Azure Certification Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 157 152
Rank change year-on-year +40 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 14 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.63% 0.28% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.31% 1.36% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 14
10th Percentile £425 £390 £286
25th Percentile £463 £450 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £584 £775 £652
90th Percentile £600 - £754
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Azure Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 606 589 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.46% 20.60% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 407 367
10th Percentile £188 £163 £179
25th Percentile £363 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £668 £628 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 14 19
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.65 £19.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.99 £21.75
Median hourly rate £40.94 £21.47 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +90.73% -46.32% +40.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.90 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.70 £65.00 £56.17
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.73%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Scotland

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Scotland

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Scotland

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 7 £475 - 4
Edinburgh +37 6 £575 +21.05% 1
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (35.71%) IaaS
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Security Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
2 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Cost Control
2 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
2 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
2 3 (21.43%) Privileged Access Management
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) SDLC
2 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
2 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (14.29%) Database Security
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Identity
3 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle