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 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,562 19,170 23,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 18.51% 14.76%
As % of the Vendors category 47.98% 44.24% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 13,430 11,391 14,897
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,931 £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 36,604 43,332 60,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 41.84% 38.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,085 24,733 33,283
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £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 £76,250 £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 4 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 4 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 15,941 £47,500 -9.52% 4,792
UK excluding London +2 12,492 £43,000 -4.44% 3,781
Work from Home +4 7,081 £52,500 -4.55% 2,182
London +6 4,360 £60,918 -2.53% 1,306
South East +3 3,439 £45,000 - 858
North of England 0 2,891 £43,500 -3.33% 953
Midlands +1 2,277 £42,500 -10.53% 729
South West +3 1,617 £46,958 +17.39% 518
North West -2 1,498 £45,000 - 516
West Midlands +1 1,494 £45,000 -10.00% 451
East of England +2 1,219 £38,000 -5.00% 401
Yorkshire +2 977 £41,605 -7.54% 327
East Midlands +2 774 £37,500 -12.79% 276
Scotland -29 584 £45,000 -10.00% 255
North East +3 415 £42,500 +6.25% 118
Wales +2 335 £36,476 -6.47% 128
Northern Ireland +6 105 £41,000 -8.89% 62
Isle of Man - 34 £45,000 - 3
Channel Islands 0 6 £85,000 +136.11% 4

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 1,885 (10.73%) SharePoint
2 1,687 (9.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 318 (1.81%) IIS
4 218 (1.24%) Confluence
5 148 (0.84%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 71 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 66 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 65 (0.37%) Apache
10 54 (0.31%) Kentico
10 54 (0.31%) SAS
11 50 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 45 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 44 (0.25%) WordPress
14 40 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 38 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
16 23 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
18 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
19 20 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3,143 (17.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2,300 (13.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 662 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 273 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 125 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 68 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 58 (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 (0.085%) Trello
14 11 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
15 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
15 9 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.046%) Sketch
17 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
17 7 (0.040%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 633 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 101 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 61 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 35 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 34 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 29 (0.17%) NEC Housing
8 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 26 (0.15%) Shopify
10 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 23 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 23 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
12 22 (0.13%) PlanetPress Connect
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
13 18 (0.10%) Magento
14 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
15 15 (0.085%) Elite 3E
15 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
16 14 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
17 12 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,223 (41.13%) Azure
2 5,370 (30.58%) Microsoft 365
3 2,335 (13.30%) Power Platform
4 1,427 (8.13%) AWS
5 1,371 (7.81%) Entra ID
6 1,305 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
7 861 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 734 (4.18%) PowerApps
9 714 (4.07%) SaaS
10 687 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 453 (2.58%) OneDrive
12 424 (2.41%) GCP
13 366 (2.08%) PaaS
14 343 (1.95%) IaaS
15 276 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 221 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
17 211 (1.20%) Serverless
18 174 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 161 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
20 159 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,618 (9.21%) Firewall
2 1,156 (6.58%) DNS
3 1,011 (5.76%) WAN
4 844 (4.81%) DHCP
5 817 (4.65%) Broadband
6 814 (4.64%) LAN
7 625 (3.56%) VPN
8 564 (3.21%) TCP/IP
9 551 (3.14%) Wireless
10 480 (2.73%) SAN
11 479 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
12 368 (2.10%) VLAN
13 352 (2.00%) Internet
14 312 (1.78%) VoIP
15 305 (1.74%) Network Security
16 293 (1.67%) SD-WAN
17 224 (1.28%) 5G
18 202 (1.15%) Intranet
19 194 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
20 154 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,664 (15.17%) SQL Server
2 1,467 (8.35%) Power BI
3 481 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 470 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 431 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 340 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 294 (1.67%) MongoDB
8 280 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 270 (1.54%) Data Lake
10 268 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 175 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 157 (0.89%) Tableau
13 135 (0.77%) MySQL
14 126 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
15 123 (0.70%) NoSQL
16 121 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
17 113 (0.64%) Big Data
18 89 (0.51%) MS Access
19 77 (0.44%) Oracle Database
20 73 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 502 (2.86%) Git
2 459 (2.61%) JIRA
3 397 (2.26%) Visual Studio
4 128 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 114 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 104 (0.59%) GitLab
7 82 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 69 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 47 (0.27%) NUnit
11 45 (0.26%) Selenium
12 44 (0.25%) Subversion
13 43 (0.24%) Postman
14 40 (0.23%) 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 6,218 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 3,579 (20.38%) Finance
3 2,348 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 1,068 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 927 (5.28%) Retail
6 798 (4.54%) Law
7 772 (4.40%) Legal
8 751 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 748 (4.26%) Marketing
10 730 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
11 609 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
12 550 (3.13%) Manufacturing
13 528 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 458 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 395 (2.25%) Banking
16 286 (1.63%) Games
17 221 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
18 218 (1.24%) Advertising
19 212 (1.21%) Local Government
20 168 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,537 (14.45%) Analyst
2 2,535 (14.43%) Developer
3 2,322 (13.22%) Senior
4 1,515 (8.63%) IT Support
5 1,217 (6.93%) Support Engineer
6 1,130 (6.43%) Architect
7 968 (5.51%) Lead
8 966 (5.50%) IT Engineer
9 965 (5.49%) .NET Developer
10 915 (5.21%) Consultant
11 855 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 628 (3.58%) IT Support Engineer
13 615 (3.50%) Administrator
14 494 (2.81%) 2nd Line Support
15 477 (2.72%) Support Analyst
16 471 (2.68%) IT Analyst
17 467 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
18 464 (2.64%) IT Technician
19 459 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
20 449 (2.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,144 (12.21%) .NET
2 1,075 (6.12%) ASP.NET
3 1,004 (5.72%) .NET Core
4 821 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 816 (4.65%) AngularJS
6 810 (4.61%) HTML
7 731 (4.16%) .NET Framework
8 663 (3.78%) Entity Framework
9 657 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
10 573 (3.26%) CSS
11 533 (3.03%) React
12 411 (2.34%) HTML5
13 348 (1.98%) RESTful
14 322 (1.83%) Node.js
15 299 (1.70%) Vue
16 270 (1.54%) Web Services
17 261 (1.49%) REST
18 251 (1.43%) JSON
19 218 (1.24%) XML
20 205 (1.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 959 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
2 810 (4.61%) Management Information System
3 656 (3.74%) Driving Licence
4 566 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 358 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 353 (2.01%) Social Media
7 350 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 260 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
9 253 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 252 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 249 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 238 (1.36%) PKI
13 177 (1.01%) Cloud Native
14 170 (0.97%) Replication
15 168 (0.96%) Clustering
16 135 (0.77%) Mobile App
17 133 (0.76%) Low-Code
18 129 (0.73%) NHS
19 122 (0.69%) Smartphone
20 110 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4,738 (26.98%) Windows
2 2,085 (11.87%) Windows Server
3 1,416 (8.06%) Windows 10
4 1,109 (6.31%) Linux
5 499 (2.84%) Android
6 459 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 455 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 352 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 321 (1.83%) Apple iOS
10 294 (1.67%) Ubuntu
11 270 (1.54%) Mac OS
12 239 (1.36%) Windows 7
13 146 (0.83%) Unix
14 143 (0.81%) VMS
15 99 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
16 95 (0.54%) Windows 8
17 73 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 72 (0.41%) CentOS
19 56 (0.32%) Mac OS X
20 38 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,464 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
2 3,453 (19.66%) Agile
3 2,327 (13.25%) Customer Service
4 1,887 (10.74%) ITIL
5 1,754 (9.99%) DevOps
6 1,733 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
7 1,640 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
8 1,585 (9.03%) Mentoring
9 1,489 (8.48%) Project Management
10 1,379 (7.85%) CRM
11 1,115 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,076 (6.13%) Decision-Making
13 1,007 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 997 (5.68%) Full Stack Development
15 991 (5.64%) MVC
16 977 (5.56%) Migration
17 964 (5.49%) Roadmaps
18 895 (5.10%) Scrum
19 878 (5.00%) Analytics
20 866 (4.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,845 (16.20%) SQL
2 2,238 (12.74%) C#
3 1,534 (8.73%) JavaScript
4 1,232 (7.02%) PowerShell
5 695 (3.96%) Python
6 583 (3.32%) T-SQL
7 475 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 445 (2.53%) Bash
9 274 (1.56%) Java
10 149 (0.85%) VB
11 138 (0.79%) C++
12 112 (0.64%) VB.NET
13 110 (0.63%) C
14 97 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 92 (0.52%) Bicep
16 90 (0.51%) R
17 69 (0.39%) PHP
17 69 (0.39%) VBA
18 46 (0.26%) VBScript
19 45 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,907 (16.55%) Degree
2 1,340 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 1,179 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 820 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 511 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 501 (2.85%) ACCA
7 494 (2.81%) DBS Check
8 473 (2.69%) CIMA
9 457 (2.60%) Azure Certification
10 424 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 326 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 296 (1.69%) CCNA
13 264 (1.50%) Master's Degree
14 239 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 238 (1.36%) A+ Certification
16 224 (1.28%) CISSP
17 209 (1.19%) MCP
18 199 (1.13%) MCSE
19 181 (1.03%) PMI Certification
20 160 (0.91%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 825 (4.70%) SLA
2 486 (2.77%) QA
3 475 (2.70%) GDPR
4 414 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 302 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 226 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 161 (0.92%) NIST
8 151 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 133 (0.76%) PMO
10 125 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 123 (0.70%) ISO 9001
12 56 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 46 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 41 (0.23%) GRC
15 36 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 34 (0.19%) IFRS
16 34 (0.19%) NCSC
17 30 (0.17%) COBIT
17 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4,047 (23.04%) Active Directory
2 1,197 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 905 (5.15%) Hyper-V
4 317 (1.81%) Docker
5 298 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 263 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 213 (1.21%) vSphere
8 183 (1.04%) XenApp
9 159 (0.91%) XenDesktop
10 142 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
11 116 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
12 79 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 64 (0.36%) Firmware
14 54 (0.31%) VMware NSX
15 53 (0.30%) KVM
15 53 (0.30%) Terminal Services
16 29 (0.17%) VirtualBox
17 27 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
19 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,327 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 683 (3.89%) SCCM
3 387 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 357 (2.03%) Terraform
5 275 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
6 155 (0.88%) WSUS
7 147 (0.84%) Ansible
8 137 (0.78%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 117 (0.67%) AirWatch
11 97 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 97 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 63 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 51 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
14 46 (0.26%) Grafana
15 44 (0.25%) Puppet
16 43 (0.24%) Nessus
17 39 (0.22%) NetBackup
18 37 (0.21%) CASB
18 37 (0.21%) EnCase
Vendors
1 1,798 (10.24%) VMware
2 947 (5.39%) Cisco
3 697 (3.97%) Google
4 621 (3.54%) Citrix
5 531 (3.02%) Apple
6 475 (2.70%) Oracle
7 393 (2.24%) Veeam
8 383 (2.18%) Dell
9 368 (2.10%) ServiceNow
10 334 (1.90%) HP
11 333 (1.90%) SAP
12 301 (1.71%) Adobe
13 239 (1.36%) CyberArk
14 215 (1.22%) Meraki
15 210 (1.20%) Tanium
16 200 (1.14%) Databricks
17 188 (1.07%) Salesforce
18 156 (0.89%) Fortinet
18 156 (0.89%) Sophos
19 142 (0.81%) Red Hat