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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 13,307 11,375 14,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.84% 20.44% 18.74%
As % of the Vendors category 50.96% 48.91% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,930 6,356 8,599
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 £59,500 £61,250 £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 26,115 23,255 29,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.06% 41.78% 39.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,410 12,773 16,877
10th Percentile £25,816 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,140 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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 9 June 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 9 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
South East +3 3,642 £45,000 -1.64% 815
North of England -1 3,091 £43,742 -2.80% 976
Midlands +2 2,607 £42,500 -15.00% 695
West Midlands +2 1,675 £45,000 -10.00% 431
South West +2 1,668 £46,000 +12.61% 464
North West -2 1,641 £45,000 -3.23% 539
East of England +2 1,247 £38,000 -5.00% 337
Yorkshire +1 1,017 £42,500 -0.02% 323
East Midlands +1 924 £37,500 -16.67% 263
Scotland -34 571 £45,000 - 279
North East +3 432 £42,500 -0.58% 128
Wales +1 354 £40,000 +5.65% 100
Northern Ireland +2 107 £42,500 -15.00% 60
Isle of Man +5 32 £46,250 -36.21% 4
Channel Islands +3 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
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 1,368 (10.28%) SharePoint
2 1,202 (9.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 230 (1.73%) IIS
4 167 (1.25%) Confluence
5 103 (0.77%) CMS
6 63 (0.47%) Umbraco
7 51 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 47 (0.35%) Kentico
9 45 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 41 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
11 40 (0.30%) Apache
12 38 (0.29%) WordPress
13 35 (0.26%) SAS
14 34 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
15 21 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 21 (0.16%) Tomcat
16 20 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
17 17 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
18 16 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2,744 (20.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1,887 (14.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 485 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 255 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
5 98 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 62 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.43%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.098%) Trello
12 12 (0.090%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 10 (0.075%) Chatbot
14 9 (0.068%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.060%) Sketch
16 6 (0.045%) Adobe Captivate
16 6 (0.045%) InVision
17 5 (0.038%) Revit
17 5 (0.038%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 405 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 93 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 83 (0.62%) Primavera
4 48 (0.36%) NEC Housing
5 29 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 28 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 26 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 21 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 21 (0.16%) Shopify
9 19 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
10 17 (0.13%) iTrent
11 15 (0.11%) Magento
11 15 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
12 13 (0.098%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.098%) NetSuite
13 11 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
13 11 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
13 11 (0.083%) ResourceLink
14 9 (0.068%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 5,100 (38.33%) Azure
2 4,012 (30.15%) Microsoft 365
3 1,562 (11.74%) Power Platform
4 990 (7.44%) Entra ID
5 934 (7.02%) AWS
6 821 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
7 555 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 473 (3.55%) PowerApps
9 424 (3.19%) Power Automate
10 404 (3.04%) SaaS
11 358 (2.69%) OneDrive
12 252 (1.89%) GCP
13 190 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
14 163 (1.22%) IaaS
15 162 (1.22%) PaaS
16 142 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 104 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 97 (0.73%) GitHub
19 92 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
20 84 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,253 (9.42%) Firewall
2 877 (6.59%) DNS
3 683 (5.13%) WAN
4 675 (5.07%) DHCP
5 600 (4.51%) LAN
6 471 (3.54%) TCP/IP
7 454 (3.41%) VPN
8 411 (3.09%) Broadband
9 393 (2.95%) SAN
10 386 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
11 344 (2.59%) Internet
12 330 (2.48%) Wireless
13 273 (2.05%) VLAN
14 269 (2.02%) Network Security
15 266 (2.00%) VoIP
16 162 (1.22%) WLAN
17 160 (1.20%) Intranet
18 151 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
19 142 (1.07%) SD-WAN
20 110 (0.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,046 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1,026 (7.71%) Power BI
3 339 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 330 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
5 325 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 263 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 214 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
8 207 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 207 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 148 (1.11%) Data Lake
10 120 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 116 (0.87%) MySQL
12 113 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 82 (0.62%) Tableau
14 81 (0.61%) MS Access
14 81 (0.61%) NoSQL
15 76 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
16 61 (0.46%) Power Query
17 57 (0.43%) Oracle Database
18 56 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 377 (2.83%) Git
2 344 (2.59%) JIRA
3 309 (2.32%) Visual Studio
4 89 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 73 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 67 (0.50%) GitLab
7 60 (0.45%) Sourcetree
8 55 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (0.32%) NUnit
10 41 (0.31%) Subversion
11 39 (0.29%) Selenium
12 32 (0.24%) Postman
12 32 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 29 (0.22%) Moq
14 28 (0.21%) Jasmine
14 28 (0.21%) Karma Test Runner
15 25 (0.19%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.16%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.16%) MSTest
17 19 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4,657 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2,536 (19.06%) Finance
3 1,676 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1,059 (7.96%) Retail
5 696 (5.23%) Marketing
6 622 (4.67%) Legal
7 583 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
8 538 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 529 (3.98%) Public Sector
10 527 (3.96%) Law
11 510 (3.83%) Manufacturing
12 371 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 371 (2.79%) Telecoms
13 331 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
14 212 (1.59%) Games
15 194 (1.46%) Banking
16 183 (1.38%) Local Government
17 174 (1.31%) Advertising
18 150 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
19 123 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,938 (14.56%) Developer
2 1,770 (13.30%) Analyst
3 1,436 (10.79%) Senior
4 1,307 (9.82%) IT Support
5 1,085 (8.15%) Support Engineer
6 890 (6.69%) IT Engineer
7 850 (6.39%) .NET Developer
8 721 (5.42%) Architect
9 707 (5.31%) Lead
10 703 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 642 (4.82%) Consultant
12 624 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
13 494 (3.71%) Administrator
14 441 (3.31%) IT Technician
15 421 (3.16%) 2nd Line Support
16 384 (2.89%) C# Developer
17 355 (2.67%) Support Technician
18 352 (2.65%) IT Analyst
19 349 (2.62%) Support Analyst
20 345 (2.59%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,632 (12.26%) .NET
2 899 (6.76%) ASP.NET
3 851 (6.40%) .NET Core
4 714 (5.37%) ASP.NET MVC
5 649 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 614 (4.61%) HTML
7 594 (4.46%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.26%) Entity Framework
9 566 (4.25%) ASP.NET Web API
10 420 (3.16%) CSS
11 412 (3.10%) React
12 334 (2.51%) HTML5
13 276 (2.07%) RESTful
14 267 (2.01%) Vue
15 244 (1.83%) Node.js
16 215 (1.62%) Web Services
17 187 (1.41%) REST
18 182 (1.37%) Blazor
19 175 (1.32%) LINQ
20 166 (1.25%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 717 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
2 686 (5.16%) Driving Licence
3 572 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 438 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 312 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 275 (2.07%) Public Cloud
7 170 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 169 (1.27%) PKI
9 168 (1.26%) Product Ownership
10 159 (1.19%) Social Media
11 148 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 140 (1.05%) Replication
13 135 (1.01%) Clustering
14 112 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 109 (0.82%) NHS
16 100 (0.75%) Low-Code
17 98 (0.74%) Cloud Native
18 97 (0.73%) Algorithms
19 96 (0.72%) Smartphone
20 91 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,742 (28.12%) Windows
2 1,653 (12.42%) Windows Server
3 1,043 (7.84%) Windows 10
4 875 (6.58%) Linux
5 391 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 375 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 318 (2.39%) Android
8 293 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 232 (1.74%) Apple iOS
10 197 (1.48%) Windows 7
11 194 (1.46%) Mac OS
12 139 (1.04%) Ubuntu
13 130 (0.98%) VMS
14 104 (0.78%) Unix
15 90 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
16 80 (0.60%) Windows 8
17 71 (0.53%) CentOS
18 40 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.26%) Mac OS X
20 28 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,778 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
2 2,628 (19.75%) Agile
3 1,984 (14.91%) Customer Service
4 1,563 (11.75%) ITIL
5 1,226 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
6 1,159 (8.71%) DevOps
7 1,106 (8.31%) Mentoring
8 1,094 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
9 1,087 (8.17%) Project Management
10 926 (6.96%) CRM
11 888 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 830 (6.24%) MVC
13 822 (6.18%) Full Stack Development
14 814 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 760 (5.71%) Roadmaps
16 747 (5.61%) Decision-Making
17 697 (5.24%) Migration
18 681 (5.12%) Microservices
19 653 (4.91%) ERP
20 608 (4.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,090 (15.71%) SQL
2 1,723 (12.95%) C#
3 1,184 (8.90%) JavaScript
4 849 (6.38%) PowerShell
5 397 (2.98%) T-SQL
6 396 (2.98%) Python
7 383 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 237 (1.78%) Bash
9 187 (1.41%) Java
10 125 (0.94%) C++
11 124 (0.93%) VB
12 118 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 100 (0.75%) C
14 54 (0.41%) Fortran
15 53 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 53 (0.40%) R
16 50 (0.38%) Bicep
17 46 (0.35%) VBA
18 43 (0.32%) VBScript
19 42 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,169 (16.30%) Degree
2 1,084 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 945 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 632 (4.75%) SC Cleared
5 420 (3.16%) DBS Check
6 376 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 327 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 323 (2.43%) CCNA
9 287 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 275 (2.07%) DV Cleared
11 270 (2.03%) MCP
12 247 (1.86%) CIMA
13 246 (1.85%) ACCA
14 208 (1.56%) MCSE
15 201 (1.51%) A+ Certification
16 198 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
17 196 (1.47%) CCNP
18 140 (1.05%) PMI Certification
19 113 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
20 112 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 596 (4.48%) SLA
2 400 (3.01%) GDPR
3 351 (2.64%) QA
4 242 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 235 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 120 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 112 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 95 (0.71%) ISO 9001
8 95 (0.71%) PMO
9 90 (0.68%) NIST
10 85 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 40 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 30 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 26 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 21 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 20 (0.15%) ISO 14001
16 15 (0.11%) Good Clinical Practice
16 15 (0.11%) GRC
16 15 (0.11%) SOC 2
17 13 (0.098%) NCSC
System Software
1 2,986 (22.44%) Active Directory
2 933 (7.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 779 (5.85%) Hyper-V
4 235 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 190 (1.43%) Docker
6 183 (1.38%) vSphere
7 130 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 129 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
9 72 (0.54%) XenApp
10 59 (0.44%) XenDesktop
11 56 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
12 50 (0.38%) Firmware
13 49 (0.37%) KVM
14 46 (0.35%) Terminal Services
15 44 (0.33%) RACF
16 39 (0.29%) VMware NSX
17 27 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 24 (0.18%) VirtualBox
18 24 (0.18%) VMware Server
19 20 (0.15%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 897 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 422 (3.17%) SCCM
3 251 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 181 (1.36%) Terraform
5 134 (1.01%) WSUS
6 116 (0.87%) SCOM
7 106 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 90 (0.68%) vCenter Server
9 85 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 79 (0.59%) Ansible
11 39 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
11 39 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
12 35 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 34 (0.26%) Stealthwatch
14 33 (0.25%) NetBackup
15 32 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 31 (0.23%) Backup Exec
17 30 (0.23%) Autotask
17 30 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 28 (0.21%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,421 (10.68%) VMware
2 684 (5.14%) Cisco
3 495 (3.72%) Google
4 399 (3.00%) Apple
5 397 (2.98%) Citrix
6 337 (2.53%) Oracle
7 330 (2.48%) Veeam
8 270 (2.03%) Dell
9 248 (1.86%) HP
10 237 (1.78%) SAP
11 228 (1.71%) Adobe
12 203 (1.53%) Meraki
13 197 (1.48%) ServiceNow
14 148 (1.11%) Sophos
15 138 (1.04%) Fortinet
16 128 (0.96%) Salesforce
17 123 (0.92%) CyberArk
18 113 (0.85%) Red Hat
19 111 (0.83%) Databricks
20 109 (0.82%) Sage