Microsoft Job Trends in the Scottish Borders

Microsoft
Scotland > Scottish Borders

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Scottish Borders 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 5 June 2026, 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
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Scottish Borders 100.00% - -
As % of the Vendors category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -3.23%

All Vendors
Scottish Borders

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 the Scottish Borders.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Scottish Borders 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% -8.90%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the Scottish Borders

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in the Scottish Borders

Microsoft
Salary Trend in the Scottish Borders

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Scottish Borders citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Scottish Borders citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Job Locations in the Scottish Borders

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Scottish Borders region over the 6 months to 5 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
Galashiels - 1 - -
Microsoft
Scotland

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Scottish Borders 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle