Microsoft Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 75 131 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 8.81% 13.65% 19.66%
As % of the Vendors category 24.83% 43.67% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 54 66 103
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £26,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £74,063 £61,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £67,500
Scotland median annual salary £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -23.00% +11.11% -3.95%

All Vendors
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 302 300 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.49% 31.25% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 104 142 210
10th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £25,450
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +11.11% -1.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £90,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £32,851 £50,904 £40,000
% change year-on-year -35.47% +27.26% -27.27%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Glasgow

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (5.33%) SAP CO
1 4 (5.33%) SAP FI
1 4 (5.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (33.33%) Azure
2 19 (25.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (17.33%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (12.00%) AWS
5 8 (10.67%) GitHub
6 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.33%) SaaS
8 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (4.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.67%) IaaS
9 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.67%) PaaS
9 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.67%) DHCP
1 11 (14.67%) DNS
2 10 (13.33%) Firewall
3 9 (12.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.67%) Internet
5 4 (5.33%) VPN
6 2 (2.67%) Softphone
6 2 (2.67%) Unified Communications
6 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.33%) FTP
7 1 (1.33%) HTTP
7 1 (1.33%) Network Security
7 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.33%) VLAN
7 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) SAP BW
1 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (4.00%) Tableau
3 1 (1.33%) MySQL
3 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) JUnit
2 1 (1.33%) Maven
2 1 (1.33%) Snyk
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.00%) Law
5 5 (6.67%) Multimedia
5 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.67%) Back Office
7 2 (2.67%) Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Military
7 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Aviation
8 1 (1.33%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.33%) Electronics
8 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Senior
2 13 (17.33%) Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Lead
4 9 (12.00%) Senior Manager
5 8 (10.67%) Trainee
6 7 (9.33%) IT Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) IT Support
6 7 (9.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Support Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Leader
7 5 (6.67%) Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Desktop Support
7 5 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Field Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Field Support Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Architect
8 4 (5.33%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) HTML
2 7 (9.33%) CSS
3 5 (6.67%) React
3 5 (6.67%) Spring
4 3 (4.00%) XML
5 2 (2.67%) JSON
5 2 (2.67%) REST
5 2 (2.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.33%) .NET
6 1 (1.33%) Blazor
6 1 (1.33%) J2EE
6 1 (1.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.33%) RESTful
6 1 (1.33%) SOAP
6 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.33%) Vue
6 1 (1.33%) Web Services
6 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.33%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
3 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.67%) CCTV
4 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.67%) NHS
4 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.00%) Windows
2 7 (9.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.33%) Linux
5 1 (1.33%) Unix
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.33%) ERP
1 13 (17.33%) Project Management
2 12 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
3 11 (14.67%) DevOps
4 10 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (12.00%) SDLC
6 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (9.33%) Agile
7 7 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (9.33%) Business Strategy
7 7 (9.33%) Customer Service
7 7 (9.33%) Quality Management
7 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.00%) AI
8 6 (8.00%) Asset Management
8 6 (8.00%) CRM
9 5 (6.67%) Statistics
9 5 (6.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) Python
2 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
2 11 (14.67%) SQL
3 7 (9.33%) Java
4 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.33%) C
6 3 (4.00%) C#
6 3 (4.00%) R
7 1 (1.33%) Bash
7 1 (1.33%) Bicep
7 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (25.33%) Degree
2 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 6 (8.00%) HNC
3 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.33%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 3 (4.00%) HND
7 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.33%) CCNA
8 1 (1.33%) CCNP
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.33%) CISM
8 1 (1.33%) CISSP
8 1 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.67%) PMO
2 5 (6.67%) SLA
3 4 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (5.33%) QA
4 3 (4.00%) NIST
5 2 (2.67%) GDPR
5 2 (2.67%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (14.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (2.67%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) VMware
2 10 (13.33%) Cisco
3 4 (5.33%) SAP
4 2 (2.67%) Dell
4 2 (2.67%) HP
4 2 (2.67%) Juniper
4 2 (2.67%) McAfee
4 2 (2.67%) NetApp
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.33%) Avaya
5 1 (1.33%) Databricks
5 1 (1.33%) Datto
5 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.33%) Genesys
5 1 (1.33%) IBM
5 1 (1.33%) Siemens
5 1 (1.33%) Veeam