Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,487 18,845 23,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.76% 18.56% 14.65%
As % of the Vendors category 48.08% 44.32% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,379 11,168 14,755
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,372 42,516 61,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.93% 41.86% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 24,910 24,257 32,962
10th Percentile £26,695 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,924 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +4 15,871 £47,500 -9.52% 5,335
UK excluding London +2 12,458 £43,000 -4.44% 4,091
Work from Home +4 7,051 £52,500 -4.55% 2,399
London +6 4,321 £60,500 -3.20% 1,521
South East +3 3,417 £45,000 - 959
North of England 0 2,921 £43,500 -3.33% 1,007
Midlands +1 2,257 £42,500 -10.63% 840
South West +3 1,601 £46,000 +15.00% 522
North West -2 1,518 £45,000 - 537
West Midlands +1 1,492 £45,000 -10.00% 522
East of England +2 1,224 £38,500 -3.75% 430
Yorkshire +2 985 £41,821 -6.02% 354
East Midlands +1 757 £37,500 -12.79% 318
Scotland -33 574 £45,000 -10.00% 264
North East +3 417 £42,500 +6.25% 124
Wales +2 335 £37,500 - 135
Northern Ireland +9 105 £42,500 -10.53% 71
Isle of Man - 34 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands 0 6 £85,000 +136.11% 3

Microsoft
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 1,871 (10.70%) SharePoint
2 1,674 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 313 (1.79%) IIS
4 215 (1.23%) Confluence
5 148 (0.85%) CMS
6 85 (0.49%) Skype for Business
7 71 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 65 (0.37%) Apache
8 65 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 54 (0.31%) Kentico
10 53 (0.30%) SAS
11 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 45 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 44 (0.25%) WordPress
14 40 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 39 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
16 22 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
18 20 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3,149 (18.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2,309 (13.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 666 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 272 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 125 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 68 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.15%) InDesign
8 27 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 18 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
12 16 (0.091%) SPSS
13 15 (0.086%) Trello
14 11 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
15 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
15 9 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.046%) InfoPath
16 8 (0.046%) Sketch
17 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 639 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 100 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 59 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 33 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 30 (0.17%) NEC Housing
8 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 26 (0.15%) Shopify
10 25 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
11 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 23 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
13 20 (0.11%) PlanetPress Connect
14 18 (0.10%) iTrent
14 18 (0.10%) Magento
15 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
16 15 (0.086%) Elite 3E
16 15 (0.086%) Infor SunSystems
17 14 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
18 13 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,202 (41.18%) Azure
2 5,342 (30.55%) Microsoft 365
3 2,321 (13.27%) Power Platform
4 1,422 (8.13%) AWS
5 1,367 (7.82%) Entra ID
6 1,311 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
7 857 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 727 (4.16%) PowerApps
9 712 (4.07%) SaaS
10 685 (3.92%) Power Automate
11 456 (2.61%) OneDrive
12 423 (2.42%) GCP
13 363 (2.08%) PaaS
14 342 (1.96%) IaaS
15 278 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
16 220 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
17 208 (1.19%) Serverless
18 176 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 159 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
20 157 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,600 (9.15%) Firewall
2 1,142 (6.53%) DNS
3 975 (5.58%) WAN
4 830 (4.75%) DHCP
5 815 (4.66%) Broadband
6 785 (4.49%) LAN
7 618 (3.53%) VPN
8 563 (3.22%) TCP/IP
9 541 (3.09%) Wireless
10 475 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
11 473 (2.70%) SAN
12 356 (2.04%) VLAN
13 354 (2.02%) Internet
14 309 (1.77%) VoIP
15 304 (1.74%) Network Security
16 288 (1.65%) SD-WAN
17 224 (1.28%) 5G
18 206 (1.18%) Intranet
19 193 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
20 150 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,635 (15.07%) SQL Server
2 1,451 (8.30%) Power BI
3 479 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 466 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 437 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 336 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 298 (1.70%) MongoDB
8 281 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 271 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 269 (1.54%) Data Lake
11 175 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 153 (0.87%) Tableau
13 136 (0.78%) MySQL
14 124 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
15 122 (0.70%) NoSQL
16 121 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
17 112 (0.64%) Big Data
18 90 (0.51%) MS Access
19 77 (0.44%) Oracle Database
20 75 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 501 (2.86%) Git
2 455 (2.60%) JIRA
3 395 (2.26%) Visual Studio
4 128 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 112 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 103 (0.59%) GitLab
7 80 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 69 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 46 (0.26%) NUnit
11 45 (0.26%) Selenium
12 44 (0.25%) Subversion
13 43 (0.25%) Postman
14 39 (0.22%) TeamCity
15 32 (0.18%) Moq
16 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
16 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
17 24 (0.14%) Cucumber
18 23 (0.13%) MSTest
19 17 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,213 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 3,584 (20.50%) Finance
3 2,347 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 1,063 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 940 (5.38%) Retail
6 794 (4.54%) Law
7 776 (4.44%) Legal
8 749 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 748 (4.28%) Marketing
10 731 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
11 607 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
12 549 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 530 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 456 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 385 (2.20%) Banking
16 286 (1.64%) Games
17 221 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
18 219 (1.25%) Advertising
19 213 (1.22%) Local Government
20 167 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,515 (14.38%) Analyst
2 2,511 (14.36%) Developer
3 2,296 (13.13%) Senior
4 1,505 (8.61%) IT Support
5 1,211 (6.93%) Support Engineer
6 1,129 (6.46%) Architect
7 979 (5.60%) Lead
8 972 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 958 (5.48%) IT Engineer
10 915 (5.23%) Consultant
11 845 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 629 (3.60%) IT Support Engineer
13 617 (3.53%) Administrator
14 490 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
15 473 (2.70%) Support Analyst
16 470 (2.69%) IT Analyst
17 463 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
18 461 (2.64%) IT Technician
19 457 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
20 445 (2.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,148 (12.28%) .NET
2 1,080 (6.18%) ASP.NET
3 1,011 (5.78%) .NET Core
4 829 (4.74%) ASP.NET MVC
5 796 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 791 (4.52%) HTML
7 734 (4.20%) .NET Framework
8 669 (3.83%) Entity Framework
9 660 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
10 553 (3.16%) CSS
11 511 (2.92%) React
12 393 (2.25%) HTML5
13 349 (2.00%) RESTful
14 302 (1.73%) Node.js
14 302 (1.73%) Vue
15 271 (1.55%) Web Services
16 259 (1.48%) REST
17 245 (1.40%) JSON
18 205 (1.17%) Blazor
18 205 (1.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 947 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
2 812 (4.64%) Management Information System
3 655 (3.75%) Driving Licence
4 563 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 357 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 353 (2.02%) Social Media
7 344 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 256 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 255 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
10 249 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 247 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 232 (1.33%) PKI
13 174 (1.00%) Cloud Native
14 171 (0.98%) Replication
15 162 (0.93%) Clustering
16 133 (0.76%) Mobile App
17 131 (0.75%) Low-Code
18 129 (0.74%) NHS
19 122 (0.70%) Smartphone
20 107 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,688 (26.81%) Windows
2 2,051 (11.73%) Windows Server
3 1,401 (8.01%) Windows 10
4 1,101 (6.30%) Linux
5 492 (2.81%) Android
6 451 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 450 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 342 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 315 (1.80%) Apple iOS
10 293 (1.68%) Ubuntu
11 268 (1.53%) Mac OS
12 237 (1.36%) Windows 7
13 145 (0.83%) Unix
14 142 (0.81%) VMS
15 97 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
16 92 (0.53%) Windows 8
17 72 (0.41%) CentOS
17 72 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 55 (0.31%) Mac OS X
19 37 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,449 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
2 3,447 (19.71%) Agile
3 2,327 (13.31%) Customer Service
4 1,878 (10.74%) ITIL
5 1,747 (9.99%) DevOps
6 1,719 (9.83%) Business Intelligence
7 1,636 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
8 1,583 (9.05%) Mentoring
9 1,490 (8.52%) Project Management
10 1,386 (7.93%) CRM
11 1,101 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,083 (6.19%) Decision-Making
13 1,004 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 998 (5.71%) MVC
15 981 (5.61%) Full Stack Development
16 972 (5.56%) Migration
17 960 (5.49%) Roadmaps
18 895 (5.12%) Scrum
19 870 (4.98%) Analytics
20 869 (4.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,807 (16.05%) SQL
2 2,245 (12.84%) C#
3 1,519 (8.69%) JavaScript
4 1,221 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 656 (3.75%) Python
6 577 (3.30%) T-SQL
7 477 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 444 (2.54%) Bash
9 271 (1.55%) Java
10 131 (0.75%) C++
11 126 (0.72%) VB
12 112 (0.64%) VB.NET
13 109 (0.62%) C
14 94 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 93 (0.53%) Bicep
16 89 (0.51%) R
17 67 (0.38%) VBA
18 46 (0.26%) PHP
18 46 (0.26%) VBScript
19 44 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,874 (16.44%) Degree
2 1,321 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 1,170 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 803 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 505 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 501 (2.86%) ACCA
7 495 (2.83%) DBS Check
8 479 (2.74%) CIMA
9 455 (2.60%) Azure Certification
10 422 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 317 (1.81%) DV Cleared
12 294 (1.68%) CCNA
13 260 (1.49%) Master's Degree
14 238 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 237 (1.36%) A+ Certification
16 225 (1.29%) CISSP
17 211 (1.21%) MCP
18 198 (1.13%) MCSE
19 183 (1.05%) PMI Certification
20 160 (0.91%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 824 (4.71%) SLA
2 484 (2.77%) QA
3 475 (2.72%) GDPR
4 410 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 302 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 230 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 159 (0.91%) NIST
8 154 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 135 (0.77%) PMO
10 126 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 123 (0.70%) ISO 9001
12 56 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 45 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 42 (0.24%) GRC
15 36 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 35 (0.20%) NCSC
17 34 (0.19%) IFRS
18 30 (0.17%) COBIT
18 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4,006 (22.91%) Active Directory
2 1,174 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 888 (5.08%) Hyper-V
4 310 (1.77%) Docker
5 297 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 257 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 209 (1.20%) vSphere
8 178 (1.02%) XenApp
9 154 (0.88%) XenDesktop
10 140 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
11 112 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
12 78 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 63 (0.36%) Firmware
14 54 (0.31%) KVM
15 53 (0.30%) Terminal Services
16 50 (0.29%) VMware NSX
17 28 (0.16%) VirtualBox
18 26 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
20 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,319 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 667 (3.81%) SCCM
3 385 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 357 (2.04%) Terraform
5 276 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
6 151 (0.86%) WSUS
7 146 (0.83%) Ansible
8 135 (0.77%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 113 (0.65%) AirWatch
11 97 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 96 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
13 62 (0.35%) FortiGate
14 47 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (0.25%) Grafana
16 42 (0.24%) Nessus
17 41 (0.23%) Puppet
18 39 (0.22%) NetBackup
19 37 (0.21%) EnCase
20 36 (0.21%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,771 (10.13%) VMware
2 937 (5.36%) Cisco
3 690 (3.95%) Google
4 614 (3.51%) Citrix
5 529 (3.03%) Apple
6 469 (2.68%) Oracle
7 394 (2.25%) Veeam
8 389 (2.22%) Dell
9 366 (2.09%) ServiceNow
10 333 (1.90%) HP
10 333 (1.90%) SAP
11 300 (1.72%) Adobe
12 237 (1.36%) CyberArk
13 215 (1.23%) Meraki
14 210 (1.20%) Tanium
15 198 (1.13%) Databricks
16 188 (1.08%) Salesforce
17 157 (0.90%) Fortinet
18 155 (0.89%) Sophos
19 141 (0.81%) Red Hat