Microsoft Jobs in Leicestershire

Microsoft
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 65 167 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 9.17% 15.20% 30.11%
As % of the Vendors category 38.01% 42.93% 67.88%
Number of salaries quoted 50 133 91
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,500 £13,500
25th Percentile £34,063 £26,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £57,188 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £59,550 £67,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £38,250 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -11.76% -

All Vendors
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 171 389 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 24.12% 35.40% 44.36%
Number of salaries quoted 85 208 137
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,500 £24,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,966 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,000 £59,063 £58,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £76,625 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £49,944
% change year-on-year +6.25% -19.91% +10.99%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester +7 26 £48,500 +7.78% 24
Loughborough 0 7 £28,500 -21.92% 6
Lutterworth -19 3 £37,500 - 2
Ashby-de-la-Zouch +1 1 - - 1
Market Harborough 0 1 - - 5
Hinckley -26 1 - - 1
Microsoft
East Midlands

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 5 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (6.15%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.15%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 34 (52.31%) Azure
2 14 (21.54%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
4 8 (12.31%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (10.77%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.62%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) VoIP
1 6 (9.23%) VPN
2 5 (7.69%) DHCP
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) Firewall
2 5 (7.69%) Internet
3 4 (6.15%) Network Security
3 4 (6.15%) WLAN
4 3 (4.62%) SAN
5 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.54%) LAN
5 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) SQL Server
2 14 (21.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (18.46%) Data Lake
3 12 (18.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (16.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (6.15%) Power BI
6 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.54%) Big Data
7 1 (1.54%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Visual Studio
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) Subversion
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) Postman
4 1 (1.54%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 28 (43.08%) Law
2 20 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (26.15%) Finance
4 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
5 7 (10.77%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (7.69%) Games
8 4 (6.15%) Retail
9 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
10 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.54%) Advertising
11 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.54%) Banking
11 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.54%) Legal
11 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (15.38%) Developer
1 10 (15.38%) IT Support
2 9 (13.85%) Analyst
2 9 (13.85%) DBA
3 8 (12.31%) Administrator
4 7 (10.77%) SQL DBA
5 6 (9.23%) 1st Line Support
5 6 (9.23%) IT Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) ERP Support
6 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Project Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior
7 4 (6.15%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Software Implementation Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Quality Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Service Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) .NET
2 6 (9.23%) WPF
3 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.08%) Blazor
4 2 (3.08%) Middleware
4 2 (3.08%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) RESTful
4 2 (3.08%) SOAP
4 2 (3.08%) Web Services
5 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.54%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.54%) Code First Entity Framework
5 1 (1.54%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.54%) HTML5
5 1 (1.54%) jQuery
5 1 (1.54%) JSON
5 1 (1.54%) Sass
5 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Data Structures
2 8 (12.31%) Driving Licence
3 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.15%) Clustering
5 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Code
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (38.46%) Windows
2 9 (13.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.15%) Linux
4 2 (3.08%) Android
4 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (16.92%) Data Analysis
3 11 (16.92%) ETL
4 10 (15.38%) Analytics
5 9 (13.85%) CRM
5 9 (13.85%) Inventory Management
5 9 (13.85%) Project Management
5 9 (13.85%) Reverse Engineering
5 9 (13.85%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (12.31%) ITIL
6 8 (12.31%) SDLC
7 7 (10.77%) Mobile Device Management
8 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (7.69%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.69%) ERP
9 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
10 4 (6.15%) Network Management
10 4 (6.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) SQL
2 13 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 10 (15.38%) C#
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.62%) Python
5 3 (4.62%) VB
6 2 (3.08%) XAML
7 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.15%) CCNA
3 4 (6.15%) CCNP
3 4 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.15%) LPIC
3 4 (6.15%) MCP
3 4 (6.15%) MCSE
4 3 (4.62%) A+ Certification
5 2 (3.08%) MCDST
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.54%) HNC
6 1 (1.54%) MCSA
6 1 (1.54%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.15%) GDPR
2 4 (6.15%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.54%) GRC
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.15%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (4.62%) SCCM
2 3 (4.62%) SCOM
3 1 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Cisco
2 3 (4.62%) VMware
3 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.54%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) HP
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.54%) SnapLogic
4 1 (1.54%) Sophos