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 requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1,367 3,099 3,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.67% 15.60% 22.12%
As % of the Vendors category 28.36% 49.70% 49.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 2,494 1,628
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,863 £43,742 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -2.80% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
North of England

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,821 6,236 7,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 41.17% 31.39% 45.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,427 4,547 3,579
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £27,953
25th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £77,500 £77,542
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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 June 2025.

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 June 2025. 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 -14 882 £50,000 +11.11% 793
Yorkshire -6 374 £42,500 - 425
North East -10 115 £40,000 -5.88% 179
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
1 144 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 75 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.95%) Confluence
4 10 (0.73%) IIS
5 7 (0.51%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) WordPress
7 5 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.073%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 438 (32.04%) Microsoft Office
2 323 (23.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 221 (16.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (3.66%) Simulink
5 19 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 160 (11.70%) Teamcenter
2 17 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.22%) Primavera
7 3 (0.22%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.073%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.073%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.073%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 461 (33.72%) Azure
2 340 (24.87%) Microsoft 365
3 124 (9.07%) Power Platform
4 99 (7.24%) Entra ID
5 69 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
6 66 (4.83%) AWS
7 48 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (3.51%) Power Automate
8 44 (3.22%) SaaS
9 38 (2.78%) PowerApps
10 26 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (1.90%) GitHub
11 21 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (1.32%) OneDrive
12 18 (1.32%) PaaS
13 16 (1.17%) GCP
14 15 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (1.10%) IaaS
15 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 109 (7.97%) Firewall
2 74 (5.41%) DNS
3 60 (4.39%) LAN
4 57 (4.17%) VPN
5 54 (3.95%) DHCP
6 52 (3.80%) WAN
7 45 (3.29%) TCP/IP
8 37 (2.71%) VoIP
9 30 (2.19%) Wireless
10 26 (1.90%) SAN
11 24 (1.76%) VLAN
12 19 (1.39%) Network Security
13 13 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.88%) Internet
15 11 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.80%) MPLS
15 11 (0.80%) NAS
16 10 (0.73%) SMTP
17 9 (0.66%) Broadband
18 8 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.85%) Power BI
3 30 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.76%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.73%) MySQL
11 8 (0.59%) Big Data
11 8 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (0.59%) Tableau
12 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.44%) GIS
13 6 (0.44%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.37%) Data Hub
14 5 (0.37%) DB2
14 5 (0.37%) SQL CLR
15 4 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (4.46%) JIRA
2 22 (1.61%) Git
3 12 (0.88%) TeamCity
4 9 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.44%) Babel
6 6 (0.44%) webpack
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.29%) Balsamiq
9 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.22%) Selenium
9 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.15%) ERwin
10 2 (0.15%) GitLab
10 2 (0.15%) NUnit
10 2 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 650 (47.55%) Social Skills
2 218 (15.95%) Aerospace
3 181 (13.24%) Finance
4 173 (12.66%) Automotive
5 133 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (5.85%) Manufacturing
7 72 (5.27%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.73%) Law
9 47 (3.44%) Retail
10 45 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (2.78%) Banking
12 36 (2.63%) Marketing
13 30 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 28 (2.05%) Legal
16 27 (1.98%) Public Sector
17 21 (1.54%) Advertising
17 21 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
19 10 (0.73%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 217 (15.87%) Systems Engineer
2 199 (14.56%) Senior
3 156 (11.41%) IT Support
4 135 (9.88%) Analyst
5 119 (8.71%) Developer
6 100 (7.32%) Lead
7 93 (6.80%) Support Engineer
8 71 (5.19%) Project Manager
9 69 (5.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 65 (4.75%) IT Analyst
10 65 (4.75%) Team Leader
11 59 (4.32%) Support Analyst
12 54 (3.95%) IT Engineer
13 50 (3.66%) Lead Systems Engineer
14 48 (3.51%) Administrator
14 48 (3.51%) Applications Support
15 43 (3.15%) Technical Support
16 42 (3.07%) IT Support Analyst
17 41 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 41 (3.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.90%) .NET
2 28 (2.05%) HTML
3 27 (1.98%) .NET Core
4 24 (1.76%) CSS
5 22 (1.61%) React
6 21 (1.54%) ASP.NET
7 20 (1.46%) .NET Framework
7 20 (1.46%) REST
8 11 (0.80%) ARM Templates
8 11 (0.80%) Entity Framework
9 10 (0.73%) RESTful
10 9 (0.66%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.59%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (0.59%) Bootstrap
11 8 (0.59%) Middleware
12 7 (0.51%) HTML5
13 6 (0.44%) LINQ
13 6 (0.44%) NHibernate
14 5 (0.37%) EDI
14 5 (0.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.32%) Management Information System
2 52 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (3.37%) NHS
4 39 (2.85%) Driving Licence
5 34 (2.49%) Social Media
6 31 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 26 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 19 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.02%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (0.88%) FMCG
15 11 (0.80%) Private Cloud
16 10 (0.73%) Data Centre
16 10 (0.73%) Life Science
16 10 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
17 8 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 312 (22.82%) Windows
2 130 (9.51%) Windows Server
3 81 (5.93%) Windows 10
4 64 (4.68%) Linux
5 42 (3.07%) Android
6 15 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.59%) Unix
10 6 (0.44%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.37%) CentOS
11 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Vista
13 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.15%) Debian
14 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.073%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
2 215 (15.73%) Agile
3 207 (15.14%) Systems Engineering
4 194 (14.19%) Customer Service
5 185 (13.53%) ITIL
6 177 (12.95%) Project Management
7 162 (11.85%) PLM
8 120 (8.78%) ERP
9 108 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 106 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
11 102 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
13 92 (6.73%) Coaching
14 90 (6.58%) DevOps
15 88 (6.44%) Line Management
16 86 (6.29%) Mentoring
17 75 (5.49%) CRM
17 75 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
18 68 (4.97%) Performance Metrics
19 66 (4.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 191 (13.97%) SQL
2 160 (11.70%) MATLAB
3 69 (5.05%) Python
4 60 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 57 (4.17%) C#
6 56 (4.10%) T-SQL
7 48 (3.51%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.98%) Java
9 14 (1.02%) PHP
10 13 (0.95%) Bash
11 10 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.51%) Bicep
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.51%) R
12 7 (0.51%) VB
12 7 (0.51%) VBA
13 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.15%) C
14 2 (0.15%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 418 (30.58%) Degree
2 317 (23.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 162 (11.85%) HNC
4 159 (11.63%) HND
5 130 (9.51%) DBS Check
6 85 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (3.29%) Security Cleared
8 41 (3.00%) SC Cleared
9 36 (2.63%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.39%) CCNA
11 19 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 15 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (1.10%) MCSE
13 14 (1.02%) MBA
13 14 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (0.95%) A+ Certification
15 11 (0.80%) CISSP
16 10 (0.73%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.88%) SLA
2 37 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 35 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.49%) GDPR
5 22 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.95%) NIST
7 11 (0.80%) ISO 9001
8 10 (0.73%) QA
9 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.37%) PMO
13 4 (0.29%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
15 2 (0.15%) COBIT
15 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.073%) GRC
16 1 (0.073%) NIST 800
System Software
1 223 (16.31%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.90%) Hyper-V
3 60 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.95%) Docker
5 11 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.73%) vSphere
7 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.22%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) Postfix
9 2 (0.15%) KVM
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.15%) Xen
10 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.073%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 99 (7.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (2.93%) Terraform
3 39 (2.85%) SCCM
4 30 (2.19%) Ansible
4 30 (2.19%) Kubernetes
5 11 (0.80%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.59%) SCOM
6 8 (0.59%) WSUS
7 7 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.37%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.37%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.29%) Grafana
10 4 (0.29%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.29%) QRadar
10 4 (0.29%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 160 (11.70%) ANSYS
2 109 (7.97%) VMware
3 104 (7.61%) Cisco
4 96 (7.02%) SAP
5 50 (3.66%) MathWorks
6 32 (2.34%) Google
7 26 (1.90%) Oracle
8 24 (1.76%) Veeam
9 20 (1.46%) Dell
9 20 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.39%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.32%) Apple
11 18 (1.32%) Zoho
12 17 (1.24%) Meraki
13 16 (1.17%) Citrix
13 16 (1.17%) Facebook
14 13 (0.95%) Adobe
14 13 (0.95%) Databricks
15 12 (0.88%) Capita
15 12 (0.88%) Ubiquiti
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