Azure Contract Job Trends in Aberdeen

Microsoft Azure
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Aberdeen requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 1 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Aberdeen 3.13% 21.21% 14.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 100.00% 50.00% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £453 £335
25th Percentile £413 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £438 £619 £481
90th Percentile - £698 £515
Scotland median daily rate £550 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +18.03% -6.80% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Aberdeen

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Aberdeen.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1 14 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen 3.13% 42.42% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £313 £335
25th Percentile £413 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £438 £450 £481
90th Percentile - £540 £515
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £489
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.93% +2.89%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen.

Azure job vacancy trend in Aberdeen

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Aberdeen by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Developer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Product Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft