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 10 December 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
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 36 48 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 12.08% 18.90% 30.68%
As % of the Vendors category 40.00% 45.28% 60.45%
Number of salaries quoted 27 32 69
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,650 £32,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +38.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £61,125 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +33.33%

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 90 106 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 30.20% 41.73% 50.76%
Number of salaries quoted 54 67 116
10th Percentile £26,950 £25,600 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,390 £47,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year -4.44% -4.98% +20.46%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Microsoft job vacancy trend 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 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Leicester

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Sage 200
2 2 (5.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
3 5 (13.89%) Intacct
4 4 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 4 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.78%) AWS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Miro
7 1 (2.78%) PaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Power BI
2 6 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (13.89%) Tableau
4 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Finance
3 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Law
5 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.33%) Retail
7 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
7 2 (5.56%) Electronics
8 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Junior
2 8 (22.22%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Applications Support
3 5 (13.89%) DBA
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Junior Security Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) SQL DBA
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) IT Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (2.78%) CSS
2 1 (2.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) ERP
2 8 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (16.67%) Analytics
4 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (13.89%) AI
5 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
5 5 (13.89%) ETL
5 5 (13.89%) Reverse Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) Systems Analysis
6 4 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 4 (11.11%) CRM
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) Python
3 5 (13.89%) T-SQL
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (19.44%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
3 4 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.56%) CISM
4 2 (5.56%) CISMP
4 2 (5.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Sage
2 4 (11.11%) ForeScout
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce