Azure Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 10 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 249 365 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.28% 12.79% 13.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.56% 35.54% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 243 334
10th Percentile £325 £400 £333
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £15.62 £32.63 £27.56
25th Percentile £16.41 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.18% +29.21% -53.65%
75th Percentile £35.74 £60.55 £48.75
90th Percentile £46.54 £66.22 £49.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -36.36% +2.80% +11.46%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 742 1,027 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.62% 35.98% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 771 784
10th Percentile £256 £250 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £661 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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 -4 104 £475 -11.63% 62
Edinburgh +3 97 £500 +5.26% 63
Perthshire +4 7 £675 +18.84%
Renfrewshire +3 7 £600 +15.38%
Aberdeen +4 6 £350 -15.15% 12
South Lanarkshire +2 4 £370 -0.11% 1
Stirling -2 3 £420 -2.33%
Highlands - 3 - -
Lanarkshire 0 2 £388 -21.52% 16
Aberdeenshire - 2 £313 - 2
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 16 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.02%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.41%) Confluence
5 5 (2.01%) SAS
6 4 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.61%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.40%) WildFly
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Sketch
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Maximo
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.50%) AWS
2 48 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (16.47%) Entra ID
4 40 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (15.26%) Power Platform
6 20 (8.03%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (6.83%) GCP
8 16 (6.43%) SaaS
9 15 (6.02%) Snowflake
10 12 (4.82%) IaaS
11 11 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 9 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.61%) PaaS
13 8 (3.21%) Figma
14 5 (2.01%) OpenShift
15 4 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 3 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
16 3 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 3 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.23%) Firewall
2 11 (4.42%) DNS
3 9 (3.61%) DHCP
3 9 (3.61%) WAN
4 7 (2.81%) LAN
4 7 (2.81%) SAN
5 6 (2.41%) VPN
6 5 (2.01%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (2.01%) iSCSI
6 5 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.01%) SMTP
7 3 (1.20%) NAS
7 3 (1.20%) Network Security
7 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.80%) BGP
8 2 (0.80%) MPLS
8 2 (0.80%) OSPF
9 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.83%) Power BI
2 15 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.61%) DB2
7 4 (1.61%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.80%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.40%) Redis
10 1 (0.40%) SSDT
10 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.42%) JIRA
2 7 (2.81%) Selenium
2 7 (2.81%) WebDriver
3 4 (1.61%) Git
3 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.20%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.20%) Subversion
4 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.80%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) Gradle
5 2 (0.80%) Maven
5 2 (0.80%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) gulp
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.40%) Travis CI
General
1 59 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.29%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.25%) Finance
4 16 (6.43%) Banking
5 12 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.01%) Aviation
9 5 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (18.07%) Architect
2 33 (13.25%) Senior
3 32 (12.85%) Developer
4 25 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (7.23%) Analyst
7 14 (5.62%) .NET Developer
7 14 (5.62%) Lead
7 14 (5.62%) Technical Architect
8 11 (4.42%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.02%) React Developer
9 10 (4.02%) Senior .NET Developer
9 10 (4.02%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Designer
11 8 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.24%) React
2 25 (10.04%) .NET
3 10 (4.02%) Kafka
4 8 (3.21%) AngularJS
4 8 (3.21%) RESTful
4 8 (3.21%) Spring
5 7 (2.81%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.41%) Middleware
7 5 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.01%) LDAP
7 5 (2.01%) OpenTracing
8 4 (1.61%) CSS
8 4 (1.61%) Flash
8 4 (1.61%) HTML
8 4 (1.61%) POSIX
8 4 (1.61%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.61%) Web Services
9 3 (1.20%) J2EE
9 3 (1.20%) PySpark
9 3 (1.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.63%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.22%) Legacy Applications
5 12 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.82%) Wiki
6 10 (4.02%) Client/Server
7 9 (3.61%) PKI
8 7 (2.81%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.41%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.41%) Clustering
9 6 (2.41%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.01%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.01%) SCADA
11 4 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.61%) NVMe
11 4 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.61%) Smartphone
12 3 (1.20%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.65%) Windows
2 18 (7.23%) Linux
3 14 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.22%) Apple iOS
4 13 (5.22%) Unix
5 11 (4.42%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.21%) Android
7 4 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.12%) DevOps
2 64 (25.70%) Agile
3 24 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (9.64%) User Experience
4 23 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (8.43%) Data Protection
7 19 (7.63%) Computer Science
7 19 (7.63%) Project Delivery
8 18 (7.23%) CI/CD
9 17 (6.83%) Analytics
9 17 (6.83%) High Availability
9 17 (6.83%) Roadmaps
10 15 (6.02%) Scrum
10 15 (6.02%) SDLC
10 15 (6.02%) Test Automation
11 14 (5.62%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (5.62%) Migration
11 14 (5.62%) Project Management
11 14 (5.62%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.06%) Python
2 35 (14.06%) Java
3 25 (10.04%) PowerShell
3 25 (10.04%) SQL
4 20 (8.03%) C#
5 19 (7.63%) Scala
6 9 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.61%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.81%) Perl
8 6 (2.41%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.20%) C++
10 2 (0.80%) Bash
10 2 (0.80%) Go
10 2 (0.80%) Ruby
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.80%) VBA
10 2 (0.80%) VBScript
11 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (6.02%) Degree
2 14 (5.62%) Azure Certification
3 12 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.61%) MCSE
6 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.80%) CCNP
7 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.80%) ISEB
7 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) CCNA
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.83%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (4.02%) QA
3 7 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.41%) PMO
5 4 (1.61%) NIST
6 3 (1.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (16.47%) Active Directory
2 25 (10.04%) Docker
3 12 (4.82%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.01%) BitLocker
6 5 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (2.01%) Terminal Services
7 4 (1.61%) GPFS
7 4 (1.61%) NFS
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.24%) Terraform
3 18 (7.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.81%) SCCM
5 6 (2.41%) Ansible
5 6 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.41%) vCenter Server
6 5 (2.01%) vMotion
6 5 (2.01%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.61%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) Puppet
9 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.40%) Grafana
9 1 (0.40%) Nagios
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.44%) Databricks
3 14 (5.62%) VMware
4 11 (4.42%) Oracle
5 10 (4.02%) Citrix
6 8 (3.21%) Google
7 6 (2.41%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.01%) Apple
8 5 (2.01%) Cisco
8 5 (2.01%) HP
8 5 (2.01%) Sybase
9 4 (1.61%) Adobe
9 4 (1.61%) Brocade
9 4 (1.61%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.61%) EMC
9 4 (1.61%) IBM
9 4 (1.61%) Informatica
9 4 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.61%) NetApp
9 4 (1.61%) Veritas