Microsoft Jobs 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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 22 71 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 14.01% 11.09% 29.34%
As % of the Vendors category 25.00% 35.32% 65.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19 60 56
10th Percentile £41,750 £24,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £25,500 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £55,625 £61,594 £63,750
90th Percentile £60,250 £76,804 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £48,500 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% -2.44% +9.33%

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 88 201 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 56.05% 31.41% 44.70%
Number of salaries quoted 44 105 88
10th Percentile £41,500 £24,500 £30,850
25th Percentile £46,625 £41,250 £38,496
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58,188 £64,148 £63,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £82,671 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% +18.51%

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

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Leicester

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Leicester over the 6 months to 31 May 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 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) DHCP
1 4 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) Internet
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (68.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (54.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (45.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (72.73%) Law
2 13 (59.09%) Finance
3 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) DBA
2 8 (36.36%) Administrator
3 7 (31.82%) SQL DBA
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Business Development Manager
7 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.55%) Clustering
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
1 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Data Analysis
1 10 (45.45%) ETL
2 9 (40.91%) Analytics
2 9 (40.91%) Reverse Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) CRM
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 2 (9.09%) Data Integration
6 2 (9.09%) Data Management
6 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (9.09%) ETL Development
6 2 (9.09%) Inventory Management
6 2 (9.09%) Line Management
6 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) T-SQL
3 3 (13.64%) C#
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) A+ Certification
1 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) MCSA
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SCCM
1 3 (13.64%) SCOM
2 1 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
1 2 (9.09%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (4.55%) HP
2 1 (4.55%) SnapLogic
2 1 (4.55%) Sophos