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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 100 96 131
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 16.34% 12.09% 13.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.98% 32.99% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 58 76
10th Percentile £413 £295 £313
25th Percentile £449 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £620 £500 £525
90th Percentile £625 £554 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +0.83%
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 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +25.47% -

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 244 291 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.87% 36.65% 39.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 175 265
10th Percentile £411 £193 £221
25th Percentile £450 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.96% -2.37%
75th Percentile £550 £524 £538
90th Percentile £625 £587 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.58% +19.31% -

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 19 October 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

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 6 (6.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) nginx
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.00%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.00%) FileNet
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.00%) AWS
2 24 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (21.00%) GCP
4 15 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (6.00%) OCI
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (4.00%) Azure AI
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 4 (4.00%) Collibra
9 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.00%) GitHub
10 3 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (3.00%) Network Security
2 3 (3.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) Power BI
2 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.00%) Metadata
3 3 (3.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.00%) GIS
5 1 (1.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.00%) JIRA
4 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.00%) git-flow
5 2 (2.00%) Postman
5 2 (2.00%) Selenium
5 2 (2.00%) webpack
6 1 (1.00%) GitLab
6 1 (1.00%) Maven
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (31.00%) Finance
2 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.00%) Banking
5 8 (8.00%) Legal
6 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.00%) Retail Banking
8 4 (4.00%) Retail
9 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (15.00%) Developer
2 14 (14.00%) Architect
3 11 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.00%) .NET Developer
4 6 (6.00%) Analyst
4 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
4 6 (6.00%) Lead
4 6 (6.00%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.00%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (4.00%) Security Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.00%) Implementation Project Manager
7 3 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) .NET
2 12 (12.00%) RESTful
3 11 (11.00%) React
4 5 (5.00%) Spring
4 5 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.00%) CSS
5 3 (3.00%) HTML
5 3 (3.00%) Node.js
5 3 (3.00%) REST
6 2 (2.00%) Express.js
6 2 (2.00%) Jest
6 2 (2.00%) JSON
6 2 (2.00%) PySpark
6 2 (2.00%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.00%) YAML
7 1 (1.00%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.00%) Blazor
7 1 (1.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.00%) PKI
4 4 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (4.00%) Wiki
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.00%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.00%) Replication
6 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.00%) Windows
2 9 (9.00%) Unix
3 7 (7.00%) Linux
4 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.00%) DevOps
2 40 (40.00%) Agile
3 36 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (19.00%) Migration
5 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (12.00%) Data Protection
9 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 9 (9.00%) API Design
10 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
10 9 (9.00%) Microservices
10 9 (9.00%) Software Engineering
10 9 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (8.00%) Incident Response
11 8 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (8.00%) Test Automation
12 7 (7.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.00%) Python
2 21 (21.00%) SQL
3 13 (13.00%) Java
4 9 (9.00%) C#
5 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.00%) Bash
6 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.00%) Perl
8 2 (2.00%) Bicep
8 2 (2.00%) Go
9 1 (1.00%) BeanShell
9 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.00%) CISSP
4 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.00%) CISA
4 3 (3.00%) CISM
4 3 (3.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) APMG
6 1 (1.00%) HND
6 1 (1.00%) ISEB
6 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.00%) MCSE
6 1 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) QA
2 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.00%) COBIT
2 5 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.00%) NIST
5 2 (2.00%) NCSC
5 2 (2.00%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.00%) PSD2
6 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) ISA Server
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (22.00%) Terraform
2 13 (13.00%) Ansible
3 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.00%) Grafana
5 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.00%) SCCM
7 2 (2.00%) linkerd
7 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.00%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.00%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.00%) vRealize
8 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Oracle
3 9 (9.00%) Databricks
4 7 (7.00%) Dynatrace
5 6 (6.00%) F5
6 4 (4.00%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.00%) Dell
6 4 (4.00%) ForgeRock
6 4 (4.00%) HP
6 4 (4.00%) VMware
7 3 (3.00%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.00%) Cisco
8 2 (2.00%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.00%) Qualys
8 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.00%) Tenable
9 1 (1.00%) Citrix
9 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.00%) IBM
9 1 (1.00%) Talend