Microsoft Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2,942 3,844 3,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.81% 22.35% 18.57%
As % of the Vendors category 49.07% 47.56% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,484 1,650 2,115
10th Percentile £24,930 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -1.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,996 8,082 7,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.26% 46.98% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,465 3,632 4,142
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £77,542 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,413 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.91% +4.39% +4.43%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

Microsoft
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West -2 1,531 £45,000 - 497
Yorkshire +2 987 £42,500 -4.49% 320
North East +3 423 £42,500 +6.25% 119
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 269 (9.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 261 (8.87%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.94%) IIS
4 18 (0.61%) Confluence
5 15 (0.51%) WordPress
6 14 (0.48%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.37%) CMS
8 10 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
9 9 (0.31%) Apache
10 8 (0.27%) SAS
11 7 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (0.17%) Skype for Business
14 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.068%) Resin
16 1 (0.034%) Documentum
16 1 (0.034%) IBM Notes
16 1 (0.034%) Site Server
Applications
1 500 (17.00%) Microsoft Office
2 220 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.37%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.14%) InDesign
9 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.14%) Solid Edge
10 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.068%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.068%) SPSS
11 2 (0.068%) Stata
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 112 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.51%) Sage 200
4 14 (0.48%) NEC Housing
5 13 (0.44%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.44%) iTrent
6 8 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.27%) Magento
7 7 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.17%) Sage 50
9 5 (0.17%) Sage CRM
9 5 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
10 4 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,278 (43.44%) Azure
2 956 (32.49%) Microsoft 365
3 366 (12.44%) Power Platform
4 261 (8.87%) AWS
5 225 (7.65%) Entra ID
6 216 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
7 151 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (3.91%) PowerApps
9 114 (3.87%) SaaS
10 112 (3.81%) Power Automate
11 93 (3.16%) GCP
12 58 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 55 (1.87%) OneDrive
14 46 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (1.46%) IaaS
16 41 (1.39%) PaaS
17 31 (1.05%) GitHub
17 31 (1.05%) Google Workspace
18 28 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
19 26 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 282 (9.59%) Firewall
2 214 (7.27%) WAN
3 208 (7.07%) DNS
4 187 (6.36%) LAN
5 164 (5.57%) DHCP
6 112 (3.81%) SAN
7 107 (3.64%) TCP/IP
7 107 (3.64%) VPN
8 90 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
9 78 (2.65%) Internet
10 74 (2.52%) VoIP
11 72 (2.45%) Network Security
12 66 (2.24%) Wireless
13 49 (1.67%) VLAN
14 46 (1.56%) Broadband
15 39 (1.33%) NAS
16 38 (1.29%) SD-WAN
16 38 (1.29%) WLAN
17 29 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
18 26 (0.88%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 542 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 202 (6.87%) Power BI
3 112 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 96 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 64 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 62 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 46 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 42 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 41 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 34 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (0.99%) MySQL
13 24 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 23 (0.78%) NoSQL
15 21 (0.71%) MS Access
16 19 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 16 (0.54%) DB2
18 15 (0.51%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 97 (3.30%) Git
2 51 (1.73%) JIRA
3 29 (0.99%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.82%) GitLab
5 16 (0.54%) Jasmine
5 16 (0.54%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
6 12 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.31%) JUnit
8 9 (0.31%) Selenium
8 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.20%) Dreamweaver
11 6 (0.20%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.17%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.17%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 963 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 488 (16.59%) Finance
3 291 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 187 (6.36%) Retail
6 167 (5.68%) Law
7 165 (5.61%) Legal
8 128 (4.35%) Marketing
9 119 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
10 105 (3.57%) Manufacturing
11 61 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 57 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 54 (1.84%) Advertising
14 46 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (1.43%) Local Government
16 37 (1.26%) Banking
17 35 (1.19%) Police
18 30 (1.02%) Games
19 27 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
20 17 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 482 (16.38%) Developer
2 402 (13.66%) Analyst
3 260 (8.84%) IT Support
4 259 (8.80%) Senior
5 201 (6.83%) .NET Developer
6 189 (6.42%) Lead
7 186 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 175 (5.95%) IT Engineer
8 175 (5.95%) Support Engineer
9 155 (5.27%) Architect
10 145 (4.93%) Consultant
11 131 (4.45%) Service Analyst
12 130 (4.42%) IT Manager
13 123 (4.18%) Service Desk Analyst
14 100 (3.40%) IT Support Engineer
15 96 (3.26%) Administrator
15 96 (3.26%) IT Analyst
16 91 (3.09%) 2nd Line Support
17 89 (3.03%) C# Developer
18 87 (2.96%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (12.24%) .NET
2 218 (7.41%) ASP.NET
3 209 (7.10%) .NET Core
4 170 (5.78%) ASP.NET MVC
5 160 (5.44%) HTML
6 147 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 142 (4.83%) ASP.NET Web API
8 139 (4.72%) Entity Framework
9 119 (4.04%) .NET Framework
10 98 (3.33%) CSS
10 98 (3.33%) HTML5
11 76 (2.58%) React
12 67 (2.28%) RESTful
13 55 (1.87%) Node.js
14 54 (1.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 54 (1.84%) Web Services
15 51 (1.73%) Blazor
16 48 (1.63%) JSON
17 47 (1.60%) XML
18 46 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 145 (4.93%) Driving Licence
2 120 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 100 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 93 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 78 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 49 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 39 (1.33%) PKI
8 39 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 36 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.22%) Smartphone
10 32 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 31 (1.05%) PMI
12 30 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
12 30 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 29 (0.99%) Mobile App
14 28 (0.95%) Clustering
15 26 (0.88%) NHS
16 24 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 769 (26.14%) Windows
2 348 (11.83%) Windows Server
3 194 (6.59%) Windows 10
4 133 (4.52%) Linux
5 76 (2.58%) Android
6 71 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 58 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 55 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 44 (1.50%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.26%) VMS
11 32 (1.09%) Mac OS
12 29 (0.99%) Windows 7
13 24 (0.82%) Unix
14 16 (0.54%) Windows 8
14 16 (0.54%) Windows Vista
15 12 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 9 (0.31%) Windows Phone
18 7 (0.24%) Solaris
19 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
2 547 (18.59%) Agile
3 450 (15.30%) Customer Service
4 413 (14.04%) ITIL
5 280 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 279 (9.48%) DevOps
7 268 (9.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 250 (8.50%) CRM
9 242 (8.23%) Project Management
10 234 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
11 228 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 227 (7.72%) Migration
13 213 (7.24%) Roadmaps
14 211 (7.17%) Mentoring
15 199 (6.76%) Full Stack Development
16 197 (6.70%) ERP
17 192 (6.53%) Microservices
18 189 (6.42%) MVC
19 172 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
20 162 (5.51%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 543 (18.46%) SQL
2 391 (13.29%) C#
3 288 (9.79%) JavaScript
4 192 (6.53%) PowerShell
5 123 (4.18%) T-SQL
6 82 (2.79%) TypeScript
7 71 (2.41%) Python
8 33 (1.12%) VB.NET
9 32 (1.09%) VB
10 27 (0.92%) Bash
11 18 (0.61%) R
12 16 (0.54%) VB6
13 14 (0.48%) PHP
14 13 (0.44%) VBScript
15 11 (0.37%) Delphi
16 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.34%) VBA
17 9 (0.31%) Go
17 9 (0.31%) Java
17 9 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 390 (13.26%) Degree
2 257 (8.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 111 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 108 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 86 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
6 75 (2.55%) DBS Check
7 67 (2.28%) CCNA
8 60 (2.04%) SC Cleared
9 58 (1.97%) PMI Certification
10 50 (1.70%) MCP
11 49 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (1.50%) CCNP
13 42 (1.43%) A+ Certification
14 33 (1.12%) MCSE
15 31 (1.05%) CISSP
16 30 (1.02%) PMP
17 27 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
18 25 (0.85%) MCSA
19 23 (0.78%) AWS Certification
20 22 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (5.30%) SLA
2 86 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (2.58%) GDPR
4 66 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (1.90%) QA
6 33 (1.12%) NIST
7 29 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 28 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.85%) PMO
10 24 (0.82%) Accessibility
11 17 (0.58%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.31%) GRC
14 8 (0.27%) PSD2
15 7 (0.24%) COSHH
15 7 (0.24%) ISO 14001
15 7 (0.24%) NEBOSH
16 5 (0.17%) COBIT
17 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 730 (24.81%) Active Directory
2 186 (6.32%) Hyper-V
2 186 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (0.92%) Docker
5 27 (0.92%) Terminal Services
5 27 (0.92%) vSphere
6 20 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.54%) VMware Server
8 9 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.24%) KVM
9 7 (0.24%) XenApp
9 7 (0.24%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.17%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.068%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 237 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 82 (2.79%) SCCM
3 66 (2.24%) Kubernetes
4 53 (1.80%) Terraform
5 34 (1.16%) SCOM
6 26 (0.88%) WSUS
7 23 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
10 17 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.51%) Autotask
12 14 (0.48%) Ansible
12 14 (0.48%) ZABBIX
13 12 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.41%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.41%) VxRail
14 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.31%) AirWatch
15 9 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 338 (11.49%) VMware
2 184 (6.25%) Google
3 165 (5.61%) Cisco
4 111 (3.77%) Apple
5 100 (3.40%) Citrix
6 81 (2.75%) Oracle
7 76 (2.58%) SAP
8 68 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 65 (2.21%) Adobe
10 63 (2.14%) Dell
11 60 (2.04%) Veeam
12 45 (1.53%) SolarWinds
13 42 (1.43%) HP
14 41 (1.39%) Fortinet
15 34 (1.16%) NetApp
16 31 (1.05%) Facebook
17 30 (1.02%) Datto
17 30 (1.02%) Sophos
18 26 (0.88%) IBM
19 25 (0.85%) Meraki