Microsoft Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12,969 11,424 13,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.90% 20.39% 18.61%
As % of the Vendors category 50.42% 48.87% 47.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,906 6,347 8,622
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 25,720 23,377 29,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.51% 41.73% 39.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,350 12,790 16,916
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,828 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
South East +3 3,570 £45,000 -2.54% 808
North of England -1 3,041 £43,500 -3.33% 1,017
Midlands +2 2,423 £42,500 -15.00% 741
South West +2 1,651 £46,000 +12.75% 476
North West -2 1,604 £45,000 -2.17% 564
West Midlands +2 1,568 £45,000 -10.00% 463
East of England +2 1,246 £38,250 -4.38% 356
Yorkshire +2 1,005 £42,500 -2.34% 345
East Midlands +1 847 £37,500 -16.67% 278
Scotland -36 563 £45,000 -3.23% 260
North East +3 431 £42,500 +4.47% 118
Wales +1 347 £40,000 +5.65% 112
Northern Ireland +3 107 £42,500 -15.00% 71
Isle of Man +6 32 £46,250 -36.21%
Channel Islands +3 6 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 1,368 (10.55%) SharePoint
2 1,193 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 230 (1.77%) IIS
4 173 (1.33%) Confluence
5 104 (0.80%) CMS
6 63 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 49 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 47 (0.36%) Kentico
9 45 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
10 41 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 41 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 40 (0.31%) Apache
12 38 (0.29%) WordPress
13 35 (0.27%) SAS
14 34 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
15 21 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 21 (0.16%) Tomcat
16 20 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
17 16 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
17 16 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2,577 (19.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1,742 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 454 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 251 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
5 96 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 59 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 55 (0.42%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 18 (0.14%) InDesign
10 14 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 13 (0.10%) Trello
12 11 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
13 10 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 10 (0.077%) Chatbot
14 8 (0.062%) InfoPath
14 8 (0.062%) Sketch
15 6 (0.046%) Adobe Captivate
15 6 (0.046%) InVision
16 5 (0.039%) Revit
16 5 (0.039%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 399 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 90 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 82 (0.63%) Primavera
4 41 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 29 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 28 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 26 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 20 (0.15%) Shopify
9 19 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
9 19 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 17 (0.13%) iTrent
11 15 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
12 14 (0.11%) Magento
13 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.10%) NetSuite
14 11 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
14 11 (0.085%) ResourceLink
15 9 (0.069%) Oracle Applications
15 9 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5,051 (38.95%) Azure
2 3,967 (30.59%) Microsoft 365
3 1,546 (11.92%) Power Platform
4 979 (7.55%) Entra ID
5 932 (7.19%) AWS
6 803 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
7 550 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 467 (3.60%) PowerApps
9 423 (3.26%) Power Automate
10 391 (3.01%) SaaS
11 357 (2.75%) OneDrive
12 254 (1.96%) GCP
13 189 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
14 159 (1.23%) IaaS
15 158 (1.22%) PaaS
16 136 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 102 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 97 (0.75%) GitHub
19 91 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
20 81 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,238 (9.55%) Firewall
2 876 (6.75%) DNS
3 673 (5.19%) DHCP
4 668 (5.15%) WAN
5 587 (4.53%) LAN
6 463 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 446 (3.44%) VPN
8 410 (3.16%) Broadband
9 394 (3.04%) SAN
10 380 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
11 321 (2.48%) Wireless
12 273 (2.11%) Internet
13 269 (2.07%) VLAN
14 262 (2.02%) VoIP
15 197 (1.52%) Network Security
16 166 (1.28%) Intranet
17 154 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
18 138 (1.06%) SD-WAN
19 111 (0.86%) Unified Communications
20 93 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,032 (15.67%) SQL Server
2 1,023 (7.89%) Power BI
3 335 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 328 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
5 321 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 263 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 214 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 204 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 204 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 150 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 119 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 115 (0.89%) MySQL
12 111 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 83 (0.64%) Tableau
14 82 (0.63%) NoSQL
15 80 (0.62%) MS Access
16 77 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
17 61 (0.47%) Power Query
18 56 (0.43%) Big Data
19 55 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 381 (2.94%) Git
2 345 (2.66%) JIRA
3 316 (2.44%) Visual Studio
4 95 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 75 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 68 (0.52%) GitLab
7 60 (0.46%) Sourcetree
8 54 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.33%) NUnit
10 40 (0.31%) Subversion
11 39 (0.30%) Selenium
12 33 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 32 (0.25%) Postman
14 29 (0.22%) Moq
15 28 (0.22%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.19%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.16%) Cucumber
17 21 (0.16%) MSTest
18 17 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4,567 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 2,390 (18.43%) Finance
3 1,562 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 945 (7.29%) Retail
5 601 (4.63%) Legal
6 594 (4.58%) Marketing
7 575 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
8 532 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 520 (4.01%) Public Sector
10 519 (4.00%) Law
11 501 (3.86%) Manufacturing
12 372 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 371 (2.86%) Telecoms
14 328 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
15 218 (1.68%) Games
16 194 (1.50%) Banking
17 175 (1.35%) Local Government
18 169 (1.30%) Advertising
19 147 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
20 117 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,932 (14.90%) Developer
2 1,748 (13.48%) Analyst
3 1,423 (10.97%) Senior
4 1,225 (9.45%) IT Support
5 1,017 (7.84%) Support Engineer
6 845 (6.52%) .NET Developer
7 820 (6.32%) IT Engineer
8 703 (5.42%) Architect
9 700 (5.40%) Lead
10 691 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 627 (4.83%) Consultant
12 556 (4.29%) IT Support Engineer
13 504 (3.89%) Administrator
14 435 (3.35%) IT Technician
15 419 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
16 380 (2.93%) C# Developer
17 354 (2.73%) Support Technician
18 342 (2.64%) IT Analyst
18 342 (2.64%) Support Analyst
19 336 (2.59%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,613 (12.44%) .NET
2 896 (6.91%) ASP.NET
3 847 (6.53%) .NET Core
4 714 (5.51%) ASP.NET MVC
5 646 (4.98%) AngularJS
6 614 (4.73%) HTML
7 592 (4.56%) .NET Framework
8 567 (4.37%) Entity Framework
9 563 (4.34%) ASP.NET Web API
10 420 (3.24%) CSS
11 408 (3.15%) React
12 334 (2.58%) HTML5
13 276 (2.13%) RESTful
14 264 (2.04%) Vue
15 244 (1.88%) Node.js
16 214 (1.65%) Web Services
17 188 (1.45%) REST
18 182 (1.40%) Blazor
19 176 (1.36%) LINQ
20 166 (1.28%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 707 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
2 618 (4.77%) Driving Licence
3 568 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 434 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 275 (2.12%) Public Cloud
6 246 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 169 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 169 (1.30%) PKI
8 168 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 157 (1.21%) Social Media
10 142 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 136 (1.05%) Replication
12 134 (1.03%) Clustering
13 114 (0.88%) Mobile App
14 108 (0.83%) NHS
15 102 (0.79%) Low-Code
16 98 (0.76%) Cloud Native
17 95 (0.73%) Algorithms
17 95 (0.73%) Smartphone
18 89 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,643 (28.09%) Windows
2 1,647 (12.70%) Windows Server
3 1,030 (7.94%) Windows 10
4 795 (6.13%) Linux
5 390 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 372 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 315 (2.43%) Android
8 289 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 230 (1.77%) Apple iOS
10 198 (1.53%) Windows 7
11 190 (1.47%) Mac OS
12 136 (1.05%) Ubuntu
13 128 (0.99%) VMS
14 103 (0.79%) Unix
15 88 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
16 82 (0.63%) Windows 8
17 72 (0.56%) CentOS
18 41 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 34 (0.26%) Mac OS X
20 28 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,671 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
2 2,527 (19.48%) Agile
3 1,962 (15.13%) Customer Service
4 1,478 (11.40%) ITIL
5 1,215 (9.37%) Business Intelligence
6 1,157 (8.92%) DevOps
7 1,086 (8.37%) Project Management
8 1,085 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
9 1,039 (8.01%) Mentoring
10 911 (7.02%) CRM
11 873 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 831 (6.41%) MVC
13 819 (6.32%) Full Stack Development
14 799 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 754 (5.81%) Roadmaps
16 713 (5.50%) Decision-Making
17 691 (5.33%) Migration
18 679 (5.24%) Microservices
19 641 (4.94%) ERP
20 610 (4.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,083 (16.06%) SQL
2 1,712 (13.20%) C#
3 1,176 (9.07%) JavaScript
4 848 (6.54%) PowerShell
5 396 (3.05%) T-SQL
6 386 (2.98%) Python
7 378 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 233 (1.80%) Bash
9 188 (1.45%) Java
10 124 (0.96%) VB
11 120 (0.93%) C++
12 117 (0.90%) VB.NET
13 97 (0.75%) C
14 53 (0.41%) R
15 52 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 52 (0.40%) Fortran
16 51 (0.39%) Bicep
17 46 (0.35%) VBA
18 44 (0.34%) VBScript
19 43 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,079 (16.03%) Degree
2 1,079 (8.32%) Security Cleared
3 863 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 638 (4.92%) SC Cleared
5 410 (3.16%) DBS Check
6 305 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 283 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 280 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 258 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 253 (1.95%) CCNA
11 245 (1.89%) CIMA
12 244 (1.88%) ACCA
13 201 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
14 199 (1.53%) MCP
15 197 (1.52%) A+ Certification
16 140 (1.08%) MCSE
16 140 (1.08%) PMI Certification
17 124 (0.96%) CCNP
18 111 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
19 107 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 582 (4.49%) SLA
2 393 (3.03%) GDPR
3 346 (2.67%) QA
4 235 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 224 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 120 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 104 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 94 (0.72%) ISO 9001
8 94 (0.72%) PMO
9 91 (0.70%) NIST
10 84 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 40 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 26 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 25 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 21 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 20 (0.15%) ISO 14001
16 16 (0.12%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
17 15 (0.12%) GRC
18 14 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 2,967 (22.88%) Active Directory
2 916 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 776 (5.98%) Hyper-V
4 231 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 190 (1.47%) Docker
6 175 (1.35%) vSphere
7 128 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 127 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
9 74 (0.57%) XenApp
10 61 (0.47%) XenDesktop
11 53 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
12 49 (0.38%) Firmware
12 49 (0.38%) KVM
13 46 (0.35%) Terminal Services
14 44 (0.34%) RACF
15 38 (0.29%) VMware NSX
16 26 (0.20%) VirtualBox
17 25 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 25 (0.19%) VMware Server
18 19 (0.15%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 896 (6.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 420 (3.24%) SCCM
3 252 (1.94%) Kubernetes
4 179 (1.38%) Terraform
5 132 (1.02%) WSUS
6 117 (0.90%) SCOM
7 104 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 90 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 84 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 79 (0.61%) Ansible
11 39 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
11 39 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 33 (0.25%) NetBackup
14 32 (0.25%) ZABBIX
15 31 (0.24%) Backup Exec
15 31 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
16 30 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 28 (0.22%) Autotask
17 28 (0.22%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,406 (10.84%) VMware
2 606 (4.67%) Cisco
3 493 (3.80%) Google
4 402 (3.10%) Citrix
5 395 (3.05%) Apple
6 335 (2.58%) Oracle
7 323 (2.49%) Veeam
8 267 (2.06%) Dell
9 248 (1.91%) HP
10 233 (1.80%) SAP
11 224 (1.73%) Adobe
12 197 (1.52%) Meraki
13 195 (1.50%) ServiceNow
14 144 (1.11%) Sophos
15 134 (1.03%) Fortinet
16 125 (0.96%) Salesforce
17 123 (0.95%) CyberArk
18 113 (0.87%) Red Hat
19 108 (0.83%) Databricks
19 108 (0.83%) Sage