Microsoft Jobs in the South West

Microsoft
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,609 1,265 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.33% 18.78% 17.55%
As % of the Vendors category 54.56% 50.64% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 731 887
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,932 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £54,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,949 2,498 3,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.77% 37.08% 38.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,221 1,478 1,945
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £33,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,331 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
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 South West

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the South West.

Salary trend for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the South West

Microsoft
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +10 362 £36,000 -4.00% 68
Bristol -5 362 £52,500 +16.67% 134
Wiltshire 0 274 £49,500 +10.00% 82
Dorset +1 203 £38,750 -8.05% 36
Devon -1 202 £45,000 +28.57% 55
Somerset +1 149 £38,000 +8.57% 74
Cornwall -5 34 £40,000 +3.23% 19
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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
1 155 (9.63%) SharePoint
2 153 (9.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 112 (6.96%) Confluence
4 27 (1.68%) CMS
5 26 (1.62%) IIS
6 22 (1.37%) Umbraco
7 20 (1.24%) Kentico
8 17 (1.06%) Headless CMS
8 17 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
9 15 (0.93%) SharePoint 2010
9 15 (0.93%) SharePoint 2013
10 10 (0.62%) Apache
11 8 (0.50%) SAS
12 7 (0.44%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.37%) NServiceBus
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.31%) Moodle
15 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.25%) Site Server
16 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 250 (15.54%) Microsoft Office
2 101 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) 1Password
8 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.062%) Solid Edge
8 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.62%) Maximo
4 6 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.31%) Primavera
6 4 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.062%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.062%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 603 (37.48%) Azure
2 481 (29.89%) Microsoft 365
3 188 (11.68%) Power Platform
4 139 (8.64%) AWS
5 113 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 72 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
8 68 (4.23%) Power Automate
9 67 (4.16%) GCP
10 66 (4.10%) PowerApps
11 52 (3.23%) SaaS
12 48 (2.98%) OneDrive
13 34 (2.11%) PaaS
14 33 (2.05%) IaaS
15 20 (1.24%) Kontent
16 16 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (0.81%) Nutanix
17 13 (0.81%) OCI
18 12 (0.75%) GitHub
18 12 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 102 (6.34%) Firewall
2 81 (5.03%) LAN
3 72 (4.47%) WAN
4 61 (3.79%) DNS
5 48 (2.98%) DHCP
5 48 (2.98%) SAN
6 44 (2.73%) TCP/IP
7 42 (2.61%) VPN
8 37 (2.30%) Wireless
9 31 (1.93%) Remote Desktop
10 29 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.68%) Internet
12 24 (1.49%) VoIP
13 21 (1.31%) VLAN
14 17 (1.06%) Broadband
14 17 (1.06%) Network Security
15 13 (0.81%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.75%) WLAN
17 10 (0.62%) NAS
18 8 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (13.49%) SQL Server
2 107 (6.65%) Power BI
3 49 (3.05%) MongoDB
4 37 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 23 (1.43%) MySQL
7 20 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.87%) GIS
10 14 (0.87%) Tableau
11 12 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.50%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.44%) Big Data
15 7 (0.44%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 125 (7.77%) JIRA
2 119 (7.40%) Visual Studio
3 116 (7.21%) Git
4 94 (5.84%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.67%) Sourcetree
6 17 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
7 14 (0.87%) Subversion
8 13 (0.81%) Selenium
9 10 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.37%) Postman
13 4 (0.25%) Toad
14 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
14 3 (0.19%) Moq
14 3 (0.19%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.19%) xUnit.net
15 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
16 1 (0.062%) JIRA Agile
16 1 (0.062%) WebDriver
General
1 515 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 274 (17.03%) Finance
3 127 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (6.46%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (6.28%) Games
7 88 (5.47%) Law
8 80 (4.97%) Marketing
9 73 (4.54%) Retail
10 65 (4.04%) Banking
11 61 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
11 61 (3.79%) Telecoms
12 53 (3.29%) Legal
13 51 (3.17%) Public Sector
14 46 (2.86%) Investment Banking
15 44 (2.73%) Fire and Rescue
16 37 (2.30%) Manufacturing
17 30 (1.86%) Aerospace
18 25 (1.55%) Military
19 19 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 334 (20.76%) Developer
2 228 (14.17%) Senior
3 148 (9.20%) Analyst
4 144 (8.95%) Support Engineer
5 127 (7.89%) IT Support
6 110 (6.84%) Architect
7 106 (6.59%) IT Engineer
8 102 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 97 (6.03%) .NET Developer
10 90 (5.59%) Consultant
11 89 (5.53%) Senior Developer
12 87 (5.41%) Administrator
13 86 (5.34%) 3D Developer
13 86 (5.34%) Games Developer
13 86 (5.34%) Unity 3D Developer
14 77 (4.79%) Lead
15 73 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
16 65 (4.04%) IT Support Engineer
17 59 (3.67%) Applications Developer
18 55 (3.42%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (13.80%) .NET
2 106 (6.59%) ASP.NET
3 90 (5.59%) .NET Core
4 86 (5.34%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 84 (5.22%) ASP.NET MVC
6 79 (4.91%) .NET Framework
6 79 (4.91%) AngularJS
7 75 (4.66%) React
8 74 (4.60%) CSS
9 71 (4.41%) HTML
10 52 (3.23%) Entity Framework
11 46 (2.86%) Vue
12 45 (2.80%) ASP.NET Web API
13 34 (2.11%) REST
14 30 (1.86%) jQuery
15 27 (1.68%) Blazor
16 22 (1.37%) RESTful
17 19 (1.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 18 (1.12%) HTML5
18 18 (1.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 101 (6.28%) Driving Licence
2 88 (5.47%) Virtual Reality
3 85 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
4 76 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 31 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 23 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 18 (1.12%) Clustering
11 17 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.87%) iPhone
14 13 (0.81%) Smartphone
15 12 (0.75%) Fat Client
15 12 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
15 12 (0.75%) Thin Client
16 11 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
17 10 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 484 (30.08%) Windows
2 178 (11.06%) Windows Server
3 155 (9.63%) Windows 10
4 122 (7.58%) Linux
5 76 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 68 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 61 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 45 (2.80%) Mac OS
9 32 (1.99%) Apple iOS
9 32 (1.99%) CentOS
10 30 (1.86%) Windows 7
11 26 (1.62%) Android
12 17 (1.06%) AIX
13 16 (0.99%) VMS
14 14 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 6 (0.37%) Unix
17 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
18 3 (0.19%) Solaris
19 2 (0.12%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
2 241 (14.98%) Agile
3 226 (14.05%) Customer Service
4 221 (13.74%) DevOps
5 202 (12.55%) ITIL
6 159 (9.88%) Scrum
7 154 (9.57%) Software Engineering
8 149 (9.26%) Mentoring
9 127 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
10 119 (7.40%) Design Patterns
10 119 (7.40%) UML
11 118 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 118 (7.33%) User Experience
12 116 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (7.09%) Project Delivery
14 111 (6.90%) Service Delivery
15 109 (6.77%) MVC
16 103 (6.40%) Full Stack Development
17 97 (6.03%) Roadmaps
18 94 (5.84%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 272 (16.90%) C#
2 237 (14.73%) SQL
3 164 (10.19%) PowerShell
4 147 (9.14%) JavaScript
5 82 (5.10%) Java
6 80 (4.97%) Python
7 45 (2.80%) Bash
7 45 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.61%) T-SQL
9 14 (0.87%) PHP
10 12 (0.75%) C++
11 11 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.50%) C
14 7 (0.44%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.37%) R
16 5 (0.31%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.25%) Ruby
17 4 (0.25%) VBA
18 3 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 345 (21.44%) Security Cleared
2 336 (20.88%) Degree
3 268 (16.66%) SC Cleared
4 134 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 99 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 98 (6.09%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.92%) DBS Check
8 39 (2.42%) A+ Certification
9 35 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.80%) MCP
12 24 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
13 23 (1.43%) MCSE
14 21 (1.31%) HNC
15 17 (1.06%) PMI Certification
16 14 (0.87%) PMP
17 13 (0.81%) CISSP
18 12 (0.75%) ISTQB
18 12 (0.75%) MCITP
18 12 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.85%) QA
2 61 (3.79%) SLA
3 50 (3.11%) GDPR
4 27 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 21 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.68%) NIST
8 10 (0.62%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.31%) SOC 1
10 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.25%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.12%) PMO
13 1 (0.062%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.062%) GAMP
13 1 (0.062%) GMP
13 1 (0.062%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 1 (0.062%) NIST 800
System Software
1 369 (22.93%) Active Directory
2 143 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 93 (5.78%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.49%) XenApp
6 23 (1.43%) vSphere
7 22 (1.37%) Docker
8 18 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (1.12%) XenDesktop
9 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
11 6 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.19%) Forefront TMG
14 2 (0.12%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 105 (6.53%) SCCM
2 95 (5.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.12%) Nagios
5 14 (0.87%) Backup Exec
6 13 (0.81%) vCenter Server
7 12 (0.75%) Ansible
7 12 (0.75%) CASB
7 12 (0.75%) NetBackup
7 12 (0.75%) WSUS
8 8 (0.50%) Terraform
9 7 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
9 7 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.37%) Icinga
10 6 (0.37%) ServiceCenter
11 5 (0.31%) OfficeScan
11 5 (0.31%) Rancher
11 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 193 (12.00%) VMware
2 98 (6.09%) Oracle
3 72 (4.47%) Google
4 52 (3.23%) Citrix
5 50 (3.11%) Cisco
6 45 (2.80%) HP
7 43 (2.67%) Red Hat
8 34 (2.11%) Sparx
9 30 (1.86%) Apple
10 29 (1.80%) Veeam
11 28 (1.74%) ServiceNow
12 27 (1.68%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.55%) IBM
14 24 (1.49%) Dell
15 21 (1.31%) SolarWinds
16 17 (1.06%) Optimizely
16 17 (1.06%) Sitecore
16 17 (1.06%) Symantec
17 15 (0.93%) NetApp
18 14 (0.87%) EMC