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 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 4 6 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,610 18,611 23,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.63% 18.77% 14.60%
As % of the Vendors category 48.20% 44.62% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,378 10,947 14,767
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,000 £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 £82,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £31,250 £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 £75,000 £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 18 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 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
England +4 16,001 £47,500 -9.52% 5,007
UK excluding London +2 12,564 £43,500 -3.33% 3,957
Work from Home +4 7,077 £52,500 -4.55% 2,341
London +5 4,328 £60,500 -3.20% 1,427
South East +3 3,436 £45,000 -1.32% 959
North of England 0 2,975 £43,500 -3.33% 1,016
Midlands +1 2,281 £42,500 -10.53% 790
South West +4 1,622 £46,958 +17.39% 488
North West -2 1,551 £45,000 - 524
West Midlands +1 1,499 £45,000 -10.00% 502
East of England +2 1,223 £38,000 -5.00% 395
Yorkshire +2 993 £42,500 -1.16% 361
East Midlands +1 773 £37,500 -11.76% 289
Scotland -33 564 £45,000 -9.68% 236
North East +3 430 £42,500 +6.25% 140
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
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 1,879 (10.67%) SharePoint
2 1,651 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 316 (1.79%) IIS
4 208 (1.18%) Confluence
5 147 (0.83%) CMS
6 86 (0.49%) Skype for Business
7 80 (0.45%) Apache
8 70 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 63 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.30%) Kentico
10 53 (0.30%) SAS
11 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 45 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.24%) WordPress
14 41 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 40 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
16 35 (0.20%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
18 22 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
19 21 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3,186 (18.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2,359 (13.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 664 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 273 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 129 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 69 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) InDesign
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.091%) SPSS
11 16 (0.091%) Trello
12 11 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
14 8 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
14 8 (0.045%) InfoPath
14 8 (0.045%) Sketch
15 7 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 634 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 105 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 57 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 49 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 32 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 26 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
10 25 (0.14%) Shopify
11 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 22 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
14 17 (0.097%) Magento
15 16 (0.091%) Elite 3E
15 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
15 16 (0.091%) PlanetPress Connect
16 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
17 13 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
17 13 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7,228 (41.04%) Azure
2 5,322 (30.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2,346 (13.32%) Power Platform
4 1,418 (8.05%) AWS
5 1,382 (7.85%) Entra ID
6 1,327 (7.54%) Dynamics 365
7 864 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
8 739 (4.20%) PowerApps
9 703 (3.99%) SaaS
10 694 (3.94%) Power Automate
11 455 (2.58%) OneDrive
12 429 (2.44%) GCP
13 353 (2.00%) PaaS
14 335 (1.90%) IaaS
15 277 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 221 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
17 209 (1.19%) Serverless
18 183 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 157 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
20 155 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,597 (9.07%) Firewall
2 1,133 (6.43%) DNS
3 959 (5.45%) WAN
4 823 (4.67%) DHCP
5 809 (4.59%) Broadband
6 781 (4.43%) LAN
7 608 (3.45%) VPN
8 559 (3.17%) TCP/IP
9 528 (3.00%) Wireless
10 482 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
11 472 (2.68%) SAN
12 357 (2.03%) Internet
13 346 (1.96%) VLAN
14 304 (1.73%) Network Security
15 303 (1.72%) VoIP
16 285 (1.62%) SD-WAN
17 221 (1.25%) 5G
18 207 (1.18%) Intranet
19 197 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
20 141 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,639 (14.99%) SQL Server
2 1,473 (8.36%) Power BI
3 476 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 470 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 439 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 340 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 305 (1.73%) MongoDB
8 281 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 273 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 271 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
11 180 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 156 (0.89%) Tableau
13 141 (0.80%) MySQL
14 122 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
15 121 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
16 116 (0.66%) NoSQL
17 115 (0.65%) Big Data
18 94 (0.53%) Oracle Database
19 91 (0.52%) MS Access
20 80 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 490 (2.78%) Git
2 445 (2.53%) JIRA
3 393 (2.23%) Visual Studio
4 120 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 118 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 107 (0.61%) GitLab
7 77 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 69 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 65 (0.37%) Sourcetree
10 46 (0.26%) NUnit
10 46 (0.26%) Selenium
11 44 (0.25%) Subversion
12 43 (0.24%) Postman
13 38 (0.22%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 17 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,277 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 3,655 (20.76%) Finance
3 2,387 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1,066 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 969 (5.50%) Retail
6 802 (4.55%) Law
7 801 (4.55%) Legal
8 762 (4.33%) Marketing
9 756 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 744 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
11 604 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
12 549 (3.12%) Manufacturing
13 522 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
14 459 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 399 (2.27%) Banking
16 277 (1.57%) Games
17 233 (1.32%) Local Government
18 223 (1.27%) Advertising
19 218 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
20 170 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,518 (14.30%) Analyst
2 2,515 (14.28%) Developer
3 2,327 (13.21%) Senior
4 1,498 (8.51%) IT Support
5 1,208 (6.86%) Support Engineer
6 1,144 (6.50%) Architect
7 1,006 (5.71%) Lead
8 984 (5.59%) .NET Developer
9 950 (5.39%) IT Engineer
10 923 (5.24%) Consultant
11 841 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 626 (3.55%) IT Support Engineer
13 619 (3.52%) Administrator
14 484 (2.75%) 2nd Line Support
15 475 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
16 467 (2.65%) IT Analyst
16 467 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
17 466 (2.65%) Support Analyst
18 465 (2.64%) IT Technician
19 448 (2.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,160 (12.27%) .NET
2 1,078 (6.12%) ASP.NET
3 1,011 (5.74%) .NET Core
4 832 (4.72%) ASP.NET MVC
5 805 (4.57%) AngularJS
6 782 (4.44%) HTML
7 735 (4.17%) .NET Framework
8 672 (3.82%) Entity Framework
9 667 (3.79%) ASP.NET Web API
10 543 (3.08%) CSS
11 516 (2.93%) React
12 394 (2.24%) HTML5
13 346 (1.96%) RESTful
14 309 (1.75%) Vue
15 302 (1.71%) Node.js
16 286 (1.62%) Web Services
17 251 (1.43%) REST
18 238 (1.35%) JSON
19 207 (1.18%) Blazor
20 205 (1.16%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 954 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
2 827 (4.70%) Management Information System
3 656 (3.73%) Driving Licence
4 568 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 370 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 350 (1.99%) Social Media
7 343 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 258 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 251 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 250 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
11 247 (1.40%) Product Ownership
12 232 (1.32%) PKI
13 178 (1.01%) Cloud Native
14 169 (0.96%) Replication
15 150 (0.85%) Clustering
16 135 (0.77%) Mobile App
17 133 (0.76%) NHS
18 128 (0.73%) Low-Code
19 126 (0.72%) Smartphone
20 111 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,688 (26.62%) Windows
2 2,029 (11.52%) Windows Server
3 1,392 (7.90%) Windows 10
4 1,130 (6.42%) Linux
5 488 (2.77%) Android
6 452 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 449 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 337 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 318 (1.81%) Apple iOS
10 292 (1.66%) Ubuntu
11 263 (1.49%) Mac OS
12 235 (1.33%) Windows 7
13 159 (0.90%) Unix
14 142 (0.81%) VMS
15 100 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 89 (0.51%) Windows 8
17 74 (0.42%) CentOS
17 74 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 55 (0.31%) Mac OS X
19 36 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,499 (19.87%) Agile
2 3,470 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2,326 (13.21%) Customer Service
4 1,875 (10.65%) ITIL
5 1,754 (9.96%) DevOps
6 1,743 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
7 1,639 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
8 1,596 (9.06%) Mentoring
9 1,511 (8.58%) Project Management
10 1,386 (7.87%) CRM
11 1,101 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,095 (6.22%) Decision-Making
13 1,010 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 996 (5.66%) MVC
15 988 (5.61%) Full Stack Development
16 981 (5.57%) Roadmaps
17 965 (5.48%) Migration
18 899 (5.11%) Scrum
19 886 (5.03%) Analytics
20 874 (4.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,826 (16.05%) SQL
2 2,253 (12.79%) C#
3 1,519 (8.63%) JavaScript
4 1,223 (6.94%) PowerShell
5 669 (3.80%) Python
6 575 (3.27%) T-SQL
7 475 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 448 (2.54%) Bash
9 273 (1.55%) Java
10 139 (0.79%) C++
11 127 (0.72%) VB
12 114 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 111 (0.63%) C
14 100 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 93 (0.53%) Bicep
16 89 (0.51%) R
17 69 (0.39%) VBA
18 56 (0.32%) Shell Script
19 50 (0.28%) PL/SQL
20 46 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,926 (16.62%) Degree
2 1,308 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 1,180 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 788 (4.47%) SC Cleared
5 511 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 505 (2.87%) ACCA
6 505 (2.87%) DBS Check
7 482 (2.74%) CIMA
8 461 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 422 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
10 315 (1.79%) DV Cleared
11 298 (1.69%) CCNA
12 255 (1.45%) Master's Degree
13 235 (1.33%) A+ Certification
14 227 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
15 225 (1.28%) CISSP
16 212 (1.20%) MCP
17 207 (1.18%) MCSE
18 188 (1.07%) PMI Certification
19 166 (0.94%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 814 (4.62%) SLA
2 494 (2.81%) QA
3 477 (2.71%) GDPR
4 400 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 293 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 232 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 175 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 158 (0.90%) NIST
9 133 (0.76%) PMO
10 126 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 114 (0.65%) ISO 9001
12 46 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 44 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 42 (0.24%) GRC
15 37 (0.21%) IFRS
15 37 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 33 (0.19%) NCSC
17 31 (0.18%) COBIT
18 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 30 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3,992 (22.67%) Active Directory
2 1,156 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 873 (4.96%) Hyper-V
4 310 (1.76%) Docker
5 299 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 255 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
7 210 (1.19%) vSphere
8 177 (1.01%) XenApp
9 155 (0.88%) XenDesktop
10 143 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
11 105 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
12 80 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 59 (0.34%) Firmware
14 54 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 53 (0.30%) KVM
16 43 (0.24%) VMware NSX
17 28 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 27 (0.15%) VirtualBox
19 25 (0.14%) VMware Server
20 21 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,313 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 657 (3.73%) SCCM
3 387 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 371 (2.11%) Terraform
5 276 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
6 151 (0.86%) WSUS
7 150 (0.85%) Ansible
8 132 (0.75%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 104 (0.59%) AirWatch
11 100 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
12 99 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 58 (0.33%) FortiGate
14 44 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
14 44 (0.25%) Grafana
15 41 (0.23%) NetBackup
16 40 (0.23%) Puppet
17 39 (0.22%) Nessus
18 37 (0.21%) CASB
19 36 (0.20%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,753 (9.95%) VMware
2 938 (5.33%) Cisco
3 698 (3.96%) Google
4 605 (3.44%) Citrix
5 528 (3.00%) Apple
6 499 (2.83%) Oracle
7 395 (2.24%) Dell
8 394 (2.24%) Veeam
9 360 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 338 (1.92%) SAP
11 324 (1.84%) HP
12 302 (1.71%) Adobe
13 247 (1.40%) CyberArk
14 221 (1.25%) Meraki
15 210 (1.19%) Tanium
16 203 (1.15%) Databricks
17 185 (1.05%) Salesforce
18 161 (0.91%) Fortinet
19 157 (0.89%) Sophos
20 144 (0.82%) Red Hat