Microsoft Certification Jobs

Microsoft Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 281 351
Rank change year-on-year +61 +70 -57
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1,399 1,203 1,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.29% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.90% 3.81% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 845 1,208
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £45,533
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +6.52% +1.18%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,850 £77,725
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +2.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 28,550 31,536 47,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 33.88% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,234 14,336 19,350
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,874
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,549
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.96% +0.10%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK

Microsoft Certification
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the UK 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
England +74 1,287 £45,000 -7.03% 266
UK excluding London +30 1,052 £40,000 -5.88% 213
Work from Home +83 484 £51,000 -2.86% 116
London +57 299 £60,000 +4.35% 66
North of England +51 276 £40,000 -15.79% 70
Midlands +10 241 £40,000 -5.88% 26
South East +21 236 £39,000 +4.00% 40
West Midlands +20 156 £38,000 -20.00% 16
North West -6 126 £40,000 -11.11% 35
South West -2 115 £42,500 +0.59% 29
East of England +6 103 £40,000 -5.88% 19
Yorkshire +61 87 £40,000 -27.12% 26
East Midlands -12 85 £44,612 +10.15% 10
North East +39 63 £32,500 - 11
Scotland -54 44 £57,500 +28.49% 23
Wales +11 25 £27,000 -29.87% 5
Northern Ireland +20 11 £45,000 -37.93% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -

Microsoft Certification
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
1 205 (14.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 190 (13.58%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.36%) SharePoint 2010
3 19 (1.36%) SharePoint 2013
4 12 (0.86%) IIS
5 11 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.71%) CMS
7 8 (0.57%) Apache
8 5 (0.36%) Confluence
8 5 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.071%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.071%) Drupal
9 1 (0.071%) Moodle
9 1 (0.071%) SAS
Applications
1 166 (11.87%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.93%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 43 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.36%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.21%) Maximo
3 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.14%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.071%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.071%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 841 (60.11%) Azure
2 543 (38.81%) Microsoft 365
3 300 (21.44%) Power Platform
4 141 (10.08%) AWS
5 119 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
6 115 (8.22%) Entra ID
7 99 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (6.79%) PowerApps
9 90 (6.43%) Power Automate
10 43 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 41 (2.93%) Azure AI
12 40 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
12 40 (2.86%) PaaS
13 36 (2.57%) GCP
14 35 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (2.50%) IaaS
15 34 (2.43%) OneDrive
15 34 (2.43%) Serverless
16 33 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
17 30 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 223 (15.94%) Firewall
2 143 (10.22%) Network Security
3 130 (9.29%) DNS
4 120 (8.58%) DHCP
5 118 (8.43%) Internet
6 108 (7.72%) SAN
7 95 (6.79%) TCP/IP
8 87 (6.22%) Broadband
9 83 (5.93%) WAN
10 82 (5.86%) VPN
11 80 (5.72%) WLAN
12 75 (5.36%) LAN
13 60 (4.29%) VLAN
14 47 (3.36%) VoIP
15 41 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
16 40 (2.86%) NAS
16 40 (2.86%) Wireless
17 28 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
18 27 (1.93%) Intranet
19 19 (1.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (16.73%) Power BI
2 208 (14.87%) SQL Server
3 117 (8.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 50 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 47 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 37 (2.64%) Data Lake
7 35 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 31 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.14%) Big Data
11 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 10 (0.71%) Metadata
13 9 (0.64%) QlikView
14 8 (0.57%) MySQL
15 7 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.50%) Tableau
16 6 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
17 5 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (1.72%) JIRA
2 19 (1.36%) Git
3 13 (0.93%) Axure RP
3 13 (0.93%) Balsamiq
4 7 (0.50%) GitLab
5 5 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.21%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.071%) AdminStudio
9 1 (0.071%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.071%) MSI
9 1 (0.071%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.071%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 595 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 177 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (11.37%) Finance
4 120 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (3.50%) Marketing
8 46 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (3.22%) Manufacturing
10 39 (2.79%) Legal
11 35 (2.50%) Law
12 34 (2.43%) Retail
13 31 (2.22%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.29%) Banking
15 16 (1.14%) General Ledger
16 14 (1.00%) Automotive
16 14 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.93%) Local Government
18 12 (0.86%) Billing
19 11 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 254 (18.16%) Support Engineer
2 243 (17.37%) IT Support
3 180 (12.87%) IT Engineer
4 151 (10.79%) IT Support Engineer
5 127 (9.08%) Architect
5 127 (9.08%) Senior
6 111 (7.93%) DBA
7 104 (7.43%) Analyst
8 102 (7.29%) SQL DBA
9 87 (6.22%) Consultant
10 84 (6.00%) Developer
11 81 (5.79%) 2nd Line Support
12 78 (5.58%) Lead
13 67 (4.79%) 3rd Line Support
14 66 (4.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 63 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 60 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 59 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
18 58 (4.15%) Administrator
19 48 (3.43%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (4.36%) HTML
2 57 (4.07%) CSS
3 56 (4.00%) .NET
4 24 (1.72%) ARM Templates
5 21 (1.50%) .NET Core
6 19 (1.36%) ASP.NET
6 19 (1.36%) HTML5 Canvas
7 18 (1.29%) .NET Framework
8 17 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (1.07%) PySpark
10 14 (1.00%) Entity Framework
11 11 (0.79%) Web Services
12 10 (0.71%) ADO
12 10 (0.71%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.71%) jQuery
13 9 (0.64%) Middleware
14 8 (0.57%) REST
15 7 (0.50%) React
15 7 (0.50%) XML
16 5 (0.36%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.86%) Driving Licence
2 115 (8.22%) Onboarding
3 94 (6.72%) Data Centre
4 63 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 47 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 43 (3.07%) Replication
7 40 (2.86%) Blockchain
8 39 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 35 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (2.36%) Private Cloud
11 29 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (2.00%) Cloud Native
13 26 (1.86%) Security Posture
14 25 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
16 19 (1.36%) Virtual Team
17 18 (1.29%) NHS
18 16 (1.14%) Smartphone
19 14 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 624 (44.60%) Windows
2 278 (19.87%) Windows Server
3 215 (15.37%) Linux
4 126 (9.01%) Windows 10
5 95 (6.79%) VMS
6 57 (4.07%) Mac OS
7 53 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 50 (3.57%) Debian
9 49 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 47 (3.36%) CentOS
11 40 (2.86%) Alpine Linux
12 38 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
13 37 (2.64%) Apple iOS
14 20 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (1.36%) Android
16 11 (0.79%) Ubuntu
17 10 (0.71%) Windows 7
17 10 (0.71%) Windows 8
18 8 (0.57%) SUSE
19 7 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (34.24%) Problem-Solving
2 370 (26.45%) ITIL
3 286 (20.44%) Customer Service
4 241 (17.23%) Business Intelligence
5 230 (16.44%) Computer Science
6 168 (12.01%) DevOps
7 161 (11.51%) Cybersecurity
8 148 (10.58%) Mentoring
9 144 (10.29%) Agile
10 139 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 122 (8.72%) Project Management
12 114 (8.15%) CI/CD
12 114 (8.15%) Collaborative Working
13 111 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 107 (7.65%) Artificial Intelligence
15 103 (7.36%) Migration
16 98 (7.01%) Performance Tuning
17 97 (6.93%) Asset Management
18 96 (6.86%) High Availability
19 93 (6.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 304 (21.73%) SQL
2 120 (8.58%) C#
3 111 (7.93%) PowerShell
4 100 (7.15%) T-SQL
5 72 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 46 (3.29%) Python
7 24 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.00%) Bash
10 12 (0.86%) Java
11 11 (0.79%) U-SQL
12 10 (0.71%) Bicep
12 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.64%) C
13 9 (0.64%) C++
14 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.29%) R
16 3 (0.21%) Go
16 3 (0.21%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 485 (34.67%) Degree
2 374 (26.73%) MCSE
3 244 (17.44%) Azure Certification
4 235 (16.80%) MCP
5 228 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
6 201 (14.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 199 (14.22%) CCNA
8 191 (13.65%) MCSA
9 154 (11.01%) A+ Certification
10 106 (7.58%) Security Cleared
11 99 (7.08%) CCNP
12 88 (6.29%) SC Cleared
13 83 (5.93%) DBS Check
14 68 (4.86%) LPIC
14 68 (4.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 56 (4.00%) MCITP
16 44 (3.15%) Network+ Certification
17 28 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
18 26 (1.86%) CISSP
19 24 (1.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.50%) SLA
2 46 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.93%) GDPR
4 25 (1.79%) QA
5 23 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.00%) NIST
8 13 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.93%) WCAG
9 9 (0.64%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.64%) NCSC
10 6 (0.43%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.36%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.071%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.071%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.071%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.071%) PMO
System Software
1 494 (35.31%) Active Directory
2 207 (14.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (11.15%) Hyper-V
4 95 (6.79%) Virtual Machines
5 69 (4.93%) Docker
6 50 (3.57%) vSphere
7 30 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
8 28 (2.00%) XenDesktop
9 25 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (1.43%) XenApp
11 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.64%) Firmware
13 8 (0.57%) vCloud
14 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.29%) KVM
15 4 (0.29%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
17 2 (0.14%) Terminal Server
18 1 (0.071%) DFS Replication
18 1 (0.071%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 134 (9.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 97 (6.93%) Kubernetes
3 90 (6.43%) Terraform
4 80 (5.72%) SCCM
5 15 (1.07%) SCOM
6 13 (0.93%) vCenter Server
7 10 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.71%) WSUS
8 9 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.57%) Autotask
10 7 (0.50%) SmoothWall
11 6 (0.43%) Ansible
11 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.36%) Grafana
13 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.29%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.14%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 1,261 (90.14%) Microsoft
2 276 (19.73%) VMware
3 176 (12.58%) Cisco
4 76 (5.43%) HP
5 70 (5.00%) Citrix
6 62 (4.43%) Veeam
7 58 (4.15%) Apple
8 48 (3.43%) Red Hat
9 47 (3.36%) Adobe
10 46 (3.29%) IBM
11 43 (3.07%) Google
12 35 (2.50%) Databricks
13 34 (2.43%) Dell
14 31 (2.22%) Meraki
15 23 (1.64%) Nimble Storage
16 20 (1.43%) SolarWinds
17 17 (1.22%) Oracle
17 17 (1.22%) Symantec
18 15 (1.07%) Commvault
19 14 (1.00%) ServiceNow