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 16 January 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
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 47 37 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 13.54% 19.89% 26.76%
As % of the Vendors category 46.08% 44.05% 59.70%
Number of salaries quoted 36 24 69
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,625 £36,450
25th Percentile £40,125 £38,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -18.18% +46.06%
75th Percentile £59,688 £57,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,875 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,995
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.99% +33.32%

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 102 84 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 29.39% 45.16% 44.82%
Number of salaries quoted 70 49 119
10th Percentile £34,475 £25,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £39,087
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,275 £70,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,195 £47,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year -4.85% -4.98% +11.09%

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 16 January 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 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Sage 200
2 3 (6.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Power Platform
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.64%) Azure AI
4 5 (10.64%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (10.64%) Intacct
5 4 (8.51%) GitHub
6 3 (6.38%) GCP
6 3 (6.38%) IaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.13%) AWS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Miro
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Power BI
2 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.89%) Tableau
3 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
3 6 (12.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (12.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (4.26%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.04%) Finance
3 14 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Law
5 5 (10.64%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.38%) Retail
7 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
7 2 (4.26%) Electronics
7 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Analyst
2 10 (21.28%) Junior
2 10 (21.28%) Junior Analyst
3 8 (17.02%) Administrator
4 6 (12.77%) DBA
5 5 (10.64%) Applications Support
5 5 (10.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Junior Data Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Junior Security Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Security Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) SQL DBA
5 5 (10.64%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) SharePoint Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) JSON
2 1 (2.13%) CSS
2 1 (2.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) ERP
2 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (19.15%) Customer Service
4 8 (17.02%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (14.89%) AI
5 7 (14.89%) Analytics
5 7 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (12.77%) Data Analysis
6 6 (12.77%) ETL
6 6 (12.77%) Reverse Engineering
7 5 (10.64%) Business Analysis
7 5 (10.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (10.64%) DevOps
7 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.64%) Systems Analysis
8 4 (8.51%) Information Security
8 4 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) Python
3 6 (12.77%) T-SQL
4 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.38%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Azure Certification
2 8 (17.02%) Degree
3 5 (10.64%) CompTIA CySA+
3 5 (10.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.26%) CISM
4 2 (4.26%) CISMP
4 2 (4.26%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Ansible
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) ForeScout
1 5 (10.64%) Sage
2 3 (6.38%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce