Azure Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 803 821 1,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.66% 19.06% 17.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.81% 53.63% 51.79%
Number of salaries quoted 459 392 612
10th Percentile £31,100 £38,075 £35,023
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.60% - +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Azure 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 2,787 1,531 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 40.48% 35.54% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 844 1,340
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,403 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,717 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 -40 391 £52,500 -4.55% 45
Edinburgh 0 291 £65,000 +8.33% 73
Aberdeen +11 34 £45,000 -18.18% 13
Dundee +7 23 £51,250 +100.98% 2
Lanarkshire 0 13 £45,000 +1.12% 19
Aberdeenshire +11 7 £28,500 -29.19% 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 6 £41,250 -
Fife -11 5 £33,000 +10.00%
North Lanarkshire -9 3 £45,000 +20.35%
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Stirling -3 2 £45,500 +82.00% 1
Midlothian - 2 - - 14
West Dunbartonshire -1 1 £27,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Highlands - 1 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 £60,000 -
Inverclyde - 1 £45,000 -
Azure
UK

Azure
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 58 (7.22%) ArcGIS
1 58 (7.22%) GeoServer
2 31 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.12%) Cloud Foundry
5 14 (1.74%) IIS
6 10 (1.25%) WebLogic
7 8 (1.00%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.75%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.62%) Confluence
9 5 (0.62%) WildFly
10 4 (0.50%) Apache
10 4 (0.50%) Captiva
10 4 (0.50%) FileNet
10 4 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.50%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.37%) CMS
12 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 393 (48.94%) AWS
2 170 (21.17%) GCP
3 144 (17.93%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (9.22%) Power Platform
5 73 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 59 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (7.10%) SaaS
8 40 (4.98%) Cloud Computing
9 36 (4.48%) PaaS
10 33 (4.11%) IaaS
11 21 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (1.99%) GitHub
12 16 (1.99%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (1.87%) Datadog
14 9 (1.12%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.12%) Serverless
15 8 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.73%) WAN
2 44 (5.48%) Firewall
3 32 (3.99%) DNS
4 25 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.49%) VPN
6 19 (2.37%) Kerberos
7 17 (2.12%) Internet
7 17 (2.12%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.74%) LAN
8 14 (1.74%) VLAN
9 11 (1.37%) BGP
9 11 (1.37%) DHCP
9 11 (1.37%) NetScaler
9 11 (1.37%) VoIP
10 10 (1.25%) Broadband
11 9 (1.12%) Wireless
12 8 (1.00%) SSL
13 7 (0.87%) DKIM
13 7 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (0.87%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (12.83%) SQL Server
2 71 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (7.85%) Power BI
4 59 (7.35%) GIS
5 58 (7.22%) QGIS
6 57 (7.10%) Data Lake
7 49 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (4.86%) Qlik Sense
9 32 (3.99%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.74%) Relational Database
11 29 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (2.74%) Big Data
13 17 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (2.12%) CockroachDB
14 15 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.49%) Tableau
17 11 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (3.86%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.11%) JIRA
3 24 (2.99%) Git
4 15 (1.87%) GitLab
5 12 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.25%) Selenium
7 9 (1.12%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.50%) Snyk
9 4 (0.50%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.37%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
10 3 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.25%) Gradle
11 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 212 (26.40%) Finance
2 160 (19.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 142 (17.68%) Social Skills
4 123 (15.32%) Law
5 61 (7.60%) Marketing
6 52 (6.48%) Banking
7 51 (6.35%) Legal
8 41 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
9 39 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.86%) Games
11 21 (2.62%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.12%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.74%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.37%) Billing
15 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.75%) Police
16 6 (0.75%) Retail
17 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.25%) Aviation
18 2 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (26.77%) Senior
2 176 (21.92%) Software Engineer
3 145 (18.06%) Lead
4 135 (16.81%) Developer
5 102 (12.70%) Architect
6 92 (11.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 67 (8.34%) Data Engineer
8 53 (6.60%) Analyst
9 52 (6.48%) .NET Developer
10 47 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 46 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
12 41 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (4.36%) Cloud Architect
13 35 (4.36%) Java Engineer
13 35 (4.36%) Senior Developer
14 33 (4.11%) Java Software Engineer
15 32 (3.99%) Systems Engineer
16 29 (3.61%) Lead Java Engineer
16 29 (3.61%) Software Developer
17 28 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (24.28%) .NET
2 100 (12.45%) .NET Core
3 95 (11.83%) React
4 87 (10.83%) CSS
5 75 (9.34%) AngularJS
6 58 (7.22%) Leaflet
6 58 (7.22%) OpenLayers
6 58 (7.22%) PostGIS
7 51 (6.35%) .NET Framework
8 50 (6.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 45 (5.60%) Spring
10 43 (5.35%) ASP.NET
11 42 (5.23%) Entity Framework
11 42 (5.23%) PySpark
12 38 (4.73%) Spring Boot
13 35 (4.36%) HTML
13 35 (4.36%) REST
14 29 (3.61%) Kafka
15 28 (3.49%) ASP.NET MVC
15 28 (3.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 133 (16.56%) Public Cloud
2 63 (7.85%) Algorithms
3 56 (6.97%) Cloud Native
4 55 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 20 (2.49%) Social Media
6 19 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.99%) Private Cloud
9 15 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.74%) PKI
11 13 (1.62%) Replication
12 12 (1.49%) Clustering
13 11 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.25%) Cyberattack
14 10 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 105 (13.08%) Windows
2 82 (10.21%) Linux
3 64 (7.97%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.99%) Unix
5 15 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.37%) VMS
7 9 (1.12%) Android
7 9 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.87%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.50%) Mesosphere
11 2 (0.25%) CentOS
11 2 (0.25%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (39.23%) Agile
2 226 (28.14%) DevOps
3 225 (28.02%) Software Engineering
4 147 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (17.43%) CI/CD
6 124 (15.44%) SDLC
7 97 (12.08%) Actionable Insight
8 93 (11.58%) Operational Stability
9 92 (11.46%) Artificial Intelligence
10 86 (10.71%) Machine Learning
11 85 (10.59%) Mentoring
12 77 (9.59%) Migration
13 73 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
14 72 (8.97%) Web Development
15 69 (8.59%) Decision-Making
16 66 (8.22%) OO
17 63 (7.85%) Community of Practice
17 63 (7.85%) Microservices
18 59 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 58 (7.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 171 (21.30%) C#
2 167 (20.80%) Python
3 156 (19.43%) SQL
4 143 (17.81%) Java
5 125 (15.57%) JavaScript
6 43 (5.35%) PowerShell
7 35 (4.36%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.24%) Bash
9 17 (2.12%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.87%) Groovy
10 7 (0.87%) Perl
10 7 (0.87%) PHP
11 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.62%) Ruby
12 4 (0.50%) Bicep
12 4 (0.50%) R
12 4 (0.50%) Scala
13 3 (0.37%) C++
13 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 84 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.10%) Degree
4 34 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 31 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.74%) CCNA
7 22 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.37%) DBS Check
9 15 (1.87%) CISSP
9 15 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.62%) CISM
11 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.87%) MCSE
13 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.75%) HND
13 6 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.62%) PMP
14 5 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.48%) QA
2 15 (1.87%) GDPR
3 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.37%) NIST
6 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.62%) ISO 22301
7 4 (0.50%) SLA
8 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 93 (11.58%) Active Directory
2 66 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (7.60%) Docker
4 31 (3.86%) Hyper-V
5 25 (3.11%) VMware NSX
6 20 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.62%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.50%) vSphere
11 2 (0.25%) KVM
11 2 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 90 (11.21%) Terraform
3 47 (5.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (5.11%) Ansible
5 19 (2.37%) Grafana
5 19 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.62%) FortiGate
7 11 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.87%) CASB
8 7 (0.87%) Puppet
9 5 (0.62%) SCCM
9 5 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.50%) Istio
11 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 246 (30.64%) Microsoft
2 92 (11.46%) VMware
3 79 (9.84%) Google
4 58 (7.22%) ESRI
5 39 (4.86%) Alteryx
6 33 (4.11%) Cisco
7 23 (2.86%) Oracle
8 17 (2.12%) Databricks
8 17 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.87%) Splunk
10 15 (1.87%) Veeam
11 14 (1.74%) Citrix
11 14 (1.74%) NetApp
12 11 (1.37%) Sophos
13 10 (1.25%) Meraki
14 8 (1.00%) Sparx
15 7 (0.87%) Apple
15 7 (0.87%) EMC
15 7 (0.87%) Xamarin