Microsoft Certification Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Certification
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 179 215
Rank change year-on-year -33 +36 -51
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 40 31 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 0.82% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.03% 2.46% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 32 22 29
10th Percentile £28,650 £24,325 £23,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,625 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% +11.25% -18.37%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,393 £53,250
90th Percentile - £75,000 £53,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 992 1,258 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.41% 33.16% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 467 426 550
10th Percentile £27,950 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,091 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,629
90th Percentile £81,550 £79,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Scotland

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Certification in Scotland

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in Scotland

Microsoft Certification
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 Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -65 17 £48,500 +14.12% 6
Edinburgh +26 9 £57,500 +35.29% 4
Aberdeen -6 4 £57,500 -23.33%
Lanarkshire - 3 - - 4
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,250 -
Dundee -4 1 £57,500 -39.47%
Stirling -5 1 £45,000 -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £27,500 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
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 3 (7.50%) IIS
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (70.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (17.50%) Entra ID
5 6 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.50%) WhatsApp
7 1 (2.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Broadband
2 3 (7.50%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.00%) DHCP
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) NetScaler
3 2 (5.00%) VoIP
4 1 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (2.50%) Firewall
4 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.50%) NGFW
4 1 (2.50%) SAN
4 1 (2.50%) Skype
4 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Power BI
1 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) General Ledger
4 3 (7.50%) Law
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Police
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) DBA
1 10 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 7 (17.50%) Software Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (5.00%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.00%) Device Driver
2 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) CCTV
3 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 10 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.00%) VMS
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (10.00%) Linux
6 3 (7.50%) CentOS
6 3 (7.50%) Debian
6 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.00%) Mac OS X
8 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (22.50%) Customer Service
4 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
5 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (15.00%) High Availability
5 6 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.00%) Migration
7 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (7.50%) Accounts Payable
8 3 (7.50%) Accounts Receivable
8 3 (7.50%) Budget Management
8 3 (7.50%) CRM
8 3 (7.50%) ERP
8 3 (7.50%) Incident Management
8 3 (7.50%) ITIL
8 3 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) C#
3 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) MCSE
2 6 (15.00%) MCSA
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
4 4 (10.00%) DBS Check
5 3 (7.50%) A+ Certification
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.50%) RHCT
5 3 (7.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.00%) MCDST
6 2 (5.00%) MCP
6 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (7.50%) KVM
5 3 (7.50%) vSphere
6 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) VMware
3 6 (15.00%) Citrix
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.00%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (5.00%) Veeam
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) ConnectWise
6 1 (2.50%) Draytek
6 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.50%) Juniper
6 1 (2.50%) Mitel
6 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) Sophos