Microsoft Certification Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 275 227
Rank change year-on-year +63 -48 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 964 727 1,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.23% 1.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.94% 3.34% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 793 594 781
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,400 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -1.76% +2.41%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £65,525 £66,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,524 21,746 23,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.26% 36.76% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,216 8,091 10,369
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,175 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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 of England +134 279 £40,000 -15.79% 61
South East +26 236 £39,000 +6.85% 38
Midlands +29 164 £38,000 -8.43% 36
North West +33 125 £40,000 -12.57% 30
South West -5 105 £42,500 +0.59% 43
East of England +16 103 £40,000 -5.88% 22
West Midlands +21 100 £38,000 -9.52% 23
Yorkshire +120 89 £42,500 -10.53% 22
North East - 65 £32,500 - 9
East Midlands +13 64 £44,612 +10.15% 13
Scotland -65 40 £57,500 +27.78% 23
Wales +10 25 £27,000 -36.47% 3
Northern Ireland +27 11 £45,000 -27.71% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 161 (16.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 128 (13.28%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.04%) CMS
3 10 (1.04%) SharePoint 2010
3 10 (1.04%) SharePoint 2013
4 6 (0.62%) IIS
5 4 (0.41%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) Apache
7 1 (0.10%) Confluence
7 1 (0.10%) Moodle
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 127 (13.17%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Trello
5 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.10%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Maximo
3 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.21%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 601 (62.34%) Azure
2 408 (42.32%) Microsoft 365
3 198 (20.54%) Power Platform
4 95 (9.85%) Entra ID
5 77 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (7.68%) AWS
7 54 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
8 42 (4.36%) PowerApps
9 40 (4.15%) IBM Cloud
10 39 (4.05%) Power Automate
11 32 (3.32%) OneDrive
12 20 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 17 (1.76%) GCP
16 15 (1.56%) Serverless
17 13 (1.35%) WhatsApp
18 12 (1.24%) IaaS
18 12 (1.24%) SaaS
19 11 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 166 (17.22%) Firewall
2 92 (9.54%) DNS
3 88 (9.13%) Broadband
4 86 (8.92%) DHCP
5 78 (8.09%) SAN
6 72 (7.47%) TCP/IP
7 66 (6.85%) VPN
8 65 (6.74%) WAN
9 61 (6.33%) LAN
10 51 (5.29%) Network Security
10 51 (5.29%) VLAN
11 49 (5.08%) VoIP
12 42 (4.36%) Internet
13 39 (4.05%) NAS
14 34 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (3.11%) Wireless
16 28 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
17 22 (2.28%) Intranet
18 14 (1.45%) MPLS
19 12 (1.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (19.29%) SQL Server
2 169 (17.53%) Power BI
3 99 (10.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 42 (4.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 40 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 30 (3.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 27 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (1.97%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.73%) MySQL
11 6 (0.62%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.62%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.52%) Power Query
12 5 (0.52%) Redis
13 4 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.41%) QlikView
14 3 (0.31%) GIS
14 3 (0.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (1.87%) Git
2 12 (1.24%) JIRA
3 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.31%) GitLab
3 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.21%) Hudson
4 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.10%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.10%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.10%) MSI
General
1 442 (45.85%) Social Skills
2 117 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (7.05%) Finance
4 63 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 54 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (3.22%) Telecoms
7 29 (3.01%) Retail
8 28 (2.90%) Legal
9 27 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.70%) Law
11 20 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.45%) Marketing
14 10 (1.04%) Banking
14 10 (1.04%) Games
14 10 (1.04%) Local Government
15 9 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.83%) Police
17 7 (0.73%) General Ledger
18 6 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (17.53%) Support Engineer
2 152 (15.77%) IT Support
3 113 (11.72%) IT Engineer
4 108 (11.20%) DBA
5 100 (10.37%) SQL DBA
6 83 (8.61%) IT Support Engineer
7 74 (7.68%) Analyst
8 68 (7.05%) 2nd Line Support
8 68 (7.05%) 3rd Line Support
9 60 (6.22%) Developer
10 59 (6.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 59 (6.12%) Senior
11 55 (5.71%) Lead
12 53 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 49 (5.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 49 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 45 (4.67%) Administrator
14 45 (4.67%) IT Technician
15 41 (4.25%) Architect
16 40 (4.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.56%) CSS
2 43 (4.46%) HTML
3 37 (3.84%) .NET
4 20 (2.07%) .NET Core
5 19 (1.97%) .NET Framework
5 19 (1.97%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.97%) ASP.NET MVC
6 18 (1.87%) HTML5 Canvas
7 16 (1.66%) Entity Framework
8 10 (1.04%) AngularJS
8 10 (1.04%) jQuery
9 8 (0.83%) ADO
10 7 (0.73%) PySpark
10 7 (0.73%) REST
11 6 (0.62%) Middleware
11 6 (0.62%) React
12 5 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.52%) Web Services
13 4 (0.41%) ARM Templates
13 4 (0.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.47%) Data Centre
2 70 (7.26%) Driving Licence
3 46 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 42 (4.36%) Onboarding
6 40 (4.15%) Blockchain
7 37 (3.84%) Management Information System
8 34 (3.53%) Private Cloud
9 29 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (2.70%) Public Cloud
11 25 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
12 24 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.76%) Replication
14 16 (1.66%) Smartphone
15 15 (1.56%) Cloud Native
15 15 (1.56%) NHS
16 14 (1.45%) Low-Code
16 14 (1.45%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 443 (45.95%) Windows
2 232 (24.07%) Windows Server
3 128 (13.28%) Linux
4 106 (11.00%) Windows 10
5 90 (9.34%) VMS
6 49 (5.08%) Debian
7 45 (4.67%) CentOS
7 45 (4.67%) Mac OS
8 40 (4.15%) Alpine Linux
9 39 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 33 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 25 (2.59%) Apple iOS
12 24 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (1.56%) Windows 8
14 13 (1.35%) Android
14 13 (1.35%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.73%) Unix
15 7 (0.73%) Windows Vista
16 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
2 245 (25.41%) Customer Service
3 237 (24.59%) ITIL
4 166 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
5 117 (12.14%) DevOps
6 113 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
7 111 (11.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 96 (9.96%) Collaborative Working
9 94 (9.75%) High Availability
10 90 (9.34%) Performance Tuning
11 86 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 82 (8.51%) Migration
13 80 (8.30%) Agile
14 79 (8.20%) CI/CD
14 79 (8.20%) Computer Science
14 79 (8.20%) Project Management
15 60 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence
16 55 (5.71%) Mentoring
17 52 (5.39%) Incident Management
17 52 (5.39%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 230 (23.86%) SQL
2 89 (9.23%) T-SQL
3 60 (6.22%) C#
4 51 (5.29%) PowerShell
5 42 (4.36%) JavaScript
6 27 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.18%) Python
8 10 (1.04%) Bash
8 10 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.52%) Java
11 4 (0.41%) Bicep
11 4 (0.41%) C
11 4 (0.41%) R
12 3 (0.31%) C++
12 3 (0.31%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.31%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) Go
14 1 (0.10%) Swift
14 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 243 (25.21%) MCSE
2 238 (24.69%) Degree
3 177 (18.36%) Azure Certification
4 142 (14.73%) Cisco Certification
5 140 (14.52%) MCSA
6 139 (14.42%) MCP
7 126 (13.07%) CCNA
8 124 (12.86%) A+ Certification
9 74 (7.68%) DBS Check
10 59 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 57 (5.91%) Security Cleared
12 50 (5.19%) SC Cleared
13 47 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 39 (4.05%) Network+ Certification
15 35 (3.63%) MCITP
16 27 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
17 25 (2.59%) CCNP
18 23 (2.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 17 (1.76%) DV Cleared
20 16 (1.66%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.16%) SLA
2 30 (3.11%) GDPR
3 18 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.24%) QA
6 6 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 411 (42.63%) Active Directory
2 145 (15.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (14.00%) Hyper-V
4 86 (8.92%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (5.60%) Docker
6 34 (3.53%) vSphere
7 20 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (1.87%) XenDesktop
9 13 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.83%) XenApp
11 6 (0.62%) Firmware
12 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.31%) KVM
14 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.21%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (9.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 65 (6.74%) Terraform
4 64 (6.64%) SCCM
5 18 (1.87%) SCOM
6 10 (1.04%) FortiGate
6 10 (1.04%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.93%) WSUS
8 8 (0.83%) Autotask
9 7 (0.73%) SmoothWall
10 5 (0.52%) Grafana
10 5 (0.52%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.41%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.21%) Ansible
13 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 856 (88.80%) Microsoft
2 205 (21.27%) VMware
3 71 (7.37%) Cisco
4 51 (5.29%) Apple
5 48 (4.98%) Red Hat
6 47 (4.88%) Citrix
7 43 (4.46%) IBM
8 39 (4.05%) HP
9 37 (3.84%) Veeam
10 34 (3.53%) Adobe
11 26 (2.70%) Meraki
12 22 (2.28%) Dell
13 21 (2.18%) Google
13 21 (2.18%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.35%) Nimble Storage
14 13 (1.35%) Oracle
15 12 (1.24%) Datto
15 12 (1.24%) Draytek
15 12 (1.24%) Sophos
16 11 (1.14%) ConnectWise