Microsoft Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, 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
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 478 564 877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.39% 14.87% 14.40%
As % of the Vendors category 27.71% 43.32% 46.48%
Number of salaries quoted 333 319 506
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,125
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,725 1,302 1,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.27% 34.32% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 637 744 1,024
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £28,575
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +1.85%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
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 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 -60 186 £55,000 +15.18% 36
Edinburgh +8 155 £45,000 +5.26% 30
Aberdeen +18 47 £26,500 -51.82% 12
West Lothian -1 14 £29,000 +45.00% 3
Fife -4 12 £33,000 +10.00% 3
Lanarkshire -6 8 £46,250 +49.19% 24
East Ayrshire - 7 £26,500 -
Stirling -3 6 £31,500 +8.62% 1
Dundee -4 6 £39,801 +6.14% 1
Aberdeenshire -7 5 £28,500 -43.00% 11
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Argyll and Bute - 4 £33,000 -
South Ayrshire -1 3 £58,033 - 5
Dumfries and Galloway - 3 £27,500 -
Perth and Kinross -5 2 - -
East Lothian - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire -1 1 £17,000 -
Renfrewshire -6 1 £35,000 -26.32% 1
North Ayrshire - 1 £46,350 -
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 58 (12.13%) SharePoint
2 44 (9.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.93%) Confluence
4 7 (1.46%) IIS
5 5 (1.05%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.63%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) JOnAS
7 1 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 73 (15.27%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.84%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.42%) InDesign
6 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) Revit
7 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.21%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.30%) Primavera
3 9 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.88%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (1.67%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.63%) iTrent
6 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 197 (41.21%) Azure
2 153 (32.01%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (14.85%) Power Platform
4 63 (13.18%) Entra ID
5 51 (10.67%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (9.21%) AWS
7 27 (5.65%) SaaS
8 18 (3.77%) GCP
9 17 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.51%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.88%) IaaS
13 9 (1.88%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.88%) PaaS
14 8 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 3 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
16 3 (0.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.97%) Firewall
2 15 (3.14%) WAN
3 13 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (2.51%) VPN
5 11 (2.30%) VoIP
6 10 (2.09%) DNS
6 10 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.09%) Wireless
7 8 (1.67%) Broadband
7 8 (1.67%) Internet
7 8 (1.67%) LAN
7 8 (1.67%) SAN
8 7 (1.46%) DHCP
8 7 (1.46%) Network Security
8 7 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (1.26%) VLAN
10 4 (0.84%) IMAP
11 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
13 1 (0.21%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 51 (10.67%) Power BI
3 23 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (4.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (3.35%) Tableau
6 14 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (1.88%) DB2
9 7 (1.46%) Big Data
10 5 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.05%) OLAP
11 3 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.63%) Power Query
12 2 (0.42%) DTS
12 2 (0.42%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.42%) MySQL
12 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.56%) Git
1 17 (3.56%) JIRA
2 9 (1.88%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.26%) Bitbucket
3 6 (1.26%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.26%) MSTest
4 3 (0.63%) JMeter
4 3 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.21%) Gradle
5 1 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.21%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.21%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.21%) Maven
5 1 (0.21%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 171 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 112 (23.43%) Finance
3 56 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (7.74%) Legal
6 36 (7.53%) Public Sector
7 31 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (5.44%) Manufacturing
8 26 (5.44%) Marketing
9 25 (5.23%) Law
10 21 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (3.56%) Games
11 17 (3.56%) Retail
11 17 (3.56%) Telecoms
12 15 (3.14%) Banking
13 10 (2.09%) Police
14 8 (1.67%) Local Government
15 6 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (15.27%) Senior
2 57 (11.92%) Lead
3 46 (9.62%) Analyst
4 42 (8.79%) Developer
5 35 (7.32%) Architect
6 28 (5.86%) Support Engineer
7 27 (5.65%) IT Support
8 25 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (4.39%) Administrator
10 20 (4.18%) Consultant
10 20 (4.18%) Project Manager
11 17 (3.56%) .NET Developer
11 17 (3.56%) IT Engineer
12 15 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (3.14%) IT Technician
12 15 (3.14%) Team Leader
13 14 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.93%) Support Technician
14 13 (2.72%) Technical Support
14 13 (2.72%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.37%) .NET
2 17 (3.56%) .NET Core
2 17 (3.56%) .NET Framework
2 17 (3.56%) AngularJS
3 13 (2.72%) ASP.NET
4 9 (1.88%) ASP.NET MVC
4 9 (1.88%) Entity Framework
5 8 (1.67%) Web Services
6 7 (1.46%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (1.26%) CSS
7 6 (1.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 5 (1.05%) HTML
8 5 (1.05%) Vue
9 4 (0.84%) React
10 3 (0.63%) REST
11 2 (0.42%) D3.js
11 2 (0.42%) Kafka
11 2 (0.42%) Middleware
11 2 (0.42%) Sass
11 2 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.11%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.23%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.93%) PKI
5 13 (2.72%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.46%) IoT
7 7 (1.46%) Life Science
7 7 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.26%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.84%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.84%) Social Media
11 3 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.78%) Windows
2 42 (8.79%) Windows Server
3 23 (4.81%) Linux
3 23 (4.81%) Windows 10
4 16 (3.35%) Unix
5 7 (1.46%) VMS
6 6 (1.26%) Android
6 6 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.42%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (16.53%) Project Management
2 78 (16.32%) Agile
3 76 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (12.97%) Customer Service
5 55 (11.51%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (10.04%) ERP
8 37 (7.74%) Decision-Making
8 37 (7.74%) Roadmaps
9 36 (7.53%) Analytics
9 36 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (7.11%) DevOps
11 31 (6.49%) Migration
12 30 (6.28%) Coaching
12 30 (6.28%) Software Engineering
13 29 (6.07%) ITIL
14 26 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (4.81%) Data Management
17 21 (4.39%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (16.53%) SQL
2 47 (9.83%) C#
3 23 (4.81%) JavaScript
4 21 (4.39%) T-SQL
5 19 (3.97%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.46%) Python
7 5 (1.05%) VBA
8 4 (0.84%) Java
8 4 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.63%) Scala
10 2 (0.42%) Bash
10 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.21%) C++
11 1 (0.21%) Groovy
11 1 (0.21%) VB
11 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.21%) VB6
Qualifications
1 80 (16.74%) Degree
2 34 (7.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 32 (6.69%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.51%) DBS Check
6 11 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 10 (2.09%) CISA
8 7 (1.46%) CISSP
8 7 (1.46%) HND
8 7 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 6 (1.26%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.26%) CCNA
9 6 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.26%) CISM
9 6 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.05%) HNC
10 5 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.05%) PMP
10 5 (1.05%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.86%) QA
2 19 (3.97%) SLA
3 10 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.88%) ITGC
4 9 (1.88%) PMO
5 8 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.26%) ISO 22301
6 6 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.05%) GDPR
8 4 (0.84%) NIST
9 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.42%) COSHH
10 2 (0.42%) DICOM
10 2 (0.42%) GLP
10 2 (0.42%) GMP
10 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.21%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (16.11%) Active Directory
2 31 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.67%) vSphere
6 6 (1.26%) KVM
7 5 (1.05%) RACF
8 3 (0.63%) Docker
9 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.05%) Terraform
3 3 (0.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.42%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (0.42%) SCCM
5 1 (0.21%) Nessus
5 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.21%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (8.16%) VMware
2 22 (4.60%) Oracle
3 21 (4.39%) Google
4 19 (3.97%) SAP
5 16 (3.35%) Cisco
6 12 (2.51%) Dell
6 12 (2.51%) Sage
7 9 (1.88%) Databricks
7 9 (1.88%) Epicor
7 9 (1.88%) IFS
7 9 (1.88%) JD Edwards
7 9 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.67%) Apple
8 8 (1.67%) NEC
9 7 (1.46%) Adobe
9 7 (1.46%) Meraki
10 6 (1.26%) ConnectWise
11 5 (1.05%) BiZZdesign
11 5 (1.05%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.05%) iManage