Microsoft 365 Jobs in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 57 53
Rank change year-on-year -33 -4 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 280 223 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.16% 4.81% 5.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 13.60% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 218 165 211
10th Percentile £23,963 £25,000 £22,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £25,289
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,333 £45,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
UK median annual salary £39,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.02% -2.35% -

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,940 1,640 2,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.73% 35.41% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 919 1,299
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,625 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 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 -74 116 £47,000 +4.44% 24
Edinburgh +33 101 £30,000 -6.25% 37
Aberdeen -4 14 £35,000 -2.78% 2
West Lothian - 9 £28,500 - 2
Dundee -10 6 £25,882 -30.98% 1
Fife -10 5 £33,000 +10.00%
Aberdeenshire +12 4 £28,500 +11.76% 1
North Lanarkshire -4 4 £45,000 -
East Ayrshire -4 3 £29,500 - 1
Lanarkshire - 3 £45,000 - 5
Scottish Borders +7 2 £23,000 -39.87%
Midlothian -1 2 - - 10
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
Renfrewshire -3 1 - -
Stirling -4 1 £23,500 -38.65%
South Lanarkshire -5 1 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Dumfries and Galloway -10 1 £23,000 -21.37% 1
Argyll and Bute - 1 £33,000 -
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 51 (18.21%) SharePoint
2 44 (15.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.07%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) JOnAS
Applications
1 25 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 158 (56.43%) Azure
2 60 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 34 (12.14%) AWS
4 30 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 21 (7.50%) SaaS
6 15 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (5.36%) GCP
6 15 (5.36%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.93%) IaaS
8 10 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (3.57%) PaaS
9 9 (3.21%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.50%) Power Automate
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.14%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.43%) WhatsApp
14 3 (1.07%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.93%) Firewall
2 24 (8.57%) DNS
3 16 (5.71%) Internet
3 16 (5.71%) VoIP
4 15 (5.36%) WAN
5 14 (5.00%) SAN
6 12 (4.29%) Wireless
7 11 (3.93%) DKIM
7 11 (3.93%) DMARC
8 9 (3.21%) TCP/IP
9 8 (2.86%) LAN
9 8 (2.86%) NAS
9 8 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
9 8 (2.86%) VLAN
9 8 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.79%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.43%) VPN
12 3 (1.07%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (1.07%) DHCP
12 3 (1.07%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.14%) Power BI
2 8 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.43%) Big Data
4 3 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.71%) DTS
6 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (1.07%) JIRA
General
1 69 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.57%) Finance
3 33 (11.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (9.29%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (8.93%) Law
6 19 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.43%) Legal
8 10 (3.57%) Marketing
8 10 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.50%) Retail
11 6 (2.14%) Banking
11 6 (2.14%) Games
12 4 (1.43%) Billing
13 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Local Government
13 2 (0.71%) Police
14 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 63 (22.50%) Analyst
2 46 (16.43%) IT Support
3 28 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 26 (9.29%) Architect
4 26 (9.29%) IT Manager
4 26 (9.29%) Support Analyst
5 24 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (7.86%) IT Analyst
7 21 (7.50%) Senior
8 19 (6.79%) IT Engineer
9 16 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (5.36%) Lead
10 15 (5.36%) Service Analyst
11 13 (4.64%) 3rd Line Support
11 13 (4.64%) Security Analyst
12 12 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (4.29%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (3.93%) 1st Line Support
13 11 (3.93%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.86%) SAML
2 6 (2.14%) OAuth
3 2 (0.71%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) HTML
4 1 (0.36%) SPFx
4 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.71%) Public Cloud
2 20 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.00%) PKI
4 11 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.21%) Cyberattack
6 7 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.43%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.07%) iPhone
9 3 (1.07%) Life Science
9 3 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.71%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.71%) Device Driver
10 2 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 125 (44.64%) Windows
2 60 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 28 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 19 (6.79%) Linux
5 10 (3.57%) Android
6 7 (2.50%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.50%) Unix
6 7 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.79%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.43%) CentOS
10 3 (1.07%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.36%) VMS
12 1 (0.36%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
3 41 (14.64%) Customer Service
4 33 (11.79%) ITIL
5 29 (10.36%) Information Security
6 26 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (8.93%) Service Delivery
8 22 (7.86%) Migration
8 22 (7.86%) Project Management
9 19 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (6.43%) Mobile Device Management
11 17 (6.07%) Change Management
11 17 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (6.07%) ITSM
11 17 (6.07%) Presales
12 16 (5.71%) Actionable Insight
12 16 (5.71%) Decision-Making
12 16 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (5.71%) Service Management
13 15 (5.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.21%) PowerShell
2 12 (4.29%) SQL
3 5 (1.79%) Bash
4 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (7.86%) Degree
2 16 (5.71%) CISSP
3 14 (5.00%) CISM
4 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.14%) MCSE
7 5 (1.79%) CCNA
7 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.43%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.43%) MCDST
9 3 (1.07%) HND
9 3 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.07%) SSCP
10 2 (0.71%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.71%) PMP
10 2 (0.71%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.43%) NIST
3 11 (3.93%) GDPR
4 7 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.50%) SLA
5 5 (1.79%) QA
6 4 (1.43%) ISO 22301
6 4 (1.43%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 115 (41.07%) Active Directory
2 35 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.43%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.43%) vSphere
7 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.71%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.36%) Docker
8 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 42 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.21%) Terraform
4 8 (2.86%) CASB
5 7 (2.50%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.14%) Ansible
6 6 (2.14%) SCCM
7 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.36%) Nessus
Vendors
1 188 (67.14%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.00%) VMware
3 24 (8.57%) Cisco
4 16 (5.71%) Google
5 11 (3.93%) Apple
5 11 (3.93%) Sophos
6 8 (2.86%) Citrix
6 8 (2.86%) Meraki
6 8 (2.86%) Mitel
6 8 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.50%) Dell
7 7 (2.50%) EMC
8 6 (2.14%) ConnectWise
8 6 (2.14%) iManage
9 3 (1.07%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.07%) Polycom
9 3 (1.07%) Veeam
9 3 (1.07%) Xero
10 2 (0.71%) Adobe
10 2 (0.71%) Nimble Storage