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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17,564 18,864 23,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 18.64% 14.64%
As % of the Vendors category 48.21% 44.34% 37.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,388 11,175 14,818
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 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,370 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -

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 36,431 42,545 61,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.79% 42.03% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24,875 24,354 33,083
10th Percentile £26,700 £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 £45,001 £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 13 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 13 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 15,947 £47,500 -9.52% 4,703
UK excluding London +2 12,506 £43,370 -3.62% 3,658
Work from Home +4 7,077 £52,500 -4.55% 2,236
London +5 4,342 £60,500 -3.20% 1,282
South East +3 3,438 £45,000 - 837
North of England 0 2,938 £43,500 -3.33% 922
Midlands +1 2,263 £42,500 -10.53% 724
South West +3 1,605 £46,000 +15.00% 486
North West -2 1,531 £45,000 - 498
West Midlands +2 1,494 £45,000 -10.00% 448
East of England +2 1,227 £38,250 -4.38% 386
Yorkshire +2 984 £42,500 -4.49% 314
East Midlands 0 760 £37,500 -12.79% 277
Scotland -33 571 £45,000 -10.00% 233
North East +3 422 £42,500 +6.25% 116
Wales +2 336 £37,750 -1.31% 119
Northern Ireland +6 105 £42,500 -10.53% 61
Isle of Man - 33 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands +1 6 £85,000 +34.92% 3

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 1,883 (10.72%) SharePoint
2 1,665 (9.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 319 (1.82%) IIS
4 213 (1.21%) Confluence
5 148 (0.84%) CMS
6 85 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 73 (0.42%) Apache
8 72 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 64 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 55 (0.31%) Kentico
11 53 (0.30%) SAS
12 49 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
13 46 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.24%) WordPress
15 41 (0.23%) Headless CMS
16 40 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
17 32 (0.18%) Tomcat
18 23 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
19 22 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
20 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3,165 (18.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2,340 (13.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 657 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 272 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 128 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 68 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 57 (0.32%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.15%) InDesign
8 26 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 23 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
10 17 (0.097%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.091%) SPSS
12 15 (0.085%) Trello
13 11 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
14 9 (0.051%) Acrobat
15 8 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.046%) InfoPath
15 8 (0.046%) Sketch
16 7 (0.040%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 641 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 102 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 89 (0.51%) Primavera
4 57 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 44 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 34 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 28 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 26 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 25 (0.14%) Shopify
10 24 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 22 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 20 (0.11%) PlanetPress Connect
13 18 (0.10%) iTrent
14 17 (0.097%) Magento
15 16 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
16 15 (0.085%) Elite 3E
16 15 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
16 15 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
17 13 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7,230 (41.16%) Azure
2 5,335 (30.37%) Microsoft 365
3 2,334 (13.29%) Power Platform
4 1,430 (8.14%) AWS
5 1,370 (7.80%) Entra ID
6 1,317 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
7 863 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
8 734 (4.18%) PowerApps
9 709 (4.04%) SaaS
10 693 (3.95%) Power Automate
11 454 (2.58%) OneDrive
12 431 (2.45%) GCP
13 364 (2.07%) PaaS
14 340 (1.94%) IaaS
15 276 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 225 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 209 (1.19%) Serverless
18 180 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 158 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
20 157 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,605 (9.14%) Firewall
2 1,141 (6.50%) DNS
3 965 (5.49%) WAN
4 829 (4.72%) DHCP
5 812 (4.62%) Broadband
6 783 (4.46%) LAN
7 614 (3.50%) VPN
8 560 (3.19%) TCP/IP
9 529 (3.01%) Wireless
10 480 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
11 471 (2.68%) SAN
12 355 (2.02%) Internet
13 351 (2.00%) VLAN
14 308 (1.75%) VoIP
15 304 (1.73%) Network Security
16 287 (1.63%) SD-WAN
17 223 (1.27%) 5G
18 208 (1.18%) Intranet
19 193 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
20 143 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,644 (15.05%) SQL Server
2 1,462 (8.32%) Power BI
3 483 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 470 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 439 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 342 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 300 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 284 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 273 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 273 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 177 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 157 (0.89%) Tableau
12 137 (0.78%) MySQL
13 123 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
14 121 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
15 118 (0.67%) NoSQL
16 114 (0.65%) Big Data
17 92 (0.52%) Oracle Database
18 90 (0.51%) MS Access
19 80 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 495 (2.82%) Git
2 454 (2.58%) JIRA
3 393 (2.24%) Visual Studio
4 125 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 112 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 103 (0.59%) GitLab
7 82 (0.47%) 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 39 (0.22%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.18%) Moq
15 28 (0.16%) Jasmine
15 28 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
16 24 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 23 (0.13%) MSTest
18 17 (0.097%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6,252 (35.60%) Social Skills
2 3,616 (20.59%) Finance
3 2,374 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1,068 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 949 (5.40%) Retail
6 803 (4.57%) Law
7 791 (4.50%) Legal
8 758 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 751 (4.28%) Marketing
10 747 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
11 607 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 551 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 528 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 457 (2.60%) Telecoms
15 384 (2.19%) Banking
16 281 (1.60%) Games
17 228 (1.30%) Local Government
18 221 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
19 220 (1.25%) Advertising
20 169 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,524 (14.37%) Analyst
2 2,511 (14.30%) Developer
3 2,315 (13.18%) Senior
4 1,496 (8.52%) IT Support
5 1,207 (6.87%) Support Engineer
6 1,141 (6.50%) Architect
7 989 (5.63%) Lead
8 977 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 948 (5.40%) IT Engineer
10 917 (5.22%) Consultant
11 842 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 624 (3.55%) IT Support Engineer
13 621 (3.54%) Administrator
14 484 (2.76%) 2nd Line Support
15 470 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 469 (2.67%) IT Analyst
16 469 (2.67%) Support Analyst
17 464 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
18 463 (2.64%) IT Technician
19 447 (2.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,158 (12.29%) .NET
2 1,080 (6.15%) ASP.NET
3 1,012 (5.76%) .NET Core
4 830 (4.73%) ASP.NET MVC
5 800 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 786 (4.48%) HTML
7 734 (4.18%) .NET Framework
8 670 (3.81%) Entity Framework
9 664 (3.78%) ASP.NET Web API
10 547 (3.11%) CSS
11 513 (2.92%) React
12 393 (2.24%) HTML5
13 348 (1.98%) RESTful
14 304 (1.73%) Vue
15 302 (1.72%) Node.js
16 285 (1.62%) Web Services
17 257 (1.46%) REST
18 246 (1.40%) JSON
19 205 (1.17%) Blazor
19 205 (1.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 959 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
2 818 (4.66%) Management Information System
3 652 (3.71%) Driving Licence
4 568 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 367 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 350 (1.99%) Social Media
7 346 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 257 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 249 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
10 248 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 247 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 232 (1.32%) PKI
13 177 (1.01%) Cloud Native
14 170 (0.97%) Replication
15 157 (0.89%) Clustering
16 134 (0.76%) Mobile App
17 131 (0.75%) NHS
18 130 (0.74%) Low-Code
19 124 (0.71%) Smartphone
20 109 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4,687 (26.69%) Windows
2 2,041 (11.62%) Windows Server
3 1,388 (7.90%) Windows 10
4 1,115 (6.35%) Linux
5 492 (2.80%) Android
6 447 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 447 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 335 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 321 (1.83%) Apple iOS
9 293 (1.67%) Ubuntu
10 265 (1.51%) Mac OS
11 234 (1.33%) Windows 7
12 157 (0.89%) Unix
13 142 (0.81%) VMS
14 96 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
15 91 (0.52%) Windows 8
16 72 (0.41%) CentOS
17 71 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 55 (0.31%) Mac OS X
19 37 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,469 (19.75%) Agile
2 3,466 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
3 2,326 (13.24%) Customer Service
4 1,883 (10.72%) ITIL
5 1,750 (9.96%) DevOps
6 1,732 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
7 1,643 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
8 1,591 (9.06%) Mentoring
9 1,504 (8.56%) Project Management
10 1,391 (7.92%) CRM
11 1,103 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1,085 (6.18%) Decision-Making
13 1,012 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 998 (5.68%) MVC
15 984 (5.60%) Full Stack Development
16 972 (5.53%) Migration
17 967 (5.51%) Roadmaps
18 895 (5.10%) Scrum
19 880 (5.01%) Analytics
20 876 (4.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,818 (16.04%) SQL
2 2,253 (12.83%) C#
3 1,521 (8.66%) JavaScript
4 1,218 (6.93%) PowerShell
5 662 (3.77%) Python
6 578 (3.29%) T-SQL
7 476 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 442 (2.52%) Bash
9 267 (1.52%) Java
10 134 (0.76%) C++
11 127 (0.72%) VB
12 114 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 110 (0.63%) C
14 94 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 93 (0.53%) Bicep
16 89 (0.51%) R
17 67 (0.38%) VBA
18 53 (0.30%) Shell Script
19 48 (0.27%) PL/SQL
20 47 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2,907 (16.55%) Degree
2 1,313 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 1,176 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 792 (4.51%) SC Cleared
5 506 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 505 (2.88%) ACCA
7 502 (2.86%) DBS Check
8 482 (2.74%) CIMA
9 461 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 424 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 315 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 298 (1.70%) CCNA
13 257 (1.46%) Master's Degree
14 237 (1.35%) A+ Certification
15 235 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 225 (1.28%) CISSP
17 213 (1.21%) MCP
18 203 (1.16%) MCSE
19 186 (1.06%) PMI Certification
20 163 (0.93%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 820 (4.67%) SLA
2 488 (2.78%) QA
3 481 (2.74%) GDPR
4 411 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 299 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 236 (1.34%) Data Quality
7 168 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 161 (0.92%) NIST
9 133 (0.76%) PMO
10 126 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 118 (0.67%) ISO 9001
12 50 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 45 (0.26%) 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 34 (0.19%) NCSC
17 31 (0.18%) COBIT
17 31 (0.18%) SOC 2
18 30 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3,999 (22.77%) Active Directory
2 1,169 (6.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 886 (5.04%) Hyper-V
4 309 (1.76%) Docker
5 296 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 255 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
7 208 (1.18%) vSphere
8 176 (1.00%) XenApp
9 152 (0.87%) XenDesktop
10 141 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
11 107 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
12 81 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 60 (0.34%) Firmware
14 53 (0.30%) KVM
14 53 (0.30%) Terminal Services
15 45 (0.26%) VMware NSX
16 28 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 28 (0.16%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.15%) VMware Server
18 20 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,317 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 659 (3.75%) SCCM
3 385 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 361 (2.06%) Terraform
5 275 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
6 151 (0.86%) WSUS
7 148 (0.84%) Ansible
8 133 (0.76%) SCOM
9 121 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 107 (0.61%) AirWatch
11 99 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 97 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
13 60 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 45 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (0.24%) Grafana
16 40 (0.23%) NetBackup
16 40 (0.23%) Puppet
17 39 (0.22%) Nessus
18 36 (0.20%) Backup Exec
18 36 (0.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,765 (10.05%) VMware
2 934 (5.32%) Cisco
3 690 (3.93%) Google
4 613 (3.49%) Citrix
5 528 (3.01%) Apple
6 492 (2.80%) Oracle
7 396 (2.25%) Veeam
8 394 (2.24%) Dell
9 363 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 337 (1.92%) SAP
11 329 (1.87%) HP
12 300 (1.71%) Adobe
13 237 (1.35%) CyberArk
14 216 (1.23%) Meraki
15 210 (1.20%) Tanium
16 201 (1.14%) Databricks
17 189 (1.08%) Salesforce
18 159 (0.91%) Fortinet
19 155 (0.88%) Sophos
20 139 (0.79%) Red Hat