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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 158 79 98
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 20.41% 12.60% 11.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.66% 30.38% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 55 55
10th Percentile £358 £380 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% - -
75th Percentile £648 £538 £556
90th Percentile £683 £618 £725
Scotland median daily rate £525 £496 £450
% change year-on-year +5.85% +10.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £54.80 - £16.00
25th Percentile £58.25 - £17.37
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £20.08
75th Percentile - - £22.35
90th Percentile - - £23.45
Scotland median hourly rate £59.50 - £24.18
% change year-on-year - - -59.03%

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 346 260 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.70% 41.47% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 173 197
10th Percentile £350 £302 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £459
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.49% -3.37%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £597 £663
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £54.80 - £15.80
25th Percentile £58.25 £26.32 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £27.35 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +134.00% +60.88% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £28.38 £17.50
90th Percentile - - £20.84
Scotland median hourly rate £24.72 £21.22 £17.00
% change year-on-year +16.49% +24.82% -71.92%

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 6 June 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 (8.86%) Confluence
2 5 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.53%) Apache
3 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.95%) Azure DevOps
2 35 (22.15%) AWS
3 24 (15.19%) Power Platform
4 20 (12.66%) GCP
5 18 (11.39%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.33%) Power Automate
7 9 (5.70%) Azure AI
8 8 (5.06%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 8 (5.06%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 8 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (5.06%) Entra ID
8 8 (5.06%) GitHub
9 7 (4.43%) SaaS
10 6 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.80%) IaaS
10 6 (3.80%) PaaS
10 6 (3.80%) Serverless
11 5 (3.16%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.13%) Firewall
2 12 (7.59%) Network Security
3 9 (5.70%) DNS
3 9 (5.70%) VPN
4 7 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.80%) LAN
5 6 (3.80%) SD-WAN
6 5 (3.16%) Internet
6 5 (3.16%) IPsec
6 5 (3.16%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.27%) DHCP
8 2 (1.27%) WAN
9 1 (0.63%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.63%) NGFW
9 1 (0.63%) SAN
9 1 (0.63%) SSL
9 1 (0.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.59%) Power BI
1 12 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.33%) Metadata
3 8 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.06%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.90%) Big Data
5 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.90%) MySQL
6 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.27%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.03%) JIRA
2 13 (8.23%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.16%) Git
3 5 (3.16%) GitLab
4 3 (1.90%) Snyk
5 2 (1.27%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.27%) NUnit
5 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.63%) Postman
6 1 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) Subversion
6 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (24.68%) Finance
1 39 (24.68%) Public Sector
2 38 (24.05%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Legal
6 4 (2.53%) Banking
6 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Italian Language
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (20.89%) Architect
2 26 (16.46%) Analyst
3 20 (12.66%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (8.86%) Java Engineer
5 11 (6.96%) Senior
6 10 (6.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 10 (6.33%) Developer
6 10 (6.33%) Security Analyst
7 9 (5.70%) Security Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 8 (5.06%) DBA
8 8 (5.06%) Report Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.80%) Consultant
10 6 (3.80%) Design Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.29%) .NET
2 10 (6.33%) React
2 10 (6.33%) Spring
2 10 (6.33%) Spring Boot
3 8 (5.06%) RESTful
4 6 (3.80%) Kafka
5 5 (3.16%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.53%) REST
6 4 (2.53%) SLSA
7 3 (1.90%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.90%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.90%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.90%) LINQ
7 3 (1.90%) NgRx
8 2 (1.27%) ADO
8 2 (1.27%) HTML
8 2 (1.27%) Jest
8 2 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (9.49%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.23%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.33%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.80%) PKI
7 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.53%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.27%) Clustering
9 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.66%) Windows
2 8 (5.06%) Linux
3 7 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.27%) Android
4 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Solaris
5 1 (0.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (41.77%) DevOps
2 36 (22.78%) CI/CD
3 35 (22.15%) Agile
4 32 (20.25%) AI
5 29 (18.35%) Migration
6 26 (16.46%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (14.56%) Roadmaps
8 21 (13.29%) Machine Learning
9 19 (12.03%) Data Protection
10 17 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (9.49%) OCR
13 14 (8.86%) Data Modelling
13 14 (8.86%) Microservices
13 14 (8.86%) Software Engineering
13 14 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (8.23%) Mentoring
14 13 (8.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (8.23%) Workflow
15 12 (7.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.89%) SQL
2 32 (20.25%) Python
3 16 (10.13%) C#
3 16 (10.13%) Java
4 14 (8.86%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.06%) Bicep
6 6 (3.80%) Bash
7 3 (1.90%) C++
7 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.27%) Go
8 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.27%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.63%) JCL
9 1 (0.63%) Korn
9 1 (0.63%) VBA
9 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (8.86%) Degree
2 10 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.06%) CISSP
4 7 (4.43%) CISM
4 7 (4.43%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (2.53%) CCNP
6 4 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.53%) MCSE
7 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.90%) PMP
8 2 (1.27%) CBAP
8 2 (1.27%) CCSK
8 2 (1.27%) FFIEC
8 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 12 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.59%) QA
3 6 (3.80%) NIST
4 4 (2.53%) GDPR
5 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.27%) GRC
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.27%) PMO
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (9.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.16%) Docker
3 4 (2.53%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.27%) Firmware
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (14.56%) Terraform
2 12 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.53%) Ansible
4 4 (2.53%) SCCM
5 3 (1.90%) Grafana
5 3 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.27%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.27%) Istio
6 2 (1.27%) linkerd
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.63%) Argo
7 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 35 (22.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.33%) Google
2 10 (6.33%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.06%) Oracle
4 7 (4.43%) Cisco
5 6 (3.80%) F5
5 6 (3.80%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.16%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (1.90%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.90%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.90%) Informatica
7 3 (1.90%) Splunk
7 3 (1.90%) Talend
7 3 (1.90%) Tenable
8 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.27%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.27%) Citrix
8 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.27%) VMware
65 Azure jobs in Edinburgh