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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 20 71 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 10.99% 11.70% 22.73%
As % of the Vendors category 21.05% 38.17% 58.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16 56 63
10th Percentile £44,375 £24,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £25,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £50,813 £59,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £60,375 £70,000 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +20.00%

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 95 186 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 52.20% 30.64% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 42 98 101
10th Percentile £35,650 £24,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £46,375 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £59,950 £75,375 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £46,750 £45,000 £49,944
% change year-on-year +3.89% -9.90% +29.72%

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 16 July 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 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DHCP
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (55.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (45.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (40.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 13 (65.00%) Law
2 12 (60.00%) Finance
3 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) DBA
2 8 (40.00%) Administrator
3 7 (35.00%) SQL DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Business Development Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Development Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Android
4 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 10 (50.00%) ETL
2 9 (45.00%) Analytics
2 9 (45.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 8 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) CRM
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Management
5 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.00%) ETL Development
5 2 (10.00%) Line Management
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.00%) Pricing Strategy
6 1 (5.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) MCSA
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
1 3 (15.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (5.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) SnapLogic
2 1 (5.00%) Sophos