Microsoft Jobs in the South West

Microsoft
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,652 1,214 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.58% 18.45% 17.68%
As % of the Vendors category 55.38% 50.37% 45.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 703 907
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £24,770
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.58% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,983 2,410 3,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.93% 36.63% 38.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,202 1,441 1,955
10th Percentile £27,338 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,218 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,250 £76,412
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol -2 390 £50,000 +11.11% 119
Gloucestershire +13 359 £41,500 +12.93% 65
Wiltshire 0 272 £50,000 +11.11% 79
Dorset 0 209 £41,250 -0.77% 30
Devon +1 207 £45,000 +38.46% 50
Somerset +1 147 £38,000 -5.00% 70
Cornwall 0 45 £40,000 - 7
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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
1 160 (9.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 150 (9.08%) SharePoint
3 98 (5.93%) Confluence
4 28 (1.69%) CMS
5 26 (1.57%) IIS
6 22 (1.33%) Umbraco
7 20 (1.21%) Kentico
8 17 (1.03%) Headless CMS
8 17 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
9 15 (0.91%) SharePoint 2010
9 15 (0.91%) SharePoint 2013
10 10 (0.61%) Apache
11 8 (0.48%) SAS
12 7 (0.42%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.36%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.36%) NServiceBus
13 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.30%) Moodle
15 4 (0.24%) Site Server
16 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 264 (15.98%) Microsoft Office
2 104 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.061%) 1Password
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.061%) Solid Edge
8 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (1.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 20 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) Maximo
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.30%) Primavera
6 4 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 608 (36.80%) Azure
2 477 (28.87%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (11.74%) Power Platform
4 145 (8.78%) AWS
5 103 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (5.63%) Entra ID
7 81 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
8 73 (4.42%) PowerApps
9 70 (4.24%) Power Automate
10 67 (4.06%) GCP
11 52 (3.15%) SaaS
12 48 (2.91%) OneDrive
13 32 (1.94%) IaaS
14 30 (1.82%) PaaS
15 20 (1.21%) Kontent
16 16 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (0.79%) GitHub
17 13 (0.79%) Nutanix
17 13 (0.79%) OCI
18 9 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.48%) Firewall
2 82 (4.96%) LAN
3 70 (4.24%) WAN
4 63 (3.81%) DNS
5 54 (3.27%) SAN
6 52 (3.15%) DHCP
6 52 (3.15%) TCP/IP
7 44 (2.66%) VPN
8 38 (2.30%) Wireless
9 33 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
10 31 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (1.69%) Internet
12 25 (1.51%) VLAN
13 20 (1.21%) VoIP
14 17 (1.03%) Broadband
14 17 (1.03%) Network Security
15 12 (0.73%) WLAN
16 11 (0.67%) SD-WAN
17 10 (0.61%) NAS
17 10 (0.61%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (13.32%) SQL Server
2 114 (6.90%) Power BI
3 57 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 37 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (1.51%) MySQL
8 20 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (0.91%) Tableau
11 12 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.61%) GIS
12 10 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.48%) Power Query
15 7 (0.42%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 113 (6.84%) JIRA
2 104 (6.30%) Visual Studio
3 102 (6.17%) Git
4 81 (4.90%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.57%) Sourcetree
6 14 (0.85%) Subversion
7 13 (0.79%) Selenium
7 13 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.48%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.36%) Postman
12 5 (0.30%) Jenkins
13 4 (0.24%) Toad
14 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.18%) JMeter
14 3 (0.18%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.18%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.18%) xUnit.net
General
1 536 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 286 (17.31%) Finance
3 136 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
6 87 (5.27%) Law
7 84 (5.08%) Games
8 80 (4.84%) Marketing
9 71 (4.30%) Banking
9 71 (4.30%) Retail
10 65 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 63 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
12 53 (3.21%) Legal
13 50 (3.03%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.78%) Investment Banking
15 44 (2.66%) Fire and Rescue
16 39 (2.36%) Manufacturing
17 32 (1.94%) Aerospace
18 26 (1.57%) Military
19 19 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 322 (19.49%) Developer
2 240 (14.53%) Senior
3 163 (9.87%) Analyst
4 146 (8.84%) Support Engineer
5 130 (7.87%) IT Support
6 111 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 107 (6.48%) Architect
8 104 (6.30%) IT Engineer
9 101 (6.11%) .NET Developer
10 98 (5.93%) Consultant
11 91 (5.51%) Senior Developer
12 90 (5.45%) Administrator
13 79 (4.78%) Lead
14 73 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
15 71 (4.30%) 3D Developer
15 71 (4.30%) Games Developer
15 71 (4.30%) Unity 3D Developer
16 64 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
17 57 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
17 57 (3.45%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (13.38%) .NET
2 108 (6.54%) ASP.NET
3 92 (5.57%) .NET Core
4 83 (5.02%) ASP.NET MVC
5 79 (4.78%) .NET Framework
6 78 (4.72%) AngularJS
7 77 (4.66%) React
8 72 (4.36%) CSS
9 71 (4.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 69 (4.18%) HTML
11 52 (3.15%) Entity Framework
12 49 (2.97%) ASP.NET Web API
12 49 (2.97%) Vue
13 30 (1.82%) REST
14 29 (1.76%) jQuery
15 28 (1.69%) Blazor
16 23 (1.39%) RESTful
17 19 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 18 (1.09%) HTML5
19 17 (1.03%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 111 (6.72%) Driving Licence
2 84 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 82 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 73 (4.42%) Virtual Reality
5 35 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 32 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 28 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 20 (1.21%) Clustering
11 17 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.97%) Smartphone
13 14 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.85%) iPhone
14 13 (0.79%) PKI
15 12 (0.73%) Fat Client
15 12 (0.73%) Thin Client
15 12 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
16 11 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 506 (30.63%) Windows
2 182 (11.02%) Windows Server
3 157 (9.50%) Windows 10
4 135 (8.17%) Linux
5 84 (5.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 76 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 71 (4.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 46 (2.78%) Mac OS
9 38 (2.30%) CentOS
10 34 (2.06%) Apple iOS
11 33 (2.00%) Windows 7
12 28 (1.69%) Android
13 17 (1.03%) AIX
13 17 (1.03%) VMS
14 14 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 6 (0.36%) Unix
17 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
18 3 (0.18%) Solaris
18 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
2 257 (15.56%) Agile
3 233 (14.10%) Customer Service
4 213 (12.89%) DevOps
4 213 (12.89%) ITIL
5 153 (9.26%) Mentoring
6 142 (8.60%) Scrum
7 141 (8.54%) Software Engineering
8 131 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
9 128 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 123 (7.45%) User Experience
11 117 (7.08%) Project Delivery
12 115 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (6.54%) MVC
14 107 (6.48%) Service Delivery
15 104 (6.30%) Design Patterns
16 103 (6.23%) Roadmaps
17 101 (6.11%) UML
18 100 (6.05%) Full Stack Development
19 94 (5.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 261 (15.80%) C#
2 257 (15.56%) SQL
3 162 (9.81%) PowerShell
4 145 (8.78%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.96%) Java
5 82 (4.96%) Python
6 51 (3.09%) Bash
7 45 (2.72%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.66%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (0.79%) PHP
11 11 (0.67%) C++
12 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.48%) C
14 7 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.36%) R
15 6 (0.36%) VBA
16 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.18%) Bicep
17 3 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 337 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 327 (19.79%) Degree
3 256 (15.50%) SC Cleared
4 117 (7.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 109 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 96 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 67 (4.06%) DBS Check
8 40 (2.42%) A+ Certification
9 32 (1.94%) MCP
9 32 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.45%) MCSE
12 21 (1.27%) HNC
13 17 (1.03%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.85%) MCITP
14 14 (0.85%) PMP
15 13 (0.79%) CISSP
15 13 (0.79%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.75%) SLA
2 59 (3.57%) QA
3 50 (3.03%) GDPR
4 25 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 12 (0.73%) NIST
7 10 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.30%) SOC 1
9 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.24%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.061%) GAMP
12 1 (0.061%) GMP
12 1 (0.061%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 383 (23.18%) Active Directory
2 143 (8.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 93 (5.63%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.63%) XenApp
6 26 (1.57%) vSphere
7 25 (1.51%) Docker
8 21 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (1.27%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.30%) RACF
12 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.12%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.061%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 100 (6.05%) SCCM
2 85 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.09%) Nagios
5 17 (1.03%) Backup Exec
6 14 (0.85%) Ansible
6 14 (0.85%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.85%) WSUS
7 12 (0.73%) CASB
7 12 (0.73%) NetBackup
8 10 (0.61%) Terraform
9 7 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
9 7 (0.42%) Icinga
10 6 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.36%) SCOM
10 6 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
11 5 (0.30%) Rancher
11 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.30%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 197 (11.92%) VMware
2 107 (6.48%) Oracle
3 72 (4.36%) Google
4 56 (3.39%) Cisco
5 52 (3.15%) Citrix
6 49 (2.97%) Red Hat
7 45 (2.72%) HP
8 35 (2.12%) Veeam
9 31 (1.88%) Apple
9 31 (1.88%) Dell
9 31 (1.88%) Sparx
10 29 (1.76%) ServiceNow
11 27 (1.63%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.39%) IBM
13 21 (1.27%) SolarWinds
13 21 (1.27%) Symantec
14 17 (1.03%) Optimizely
14 17 (1.03%) Sitecore
14 17 (1.03%) Veritas
15 15 (0.91%) NetApp