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 1 March 2026, 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
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 70 38 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 16.20% 22.35% 23.41%
As % of the Vendors category 51.47% 45.24% 61.15%
Number of salaries quoted 41 26 82
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,875 £24,600
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £59,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £76,125
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +15.32%

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 136 84 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 31.48% 49.41% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 88 57 133
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,300 £25,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £35,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -3.81% +8.25%
75th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £64,148
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,250 £76,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £48,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.74% +7.22% +12.50%

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 1 March 2026.

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 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Sage 200
2 3 (4.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (67.14%) Azure
2 16 (22.86%) Power Platform
3 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (15.71%) Azure AI
5 5 (7.14%) Intacct
6 4 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.71%) Google Workspace
7 3 (4.29%) GCP
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
7 3 (4.29%) IaaS
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.43%) PaaS
9 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) Power BI
2 13 (18.57%) Tableau
3 8 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (8.57%) Data Lake
5 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.86%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Git
1 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Law
4 6 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Electronics
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 28 (40.00%) Analyst
2 22 (31.43%) Junior
2 22 (31.43%) Junior Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Data Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Junior Data Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Junior Security Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Security Analyst
4 9 (12.86%) Administrator
5 6 (8.57%) DBA
6 5 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 5 (7.14%) Ethical Hacker
6 5 (7.14%) IT Support
6 5 (7.14%) SQL DBA
6 5 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
7 4 (5.71%) SharePoint Administrator
7 4 (5.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (1.43%) .NET
2 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.43%) CSS
2 1 (1.43%) HTML
2 1 (1.43%) REST
2 1 (1.43%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.14%) Cyberattack
2 5 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.29%) Linux
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (21.43%) Customer Service
2 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (18.57%) AI
3 13 (18.57%) Mentoring
4 12 (17.14%) ERP
5 8 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (10.00%) Analytics
6 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.57%) Data Analysis
7 6 (8.57%) ETL
7 6 (8.57%) ITIL
7 6 (8.57%) Reverse Engineering
8 5 (7.14%) Business Analysis
8 5 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (7.14%) Ethical Hacking
8 5 (7.14%) Systems Analysis
9 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (5.71%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) SQL
2 14 (20.00%) Python
3 7 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.29%) C#
5 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 11 (15.71%) CompTIA CySA+
2 11 (15.71%) CompTIA Security+
3 8 (11.43%) Degree
4 5 (7.14%) CEH
5 2 (2.86%) CISM
5 2 (2.86%) CISMP
5 2 (2.86%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.71%) vSphere
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Ansible
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) ForeScout
2 5 (7.14%) Sage
3 4 (5.71%) Google
3 4 (5.71%) VMware
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle
5 2 (2.86%) Veeam