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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 92 170 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.21% 13.38% 13.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.36% 33.86% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 119 176
10th Percentile £321 £395 £356
25th Percentile £363 £421 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -1.30% +6.94%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £588
90th Percentile £750 £680 £675
Scotland median daily rate £460 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £23.67
25th Percentile £15.10 - £29.50
Median hourly rate £15.97 - £40.00
75th Percentile £16.85 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £34.24 £59.03 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.00% +32.64% -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 303 502 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.91% 39.50% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 380 429
10th Percentile £232 £241 £345
25th Percentile £408 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £580
90th Percentile £675 £613 £675
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £15.66 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £19.83
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £29.50
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.56
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -56.93%

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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 12 May 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 5 (5.43%) Confluence
1 5 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) JBoss
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.09%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.09%) WildFly
3 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.96%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (14.13%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.78%) AWS
4 8 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.43%) IaaS
7 5 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.43%) PaaS
7 5 (5.43%) SaaS
8 4 (4.35%) GCP
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.26%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.09%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) LAN
1 6 (6.52%) WAN
2 4 (4.35%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) DHCP
3 3 (3.26%) DNS
3 3 (3.26%) SSL
4 1 (1.09%) Internet
4 1 (1.09%) MPLS
4 1 (1.09%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.09%) Network Security
4 1 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.61%) Power BI
3 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.35%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.09%) Big Data
6 1 (1.09%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (7.61%) JIRA
1 7 (7.61%) Selenium
1 7 (7.61%) WebDriver
2 4 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.26%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.26%) Git
3 3 (3.26%) Subversion
3 3 (3.26%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.17%) Gradle
4 2 (2.17%) Maven
5 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.09%) gulp
5 1 (1.09%) JUnit
5 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.09%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (42.39%) Public Sector
2 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.74%) Finance
4 9 (9.78%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.61%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.43%) Banking
7 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.74%) Senior
2 18 (19.57%) Developer
3 17 (18.48%) Architect
4 13 (14.13%) .NET Developer
5 10 (10.87%) Project Manager
5 10 (10.87%) Senior .NET Developer
5 10 (10.87%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.78%) React Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Lead
8 7 (7.61%) Senior React Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Technical Architect
9 6 (6.52%) Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) Data Architect
10 5 (5.43%) Automation Tester
10 5 (5.43%) Tester
11 4 (4.35%) Agile Project Manager
11 4 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 4 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) .NET
2 13 (14.13%) React
3 4 (4.35%) Middleware
3 4 (4.35%) SailPoint
3 4 (4.35%) Web Services
4 3 (3.26%) J2EE
4 3 (3.26%) Kafka
5 2 (2.17%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.09%) CSS
6 1 (1.09%) HTML
6 1 (1.09%) Jest
6 1 (1.09%) JSP
6 1 (1.09%) OpenJDK
6 1 (1.09%) PySpark
6 1 (1.09%) Servlets
6 1 (1.09%) STL
6 1 (1.09%) XML
6 1 (1.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (14.13%) Product Ownership
3 12 (13.04%) Legacy Applications
4 11 (11.96%) Wiki
5 6 (6.52%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (5.43%) Client/Server
7 4 (4.35%) PKI
7 4 (4.35%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.26%) N-Tier
8 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 1 (1.09%) BYOD
10 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.09%) IoT
10 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.26%) Linux
4 1 (1.09%) AIX
4 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.30%) DevOps
2 32 (34.78%) Agile
3 15 (16.30%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (16.30%) Data Protection
4 12 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
5 11 (11.96%) Code Quality
5 11 (11.96%) User Experience
6 10 (10.87%) Project Delivery
6 10 (10.87%) Security Operations
7 9 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (9.78%) Software Delivery
8 8 (8.70%) Change Control
8 8 (8.70%) ETL
8 8 (8.70%) Threat Modelling
9 7 (7.61%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.61%) Dependency Management
9 7 (7.61%) Roadmaps
9 7 (7.61%) Test Automation
9 7 (7.61%) User Research
9 7 (7.61%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.04%) C#
2 11 (11.96%) SQL
3 7 (7.61%) Python
4 6 (6.52%) Java
5 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.26%) C++
8 2 (2.17%) Perl
8 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.17%) VBA
8 2 (2.17%) VBScript
9 1 (1.09%) Bash
9 1 (1.09%) Bicep
9 1 (1.09%) Go
9 1 (1.09%) Groovy
9 1 (1.09%) PHP
9 1 (1.09%) Ruby
9 1 (1.09%) Rust
9 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) Degree
2 6 (6.52%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (5.43%) MCSE
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.17%) ISEB
5 2 (2.17%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (7.61%) QA
3 4 (4.35%) PMO
4 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.26%) NCSC
5 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.09%) Docker
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) SCCM
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) Databricks
3 5 (5.43%) VMware
4 4 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.35%) Informatica
5 3 (3.26%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.26%) Cognizant
5 3 (3.26%) IDERA
6 2 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (1.09%) Cisco
7 1 (1.09%) Cognos
7 1 (1.09%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.09%) Google
7 1 (1.09%) Meraki
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow