Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,564 12,191 13,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.54% 20.67% 18.50%
As % of the Vendors category 49.97% 48.33% 46.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,883 6,479 8,483
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,143 25,222 28,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.11% 42.77% 39.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,265 12,997 16,768
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £77,542 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +3 3,436 £45,000 -1.32% 958
North of England 0 2,975 £43,500 -3.33% 1,018
Midlands +1 2,281 £42,500 -10.53% 791
South West +4 1,622 £46,958 +17.39% 492
North West -2 1,551 £45,000 - 525
West Midlands +1 1,499 £45,000 -10.00% 503
East of England +2 1,223 £38,000 -5.00% 398
Yorkshire +2 993 £42,500 -1.16% 361
East Midlands +1 773 £37,500 -11.76% 289
Scotland -33 564 £45,000 -9.68% 235
North East +3 430 £42,500 +6.25% 141
Wales +2 336 £37,750 +0.67% 124
Northern Ireland +6 104 £42,500 -10.53% 67
Isle of Man - 32 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands +2 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1,362 (10.84%) SharePoint
2 1,180 (9.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 240 (1.91%) IIS
4 188 (1.50%) Confluence
5 102 (0.81%) CMS
6 65 (0.52%) Umbraco
7 48 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 47 (0.37%) Kentico
9 45 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.33%) Apache
10 41 (0.33%) Headless CMS
11 40 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
12 38 (0.30%) WordPress
13 35 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
13 35 (0.28%) SAS
14 21 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 21 (0.17%) Tomcat
15 20 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
16 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,405 (19.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1,560 (12.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 434 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 246 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
5 94 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 49 (0.39%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 11 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.064%) InfoPath
14 8 (0.064%) Sketch
15 7 (0.056%) Chatbot
16 6 (0.048%) InVision
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
17 5 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
17 5 (0.040%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 394 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 89 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.65%) Primavera
4 36 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 32 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 27 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
8 20 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.15%) Shopify
10 18 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
11 17 (0.14%) iTrent
12 15 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
12 15 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
13 14 (0.11%) Magento
14 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
14 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
15 11 (0.088%) ResourceLink
16 9 (0.072%) Maximo
16 9 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
17 8 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4,995 (39.76%) Azure
2 3,946 (31.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1,533 (12.20%) Power Platform
4 928 (7.39%) Entra ID
5 921 (7.33%) AWS
6 759 (6.04%) Dynamics 365
7 548 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
8 452 (3.60%) PowerApps
9 421 (3.35%) Power Automate
10 387 (3.08%) SaaS
11 346 (2.75%) OneDrive
12 253 (2.01%) GCP
13 198 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
14 162 (1.29%) PaaS
15 159 (1.27%) IaaS
16 138 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
17 102 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 97 (0.77%) GitHub
19 95 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
20 78 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1,236 (9.84%) Firewall
2 866 (6.89%) DNS
3 672 (5.35%) WAN
4 661 (5.26%) DHCP
5 593 (4.72%) LAN
6 456 (3.63%) TCP/IP
7 439 (3.49%) VPN
8 411 (3.27%) Broadband
9 382 (3.04%) SAN
10 379 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
11 317 (2.52%) Wireless
12 271 (2.16%) Internet
13 263 (2.09%) VoIP
14 262 (2.09%) VLAN
15 193 (1.54%) Network Security
16 164 (1.31%) Intranet
17 149 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
18 134 (1.07%) SD-WAN
19 121 (0.96%) Unified Communications
20 94 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,032 (16.17%) SQL Server
2 1,014 (8.07%) Power BI
3 337 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 333 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 324 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 259 (2.06%) MongoDB
7 213 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
8 208 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 202 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 152 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 115 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 114 (0.91%) MySQL
13 111 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
14 88 (0.70%) Tableau
15 86 (0.68%) NoSQL
16 79 (0.63%) MS Access
17 74 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
18 58 (0.46%) Power Query
19 56 (0.45%) Big Data
19 56 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 386 (3.07%) Git
2 359 (2.86%) JIRA
3 329 (2.62%) Visual Studio
4 109 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 76 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 65 (0.52%) GitLab
7 60 (0.48%) Sourcetree
8 53 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (0.33%) NUnit
10 39 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 39 (0.31%) Subversion
11 36 (0.29%) Selenium
12 33 (0.26%) Postman
13 29 (0.23%) Moq
14 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
14 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
15 25 (0.20%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.17%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.17%) MSTest
17 14 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4,474 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 2,155 (17.15%) Finance
3 1,431 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 798 (6.35%) Retail
5 558 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 539 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 537 (4.27%) Legal
8 526 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 515 (4.10%) Law
10 495 (3.94%) Manufacturing
11 482 (3.84%) Marketing
12 364 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 360 (2.87%) Telecoms
14 332 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
15 226 (1.80%) Games
16 173 (1.38%) Local Government
17 170 (1.35%) Banking
18 166 (1.32%) Advertising
19 152 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
20 113 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,912 (15.22%) Developer
2 1,704 (13.56%) Analyst
3 1,350 (10.74%) Senior
4 1,206 (9.60%) IT Support
5 1,005 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 831 (6.61%) .NET Developer
7 818 (6.51%) IT Engineer
8 682 (5.43%) Lead
9 677 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 639 (5.09%) Architect
11 584 (4.65%) Consultant
12 553 (4.40%) IT Support Engineer
13 503 (4.00%) Administrator
14 423 (3.37%) IT Technician
15 408 (3.25%) 2nd Line Support
16 368 (2.93%) C# Developer
17 344 (2.74%) Support Technician
18 336 (2.67%) IT Analyst
19 332 (2.64%) Support Analyst
20 328 (2.61%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,592 (12.67%) .NET
2 894 (7.12%) ASP.NET
3 837 (6.66%) .NET Core
4 714 (5.68%) ASP.NET MVC
5 648 (5.16%) AngularJS
6 618 (4.92%) HTML
7 584 (4.65%) .NET Framework
8 568 (4.52%) Entity Framework
9 554 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
10 425 (3.38%) CSS
11 405 (3.22%) React
12 337 (2.68%) HTML5
13 277 (2.20%) RESTful
14 259 (2.06%) Vue
15 245 (1.95%) Node.js
16 210 (1.67%) Web Services
17 191 (1.52%) REST
18 182 (1.45%) Blazor
19 175 (1.39%) LINQ
20 169 (1.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 695 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
2 624 (4.97%) Driving Licence
3 543 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 419 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 270 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 240 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 170 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 167 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 166 (1.32%) PKI
10 156 (1.24%) Social Media
11 146 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 138 (1.10%) Clustering
13 133 (1.06%) Replication
14 111 (0.88%) Mobile App
15 107 (0.85%) NHS
16 106 (0.84%) Low-Code
17 100 (0.80%) Cloud Native
18 91 (0.72%) Smartphone
18 91 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
19 85 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,608 (28.72%) Windows
2 1,631 (12.98%) Windows Server
3 1,015 (8.08%) Windows 10
4 765 (6.09%) Linux
5 376 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 368 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 305 (2.43%) Android
8 287 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 224 (1.78%) Apple iOS
10 203 (1.62%) Windows 7
11 193 (1.54%) Mac OS
12 132 (1.05%) Ubuntu
13 123 (0.98%) VMS
14 97 (0.77%) Unix
15 89 (0.71%) Windows 8
16 83 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
17 70 (0.56%) CentOS
18 42 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.27%) Mac OS X
20 30 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,647 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
2 2,352 (18.72%) Agile
3 1,923 (15.31%) Customer Service
4 1,465 (11.66%) ITIL
5 1,208 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
6 1,165 (9.27%) DevOps
7 1,072 (8.53%) Project Management
8 1,058 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
9 1,027 (8.17%) Mentoring
10 902 (7.18%) CRM
11 869 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 835 (6.65%) MVC
13 819 (6.52%) Full Stack Development
14 782 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 718 (5.71%) Roadmaps
16 688 (5.48%) Decision-Making
17 687 (5.47%) Migration
18 676 (5.38%) Microservices
19 623 (4.96%) ERP
19 623 (4.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,043 (16.26%) SQL
2 1,681 (13.38%) C#
3 1,167 (9.29%) JavaScript
4 814 (6.48%) PowerShell
5 399 (3.18%) T-SQL
6 378 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 371 (2.95%) Python
8 222 (1.77%) Bash
9 188 (1.50%) Java
10 119 (0.95%) VB
11 108 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 106 (0.84%) C++
13 86 (0.68%) C
14 57 (0.45%) R
15 50 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 45 (0.36%) VBA
17 44 (0.35%) Bicep
17 44 (0.35%) Shell Script
18 42 (0.33%) VBScript
19 40 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2,011 (16.01%) Degree
2 1,088 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 856 (6.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 653 (5.20%) SC Cleared
5 392 (3.12%) DBS Check
6 302 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
7 291 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 280 (2.23%) Azure Certification
9 249 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 248 (1.97%) CCNA
11 241 (1.92%) CIMA
12 240 (1.91%) ACCA
13 215 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 194 (1.54%) MCP
15 191 (1.52%) A+ Certification
16 146 (1.16%) MCSE
17 139 (1.11%) PMI Certification
18 117 (0.93%) CCNP
19 111 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
20 99 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 578 (4.60%) SLA
2 378 (3.01%) GDPR
3 337 (2.68%) QA
4 233 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 224 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 118 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 100 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 99 (0.79%) ISO 9001
9 95 (0.76%) PMO
10 93 (0.74%) NIST
11 85 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 46 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 25 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 23 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.16%) ISO 14001
16 20 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 17 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.13%) GRC
18 16 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2,915 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 899 (7.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 778 (6.19%) Hyper-V
4 231 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 187 (1.49%) Docker
6 164 (1.31%) vSphere
7 128 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 119 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 71 (0.57%) XenApp
10 58 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 52 (0.41%) KVM
12 51 (0.41%) Firmware
13 47 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
14 45 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 39 (0.31%) VMware NSX
16 27 (0.21%) VirtualBox
17 25 (0.20%) VMware Server
18 21 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 18 (0.14%) pfSense
20 16 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 889 (7.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 418 (3.33%) SCCM
3 238 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 172 (1.37%) Terraform
5 119 (0.95%) WSUS
6 118 (0.94%) SCOM
7 104 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
8 87 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 76 (0.60%) Ansible
10 75 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 40 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
11 40 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 37 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 33 (0.26%) NetBackup
14 31 (0.25%) ZABBIX
15 30 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 29 (0.23%) Backup Exec
16 29 (0.23%) CASB
17 27 (0.21%) Autotask
18 26 (0.21%) EnCase
Vendors
1 1,383 (11.01%) VMware
2 598 (4.76%) Cisco
3 482 (3.84%) Google
4 396 (3.15%) Citrix
5 391 (3.11%) Apple
6 329 (2.62%) Oracle
7 317 (2.52%) Veeam
8 262 (2.09%) Dell
9 247 (1.97%) HP
10 229 (1.82%) Adobe
10 229 (1.82%) SAP
11 195 (1.55%) ServiceNow
12 188 (1.50%) Meraki
13 142 (1.13%) Sophos
14 137 (1.09%) Fortinet
15 124 (0.99%) Salesforce
16 112 (0.89%) Databricks
17 108 (0.86%) Sage
18 107 (0.85%) Red Hat
19 98 (0.78%) NetApp