Microsoft Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 12 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 397 829 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.91% 16.42% 17.84%
As % of the Vendors category 33.62% 44.74% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 263 427 500
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,600 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,060
90th Percentile £71,000 £76,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Scotland

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,181 1,853 1,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.37% 36.71% 37.49%
Number of salaries quoted 821 956 1,061
10th Percentile - £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £39,208 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,248 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £75,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 -1 165 £50,000 -4.76% 70
Edinburgh -7 148 £50,000 - 54
Aberdeen -6 16 £55,000 +46.67% 16
West Lothian +13 14 £35,000 -2.78% 2
Dundee +4 14 £47,557 +34.33% 3
Roxburghshire - 10 £37,500 -
Dumfries and Galloway -1 5 £27,645 -7.85% 1
Renfrewshire +7 4 £47,500 +63.25% 7
Fife +12 2 £53,500 +18.89% 6
Midlothian +6 2 £26,500 -33.75% 16
Perthshire +2 2 - - 1
Highlands - 2 - - 4
Ayrshire - 2 £27,500 - 9
Lanarkshire +22 1 £23,000 -30.83% 31
Perth and Kinross +4 1 £42,500 -
Stirling -2 1 £52,500 +44.88% 3
Dunbartonshire - 1 £37,048 - 2
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 24 (6.05%) IIS
2 21 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.53%) Confluence
3 14 (3.53%) MS Exchange
4 4 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.25%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 72 (18.14%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (15.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.53%) PlanetPress Connect
3 4 (1.01%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 206 (51.89%) Azure
2 108 (27.20%) Power Platform
3 105 (26.45%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (20.15%) Dynamics 365
5 57 (14.36%) SaaS
6 56 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (12.59%) PaaS
8 45 (11.34%) IaaS
9 36 (9.07%) AWS
9 36 (9.07%) Azure Functions
9 36 (9.07%) Serverless
10 22 (5.54%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.52%) OneDrive
14 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (1.76%) Yammer
15 6 (1.51%) GCP
16 4 (1.01%) GitHub
16 4 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.82%) Firewall
2 31 (7.81%) DNS
3 28 (7.05%) DHCP
4 27 (6.80%) WAN
5 18 (4.53%) Wireless
6 14 (3.53%) LAN
6 14 (3.53%) VPN
7 8 (2.02%) Network Security
8 6 (1.51%) Internet
8 6 (1.51%) Intranet
9 4 (1.01%) SNMP
9 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.01%) VoIP
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.76%) DMZ
11 2 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.50%) Skype
11 2 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (21.91%) SQL Server
2 37 (9.32%) Power BI
3 30 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (5.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.27%) SQLite
8 4 (1.01%) DB2
8 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.76%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 3 (0.76%) MySQL
10 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.50%) Tableau
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (8.82%) JIRA
2 14 (3.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.51%) Git
4 3 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.76%) Maven
4 3 (0.76%) NUnit
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.50%) MSI
5 2 (0.50%) Postman
5 2 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.25%) Moq
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 146 (36.78%) Finance
2 76 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.80%) Banking
5 26 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.04%) Retail
7 19 (4.79%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.03%) Marketing
9 15 (3.78%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.78%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.02%) Law
11 10 (2.52%) Legal
12 7 (1.76%) Back Office
13 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.50%) Aviation
14 2 (0.50%) Military
15 1 (0.25%) Games
15 1 (0.25%) Publishing
15 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (20.40%) Architect
2 76 (19.14%) Analyst
3 66 (16.62%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 49 (12.34%) Senior
5 41 (10.33%) Support Analyst
6 36 (9.07%) CRM Architect
6 36 (9.07%) Dynamics CRM Architect
7 32 (8.06%) Developer
7 32 (8.06%) IT Support
8 29 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (7.30%) Support Engineer
9 26 (6.55%) Applications Support
10 24 (6.05%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
11 23 (5.79%) Applications Support Analyst
12 18 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (4.53%) IT Engineer
13 17 (4.28%) Service Analyst
13 17 (4.28%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.53%) IT Analyst
14 14 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.33%) .NET
2 23 (5.79%) HTML
3 21 (5.29%) CSS
4 13 (3.27%) Entity Framework
5 11 (2.77%) ASP.NET
6 9 (2.27%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.27%) REST
7 8 (2.02%) .NET Framework
8 7 (1.76%) React
8 7 (1.76%) WebRTC
9 6 (1.51%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.26%) Blazor
11 4 (1.01%) JSON
12 3 (0.76%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (0.76%) CSS3
12 3 (0.76%) Ionic Framework
12 3 (0.76%) jQuery
12 3 (0.76%) Middleware
12 3 (0.76%) Node.js
12 3 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.28%) Clustering
2 14 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.02%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.27%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.76%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.26%) CCTV
9 5 (1.26%) Fibre Optics
9 5 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.01%) FMCG
10 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.01%) PKI
11 3 (0.76%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.76%) IoT
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 113 (28.46%) Windows
2 40 (10.08%) Windows Server
3 17 (4.28%) Linux
4 16 (4.03%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (2.77%) Mac OS
8 9 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.02%) Unix
10 7 (1.76%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (1.51%) Apple iOS
12 5 (1.26%) Android
13 3 (0.76%) CentOS
13 3 (0.76%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.76%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (32.24%) Agile
2 85 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (19.90%) Actionable Insight
4 70 (17.63%) DevOps
5 60 (15.11%) CRM
6 51 (12.85%) ITIL
7 47 (11.84%) Mentoring
8 46 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (11.08%) Roadmaps
10 42 (10.58%) Customer Service
11 39 (9.82%) Presales
12 37 (9.32%) Project Planning
12 37 (9.32%) Strategic Roadmap
13 36 (9.07%) Service Management
13 36 (9.07%) Work Breakdown Structure
14 34 (8.56%) Requirements Gathering
15 33 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
16 31 (7.81%) Customer Engagement
17 30 (7.56%) Analytics
17 30 (7.56%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (19.40%) SQL
2 43 (10.83%) C#
3 37 (9.32%) PowerShell
4 26 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.79%) Java
6 10 (2.52%) C++
7 7 (1.76%) Bash
8 6 (1.51%) Python
8 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.50%) Bicep
11 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.50%) Perl
11 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.50%) VBScript
12 1 (0.25%) Ruby
12 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (14.11%) Degree
2 27 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.79%) Azure Certification
3 19 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (2.77%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.76%) A+ Certification
5 7 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.26%) CISSP
6 5 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.26%) MCSE
7 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.01%) CCNA
7 4 (1.01%) CISA
7 4 (1.01%) CISM
7 4 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.76%) MCDST
8 3 (0.76%) MCITP
9 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (2.02%) SLA
4 7 (1.76%) NIST
5 6 (1.51%) GDPR
5 6 (1.51%) QA
6 5 (1.26%) PMO
7 4 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.01%) ITGC
8 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.25%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) IASME
10 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (21.41%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.53%) VMware NSX
4 10 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.51%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.26%) Docker
8 3 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.25%) Firmware
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.25%) vSphere
10 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.02%) SCCM
3 9 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.76%) Terraform
5 6 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.76%) Ansible
6 3 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (0.76%) WMI
7 2 (0.50%) CASB
7 2 (0.50%) MIIS
8 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.25%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (9.57%) VMware
2 24 (6.05%) Oracle
3 19 (4.79%) Cisco
4 18 (4.53%) SAP
5 14 (3.53%) FNZ
6 13 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.52%) Apple
7 10 (2.52%) Teradata
8 8 (2.02%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.51%) Meraki
10 5 (1.26%) Citrix
10 5 (1.26%) Dell
10 5 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.01%) Sage
12 3 (0.76%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.76%) IFS
12 3 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.76%) Workday
12 3 (0.76%) Xamarin
13 2 (0.50%) Palo Alto