Microsoft Job Trends in Leicester

Microsoft
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 13 42 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 6.67% 12.88% 24.40%
As % of the Vendors category 14.77% 39.62% 55.91%
Number of salaries quoted 11 30 67
10th Percentile - £40,525 £27,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,125 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52,625 £59,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,875 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.45% -16.19% +40.00%

All Vendors
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 88 106 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 45.13% 32.52% 43.64%
Number of salaries quoted 33 58 109
10th Percentile £45,800 £41,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,000 £72,500 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,390 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.44% -8.57% +31.25%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Leicester

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Leicester over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Miro
3 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (53.85%) Data Lake
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Law
3 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Administrator
1 7 (53.85%) DBA
1 7 (53.85%) SQL DBA
2 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Development Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Development Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Product Owner
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Product Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Product Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Product Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
1 7 (53.85%) Data Analysis
1 7 (53.85%) ETL
1 7 (53.85%) Reverse Engineering
1 7 (53.85%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 2 (15.38%) Data Security
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
4 1 (7.69%) Backlog Management
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (7.69%) Epics
4 1 (7.69%) Pricing Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Project Roadmap
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) T-SQL
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce