Microsoft Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 788 851 1030
Rank change year-on-year +63 +179 -232
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 96 124 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 91 92 130
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £38,258
25th Percentile £40,625 £42,414 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +6.19% +9.71%
75th Percentile £55,000 £76,316 £75,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £41,078 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.55% -13.52% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +59 86 £45,000 -25.00% 19
UK excluding London +11 64 £45,000 +9.55% 11
Work from Home +65 40 £45,000 -25.00% 14
South East +36 31 £45,000 +5.88%
London +71 21 £80,000 +14.29% 7
South West -19 20 £50,000 +25.00% 8
North of England +37 8 £42,250 -11.05% 3
Yorkshire +81 4 £32,500 +14.04% 1
West Midlands +12 3 £36,000 +27.43%
North West 0 3 £50,000 -3.79% 2
Midlands -9 3 £36,000 +26.32%
Scotland - 2 £66,500 -
North East - 1 £50,000 -

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Microsoft Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 62 (64.58%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (59.38%) Azure
4 37 (38.54%) Active Directory
5 33 (34.38%) Windows
6 28 (29.17%) Windows Server
7 27 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 23 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (18.75%) Entra ID
11 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
11 17 (17.71%) SharePoint
12 16 (16.67%) Degree
13 14 (14.58%) OneDrive
14 13 (13.54%) SCCM
14 13 (13.54%) PowerShell
15 11 (11.46%) IaaS
15 11 (11.46%) PaaS
16 10 (10.42%) VMware
16 10 (10.42%) Mentoring
16 10 (10.42%) Customer Service
17 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
17 9 (9.38%) DevOps
17 9 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (8.33%) Migration
18 8 (8.33%) ITIL
19 7 (7.29%) SQL
19 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
19 7 (7.29%) Finance
19 7 (7.29%) Apple iOS

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (17.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) SAS
3 2 (2.08%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (64.58%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (59.38%) Azure
3 18 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 14 (14.58%) OneDrive
5 11 (11.46%) IaaS
5 11 (11.46%) PaaS
6 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.29%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.25%) Slack
8 6 (6.25%) WhatsApp
9 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Storage
10 4 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.17%) SaaS
11 3 (3.13%) AWS
12 2 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) DHCP
1 5 (5.21%) DNS
1 5 (5.21%) Firewall
1 5 (5.21%) WAN
2 3 (3.13%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.13%) VoIP
3 2 (2.08%) LAN
3 2 (2.08%) Skype
4 1 (1.04%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.04%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.08%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.04%) Power BI
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Git
1 1 (1.04%) GitLab
1 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Finance
3 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.13%) General Ledger
3 3 (3.13%) Local Government
3 3 (3.13%) Retail
4 2 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.04%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Blackberry
1 6 (6.25%) BYOD
2 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.08%) iPad
5 1 (1.04%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (34.38%) Windows
2 28 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.29%) Android
3 7 (7.29%) Apple iOS
3 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.08%) Linux
6 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (10.42%) Customer Service
2 10 (10.42%) Mentoring
3 9 (9.38%) DevOps
3 9 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (8.33%) ITIL
4 8 (8.33%) Migration
5 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
6 6 (6.25%) Application Packaging
6 6 (6.25%) Zero Trust
7 5 (5.21%) Data Management
7 5 (5.21%) Presales
7 5 (5.21%) Security Operations
8 4 (4.17%) Analytics
8 4 (4.17%) Client Onboarding
8 4 (4.17%) CRM
8 4 (4.17%) ITSM
8 4 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (4.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.54%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.29%) SQL
3 4 (4.17%) Bash
3 4 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.04%) C#
4 1 (1.04%) Go
4 1 (1.04%) Java
4 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.04%) Python
4 1 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.08%) MCSA
4 2 (2.08%) MCSE
5 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (38.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Docker
4 1 (1.04%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (13.54%) SCCM
3 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (1.04%) SCDPM
4 1 (1.04%) SCOM
4 1 (1.04%) Terraform
4 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 96 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) VMware
3 4 (4.17%) CA
4 2 (2.08%) Acronis
4 2 (2.08%) Aruba
4 2 (2.08%) Databricks
4 2 (2.08%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.08%) WatchGuard
5 1 (1.04%) Apple
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco
5 1 (1.04%) Meraki
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.04%) Splunk