Microsoft 365 Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 89 55
Rank change year-on-year -9 -34 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 48 286 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.70% 4.25% 4.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.14% 9.72% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 40 222 171
10th Percentile £29,275 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £27,125 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +13.64%
75th Percentile £50,528 £48,438 £48,750
90th Percentile £71,739 £57,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £41,500 £39,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +6.41% -6.02% -2.35%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Microsoft 365 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 525 2,942 1,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.63% 43.68% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 360 1,027 947
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £31,325
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,813 £68,307 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Scotland

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Scotland.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in Scotland

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in Scotland

Microsoft 365
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 365 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh -42 18 £50,211 +54.49% 13
Glasgow +91 15 £35,000 -25.53% 23
Aberdeen +17 5 £35,000 - 7
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
Perth and Kinross - 4 £33,000 - 1
North Lanarkshire +3 1 £28,500 -36.67% 2
Aberdeenshire +2 1 - - 4
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
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 14 (29.17%) SharePoint
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (8.33%) Confluence
4 2 (4.17%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.08%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) Entra ID
2 9 (18.75%) OneDrive
3 8 (16.67%) SaaS
4 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 4 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.17%) PaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub
8 1 (2.08%) IaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) DHCP
1 10 (20.83%) DNS
1 10 (20.83%) VPN
2 9 (18.75%) Firewall
3 4 (8.33%) HTTP
3 4 (8.33%) IPsec
3 4 (8.33%) SSL
3 4 (8.33%) VLAN
3 4 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (8.33%) Wireless
4 3 (6.25%) DKIM
4 3 (6.25%) DMARC
4 3 (6.25%) WAN
5 2 (4.17%) LAN
6 1 (2.08%) FTP
6 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Power BI
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Analyst
1 10 (20.83%) Senior
2 7 (14.58%) Developer
2 7 (14.58%) IT Technician
3 6 (12.50%) IT Support
3 6 (12.50%) Senior IT Technician
3 6 (12.50%) Senior Technician
4 5 (10.42%) Support Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) IT Support Technician
5 4 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Junior Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Junior Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Service Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Support Technician
5 4 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Systems Support
5 4 (8.33%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.17%) CSS
1 2 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.08%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) EDI
2 1 (2.08%) HTML
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.08%) React
2 1 (2.08%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Replication
2 3 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.08%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.08%) FMCG
4 1 (2.08%) Life Science
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (52.08%) Windows
2 14 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 11 (22.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 4 (8.33%) VMS
7 3 (6.25%) Unix
8 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.08%) Linux
8 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
8 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Customer Service
1 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (18.75%) DevOps
3 7 (14.58%) Migration
4 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.42%) Agile
5 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (8.33%) CRM
6 4 (8.33%) ERP
6 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.33%) Non-Blocking Code
6 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (6.25%) Incident Response
7 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (6.25%) IT Strategy
7 3 (6.25%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.33%) Go
2 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (4.17%) SQL
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) Python
5 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 14 (29.17%) Hyper-V
3 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.42%) Docker
5 1 (2.08%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (8.33%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) VMware
3 3 (6.25%) Apple
3 3 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (4.17%) Draytek
4 2 (4.17%) NETGEAR
4 2 (4.17%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.08%) Avaya
5 1 (2.08%) Meraki
5 1 (2.08%) SonicWALL