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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 159 287 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.59% 13.93% 10.91%
As % of the Vendors category 32.72% 39.42% 36.74%
Number of salaries quoted 109 138 180
10th Percentile £22,750 £27,350 £24,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,650 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £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 486 728 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.36% 35.34% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 293 410 401
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £60,525 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% +10.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £68,275
90th Percentile £91,934 £91,171 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

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 7 May 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 30 (18.87%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (5.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (10.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.63%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.63%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (6.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (6.92%) Unit4 Business World
2 10 (6.29%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 72 (45.28%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (37.74%) Azure
3 22 (13.84%) Entra ID
4 16 (10.06%) Power Platform
5 13 (8.18%) AWS
6 12 (7.55%) SaaS
7 9 (5.66%) GCP
8 7 (4.40%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.14%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.89%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.89%) Yammer
12 2 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.26%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.63%) Adobe Analytics
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.14%) DNS
1 5 (3.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.52%) Firewall
2 4 (2.52%) Internet
2 4 (2.52%) WAN
3 3 (1.89%) DHCP
3 3 (1.89%) Wireless
4 2 (1.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.92%) DB2
3 10 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.29%) Power BI
4 2 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.26%) MySQL
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (11.95%) JIRA
2 10 (6.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.63%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) Gradle
3 1 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) Maven
3 1 (0.63%) MSBuild
3 1 (0.63%) MSI
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 58 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 52 (32.70%) Finance
3 21 (13.21%) Presentation Skills
4 18 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (7.55%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.03%) Banking
8 6 (3.77%) Games
8 6 (3.77%) Legal
9 5 (3.14%) Billing
9 5 (3.14%) Law
9 5 (3.14%) Retail
10 4 (2.52%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.52%) Marketing
11 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.26%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (14.47%) Analyst
2 14 (8.81%) Senior
3 13 (8.18%) Developer
3 13 (8.18%) Project Manager
4 12 (7.55%) Architect
5 11 (6.92%) IT Manager
5 11 (6.92%) Support Analyst
5 11 (6.92%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.29%) Applications Support
6 10 (6.29%) Applications Support Analyst
6 10 (6.29%) Consultant
7 9 (5.66%) IT Assistant
7 9 (5.66%) IT Support
8 8 (5.03%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.40%) 1st Line Support
9 7 (4.40%) Audit Manager
9 7 (4.40%) IT Audit Manager
9 7 (4.40%) Junior
9 7 (4.40%) Junior Project Manager
9 7 (4.40%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.92%) .NET
2 7 (4.40%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.89%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.89%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.89%) CSS
3 3 (1.89%) HTML
4 2 (1.26%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (1.26%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.26%) React
4 2 (1.26%) REST
4 2 (1.26%) Web Services
5 1 (0.63%) Middleware
5 1 (0.63%) Next.js
5 1 (0.63%) Sass
5 1 (0.63%) SPFx
5 1 (0.63%) Vue
5 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.03%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.40%) PKI
4 7 (4.40%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.26%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.26%) PACS
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 42 (26.42%) Windows
2 22 (13.84%) Windows Server
3 17 (10.69%) Linux
3 17 (10.69%) Unix
4 10 (6.29%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.89%) CentOS
6 3 (1.89%) VMS
7 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.26%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.64%) Project Management
2 30 (18.87%) Agile
3 22 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (10.69%) ITIL
5 16 (10.06%) ERP
6 15 (9.43%) Analytics
6 15 (9.43%) ITSM
7 14 (8.81%) Document Management
8 13 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (8.18%) Data Privacy
8 13 (8.18%) Service Management
9 12 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.55%) Data Analytics
9 12 (7.55%) Line Management
10 11 (6.92%) Creative Thinking
10 11 (6.92%) CRM
10 11 (6.92%) Migration
10 11 (6.92%) PRINCE2
10 11 (6.92%) Release Management
10 11 (6.92%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.95%) SQL
2 9 (5.66%) C#
3 6 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.52%) Bash
6 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.63%) Groovy
8 1 (0.63%) Java
8 1 (0.63%) Python
8 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (24.53%) Degree
2 11 (6.92%) CISA
3 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.52%) PMP
6 2 (1.26%) MCSE
7 1 (0.63%) BICSI Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BICSI RCDD
7 1 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.63%) OCP
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.92%) ITGC
1 11 (6.92%) PMO
2 6 (3.77%) SLA
3 5 (3.14%) QA
4 3 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.89%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.26%) DICOM
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 25 (15.72%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.26%) Docker
4 2 (1.26%) vSphere
5 1 (0.63%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (10.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.14%) Ansible
2 5 (3.14%) Terraform
3 2 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.26%) SCCM
4 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.63%) Puppet
4 1 (0.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 18 (11.32%) SAP
2 12 (7.55%) Oracle
3 11 (6.92%) Sage
4 10 (6.29%) FNZ
4 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.66%) Google
6 7 (4.40%) ConnectWise
7 6 (3.77%) VMware
8 5 (3.14%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (3.14%) Dell
9 4 (2.52%) Cisco
9 4 (2.52%) Xero
10 3 (1.89%) Apple
10 3 (1.89%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.26%) Adobe
12 1 (0.63%) Autodesk
12 1 (0.63%) Citrix
12 1 (0.63%) EMC
12 1 (0.63%) Mitel
12 1 (0.63%) Red Hat