How many open roles does Microsoft have?

Microsoft currently has 111 enriched job postings indexed.

Is Microsoft hiring more or less than usual?

Hiring is stable. 26 postings in the last 14 days versus 24 in the prior 14 days (+8%).

Where is Microsoft concentrating its hiring?

Engineering leads with 98 of 111 postings.

How does Microsoft pay compared to its industry?

Median midpoint of $184,325 USD, sitting at the 50th percentile of the industry. Salary disclosure rate: 77%.

What capability is Microsoft most disproportionately focused on?

Python: 1.95× the rate of industry peers (48.6% of postings vs 25% across peers).

Where is Microsoft expanding hiring?

Unknown: 3 postings in the last 30 days, up from 0 in the prior 30 days (+100%).

Microsoft

technology industry Redmond 228.0K employees MSFT website ↗

Microsoft has 111 indexed roles weighted toward engineering across United States. Posting volume is accelerating (+171% week-over-week).

111

Indexed roles

+8%

14d momentum

26 recent vs 24 prior

Industry rank

96.5% of 115 jobs · 2 peers

0.36

AI exposure (occupation)

Skill-weighted: 0.46

Hiring Trajectory

Posting volume over the last 10 weeks

Bucketed weekly from enriched_at timestamps. Trend classification compares the last 4 weeks against the 4 prior weeks. Median time from first sighting to closure: 14 days (industry: 14).

accelerating Week-over-week: +171% Long-open postings (>90d): 18

Functional Mix

Where the hiring is concentrated

Categories collapsed into 12 canonical buckets so cross-company comparisons stay coherent. Same map used on /live and /job-statistics.

Engineering

Marketing

Operations

Geographic Distribution

Where postings live, and where they're moving

Free-text jobs.location resolved into 12 region buckets. Emerging hubs flagged when last-30-days postings >50% above prior 30 days.

United States

104 (94.5%)

United Kingdom

1 (0.9%)

India

1 (0.9%)

APAC

1 (0.9%)

↗ Unknown: 3 postings in last 30d, up from 0 prior (+100%)

Seniority Distribution

Who exactly is being hired

Levels in postings, plus a separate read on executive-tier roles which are the leading indicator of strategic shifts.

Executive

Staff / Principal

Senior

Mid-level

Disproportionate Skills

What this company is over-indexed on vs industry peers

Location Quotient = (this company's % of postings with skill X) ÷ (peer industry's % of the same skill). Values above 1.0 mean over-indexed. Peer baseline excludes this company itself, so a dominant employer doesn't collapse to ~1.0. Skills with fewer than 3 occurrences here are excluded.

Skill	Postings	This co.	Peer avg	LQ	Required
Python	54	48.6%	25%	1.95×	100%
Machine Learning	41	36.9%	75%	0.49×	83%
Reinforcement Learning	8	7.2%	25%	0.29×	13%
Leadership	3	2.7%	25%	0.11×	67%
Software Development	8	7.2%	75%	0.10×	88%
Machine Learning Frameworks	4	3.6%	75%	0.05×	50%
Cloud Computing	3	2.7%	75%	0.04×	33%

Salary Positioning

Pay vs the industry baseline (USD midpoint)

Midpoint of salary_min/salary_max converted to USD via simple 2024-snapshot FX. Values outside $10k–$1M filtered as parser noise.

Microsoft Industry baseline Microsoft sits at the 50th percentile of industry pay

Market Position

Direct hiring competitors

Peers are companies in the same industry, ranked by how much their job categories overlap with this one (Jaccard score on the top 5 normalised categories). Each peer's hiring momentum is shown from the same 14-day windows.

No peers yet — peer matching needs more companies tagged in this industry. The list will fill out as YubHub's coverage grows.

Strategic Themes

What this hiring is revealing

Coming soon.

Weekly LLM-synthesised brief — emerging capabilities, decaying capabilities, geographic shifts, seniority signals — drawn from the company's own posting tag distribution. Will populate once Phase 4 of the company-intelligence pipeline (OpenRouter long-context model) ships.

Latest

Most recent indexed postings

Principal Applied Scientist

Mountain View, United States senior hybrid Engineering

Principal Applied Scientist

Mountain View senior hybrid Engineering

Senior Data Scientist

Mountain View senior hybrid Data Science

Principal Software Engineer

Redmond senior hybrid Engineering

Principal Product Marketing Manager

Garden City, United States senior Marketing

Principal Software Engineer

Redmond senior hybrid Engineering

Senior Data Scientist

Boulder senior hybrid IT

Senior Software Engineer – Microsoft AI, Copilot

Mountain View senior hybrid Engineering

Methodology & Sources

How this is computed

Last enriched: 2026-03-20.

Company-data sources: wikidata, fmp, github, news, hackernews, wayback, sec

Hiring aggregates run live against D1; cached at the edge for up to 24 hours. AI-exposure scores derive from O*NET 30.2 occupation taxonomy crossed with the Anthropic Economic Index 2026-03-24 release.

Caveats: salary parser uses 2024 FX snapshot rates; long-tail location strings may bucket as "Unknown"; Location Quotient excludes companies with fewer than 5 indexed roles to keep ratios stable. Salary disclosure under 20% triggers a warning on the salary chart.

Machine-readable equivalents: /companies/microsoft.json · /companies/microsoft.md · api.yubhub.co/stats/company/microsoft