Microsoft Job Trends in Leighton Buzzard

Microsoft
Bedfordshire > Leighton Buzzard

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leighton Buzzard 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 August 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 6 16 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leighton Buzzard 17.14% 47.06% 75.00%
As % of the Vendors category 75.00% 76.19% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.67%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

All Vendors
Leighton Buzzard

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 Leighton Buzzard.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8 21 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leighton Buzzard 22.86% 61.76% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £25,287
25th Percentile £41,250 - £29,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.91%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £40,500 £45,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -19.64% +1.82%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leighton Buzzard

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Leighton Buzzard

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Leighton Buzzard

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leighton Buzzard citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leighton Buzzard citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leighton Buzzard 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Service Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Coaching
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Line Management
1 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware