Microsoft Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 20 May 2025, 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 69 154 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.56% 10.34% 14.26%
As % of the Vendors category 26.24% 32.70% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 54 105 136
10th Percentile £32,750 £22,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £26,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,586 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +31.92% -14.95% -2.38%
75th Percentile £84,685 £63,750 £69,650
90th Percentile £98,474 £77,500 £81,250
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £49,912
% change year-on-year +15.56% -9.84% +10.92%

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 263 471 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.81% 31.63% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 150 288 373
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £40,000 £44,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -3.40% +8.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £39,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 20 May 2025.

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 13 (18.84%) Umbraco
2 4 (5.80%) CMS
3 2 (2.90%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.90%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.90%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.45%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.83%) Azure
2 17 (24.64%) GCP
3 8 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.14%) AWS
5 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (5.80%) Power Automate
6 4 (5.80%) SaaS
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Stack
7 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.90%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.45%) IaaS
9 1 (1.45%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DHCP
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) Internet
2 1 (1.45%) LAN
2 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
2 1 (1.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) BigQuery
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.25%) Power BI
3 5 (7.25%) Tableau
4 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Git
2 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) MSBuild
2 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.90%) webpack
General
1 26 (37.68%) Finance
2 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
3 18 (26.09%) Banking
4 16 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Retail
6 4 (5.80%) Law
6 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Automotive
8 1 (1.45%) Billing
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Architect
2 17 (24.64%) Lead
3 12 (17.39%) Analyst
4 11 (15.94%) Lead Architect
4 11 (15.94%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 11 (15.94%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.14%) Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Applications Support
6 5 (7.25%) Applications Support Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Data Architect
6 5 (7.25%) Senior
6 5 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Customer Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Customer Service Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Fraud Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Service Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Database Team Leader
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) CSS
1 13 (18.84%) React
2 11 (15.94%) Ajax
2 11 (15.94%) jQuery
2 11 (15.94%) OAuth
2 11 (15.94%) OpenID
2 11 (15.94%) SAML
3 7 (10.14%) .NET
4 5 (7.25%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.80%) HTML
6 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (4.35%) PySpark
7 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.90%) Next.js
7 2 (2.90%) RESTful
7 2 (2.90%) Sass
7 2 (2.90%) Vue
7 2 (2.90%) Web Services
8 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
1 2 (2.90%) Genomics
1 2 (2.90%) Hackathon
1 2 (2.90%) Learning Management System
1 2 (2.90%) Life Science
1 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
1 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
1 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
1 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.45%) e-Learning
2 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.45%) Podcast
2 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Windows
2 4 (5.80%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.35%) Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.45%) VMS
5 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) Agile
1 22 (31.88%) Analytics
2 15 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (18.84%) Data Analytics
3 13 (18.84%) Web Development
4 12 (17.39%) Content Management
4 12 (17.39%) MVC
5 11 (15.94%) Domain-Driven Design
5 11 (15.94%) Software Deployment
6 10 (14.49%) Customer Service
6 10 (14.49%) DevOps
6 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (13.04%) Project Management
7 9 (13.04%) Scrum
8 8 (11.59%) Coaching
9 7 (10.14%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
10 6 (8.70%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.64%) JavaScript
2 10 (14.49%) SQL
3 9 (13.04%) C#
3 9 (13.04%) Python
4 7 (10.14%) Java
5 5 (7.25%) VBA
6 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.90%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.90%) PhD
2 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.90%) PMP
3 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.35%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.45%) PMO
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.80%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.45%) Docker
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.14%) Google
2 4 (5.80%) Blue Prism
2 4 (5.80%) UiPath
3 2 (2.90%) Apple
3 2 (2.90%) IBM
3 2 (2.90%) Optimizely
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle
3 2 (2.90%) Sitecore
3 2 (2.90%) VMware
4 1 (1.45%) Avaya
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco
4 1 (1.45%) Databricks
4 1 (1.45%) Dell
4 1 (1.45%) Sage
4 1 (1.45%) Yahoo!
4 1 (1.45%) YouTube