Microsoft Jobs in Bedford

Microsoft
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedford 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 29 May 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17 20 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 27.87% 13.33% 26.17%
As % of the Vendors category 45.95% 50.00% 71.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 15
10th Percentile £37,250 £26,857 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,200 £29,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £39,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.17% -20.40% +75.44%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £58,125
90th Percentile - - £60,000
Bedfordshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%

All Vendors
Bedford

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 Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37 40 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 60.66% 26.67% 36.72%
Number of salaries quoted 13 39 26
10th Percentile £37,400 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,400 £25,000 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £32,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.63% -36.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £61,250 £73,750
Bedfordshire median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +21.05%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Bedford

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Bedford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Bedford.

Salary trend for Microsoft in Bedford

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Bedford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Bedford over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Bedford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedford 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) .NET Developer
1 6 (35.29%) .NET Software Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Software Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Administrator
2 5 (29.41%) Service Desk Administrator
2 5 (29.41%) Service Desk Assistant
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Electrical Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Safety Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
2 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
2 6 (35.29%) Functional Testing
2 6 (35.29%) ITSM
2 6 (35.29%) Scrum
3 5 (29.41%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Mathematics
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Service Management
3 5 (29.41%) Time Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.88%) Change Management
5 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.88%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.88%) Project Management
5 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.88%) Safety Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C#
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (29.41%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Dell
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) Forcepoint
3 1 (5.88%) Genesys