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 23 May 2024 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -32 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 565 719 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.37% 15.81% 14.34%
As % of the Vendors category 25.57% 43.21% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 403 328 502
10th Percentile £23,500 £28,350 £25,625
25th Percentile £27,250 £32,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,709 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +6.02% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £76,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 2,210 1,664 2,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.76% 36.58% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 749 763 950
10th Percentile £24,861 £30,100 £27,215
25th Percentile £33,250 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,833 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 23 May 2024.

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 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 -73 238 £50,000 - 67
Edinburgh +2 157 £45,000 -10.00% 99
Aberdeen +21 58 £45,000 +4.65% 12
Fife -3 18 £37,800 +26.00% 6
West Lothian -5 14 £31,500 -4.55% 1
Aberdeenshire +9 11 £25,250 -49.50% 6
Dundee -7 8 £40,144 +27.44% 1
Stirling 0 7 £45,000 +55.17% 4
East Ayrshire -1 7 £26,500 - 3
Dumfries and Galloway - 6 £40,750 - 4
Lanarkshire -4 5 £43,750 +4.79% 36
North Lanarkshire -5 5 £45,000 +20.35% 4
Argyll and Bute - 4 £33,000 -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Perthshire +7 2 £52,900 - 1
West Dunbartonshire +1 2 £17,000 -
Midlothian -4 2 - - 24
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
South Ayrshire -1 1 £57,500 +134.69% 7
Perth and Kinross -2 1 £59,000 - 3
Highlands -7 1 - - 5
North Ayrshire - 1 £46,350 -
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 68 (12.04%) SharePoint
2 53 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.01%) IIS
4 15 (2.65%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) JOnAS
6 1 (0.18%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 85 (15.04%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.71%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.53%) InDesign
8 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.18%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.95%) Primavera
2 11 (1.95%) Unit4 Business World
3 9 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.42%) NEC Housing
4 8 (1.42%) PlanetPress Connect
5 2 (0.35%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 246 (43.54%) Azure
2 178 (31.50%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (16.46%) Power Platform
4 62 (10.97%) Entra ID
5 53 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
6 51 (9.03%) AWS
7 33 (5.84%) SaaS
8 23 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (3.54%) PowerApps
10 17 (3.01%) GCP
11 13 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.12%) IaaS
12 12 (2.12%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.95%) PaaS
14 10 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.24%) OneDrive
17 6 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
17 6 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.78%) WAN
2 20 (3.54%) Firewall
3 16 (2.83%) DNS
4 14 (2.48%) Internet
4 14 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (2.30%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.95%) Broadband
6 11 (1.95%) VoIP
6 11 (1.95%) Wireless
7 10 (1.77%) VPN
8 8 (1.42%) VLAN
9 7 (1.24%) DHCP
9 7 (1.24%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (1.24%) SAN
10 6 (1.06%) LAN
10 6 (1.06%) Network Security
11 4 (0.71%) IMAP
11 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.46%) SQL Server
2 72 (12.74%) Power BI
3 31 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (2.48%) Tableau
8 12 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.12%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (1.95%) DB2
10 8 (1.42%) Big Data
11 7 (1.24%) Redis
12 5 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.88%) OLAP
13 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.53%) MySQL
14 2 (0.35%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (4.60%) JIRA
2 24 (4.25%) Git
3 10 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (1.24%) Moq
6 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.06%) MSTest
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.18%) JMeter
7 1 (0.18%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.18%) Maven
7 1 (0.18%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 211 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 140 (24.78%) Finance
3 62 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 39 (6.90%) Legal
7 34 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (5.31%) Manufacturing
9 29 (5.13%) Law
10 28 (4.96%) Marketing
11 26 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (3.89%) Banking
13 20 (3.54%) Telecoms
14 19 (3.36%) Retail
15 17 (3.01%) Games
16 10 (1.77%) Local Government
16 10 (1.77%) Police
17 9 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.24%) Private Banking
19 5 (0.88%) Billing
Job Titles
1 70 (12.39%) Analyst
2 63 (11.15%) Senior
3 59 (10.44%) Developer
4 42 (7.43%) Lead
5 37 (6.55%) Architect
6 32 (5.66%) IT Support
7 31 (5.49%) Administrator
7 31 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (5.49%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.42%) Support Analyst
9 23 (4.07%) Project Manager
10 21 (3.72%) .NET Developer
10 21 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
11 19 (3.36%) IT Engineer
12 18 (3.19%) DBA
13 17 (3.01%) Cloud Architect
14 16 (2.83%) IT Manager
14 16 (2.83%) SQL DBA
14 16 (2.83%) Support Technician
15 15 (2.65%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.03%) .NET
2 38 (6.73%) AngularJS
3 32 (5.66%) ASP.NET
4 31 (5.49%) .NET Framework
5 27 (4.78%) ASP.NET MVC
5 27 (4.78%) Entity Framework
6 25 (4.42%) .NET Core
7 18 (3.19%) ASP.NET Web API
8 15 (2.65%) CSS
8 15 (2.65%) HTML
9 13 (2.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 9 (1.59%) HTML5
10 9 (1.59%) REST
11 8 (1.42%) React
12 7 (1.24%) Ajax
12 7 (1.24%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 7 (1.24%) CSS3
12 7 (1.24%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
12 7 (1.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.84%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.31%) Public Cloud
3 29 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.01%) Driving Licence
6 14 (2.48%) Clustering
6 14 (2.48%) PKI
7 11 (1.95%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.59%) Life Science
10 8 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.42%) IoT
11 7 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.06%) BBC
12 6 (1.06%) Social Media
12 6 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (0.88%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 106 (18.76%) Windows
2 54 (9.56%) Windows Server
3 30 (5.31%) Linux
4 27 (4.78%) Windows 10
5 18 (3.19%) Unix
6 12 (2.12%) VMS
7 7 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.88%) Android
8 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.35%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (18.41%) Agile
2 101 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (16.11%) Project Management
4 78 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
5 65 (11.50%) Customer Service
6 63 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
7 60 (10.62%) ERP
8 46 (8.14%) ITIL
9 45 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (7.43%) Migration
10 42 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (7.08%) Decision-Making
12 39 (6.90%) Analytics
12 39 (6.90%) DevOps
12 39 (6.90%) Roadmaps
13 34 (6.02%) Coaching
14 32 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 30 (5.31%) Asset Management
15 30 (5.31%) Software Engineering
16 27 (4.78%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 103 (18.23%) SQL
2 54 (9.56%) C#
3 44 (7.79%) JavaScript
4 33 (5.84%) T-SQL
5 25 (4.42%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.36%) Java
7 12 (2.12%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.88%) Bash
8 5 (0.88%) VBA
9 2 (0.35%) C
9 2 (0.35%) Python
9 2 (0.35%) Scala
10 1 (0.18%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) Groovy
10 1 (0.18%) R
10 1 (0.18%) Swift
10 1 (0.18%) VB
10 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.18%) VB6
Qualifications
1 104 (18.41%) Degree
2 44 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (3.89%) DBS Check
5 13 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.12%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.95%) CISA
8 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.42%) CISSP
9 7 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.24%) PMP
9 7 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 6 (1.06%) CCNA
10 6 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.06%) CISM
10 6 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.88%) HND
12 4 (0.71%) ACCA
12 4 (0.71%) MCSE
12 4 (0.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.42%) QA
2 24 (4.25%) SLA
3 14 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.95%) ITGC
4 11 (1.95%) PMO
5 9 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.88%) GDPR
7 5 (0.88%) ISO 22301
7 5 (0.88%) NIST
8 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.53%) GMP
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.35%) COSHH
10 2 (0.35%) DICOM
10 2 (0.35%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 88 (15.58%) Active Directory
2 38 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.83%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.48%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.77%) Docker
7 9 (1.59%) vSphere
8 8 (1.42%) KVM
9 5 (0.88%) RACF
10 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.77%) Terraform
3 8 (1.42%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.06%) Ansible
5 5 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (0.53%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) Nessus
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) SCOM
7 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 55 (9.73%) VMware
2 26 (4.60%) SAP
3 24 (4.25%) Google
4 23 (4.07%) Oracle
5 18 (3.19%) Sage
6 15 (2.65%) Cisco
6 15 (2.65%) Dell
7 14 (2.48%) Apple
8 11 (1.95%) Sophos
9 10 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.59%) EMC
10 9 (1.59%) Epicor
10 9 (1.59%) IFS
10 9 (1.59%) JD Edwards
10 9 (1.59%) Xero
11 8 (1.42%) FNZ
11 8 (1.42%) Meraki
11 8 (1.42%) NEC
12 7 (1.24%) Databricks
13 6 (1.06%) Yahoo!