Azure Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 156 84 91
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 21.05% 13.59% 11.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.27% 31.94% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 59 50
10th Percentile £356 £255 £324
25th Percentile £425 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £581
90th Percentile £684 £600 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +10.53% +3.26% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £54.80 £22.80 -
25th Percentile £58.25 £23.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £64.00 £24.00 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% +50.28% -
75th Percentile - £24.09 £16.85
90th Percentile - £24.14 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £34.24
% change year-on-year +129.17% -29.90% -43.46%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 330 263 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.53% 42.56% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 174 196
10th Percentile £350 £251 £231
25th Percentile £413 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £538 £558
90th Percentile £650 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £468 £463
% change year-on-year +1.60% +1.08% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £54.80 £22.95 £15.66
25th Percentile £58.25 £23.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% +41.71% -
75th Percentile - £25.23 £17.50
90th Percentile - £27.12 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.72 £24.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +3.00% +41.18% -72.26%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Edinburgh

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.97%) Confluence
2 4 (2.56%) Apache
2 4 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 11 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.21%) Azure DevOps
2 34 (21.79%) AWS
3 22 (14.10%) Power Platform
4 20 (12.82%) GCP
5 14 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (7.05%) Power Automate
7 8 (5.13%) Azure AI
7 8 (5.13%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 8 (5.13%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 8 (5.13%) GitHub
8 7 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.49%) Serverless
9 6 (3.85%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.85%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.21%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.05%) Firewall
2 9 (5.77%) DNS
2 9 (5.77%) Network Security
3 7 (4.49%) VPN
4 5 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.56%) LAN
5 4 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.92%) DHCP
6 3 (1.92%) Internet
6 3 (1.92%) IPsec
6 3 (1.92%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.28%) WAN
8 1 (0.64%) Intranet
8 1 (0.64%) SAN
8 1 (0.64%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) Power BI
2 11 (7.05%) Metadata
2 11 (7.05%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.49%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.92%) Big Data
5 3 (1.92%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.92%) MySQL
5 3 (1.92%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.28%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.18%) JIRA
2 15 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.85%) Git
3 6 (3.85%) GitLab
4 3 (1.92%) Snyk
5 2 (1.28%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.28%) ERwin
5 2 (1.28%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.28%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.28%) NUnit
5 2 (1.28%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.64%) Postman
6 1 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.64%) Selenium
6 1 (0.64%) Storybook
6 1 (0.64%) Subversion
6 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (26.92%) Finance
2 39 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 37 (23.72%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.13%) Legal
6 7 (4.49%) Banking
7 5 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.28%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (17.31%) Architect
2 25 (16.03%) Analyst
3 24 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (11.54%) Java Engineer
5 14 (8.97%) Developer
5 14 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.69%) Senior
7 10 (6.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 9 (5.77%) Security Analyst
8 9 (5.77%) Security Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 8 (5.13%) Report Analyst
10 7 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.49%) DBA
10 7 (4.49%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Azure Software Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Design Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) SQL DBA
12 5 (3.21%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.03%) .NET
2 14 (8.97%) React
2 14 (8.97%) Spring
2 14 (8.97%) Spring Boot
3 9 (5.77%) RESTful
4 6 (3.85%) REST
5 5 (3.21%) ASP.NET
5 5 (3.21%) Kafka
6 4 (2.56%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.56%) SLSA
7 3 (1.92%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.92%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.92%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.92%) HTML
7 3 (1.92%) Jest
7 3 (1.92%) LINQ
7 3 (1.92%) NgRx
8 2 (1.28%) CSS
8 2 (1.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.62%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (7.05%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.41%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.56%) Clustering
5 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) PKI
6 3 (1.92%) Wiki
7 2 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.28%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.28%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.64%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.90%) Windows
2 5 (3.21%) Linux
2 5 (3.21%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.92%) Unix
4 2 (1.28%) Android
4 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.28%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.64%) Solaris
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (43.59%) DevOps
2 37 (23.72%) CI/CD
3 29 (18.59%) Agile
3 29 (18.59%) AI
4 26 (16.67%) Migration
5 22 (14.10%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.82%) Machine Learning
8 18 (11.54%) Data Protection
9 16 (10.26%) Data Modelling
10 15 (9.62%) OCR
10 15 (9.62%) Roadmaps
10 15 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (8.97%) Analytics
12 13 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (8.33%) Microservices
12 13 (8.33%) Software Engineering
13 12 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.72%) SQL
2 30 (19.23%) Python
3 20 (12.82%) Java
4 18 (11.54%) C#
5 15 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.13%) Bicep
7 7 (4.49%) Bash
8 4 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.92%) C++
9 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.28%) Go
10 2 (1.28%) Korn
10 2 (1.28%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.64%) JCL
11 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.64%) VBA
11 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (7.69%) Degree
2 9 (5.77%) CISSP
3 8 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.49%) CISM
4 7 (4.49%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.28%) CCNP
7 2 (1.28%) CCSK
7 2 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.28%) FFIEC
7 2 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.28%) PMP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.05%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (7.05%) QA
3 6 (3.85%) NIST
4 4 (2.56%) GDPR
5 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.28%) GRC
6 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.64%) NCSC
7 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.21%) Docker
3 4 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.28%) Firmware
4 2 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (14.74%) Terraform
2 10 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.56%) Ansible
4 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.28%) Grafana
5 2 (1.28%) linkerd
5 2 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.64%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.64%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.64%) Istio
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.41%) Google
2 10 (6.41%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.85%) Oracle
4 5 (3.21%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (2.56%) Cisco
6 3 (1.92%) Black Duck
6 3 (1.92%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.92%) Databricks
6 3 (1.92%) F5
6 3 (1.92%) Informatica
6 3 (1.92%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.92%) Talend
6 3 (1.92%) Tenable
7 2 (1.28%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.28%) Citrix
7 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.28%) RedGate
7 2 (1.28%) Splunk
7 2 (1.28%) Thales
55 Azure jobs in Edinburgh