Microsoft Job Trends in Swindon

Microsoft
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 13 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
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 34 26 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Swindon 19.21% 12.56% 18.94%
As % of the Vendors category 53.13% 45.61% 58.11%
Number of salaries quoted 21 12 39
10th Percentile £30,750 £24,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £25,468
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £34,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.33% -10.62%
75th Percentile £70,752 £53,951 £54,375
90th Percentile - - £67,500
Wiltshire median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -18.37% +1.03%

All Vendors
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 64 57 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 36.16% 27.54% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 29 29 62
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,800 £25,124
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £29,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £37,500 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -20.63% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,752 £51,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £59,750 £67,500
Wiltshire median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +23.53% -13.27% +1.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Swindon

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Salary Trend in Swindon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Microsoft

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Salary Histogram in Swindon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Swindon over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Swindon

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 12 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (91.18%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (55.88%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (44.12%) DNS
2 12 (35.29%) DHCP
3 4 (11.76%) Firewall
4 3 (8.82%) HTTP
4 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
General
1 20 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Finance
4 7 (20.59%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Head of Digital
3 5 (14.71%) ICT Support
3 5 (14.71%) ICT Support Technician
3 5 (14.71%) ICT Technician
3 5 (14.71%) IT Support
3 5 (14.71%) Support Technician
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Support Team Leader
4 4 (11.76%) Team Leader
5 1 (2.94%) Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Sales Executive
5 1 (2.94%) Telesales Executive
5 1 (2.94%) Trainee
5 1 (2.94%) Trainee Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Trainee Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.76%) Driving Licence
4 3 (8.82%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (70.59%) Windows
2 16 (47.06%) Windows Server
3 12 (35.29%) Linux
3 12 (35.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (8.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Customer Service
2 16 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (38.24%) Customer Experience
3 13 (38.24%) Kalman Filter
4 12 (35.29%) Email Filtering
4 12 (35.29%) Migration
4 12 (35.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 12 (35.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 12 (35.29%) Web Filtering
5 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (29.41%) ITIL
6 8 (23.53%) Information Security
6 8 (23.53%) Project Management
7 7 (20.59%) Asset Management
7 7 (20.59%) Budget Management
7 7 (20.59%) Business Case
7 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
7 7 (20.59%) Scorecard
8 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) MCP
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (35.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (35.29%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Active Directory
1 12 (35.29%) Hyper-V
1 12 (35.29%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Brocade
1 12 (35.29%) Nimble Storage
1 12 (35.29%) SolarWinds
1 12 (35.29%) Splunk
1 12 (35.29%) Tanium
1 12 (35.29%) Veeam
1 12 (35.29%) VMware
2 1 (2.94%) Apple