Azure Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 97 158 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.99% 12.25% 13.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.60% 31.54% 44.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 115 190
10th Percentile £325 £400 £348
25th Percentile £372 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £584
90th Percentile £750 £737 £669
Scotland median daily rate £475 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £15.36 - £23.67
25th Percentile £15.75 - £29.50
Median hourly rate £16.85 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -55.70% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £17.63 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.72 £57.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -69.18% +29.21% -53.65%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 307 501 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.95% 38.84% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 387 424
10th Percentile £298 £260 £308
25th Percentile £414 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +5.79%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £580
90th Percentile £688 £618 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £15.80 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £19.83
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -39.93% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.56
90th Percentile £17.61 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.15%) Confluence
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.06%) Apache
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) JBoss
5 1 (1.03%) SAS
5 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.03%) WildFly
5 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.99%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (14.43%) Power Platform
3 13 (13.40%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (12.37%) AWS
5 9 (9.28%) Entra ID
6 8 (8.25%) IaaS
6 8 (8.25%) PaaS
6 8 (8.25%) SaaS
7 7 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (6.19%) GCP
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.09%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.06%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.03%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) WAN
2 7 (7.22%) LAN
3 5 (5.15%) Firewall
4 3 (3.09%) DHCP
4 3 (3.09%) DNS
4 3 (3.09%) SSL
5 2 (2.06%) Network Security
5 2 (2.06%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.03%) BGP
6 1 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.03%) HTTP
6 1 (1.03%) Internet
6 1 (1.03%) MPLS
6 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.03%) OSPF
6 1 (1.03%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.03%) Wireless
6 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.25%) Power BI
3 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.12%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.03%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) JIRA
1 7 (7.22%) Selenium
1 7 (7.22%) WebDriver
2 4 (4.12%) Git
2 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.09%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.09%) Subversion
3 3 (3.09%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.06%) Gradle
4 2 (2.06%) Maven
5 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.03%) GitLab
5 1 (1.03%) gulp
5 1 (1.03%) JUnit
5 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.03%) Travis CI
General
1 41 (42.27%) Public Sector
2 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Finance
4 7 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Architect
2 23 (23.71%) Senior
3 19 (19.59%) Developer
4 14 (14.43%) .NET Developer
5 11 (11.34%) Technical Architect
6 10 (10.31%) Senior .NET Developer
6 10 (10.31%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.28%) React Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Lead
9 7 (7.22%) Senior React Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Data Architect
10 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.15%) Automation Tester
11 5 (5.15%) Project Manager
11 5 (5.15%) Tester
12 4 (4.12%) Project Officer
12 4 (4.12%) Security Analyst
12 4 (4.12%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.71%) .NET
2 14 (14.43%) React
3 5 (5.15%) Middleware
4 4 (4.12%) SailPoint
4 4 (4.12%) Web Services
5 3 (3.09%) J2EE
5 3 (3.09%) Kafka
6 2 (2.06%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.06%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.06%) RESTful
6 2 (2.06%) XML
7 1 (1.03%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.03%) Jest
7 1 (1.03%) OpenJDK
7 1 (1.03%) PySpark
7 1 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (13.40%) Product Ownership
3 12 (12.37%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (12.37%) Wiki
4 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.15%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.15%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) PKI
6 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.09%) N-Tier
8 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.03%) BYOD
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.03%) IoT
9 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.03%) AIX
3 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) DevOps
2 26 (26.80%) Agile
3 16 (16.49%) Data Protection
4 15 (15.46%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (13.40%) Knowledge Transfer
6 12 (12.37%) Code Quality
6 12 (12.37%) User Experience
7 10 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
8 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (8.25%) Project Delivery
9 8 (8.25%) Security Operations
10 7 (7.22%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (7.22%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.22%) Data Modelling
10 7 (7.22%) Risk Management
10 7 (7.22%) Roadmaps
10 7 (7.22%) Software Delivery
10 7 (7.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.40%) C#
2 12 (12.37%) SQL
3 8 (8.25%) Java
4 7 (7.22%) Python
5 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.09%) C++
8 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.06%) VBA
8 2 (2.06%) VBScript
9 1 (1.03%) Bash
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.03%) Go
9 1 (1.03%) Groovy
9 1 (1.03%) PHP
9 1 (1.03%) Ruby
9 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (4.12%) MCSE
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.06%) ISEB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) CCNP
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (8.25%) QA
3 5 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.12%) PMO
5 3 (3.09%) NCSC
6 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.06%) NIST
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.03%) ISO 8583
7 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (12.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.22%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) SCCM
2 3 (3.09%) Terraform
3 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.03%) Ansible
4 1 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) Databricks
3 6 (6.19%) VMware
4 4 (4.12%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.12%) Informatica
5 3 (3.09%) IDERA
6 2 (2.06%) Citrix
6 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco
7 1 (1.03%) Cognos
7 1 (1.03%) F5
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.03%) McAfee
7 1 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds