Microsoft 365 Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 57 63
Rank change year-on-year -33 +6 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 365 269 218 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.99% 4.79% 4.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.20% 13.37% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 209 163 194
10th Percentile £23,000 £24,350 £22,150
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £36,000 £32,988
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +9.13% +1.50%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,125 £47,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £61,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% -2.35% -

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,924 1,631 2,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.34% 35.85% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 887 1,319
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,807
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,519 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Scotland

Microsoft 365
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Scotland.

Salary trend for Microsoft 365 in Scotland

Microsoft 365
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft 365 in Scotland

Microsoft 365
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 365 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 May 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 -66 113 £47,000 +4.44% 25
Edinburgh +44 98 £29,000 -10.15% 34
Aberdeen -8 10 £30,000 -16.67% 3
West Lothian - 9 £28,500 - 2
Dundee -9 6 £25,882 -17.83% 1
Fife -9 5 £33,000 +10.00%
Aberdeenshire +10 4 £28,500 +11.76% 1
North Lanarkshire -7 4 £45,000 +20.35%
East Ayrshire -4 3 £29,500 -
Lanarkshire - 3 £45,000 - 7
Scottish Borders +7 2 £23,000 -39.87%
Midlothian -1 2 - - 10
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
South Lanarkshire -5 1 £35,000 -12.50%
Stirling -6 1 £23,500 -38.65% 1
Dumfries and Galloway -10 1 £23,000 -21.37% 2
Argyll and Bute - 1 £33,000 -
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
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 50 (18.59%) SharePoint
2 39 (14.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) IIS
3 1 (0.37%) JOnAS
Applications
1 20 (7.43%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 150 (55.76%) Azure
2 55 (20.45%) Entra ID
3 34 (12.64%) AWS
4 27 (10.04%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.69%) SaaS
6 15 (5.58%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (5.58%) GCP
6 15 (5.58%) PowerApps
7 10 (3.72%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.97%) IaaS
9 7 (2.60%) PaaS
9 7 (2.60%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.23%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.04%) Firewall
2 22 (8.18%) DNS
3 15 (5.58%) Internet
3 15 (5.58%) VoIP
3 15 (5.58%) WAN
4 14 (5.20%) SAN
5 12 (4.46%) Wireless
6 11 (4.09%) DKIM
6 11 (4.09%) DMARC
7 9 (3.35%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.97%) LAN
8 8 (2.97%) NAS
8 8 (2.97%) VLAN
8 8 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.49%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.49%) VPN
11 3 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (1.12%) DHCP
11 3 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.32%) Power BI
2 7 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.49%) Big Data
4 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.74%) DTS
6 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (0.37%) JIRA
General
1 65 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.22%) Finance
3 34 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (9.67%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (9.29%) Law
6 17 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.32%) Legal
7 10 (3.72%) Marketing
7 10 (3.72%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.60%) Games
9 7 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.60%) Retail
10 4 (1.49%) Banking
10 4 (1.49%) Billing
11 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 57 (21.19%) Analyst
2 43 (15.99%) IT Support
3 26 (9.67%) Architect
3 26 (9.67%) Support Engineer
4 24 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (8.92%) IT Manager
5 22 (8.18%) Senior
5 22 (8.18%) Support Analyst
6 19 (7.06%) IT Analyst
6 19 (7.06%) IT Engineer
7 16 (5.95%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (5.58%) IT Support Engineer
8 15 (5.58%) Lead
9 13 (4.83%) Security Analyst
9 13 (4.83%) Service Analyst
10 11 (4.09%) 1st Line Support
10 11 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support
10 11 (4.09%) Service Desk Analyst
11 10 (3.72%) 2nd Line Support
11 10 (3.72%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.97%) SAML
2 6 (2.23%) OAuth
3 2 (0.74%) LDAP
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) HTML
4 1 (0.37%) SPFx
4 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.15%) Public Cloud
2 19 (7.06%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.20%) PKI
4 11 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.35%) Cyberattack
6 7 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.49%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.12%) iPhone
10 3 (1.12%) Life Science
10 3 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.74%) Device Driver
11 2 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 117 (43.49%) Windows
2 54 (20.07%) Windows Server
3 25 (9.29%) Windows 10
4 19 (7.06%) Linux
5 10 (3.72%) Android
6 7 (2.60%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.60%) Unix
6 7 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.49%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.12%) CentOS
9 3 (1.12%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (17.47%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (14.13%) Customer Service
4 32 (11.90%) ITIL
5 26 (9.67%) Information Security
6 25 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (9.29%) Service Delivery
7 23 (8.55%) Migration
8 22 (8.18%) Project Management
9 17 (6.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (6.32%) Mobile Device Management
9 17 (6.32%) Presales
10 16 (5.95%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (5.58%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 14 (5.20%) Application Virtualisation
12 14 (5.20%) Configuration Management
12 14 (5.20%) Decision-Making
12 14 (5.20%) ITSM
12 14 (5.20%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.32%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.09%) SQL
3 4 (1.49%) Bash
4 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (7.06%) Degree
2 15 (5.58%) CISSP
3 13 (4.83%) CISM
4 11 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.23%) CCNA
6 6 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.86%) MCSE
8 4 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.49%) SSCP
9 3 (1.12%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.12%) HND
9 3 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.12%) MCDST
10 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.74%) PMP
10 2 (0.74%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.58%) NIST
3 9 (3.35%) GDPR
4 7 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.60%) SLA
5 5 (1.86%) ISO 22301
5 5 (1.86%) QA
6 4 (1.49%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 105 (39.03%) Active Directory
2 35 (13.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.69%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.49%) vSphere
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.74%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (14.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.97%) CASB
3 8 (2.97%) Terraform
4 7 (2.60%) ZABBIX
5 6 (2.23%) SCCM
6 5 (1.86%) Ansible
7 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 178 (66.17%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.61%) VMware
3 26 (9.67%) Cisco
4 16 (5.95%) Google
5 11 (4.09%) Sophos
6 10 (3.72%) Apple
7 8 (2.97%) Meraki
7 8 (2.97%) Mitel
8 7 (2.60%) Citrix
8 7 (2.60%) Dell
8 7 (2.60%) EMC
9 6 (2.23%) iManage
10 5 (1.86%) ConnectWise
10 5 (1.86%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.12%) Polycom
11 3 (1.12%) Veeam
11 3 (1.12%) Xero
12 2 (0.74%) Nimble Storage
13 1 (0.37%) Barracuda Networks
13 1 (0.37%) Nimsoft