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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 95 94 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.15% 11.53% 12.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.82% 31.65% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 54 79
10th Percentile £400 £280 £320
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £593 £538 £531
90th Percentile £640 £588 £588
Scotland median daily rate £491 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +4.08% -0.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.46% -
Scotland median hourly rate - £22.23 £37.61
% change year-on-year - -40.89% +112.25%

All Cloud 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 258 297 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.15% 36.44% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 184 295
10th Percentile £413 £191 £263
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -4.74% -3.06%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £588
Scotland median daily rate £496 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +10.22% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% +24.15% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
% change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (3.16%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.05%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.05%) FileNet
3 1 (1.05%) JBoss
3 1 (1.05%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.79%) AWS
2 28 (29.47%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (20.00%) GCP
4 12 (12.63%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (6.32%) IaaS
6 6 (6.32%) PaaS
6 6 (6.32%) SaaS
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.26%) OCI
8 4 (4.21%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.21%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) Firewall
2 3 (3.16%) Network Security
2 3 (3.16%) VPN
3 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.21%) Power BI
2 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.16%) Metadata
3 3 (3.16%) MySQL
3 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.11%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.05%) Big Data
5 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.05%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.05%) Power Query
5 1 (1.05%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.37%) JIRA
4 4 (4.21%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.16%) Postman
5 3 (3.16%) Selenium
6 2 (2.11%) git-flow
6 2 (2.11%) GitLab
6 2 (2.11%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.11%) Subversion
6 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.11%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.11%) webpack
7 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.05%) Maven
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (31.58%) Finance
2 28 (29.47%) Social Skills
3 24 (25.26%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.42%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Legal
6 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (18.95%) Architect
2 14 (14.74%) Developer
3 9 (9.47%) .NET Developer
3 9 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.32%) Analyst
4 6 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Lead
5 5 (5.26%) Senior
5 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) DBA
6 4 (4.21%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.21%) Security Analyst
6 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.16%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) .NET
2 13 (13.68%) React
3 9 (9.47%) RESTful
4 5 (5.26%) Spring
4 5 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.16%) PySpark
5 3 (3.16%) REST
6 2 (2.11%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.11%) Blazor
6 2 (2.11%) Jest
6 2 (2.11%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.11%) YAML
7 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.05%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.05%) Kafka
7 1 (1.05%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.58%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (11.58%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.32%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.32%) Wiki
4 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.26%) PKI
5 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.16%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.11%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.11%) Replication
8 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.05%) NHS
8 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
1 8 (8.42%) Unix
2 7 (7.37%) Windows
3 5 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (54.74%) DevOps
2 35 (36.84%) Agile
3 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
4 19 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.95%) Migration
6 16 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (12.63%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.58%) Data Protection
9 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (10.53%) Containerisation
10 10 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (10.53%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.47%) API Design
11 9 (9.47%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.42%) Code Quality
12 8 (8.42%) Microservices
12 8 (8.42%) Scrum
12 8 (8.42%) Software Engineering
13 7 (7.37%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) SQL
2 19 (20.00%) Python
3 16 (16.84%) Java
4 13 (13.68%) C#
5 8 (8.42%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.21%) Bash
7 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.16%) Perl
8 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.11%) Bicep
9 2 (2.11%) C++
9 2 (2.11%) Go
9 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.11%) VBA
9 2 (2.11%) VBScript
10 1 (1.05%) BeanShell
10 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (11.58%) Degree
2 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.26%) CISSP
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.16%) CISA
5 3 (3.16%) CISM
5 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.11%) ISEB
6 2 (2.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) GCIH
7 1 (1.05%) HND
7 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.16%) COBIT
5 2 (2.11%) NIST
6 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.05%) NCSC
6 1 (1.05%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (15.79%) Terraform
2 10 (10.53%) Ansible
2 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.32%) Grafana
4 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.11%) linkerd
5 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.11%) SCCM
6 1 (1.05%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.53%) Oracle
3 6 (6.32%) Databricks
4 5 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.21%) F5
6 3 (3.16%) ForgeRock
6 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.11%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.11%) Cisco
7 2 (2.11%) Dell
7 2 (2.11%) HP
7 2 (2.11%) IBM
7 2 (2.11%) Informatica
7 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.11%) Tenable
7 2 (2.11%) VMware
8 1 (1.05%) Citrix
8 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.05%) Teradata
8 1 (1.05%) TSYS