Azure Contract Job Trends in East Kilbride

Microsoft Azure
South Lanarkshire > East Kilbride

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Kilbride requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in East Kilbride 12.90% - 4.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.36% - 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £370
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.11%
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Lanarkshire median daily rate £800 - £370
% change year-on-year - - -0.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Kilbride

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 East Kilbride.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11 0 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Kilbride 35.48% - 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile - - £369
25th Percentile £617 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.98%
75th Percentile £825 - £467
90th Percentile £833 - £491
South Lanarkshire median daily rate £800 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in East Kilbride

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

Azure job vacancy trend in East Kilbride

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in East Kilbride

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Kilbride citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Kilbride citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Kilbride 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Ceph
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware