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 12 May 2025, 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 43 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -33 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 177 576 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.91% 8.59% 15.27%
As % of the Vendors category 20.32% 25.84% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 131 417 328
10th Percentile £31,250 £23,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,313 £27,750 £32,041
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,250 £60,000 £62,125
90th Percentile £98,474 £70,500 £77,564
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 871 2,229 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.09% 33.24% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 436 764 761
10th Percentile £23,504 £24,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,929 £33,250 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £71,652
90th Percentile £83,738 £77,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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 -13 72 £57,500 +27.78% 90
Glasgow +56 31 £50,000 - 108
Renfrewshire -3 18 £52,000 - 49
Inverclyde - 12 £52,000 -
Aberdeen +2 11 £50,000 +11.11% 37
West Lothian +3 9 £26,000 -23.53% 2
Perth and Kinross +3 6 £33,000 -44.07% 3
Highlands +8 4 £40,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire -2 2 £50,000 +98.02% 11
Lanarkshire -13 2 £48,343 +10.50% 21
Fife -21 2 - - 5
South Lanarkshire - 2 £50,000 - 1
Dumfries and Galloway +4 1 £31,000 -23.93% 2
North Lanarkshire -5 1 £51,000 +13.33% 3
East Ayrshire -33 1 £80,000 +201.89% 3
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 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (7.91%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.91%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.82%) CMS
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.56%) Solana
Applications
1 49 (27.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 9 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 62 (35.03%) Azure
2 32 (18.08%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (9.04%) GCP
4 15 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.65%) AWS
6 9 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (4.52%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.95%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.95%) GitHub
8 7 (3.95%) OneDrive
9 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.82%) SaaS
11 4 (2.26%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.26%) Smartsheet
12 3 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.69%) Azure Stack
13 2 (1.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.34%) VPN
2 12 (6.78%) DHCP
2 12 (6.78%) DNS
2 12 (6.78%) Firewall
3 9 (5.08%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.52%) WAN
5 7 (3.95%) LAN
6 6 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.82%) DKIM
7 5 (2.82%) DMARC
8 4 (2.26%) IPsec
8 4 (2.26%) SSL
8 4 (2.26%) VLAN
8 4 (2.26%) Wireless
9 1 (0.56%) BGP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.56%) Intranet
9 1 (0.56%) OSPF
9 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.47%) Tableau
2 13 (7.34%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.21%) BigQuery
4 10 (5.65%) Power BI
5 7 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.13%) MS Access
8 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.56%) Metadata
9 1 (0.56%) MySQL
9 1 (0.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 35 (19.77%) JIRA
2 5 (2.82%) Git
2 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.69%) MSBuild
3 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.69%) webpack
4 2 (1.13%) Checkstyle
4 2 (1.13%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.47%) Finance
3 21 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.86%) Banking
4 9 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.08%) Law
5 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.82%) Legal
7 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.82%) Retail
8 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.13%) Electronics
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (18.64%) Principal Engineer
2 25 (14.12%) Lead
3 23 (12.99%) Architect
4 18 (10.17%) Analyst
5 15 (8.47%) Administrator
6 14 (7.91%) Developer
6 14 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (7.34%) Senior
8 11 (6.21%) Lead Architect
8 11 (6.21%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.08%) Support Analyst
10 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) IT Technician
10 8 (4.52%) Team Leader
11 6 (3.39%) Help Desk Administrator
11 6 (3.39%) Senior IT Technician
11 6 (3.39%) Senior Technician
12 5 (2.82%) Applications Support Analyst
12 5 (2.82%) Help Desk Team Lead
12 5 (2.82%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.47%) CSS
2 13 (7.34%) React
3 11 (6.21%) Ajax
3 11 (6.21%) jQuery
3 11 (6.21%) OAuth
3 11 (6.21%) OpenID
3 11 (6.21%) SAML
4 8 (4.52%) .NET
5 4 (2.26%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.26%) HTML
5 4 (2.26%) PySpark
5 4 (2.26%) Web Services
6 3 (1.69%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.69%) Next.js
6 3 (1.69%) REST
6 3 (1.69%) Sass
6 3 (1.69%) Vue
7 2 (1.13%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.13%) EJB
7 2 (1.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.95%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.82%) Life Science
2 5 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.26%) Genomics
3 4 (2.26%) Hackathon
3 4 (2.26%) Learning Management System
3 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.26%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.26%) Replication
4 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.69%) SCADA
5 2 (1.13%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.13%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.13%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.21%) Windows
2 19 (10.73%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (3.95%) Linux
4 7 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.39%) Unix
5 6 (3.39%) VMS
5 6 (3.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.33%) Analytics
2 46 (25.99%) Data Analytics
3 42 (23.73%) Data Management
4 40 (22.60%) Data Modelling
5 37 (20.90%) Data Governance
6 33 (18.64%) Agile
7 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (13.56%) Customer Service
8 24 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (10.73%) Project Management
10 17 (9.60%) DevOps
11 14 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.91%) Web Development
12 13 (7.34%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.34%) Software Engineering
13 12 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (6.78%) Content Management
14 11 (6.21%) Domain-Driven Design
14 11 (6.21%) MVC
14 11 (6.21%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 25 (14.12%) JavaScript
2 18 (10.17%) PowerShell
3 17 (9.60%) C#
4 16 (9.04%) SQL
5 14 (7.91%) Python
6 13 (7.34%) Java
7 5 (2.82%) VBA
8 4 (2.26%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) Bicep
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.56%) Degree
2 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (3.95%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.82%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.26%) PhD
4 4 (2.26%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.26%) PMP
5 2 (1.13%) ACCA
5 2 (1.13%) CCA
5 2 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (20.34%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.26%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.26%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (10.73%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.04%) Hyper-V
3 9 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.13%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.13%) Docker
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (6.21%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (3.95%) Terraform
4 5 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.26%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (9.04%) VMware
2 10 (5.65%) Google
3 7 (3.95%) Apple
4 6 (3.39%) Cisco
5 4 (2.26%) Blue Prism
5 4 (2.26%) IBM
5 4 (2.26%) Oracle
5 4 (2.26%) UiPath
6 3 (1.69%) Databricks
6 3 (1.69%) Optimizely
6 3 (1.69%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.13%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.13%) Mentor Graphics
7 2 (1.13%) Rockwell
7 2 (1.13%) Sage
7 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.13%) SAP
7 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.13%) Siemens
7 2 (1.13%) Wonderware