Microsoft Office Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Office
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 114 116
Rank change year-on-year +66 +2 -56
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Office 88 35 169
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.74% 1.58% 2.60%
As % of the Applications category 40.00% 22.29% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15 24 72
10th Percentile - £25,020 £22,000
25th Percentile £21,250 £25,500 £23,727
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £28,750 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -9.34%
75th Percentile £37,436 £51,645 £55,563
90th Percentile £74,000 £59,244 £59,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -14.47%

All Software Application Skills
Scotland

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 220 157 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.86% 7.11% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 53 51 156
10th Percentile £21,250 £25,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,445 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +23.04% +1.36%
75th Percentile £54,249 £60,265 £59,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £68,114
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +15.38% -13.33%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Office relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in Scotland

Microsoft Office
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microsoft Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Office in Scotland

Microsoft Office
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 Office within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
North Lanarkshire +7 16 - -
Glasgow +25 12 £31,000 -53.21% 9
Renfrewshire +5 12 - - 1
Edinburgh +19 8 £22,500 -10.07% 3
South Lanarkshire - 8 - - 1
Stirling - 5 - - 1
Lanarkshire +13 4 - - 6
West Dunbartonshire - 4 - -
North Ayrshire - 4 - -
East Ayrshire - 4 - -
Ayrshire - 4 - -
Clackmannanshire - 3 - -
West Lothian -8 2 £27,500 +5.77% 1
Aberdeen -15 1 £41,581 +43.38%
Microsoft Office
UK

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.68%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (5.68%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (5.68%) Exchange Server 2013
3 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (36.36%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 41 (46.59%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (43.18%) Entra ID
3 8 (9.09%) Azure
4 5 (5.68%) SaaS
5 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.27%) AWS
6 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.27%) Serverless
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.14%) Canva
7 1 (1.14%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.14%) MailChimp
7 1 (1.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) DHCP
1 7 (7.95%) DNS
1 7 (7.95%) Firewall
2 5 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.27%) Broadband
3 2 (2.27%) Mobile Broadband
3 2 (2.27%) Softphone
3 2 (2.27%) VLAN
3 2 (2.27%) VPN
4 1 (1.14%) Internet
4 1 (1.14%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) Power BI
2 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (85.23%) Social Skills
2 32 (36.36%) Back Office
3 12 (13.64%) Finance
4 10 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Retail
6 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) Support Engineer
2 32 (36.36%) Desktop Engineer
2 32 (36.36%) Desktop Support
2 32 (36.36%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 32 (36.36%) Project Manager
2 32 (36.36%) Senior
2 32 (36.36%) Senior Manager
2 32 (36.36%) Senior Project Manager
2 32 (36.36%) Site Engineer
3 7 (7.95%) Analyst
3 7 (7.95%) IT Support
4 5 (5.68%) Administrator
4 5 (5.68%) IT Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) Junior
4 5 (5.68%) Junior IT Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) Junior IT Support
4 5 (5.68%) Junior Support Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) Remote Support Engineer
5 3 (3.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) Web Services
2 1 (1.14%) PySpark
2 1 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.27%) iPhone
2 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.27%) Social Media
3 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (46.59%) Windows
2 33 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 7 (7.95%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.95%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (76.14%) Customer Experience
2 38 (43.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 38 (43.18%) Customer Service
3 36 (40.91%) Agile
4 35 (39.77%) Project Management
5 34 (38.64%) Coaching
6 33 (37.50%) ITIL
6 33 (37.50%) PRINCE2
7 32 (36.36%) Analytics
7 32 (36.36%) Budget Management
7 32 (36.36%) Conflict Management
7 32 (36.36%) Customer Acquisition
7 32 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (36.36%) Impact Analysis
7 32 (36.36%) Operations Management
7 32 (36.36%) Patch Management
7 32 (36.36%) Programme Governance
7 32 (36.36%) Project Delivery
7 32 (36.36%) Software Deployment
7 32 (36.36%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.27%) Python
3 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (79.55%) Degree
2 32 (36.36%) CTC Cleared
2 32 (36.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 32 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 32 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) ACCA
3 1 (1.14%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (36.36%) SLA
2 3 (3.41%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) BitLocker
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.14%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 1 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (36.36%) Cisco
3 5 (5.68%) Dell
3 5 (5.68%) HP
4 4 (4.55%) Google
4 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.41%) Xero
6 2 (2.27%) Bomgar
6 2 (2.27%) iManage
6 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Databricks
7 1 (1.14%) Proofpoint