administrator
14 425 (3.36%) IT Technician
15 410 (3.24%) 2nd Line Support
16 374 (2.96%) C# Developer
17 347 (2.74%) Support Technician
18 339 (2.68%) IT Analyst
19 337 (2.66%) Support Analyst
20 329 (2.60%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,600 (12.65%) .NET
2 893 (7.06%) ASP.NET
3 842 (6.66%) .NET Core
4 715 (5.65%) ASP.NET MVC
5 645 (5.10%) AngularJS
6 616 (4.87%) HTML
7 587 (4.64%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.48%) Entity Framework
9 556 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
10 422 (3.34%) CSS
11 405 (3.20%) React
12 336 (2.66%) HTML5
13 276 (2.18%) RESTful
14 260 (2.06%) Vue
15 245 (1.94%) Node.js
16 211 (1.67%) Web Services
17 190 (1.50%) REST
18 183 (1.45%) Blazor
19 175 (1.38%) LINQ
20 168 (1.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 680 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
2 622 (4.92%) Driving Licence
3 559 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 420 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 274 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 238 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 170 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 167 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 165 (1.30%) PKI
10 156 (1.23%) Social Media
11 143 (1.13%) Clustering
11 143 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 134 (1.06%) Replication
13 111 (0.88%) Mobile App
14 109 (0.86%) NHS
15 106 (0.84%) Low-Code
16 100 (0.79%) Cloud Native
17 93 (0.74%) Smartphone
18 90 (0.71%) Algorithms
19 88 (0.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3,603 (28.48%) Windows
2 1,624 (12.84%) Windows Server
3 1,020 (8.06%) Windows 10
4 778 (6.15%) Linux
5 382 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 368 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 305 (2.41%) Android
8 289 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 223 (1.76%) Apple iOS
10 199 (1.57%) Windows 7
11 193 (1.53%) Mac OS
12 133 (1.05%) Ubuntu
13 124 (0.98%) VMS
14 101 (0.80%) Unix
15 86 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
16 85 (0.67%) Windows 8
17 70 (0.55%) CentOS
18 41 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.27%) Mac OS X
20 31 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,631 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
2 2,420 (19.13%) Agile
3 1,924 (15.21%) Customer Service
4 1,467 (11.60%) ITIL
5 1,205 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
6 1,164 (9.20%) DevOps
7 1,083 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
8 1,074 (8.49%) Project Management
9 1,038 (8.21%) Mentoring
10 898 (7.10%) CRM
11 865 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 832 (6.58%) MVC
13 819 (6.47%) Full Stack Development
14 787 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 755 (5.97%) Roadmaps
16 690 (5.45%) Migration
17 678 (5.36%) Decision-Making
18 674 (5.33%) Microservices
19 629 (4.97%) ERP
20 614 (4.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,073 (16.39%) SQL
2 1,692 (13.38%) C#
3 1,170 (9.25%) JavaScript
4 850 (6.72%) PowerShell
5 399 (3.15%) T-SQL
6 377 (2.98%) Python
6 377 (2.98%) TypeScript
7 229 (1.81%) Bash
8 188 (1.49%) Java
9 120 (0.95%) VB
10 112 (0.89%) VB.NET
11 111 (0.88%) C++
12 90 (0.71%) C
13 57 (0.45%) R
14 50 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 46 (0.36%) Fortran
16 45 (0.36%) Bicep
16 45 (0.36%) VBA
17 44 (0.35%) Shell Script
18 42 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,020 (15.97%) Degree
2 1,084 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 849 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 645 (5.10%) SC Cleared
5 399 (3.15%) DBS Check
6 303 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
7 289 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 277 (2.19%) Azure Certification
9 252 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 249 (1.97%) CCNA
11 241 (1.91%) CIMA
12 240 (1.90%) ACCA
13 211 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 196 (1.55%) MCP
15 193 (1.53%) A+ Certification
16 140 (1.11%) MCSE
17 139 (1.10%) PMI Certification
18 121 (0.96%) CCNP
19 111 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
20 99 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 572 (4.52%) SLA
2 380 (3.00%) GDPR
3 339 (2.68%) QA
4 229 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 221 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 118 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 102 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 95 (0.75%) ISO 9001
9 94 (0.74%) PMO
10 93 (0.74%) NIST
11 85 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 43 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 25 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 23 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
17 17 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
18 16 (0.13%) GRC
18 16 (0.13%) SOC 2
19 14 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 2,942 (23.26%) Active Directory
2 895 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 776 (6.13%) Hyper-V
4 231 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 189 (1.49%) Docker
6 167 (1.32%) vSphere
7 125 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 122 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 71 (0.56%) XenApp
10 58 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 51 (0.40%) Firmware
11 51 (0.40%) KVM
12 47 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 45 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 44 (0.35%) RACF
15 39 (0.31%) VMware NSX
16 26 (0.21%) VirtualBox
17 25 (0.20%) VMware Server
18 21 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 19 (0.15%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 888 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 415 (3.28%) SCCM
3 247 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 176 (1.39%) Terraform
5 124 (0.98%) WSUS
6 117 (0.92%) SCOM
7 105 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
8 87 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 78 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 77 (0.61%) Ansible
11 42 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
12 39 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 35 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 33 (0.26%) NetBackup
15 32 (0.25%) ZABBIX
16 30 (0.24%) Backup Exec
16 30 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 28 (0.22%) Autotask
17 28 (0.22%) CASB
17 28 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 1,379 (10.90%) VMware
2 602 (4.76%) Cisco
3 485 (3.83%) Google
4 397 (3.14%) Citrix
5 392 (3.10%) Apple
6 329 (2.60%) Oracle
7 318 (2.51%) Veeam
8 262 (2.07%) Dell
9 245 (1.94%) HP
10 228 (1.80%) SAP
11 226 (1.79%) Adobe
12 194 (1.53%) ServiceNow
13 190 (1.50%) Meraki
14 143 (1.13%) Sophos
15 136 (1.08%) Fortinet
16 123 (0.97%) CyberArk
16 123 (0.97%) Salesforce
17 110 (0.87%) Red Hat
18 108 (0.85%) Databricks
18 108 (0.85%) Sage