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 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 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3,561 2,445 3,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.93% 17.76% 18.01%
As % of the Vendors category 52.84% 44.32% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,536 1,757 2,370
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% +4.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £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 6,739 5,517 8,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 37.71% 40.08% 39.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,455 3,416 4,791
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.25%

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 2 June 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 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
Thames Valley +2 1,378 £45,000 -1.64% 325
Hampshire +7 770 £45,000 +14.65% 163
Surrey +5 676 £47,500 -9.52% 98
Berkshire 0 617 £48,000 +4.92% 144
Buckinghamshire -1 401 £42,500 +21.43% 108
Oxfordshire +2 360 £43,000 -21.82% 75
Kent +4 294 £42,500 +6.25% 93
East Sussex +3 170 £42,500 -19.09% 38
West Sussex +4 156 £50,000 -13.04% 29
Middlesex +20 79 £38,345 -50.52% 3
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 3
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 (11.01%) SharePoint
2 311 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (1.26%) CMS
4 41 (1.15%) IIS
5 27 (0.76%) Kentico
6 24 (0.67%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
7 22 (0.62%) Umbraco
8 21 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
9 14 (0.39%) Confluence
10 11 (0.31%) WordPress
11 9 (0.25%) SAS
12 6 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.11%) TWiki
15 3 (0.084%) Skype for Business
16 2 (0.056%) Apache Spark
16 2 (0.056%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 709 (19.91%) Microsoft Office
2 703 (19.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 131 (3.68%) Microsoft Project
4 107 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.17%) InVision
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (0.11%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Simulink
10 4 (0.11%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.084%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.084%) Revit
12 2 (0.056%) MadCap Flare
13 1 (0.028%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 106 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (1.68%) Primavera
3 17 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 5 (0.14%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.084%) SAP MDM
9 2 (0.056%) Magento
9 2 (0.056%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.056%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.056%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,371 (38.50%) Azure
2 1,046 (29.37%) Microsoft 365
3 356 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 278 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 190 (5.34%) AWS
6 167 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
7 138 (3.88%) OneDrive
8 131 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (2.98%) PowerApps
10 103 (2.89%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.53%) SaaS
12 63 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
13 44 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
14 41 (1.15%) PaaS
15 36 (1.01%) IaaS
16 32 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
17 27 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 25 (0.70%) Azure Storage
18 25 (0.70%) GitHub
18 25 (0.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 397 (11.15%) Firewall
2 295 (8.28%) Broadband
3 243 (6.82%) DNS
4 191 (5.36%) DHCP
5 143 (4.02%) VPN
6 123 (3.45%) TCP/IP
7 119 (3.34%) LAN
8 118 (3.31%) Wireless
9 110 (3.09%) WAN
10 79 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
11 77 (2.16%) 5G
12 72 (2.02%) VLAN
12 72 (2.02%) VoIP
13 67 (1.88%) Internet
13 67 (1.88%) Intranet
14 55 (1.54%) Unified Communications
15 53 (1.49%) SAN
16 52 (1.46%) Network Security
17 34 (0.95%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 465 (13.06%) SQL Server
2 245 (6.88%) Power BI
3 84 (2.36%) MongoDB
4 83 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 76 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 60 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 46 (1.29%) Data Lake
9 44 (1.24%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 20 (0.56%) Power Query
13 18 (0.51%) MySQL
14 15 (0.42%) NoSQL
15 13 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 13 (0.37%) Tableau
16 10 (0.28%) Metadata
16 10 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 9 (0.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 84 (2.36%) Visual Studio
2 83 (2.33%) JIRA
3 74 (2.08%) Git
4 44 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 38 (1.07%) GitLab
6 23 (0.65%) Subversion
7 21 (0.59%) NUnit
8 15 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 14 (0.39%) Selenium
10 12 (0.34%) eggPlant
11 11 (0.31%) MSI
12 10 (0.28%) Postman
12 10 (0.28%) Trac
13 9 (0.25%) JMeter
14 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.20%) MSBuild
15 6 (0.17%) MSTest
15 6 (0.17%) Newman
15 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,389 (39.01%) Social Skills
2 667 (18.73%) Finance
3 607 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (7.44%) Retail
5 217 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
6 212 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
7 150 (4.21%) Legal
8 136 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 135 (3.79%) Marketing
10 121 (3.40%) Telecoms
11 106 (2.98%) Law
12 101 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 87 (2.44%) Public Sector
14 86 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 62 (1.74%) Games
16 58 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
17 52 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
18 47 (1.32%) Advertising
19 37 (1.04%) Automotive
19 37 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 567 (15.92%) Analyst
2 446 (12.52%) Senior
3 431 (12.10%) Developer
4 325 (9.13%) IT Support
5 273 (7.67%) Support Engineer
6 269 (7.55%) .NET Developer
7 223 (6.26%) IT Engineer
8 197 (5.53%) Lead
9 186 (5.22%) Architect
10 169 (4.75%) IT Support Engineer
11 164 (4.61%) Consultant
12 160 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 155 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
14 143 (4.02%) Administrator
15 123 (3.45%) C# Developer
16 111 (3.12%) IT Analyst
17 110 (3.09%) Support Analyst
18 108 (3.03%) C# .NET Developer
19 106 (2.98%) 2nd Line Support
20 98 (2.75%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (12.58%) .NET
2 257 (7.22%) .NET Core
2 257 (7.22%) ASP.NET
3 220 (6.18%) ASP.NET MVC
4 194 (5.45%) .NET Framework
5 174 (4.89%) Entity Framework
6 173 (4.86%) AngularJS
7 156 (4.38%) ASP.NET Web API
8 144 (4.04%) React
9 119 (3.34%) HTML
10 93 (2.61%) Node.js
11 92 (2.58%) HTML5
12 82 (2.30%) CSS
13 81 (2.27%) RESTful
14 78 (2.19%) Vue
15 52 (1.46%) CSS3
16 51 (1.43%) LINQ
17 50 (1.40%) Blazor
18 49 (1.38%) Web Services
19 41 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 260 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
2 130 (3.65%) Management Information System
3 114 (3.20%) Driving Licence
4 99 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 89 (2.50%) Social Media
6 74 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 67 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 59 (1.66%) Product Ownership
9 53 (1.49%) PKI
10 48 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.24%) Replication
12 34 (0.95%) Client/Server
12 34 (0.95%) IoT
12 34 (0.95%) NHS
13 31 (0.87%) Mobile App
14 29 (0.81%) PMI
15 28 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (0.79%) Public Cloud
16 26 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 26 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,010 (28.36%) Windows
2 450 (12.64%) Windows Server
3 350 (9.83%) Windows 10
4 281 (7.89%) Linux
5 120 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 114 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 105 (2.95%) Ubuntu
8 88 (2.47%) Android
9 78 (2.19%) Windows 7
10 76 (2.13%) Apple iOS
11 73 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
12 44 (1.24%) Mac OS
13 41 (1.15%) Windows 8
14 31 (0.87%) Unix
15 30 (0.84%) VMS
16 24 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
17 23 (0.65%) CentOS
18 16 (0.45%) Windows XP
19 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 14 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (24.38%) Agile
2 836 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
3 542 (15.22%) Customer Service
4 369 (10.36%) ITIL
5 346 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
6 345 (9.69%) Project Management
7 338 (9.49%) Mentoring
8 305 (8.57%) DevOps
9 300 (8.42%) Decision-Making
10 278 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
11 271 (7.61%) CRM
12 251 (7.05%) Actionable Insight
13 247 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
14 246 (6.91%) MVC
15 210 (5.90%) Business Case
16 203 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 201 (5.64%) Budgeting
18 197 (5.53%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 190 (5.34%) Artificial Intelligence
20 182 (5.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 490 (13.76%) C#
2 443 (12.44%) SQL
3 329 (9.24%) JavaScript
4 214 (6.01%) PowerShell
5 140 (3.93%) Python
6 121 (3.40%) Bash
7 108 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 82 (2.30%) C++
9 71 (1.99%) C
10 66 (1.85%) T-SQL
11 52 (1.46%) Fortran
12 45 (1.26%) Java
13 35 (0.98%) VB
14 29 (0.81%) VBScript
15 20 (0.56%) Bicep
16 18 (0.51%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.34%) Perl
17 12 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.34%) VBA
18 11 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 616 (17.30%) Degree
2 388 (10.90%) Security Cleared
3 196 (5.50%) ACCA
4 195 (5.48%) CIMA
5 194 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 176 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 163 (4.58%) DV Cleared
8 142 (3.99%) DBS Check
9 108 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
10 78 (2.19%) Azure Certification
10 78 (2.19%) CCNA
11 63 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (1.57%) MCP
13 51 (1.43%) Master's Degree
14 43 (1.21%) CCNP
15 41 (1.15%) A+ Certification
15 41 (1.15%) CISSP
16 40 (1.12%) NVQ Level 3
17 38 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 32 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (5.08%) SLA
2 108 (3.03%) GDPR
3 79 (2.22%) QA
4 45 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 30 (0.84%) PMO
8 25 (0.70%) NIST
9 20 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 18 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
12 13 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.25%) ISO 13485
16 8 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.17%) NCSC
19 4 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 816 (22.91%) Active Directory
2 231 (6.49%) Hyper-V
3 226 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 58 (1.63%) Docker
6 52 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 45 (1.26%) vSphere
8 42 (1.18%) Firmware
9 36 (1.01%) XenApp
10 29 (0.81%) XenDesktop
11 28 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
12 26 (0.73%) VirtualBox
13 12 (0.34%) KVM
13 12 (0.34%) NFS
13 12 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 11 (0.31%) pfSense
15 7 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 6 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 273 (7.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 146 (4.10%) SCCM
3 79 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 71 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
5 63 (1.77%) WSUS
6 53 (1.49%) SCOM
7 35 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 34 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (0.79%) Terraform
10 24 (0.67%) Ansible
11 20 (0.56%) NetBackup
12 19 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.45%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.42%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.42%) Grafana
15 13 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
15 13 (0.37%) ServiceCenter
16 12 (0.34%) Sysprep
17 10 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 339 (9.52%) VMware
2 200 (5.62%) Cisco
3 127 (3.57%) Citrix
4 120 (3.37%) Apple
5 100 (2.81%) Google
6 92 (2.58%) Veeam
7 91 (2.56%) Adobe
8 69 (1.94%) HP
9 67 (1.88%) CyberArk
9 67 (1.88%) Tanium
10 60 (1.68%) Meraki
11 54 (1.52%) Fortinet
12 53 (1.49%) Dell
13 48 (1.35%) Juniper
14 47 (1.32%) Oracle
14 47 (1.32%) Palo Alto
15 41 (1.15%) SAP
16 37 (1.04%) Aruba
17 36 (1.01%) Salesforce
18 32 (0.90%) Red Hat