Microsoft Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 169 295 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.02% 13.74% 10.71%
As % of the Vendors category 33.53% 39.23% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 116 139 170
10th Percentile £22,750 £28,300 £24,225
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,028 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,586 £54,882 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +9.22% +0.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,650 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%

All Vendors
Edinburgh

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 504 752 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.86% 35.03% 29.79%
Number of salaries quoted 305 418 386
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,242 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,275 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,029 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +16.42% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,328 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year -11.50% +13.57% +4.74%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Edinburgh

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Edinburgh

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 33 (19.53%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.10%) Confluence
3 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.59%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (15.98%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (11.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.59%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.59%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 13 (7.69%) Unit4 Business World
2 12 (7.10%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 75 (44.38%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (36.09%) Azure
3 22 (13.02%) Entra ID
4 19 (11.24%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.69%) AWS
6 12 (7.10%) SaaS
7 9 (5.33%) GCP
8 7 (4.14%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.55%) Yammer
10 5 (2.96%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.37%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.78%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.18%) WhatsApp
14 1 (0.59%) Adobe Analytics
14 1 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
14 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.96%) DNS
1 5 (2.96%) Firewall
1 5 (2.96%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.37%) Internet
2 4 (2.37%) WAN
3 3 (1.78%) DHCP
3 3 (1.78%) Wireless
4 2 (1.18%) Broadband
5 1 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.43%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.69%) DB2
2 13 (7.69%) Power BI
3 12 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (14.20%) JIRA
2 12 (7.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.59%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) Gradle
3 1 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) Maven
3 1 (0.59%) MSBuild
3 1 (0.59%) MSI
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.59%) Spinnaker
3 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 62 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 59 (34.91%) Finance
3 21 (12.43%) Presentation Skills
4 18 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (7.10%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.51%) Banking
7 6 (3.55%) Games
7 6 (3.55%) Legal
8 5 (2.96%) Billing
8 5 (2.96%) Retail
9 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.37%) Law
9 4 (2.37%) Marketing
10 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (17.16%) Analyst
2 16 (9.47%) Senior
3 14 (8.28%) Developer
4 13 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 13 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 13 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 12 (7.10%) Applications Support
5 12 (7.10%) Applications Support Analyst
5 12 (7.10%) Architect
6 11 (6.51%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Consultant
7 10 (5.92%) IT Support
7 10 (5.92%) Service Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Audit Manager
8 9 (5.33%) IT Assistant
8 9 (5.33%) IT Audit Manager
9 8 (4.73%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (4.14%) 1st Line Support
10 7 (4.14%) Junior
10 7 (4.14%) Junior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.10%) .NET
2 7 (4.14%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.78%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.78%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.78%) CSS
3 3 (1.78%) HTML
3 3 (1.78%) React
4 2 (1.18%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (1.18%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.18%) REST
4 2 (1.18%) Web Services
5 1 (0.59%) Middleware
5 1 (0.59%) Next.js
5 1 (0.59%) OAuth
5 1 (0.59%) Sass
5 1 (0.59%) SPFx
5 1 (0.59%) Vue
5 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.51%) Management Information System
1 11 (6.51%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (4.73%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.14%) PKI
3 7 (4.14%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.18%) Device Driver
5 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.18%) PACS
6 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (27.22%) Windows
2 25 (14.79%) Windows Server
3 20 (11.83%) Linux
4 19 (11.24%) Unix
5 11 (6.51%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.78%) CentOS
7 3 (1.78%) VMS
8 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.18%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.49%) Project Management
2 35 (20.71%) Agile
3 21 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (11.83%) ITIL
4 20 (11.83%) ITSM
5 18 (10.65%) ERP
5 18 (10.65%) Service Management
6 17 (10.06%) Analytics
7 16 (9.47%) Document Management
8 15 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (8.88%) Data Privacy
9 14 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (8.28%) Data Analytics
10 13 (7.69%) Creative Thinking
10 13 (7.69%) CRM
10 13 (7.69%) Decision-Making
10 13 (7.69%) IT Audit
10 13 (7.69%) Release Management
10 13 (7.69%) Technical Analysis
10 13 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.43%) SQL
2 10 (5.92%) C#
3 6 (3.55%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.37%) Bash
6 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.59%) Groovy
8 1 (0.59%) Java
8 1 (0.59%) Python
8 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (24.26%) Degree
2 13 (7.69%) CISA
3 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (2.37%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.37%) PMP
6 2 (1.18%) MCSE
7 1 (0.59%) BICSI Certification
7 1 (0.59%) BICSI RCDD
7 1 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.59%) OCP
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) ITGC
1 13 (7.69%) PMO
2 6 (3.55%) SLA
3 5 (2.96%) QA
4 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.78%) GDPR
5 3 (1.78%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.18%) DICOM
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.18%) Docker
4 2 (1.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.59%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.96%) Ansible
2 5 (2.96%) Terraform
3 3 (1.78%) SCCM
4 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.59%) CASB
5 1 (0.59%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.59%) Puppet
5 1 (0.59%) WMI
Vendors
1 20 (11.83%) SAP
2 14 (8.28%) Oracle
3 13 (7.69%) Sage
3 13 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.10%) FNZ
5 9 (5.33%) Google
6 7 (4.14%) ConnectWise
7 6 (3.55%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.55%) VMware
8 5 (2.96%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (2.96%) Cisco
8 5 (2.96%) Dell
9 4 (2.37%) Xero
10 3 (1.78%) Apple
11 2 (1.18%) Adobe
12 1 (0.59%) Autodesk
12 1 (0.59%) Barracuda Networks
12 1 (0.59%) Citrix
12 1 (0.59%) EMC
12 1 (0.59%) Red Hat