Microsoft Jobs in Cheshire

Microsoft
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 330 248 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.56% 29.04% 25.94%
As % of the Vendors category 51.08% 67.39% 51.76%
Number of salaries quoted 257 138 132
10th Percentile £22,750 £22,000 £25,050
25th Percentile £25,000 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,625
90th Percentile £64,500 £65,000 £73,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% +8.24% -5.56%

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 646 368 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 38.29% 43.09% 50.13%
Number of salaries quoted 440 225 278
10th Percentile £23,463 £25,000 £27,675
25th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -12.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £61,875
90th Percentile £67,625 £67,500 £73,750
North West median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cheshire

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Cheshire

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Cheshire

Microsoft
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Warrington +6 112 £35,000 -17.65% 36
Chester +6 57 £37,500 +70.45% 15
Knutsford +12 27 £67,500 -6.90% 7
Northwich +4 14 £34,000 +6.25% 7
Macclesfield +2 13 £40,000 - 2
Crewe -10 13 £24,000 -36.00% 5
Alderley Edge - 10 £27,750 - 2
Winsford -8 7 £38,000 +47.57% 2
Runcorn -1 6 £25,000 -46.81% 3
Widnes -2 4 £29,500 -21.33% 2
Middlewich -6 3 £26,000 -48.00% 8
Neston -2 2 £55,000 - 3
Daresbury +6 1 £34,000 -20.00% 1
Lymm 0 1 - - 2
Sandbach -5 1 - - 2
Microsoft
North West

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 38 (11.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.12%) IIS
4 2 (0.61%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.61%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Documentum
Applications
1 49 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (14.24%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (6.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.61%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.61%) SPSS
5 2 (0.61%) Stata
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.30%) InDesign
6 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.91%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.61%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (32.12%) Microsoft 365
2 95 (28.79%) Azure
3 48 (14.55%) AWS
4 18 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.64%) SaaS
7 11 (3.33%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.42%) NuGet
9 7 (2.12%) Google Ads
10 6 (1.82%) Facebook Ads
11 5 (1.52%) GitHub
12 4 (1.21%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.21%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.91%) CloudFront
13 3 (0.91%) Commercetools
13 3 (0.91%) GCP
13 3 (0.91%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.91%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.91%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 2 (0.61%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.79%) DNS
1 29 (8.79%) Firewall
2 27 (8.18%) DHCP
2 27 (8.18%) LAN
2 27 (8.18%) WAN
3 16 (4.85%) Internet
4 14 (4.24%) Broadband
4 14 (4.24%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.52%) Intranet
6 5 (1.52%) VPN
6 5 (1.52%) WLAN
7 4 (1.21%) IPv4
7 4 (1.21%) IPv6
7 4 (1.21%) VLAN
8 2 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.61%) Network Security
8 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.30%) SAN
9 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.24%) Power BI
3 9 (2.73%) MySQL
4 5 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.52%) MS Access
5 4 (1.21%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (0.91%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (5.15%) Git
2 12 (3.64%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.12%) Jasmine
3 7 (2.12%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (1.52%) InstallShield
4 5 (1.52%) JetBrains Rider
4 5 (1.52%) JIRA
5 3 (0.91%) MSBuild
5 3 (0.91%) Subversion
5 3 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.30%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 126 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.76%) Retail
3 29 (8.79%) Finance
4 26 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.06%) Legal
5 20 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 19 (5.76%) Marketing
6 19 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.73%) Advertising
9 5 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.52%) Police
9 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.21%) Law
10 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.91%) Electronics
11 3 (0.91%) Games
11 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 75 (22.73%) Analyst
2 43 (13.03%) Developer
3 33 (10.00%) Service Analyst
3 33 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 31 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (9.39%) IT Support
5 27 (8.18%) IT Analyst
6 26 (7.88%) Senior
7 23 (6.97%) IT Engineer
8 20 (6.06%) .NET Developer
9 18 (5.45%) Support Analyst
9 18 (5.45%) Support Engineer
10 15 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 13 (3.94%) 1st Line Support
11 13 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.64%) Graduate
12 12 (3.64%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
13 11 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.33%) .NET
2 21 (6.36%) ASP.NET
3 18 (5.45%) AngularJS
4 16 (4.85%) .NET Core
4 16 (4.85%) OLE
5 14 (4.24%) ASP.NET MVC
5 14 (4.24%) HTML
6 13 (3.94%) Web Services
7 12 (3.64%) REST
8 11 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (3.33%) HTML5
9 8 (2.42%) .NET Framework
9 8 (2.42%) JSON
9 8 (2.42%) LINQ
9 8 (2.42%) RESTful
9 8 (2.42%) XML
10 7 (2.12%) RxJS
10 7 (2.12%) Sass
10 7 (2.12%) SOAP
10 7 (2.12%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.52%) Driving Licence
2 27 (8.18%) Smartphone
3 20 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.82%) FMCG
5 6 (1.82%) Pricing Data
6 5 (1.52%) Life Science
6 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.21%) Social Media
8 3 (0.91%) BBC
9 2 (0.61%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.61%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.30%) Blog
10 1 (0.30%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.30%) iPad
10 1 (0.30%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 80 (24.24%) Windows
2 25 (7.58%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.06%) Windows 10
4 18 (5.45%) Linux
5 14 (4.24%) Apple iOS
6 12 (3.64%) Android
7 9 (2.73%) VMS
8 4 (1.21%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.91%) Unix
10 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (22.42%) Customer Service
3 56 (16.97%) ITIL
4 50 (15.15%) Time Management
5 39 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (10.61%) Agile
6 35 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 33 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (9.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (8.79%) ITSM
10 24 (7.27%) ERP
11 21 (6.36%) CRM
11 21 (6.36%) DevOps
11 21 (6.36%) Project Management
12 20 (6.06%) Service Management
12 20 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (5.76%) Incident Management
14 17 (5.15%) Asset Management
15 16 (4.85%) Logistics
15 16 (4.85%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (18.48%) SQL
2 44 (13.33%) C#
3 33 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 16 (4.85%) R
6 13 (3.94%) VB
7 9 (2.73%) Swift
7 9 (2.73%) T-SQL
8 8 (2.42%) Bash
8 8 (2.42%) Python
9 7 (2.12%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.12%) VB.NET
9 7 (2.12%) VB6
10 5 (1.52%) Java
11 2 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 55 (16.67%) Degree
2 31 (9.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.94%) A+ Certification
5 12 (3.64%) MCP
6 7 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.82%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.52%) AAT
8 5 (1.52%) CIMA
8 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.30%) CIPD
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Master
11 1 (0.30%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.67%) SLA
2 10 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.73%) QA
4 6 (1.82%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.52%) GDPR
6 4 (1.21%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.21%) PMO
7 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.61%) EMIR
7 2 (0.61%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (31.52%) Active Directory
2 43 (13.03%) Hyper-V
3 27 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.64%) Docker
5 7 (2.12%) KVM
6 4 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.91%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.61%) Firmware
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.61%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.12%) Progress Chef
3 6 (1.82%) Terraform
4 5 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (1.21%) SCCM
6 3 (0.91%) Ansible
6 3 (0.91%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.91%) Puppet
7 2 (0.61%) WSUS
8 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.30%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 38 (11.52%) VMware
2 28 (8.48%) Google
3 19 (5.76%) Citrix
4 18 (5.45%) SAP
5 15 (4.55%) Apple
6 14 (4.24%) Facebook
7 11 (3.33%) Virgin Media
8 10 (3.03%) Veeam
9 8 (2.42%) Cisco
10 7 (2.12%) Dell
11 6 (1.82%) HP
12 5 (1.52%) Rapid7
13 4 (1.21%) Datto
13 4 (1.21%) NETGEAR
13 4 (1.21%) Oracle
13 4 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.21%) Ubiquiti
14 3 (0.91%) Epicor
14 3 (0.91%) IBM