Microsoft Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -34 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 574 710 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.56% 15.37% 14.65%
As % of the Vendors category 25.72% 42.01% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 415 332 499
10th Percentile £23,500 £28,500 £25,625
25th Percentile £27,625 £32,041 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £59,875 £62,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,232 1,690 1,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.30% 36.59% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 758 786 935
10th Percentile £24,875 £30,000 £27,125
25th Percentile £33,250 £39,294 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,844 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -75 240 £50,000 - 66
Edinburgh 0 159 £45,000 -12.20% 92
Aberdeen +20 61 £45,000 +32.35% 21
Fife -6 18 £37,800 +26.00% 5
West Lothian 0 15 £34,000 -20.00% 3
Aberdeenshire +9 11 £25,250 -49.50% 11
Dundee -8 8 £40,144 +7.05% 1
Stirling +2 7 £45,000 +55.17% 5
East Ayrshire -1 7 £26,500 - 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 6 £40,750 - 2
North Lanarkshire -2 5 £45,000 - 1
Lanarkshire -4 5 £43,750 +4.79% 27
Argyll and Bute - 4 £33,000 -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
West Dunbartonshire +1 2 £17,000 -
Midlothian -4 2 - - 24
Perthshire - 2 £52,900 - 1
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
South Ayrshire -1 1 £57,500 +134.69% 3
Perth and Kinross -2 1 £59,000 - 3
Highlands -7 1 - - 8
Renfrewshire -10 1 - - 2
North Ayrshire - 1 £46,350 - 1
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 69 (12.02%) SharePoint
2 55 (9.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (3.66%) IIS
4 17 (2.96%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) JOnAS
6 1 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 85 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (4.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.70%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.52%) InDesign
7 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 22 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.92%) Primavera
2 11 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
3 10 (1.74%) PlanetPress Connect
4 9 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.70%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.35%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 258 (44.95%) Azure
2 186 (32.40%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (16.55%) Power Platform
4 60 (10.45%) Entra ID
5 56 (9.76%) AWS
6 52 (9.06%) Dynamics 365
7 36 (6.27%) SaaS
8 26 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (3.48%) PowerApps
10 18 (3.14%) GCP
11 14 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.44%) IaaS
12 13 (2.26%) PaaS
13 12 (2.09%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (1.22%) OneDrive
17 6 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
17 6 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.57%) WAN
2 21 (3.66%) Firewall
3 18 (3.14%) DNS
4 15 (2.61%) Internet
5 14 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (2.26%) TCP/IP
7 12 (2.09%) VoIP
7 12 (2.09%) Wireless
8 11 (1.92%) Broadband
9 10 (1.74%) VPN
10 8 (1.39%) Network Security
10 8 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (1.39%) VLAN
11 7 (1.22%) DHCP
11 7 (1.22%) SAN
12 6 (1.05%) LAN
13 4 (0.70%) IMAP
13 4 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
15 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (17.25%) SQL Server
2 74 (12.89%) Power BI
3 33 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.44%) Tableau
9 12 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (1.92%) DB2
11 8 (1.39%) Big Data
12 7 (1.22%) Redis
13 5 (0.87%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.87%) OLAP
14 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.52%) MySQL
15 2 (0.35%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (5.05%) JIRA
2 24 (4.18%) Git
3 10 (1.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 10 (1.74%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.22%) Moq
5 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.05%) MSTest
6 1 (0.17%) Gradle
6 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.17%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.17%) Maven
6 1 (0.17%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.17%) MSI
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 212 (36.93%) Social Skills
2 132 (23.00%) Finance
3 64 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (5.57%) Legal
8 31 (5.40%) Manufacturing
9 28 (4.88%) Law
10 26 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (4.36%) Marketing
12 20 (3.48%) Retail
12 20 (3.48%) Telecoms
13 18 (3.14%) Banking
14 16 (2.79%) Games
15 9 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.22%) Private Banking
17 6 (1.05%) Local Government
17 6 (1.05%) Police
18 5 (0.87%) Billing
Job Titles
1 72 (12.54%) Analyst
2 57 (9.93%) Developer
3 56 (9.76%) Senior
4 40 (6.97%) Lead
5 38 (6.62%) Architect
6 33 (5.75%) IT Support
7 32 (5.57%) Administrator
7 32 (5.57%) Support Engineer
8 31 (5.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (5.23%) Support Analyst
10 26 (4.53%) Systems Engineer
11 22 (3.83%) Project Manager
12 20 (3.48%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.31%) DBA
14 18 (3.14%) IT Engineer
15 17 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
15 17 (2.96%) IT Manager
16 16 (2.79%) SQL DBA
16 16 (2.79%) Support Technician
17 15 (2.61%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (8.36%) .NET
2 37 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 32 (5.57%) ASP.NET
4 30 (5.23%) .NET Framework
5 28 (4.88%) Entity Framework
6 27 (4.70%) ASP.NET MVC
7 24 (4.18%) .NET Core
8 18 (3.14%) ASP.NET Web API
9 15 (2.61%) CSS
9 15 (2.61%) HTML
10 13 (2.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 11 (1.92%) REST
12 9 (1.57%) HTML5
13 8 (1.39%) React
14 7 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 7 (1.22%) CSS3
14 7 (1.22%) jQuery
14 7 (1.22%) LINQ
14 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
14 7 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.75%) Public Cloud
2 30 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (4.36%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.31%) Clustering
6 17 (2.96%) Driving Licence
7 14 (2.44%) PKI
8 13 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (1.57%) Life Science
11 8 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.39%) IoT
12 7 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.05%) BBC
13 6 (1.05%) Social Media
13 6 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.70%) Client/Server
14 4 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 114 (19.86%) Windows
2 58 (10.10%) Windows Server
3 32 (5.57%) Linux
4 28 (4.88%) Windows 10
5 19 (3.31%) Unix
6 12 (2.09%) VMS
7 7 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.87%) Android
10 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.70%) CentOS
11 3 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.35%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (17.60%) Agile
3 87 (15.16%) Project Management
4 80 (13.94%) Business Intelligence
5 68 (11.85%) Customer Service
6 60 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
6 60 (10.45%) ERP
7 50 (8.71%) ITIL
8 44 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (7.32%) Decision-Making
10 41 (7.14%) DevOps
10 41 (7.14%) Migration
10 41 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (6.62%) Analytics
12 33 (5.75%) Roadmaps
13 32 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 30 (5.23%) Asset Management
14 30 (5.23%) High Availability
14 30 (5.23%) Software Engineering
15 28 (4.88%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 104 (18.12%) SQL
2 51 (8.89%) C#
3 44 (7.67%) JavaScript
4 33 (5.75%) T-SQL
5 25 (4.36%) PowerShell
6 22 (3.83%) Java
7 12 (2.09%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.22%) Bash
9 5 (0.87%) VBA
10 3 (0.52%) Python
11 2 (0.35%) C
11 2 (0.35%) Scala
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) Groovy
12 1 (0.17%) Perl
12 1 (0.17%) R
12 1 (0.17%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) VB
12 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.17%) VB6
Qualifications
1 106 (18.47%) Degree
2 51 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (3.14%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.44%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.92%) CISA
8 9 (1.57%) CISSP
9 8 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.22%) CISM
10 7 (1.22%) PMP
10 7 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 6 (1.05%) CCNA
11 6 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.87%) HND
12 5 (0.87%) MCSE
12 5 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.70%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.18%) SLA
2 21 (3.66%) QA
3 15 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.92%) ITGC
4 11 (1.92%) PMO
5 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.22%) GDPR
6 7 (1.22%) NIST
7 5 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.70%) ISO 22301
8 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.52%) GMP
9 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.35%) COSHH
10 2 (0.35%) DICOM
10 2 (0.35%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 90 (15.68%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (3.31%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.74%) Docker
6 9 (1.57%) vSphere
7 8 (1.39%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.92%) Terraform
3 9 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.22%) Ansible
5 5 (0.87%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (0.70%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) SCOM
7 1 (0.17%) WMI
7 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (10.45%) VMware
2 26 (4.53%) SAP
3 25 (4.36%) Google
4 24 (4.18%) Oracle
5 18 (3.14%) Cisco
5 18 (3.14%) Sage
6 15 (2.61%) Apple
6 15 (2.61%) Dell
7 12 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.92%) Sophos
9 10 (1.74%) FNZ
10 9 (1.57%) EMC
10 9 (1.57%) Epicor
10 9 (1.57%) IFS
10 9 (1.57%) JD Edwards
10 9 (1.57%) Meraki
10 9 (1.57%) Xero
11 7 (1.22%) ConnectWise
11 7 (1.22%) Databricks
12 6 (1.05%) Facebook