Azure Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 150 141
Rank change year-on-year +27 -9 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 7 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.45% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.48% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 28
10th Percentile £413 £412 £455
25th Percentile £425 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £475 £556 £588
90th Percentile - £568 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £566 £550
% change year-on-year -7.16% +2.82% +7.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,112 2,720 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 95.17% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,953 2,401
10th Percentile £204 £233 £211
25th Percentile £369 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Scotland

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Scotland

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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 +8 5 £440 -20.00% 1
Edinburgh +33 1 - - 2
Azure Engineer
UK

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) Databricks
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) DataOps
4 2 (28.57%) MLOps
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) GitOps
4 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) DTS
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) DataOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitOps
2 2 (28.57%) MLOps
2 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) B2C
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft