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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 111 92 127
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 18.47% 14.07% 13.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.68% 34.85% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 49 70
10th Percentile £406 £149 £325
25th Percentile £433 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £625 £530 £547
90th Percentile - £680 £627
Scotland median daily rate £524 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +12.81% -7.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +32.62% -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +112.77% +32.62% -

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 243 264 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.43% 40.37% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 145 247
10th Percentile £400 £191 £300
25th Percentile £447 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £555 £538 £548
90th Percentile £625 £600 £611
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £17.88 £18.48 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £20.30 -
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.66% +29.80% -
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £55.46 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £16.57
% change year-on-year +117.39% +38.81% -6.49%

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 2 December 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 10 (9.01%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) Apache
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.90%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.90%) FileNet
2 1 (0.90%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.33%) AWS
2 24 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (19.82%) GCP
4 16 (14.41%) Power Platform
5 13 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.50%) OCI
9 4 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.60%) Collibra
9 4 (3.60%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.70%) GitHub
10 3 (2.70%) IaaS
10 3 (2.70%) PaaS
10 3 (2.70%) SaaS
11 2 (1.80%) Akamai
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) Network Security
2 3 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Power BI
2 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.70%) Metadata
3 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.80%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.80%) MySQL
4 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.90%) GIS
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.90%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) JIRA
2 10 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.11%) Git
4 4 (3.60%) ER Studio
4 4 (3.60%) ERwin
5 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.80%) git-flow
6 1 (0.90%) GitLab
6 1 (0.90%) Maven
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.90%) Postman
6 1 (0.90%) Selenium
6 1 (0.90%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 35 (31.53%) Finance
2 32 (28.83%) Social Skills
3 27 (24.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Legal
5 7 (6.31%) Retail Banking
6 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Retail
8 3 (2.70%) Billing
9 2 (1.80%) Back Office
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (17.12%) Developer
2 11 (9.91%) Architect
3 9 (8.11%) .NET Developer
4 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.41%) Senior
7 5 (4.50%) Analyst
7 5 (4.50%) Lead
8 4 (3.60%) Data Modeller
8 4 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.60%) Implementation Specialist
8 4 (3.60%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Project Officer
8 4 (3.60%) Project Support Officer
8 4 (3.60%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.60%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Support Officer
9 3 (2.70%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) .NET
2 9 (8.11%) RESTful
2 9 (8.11%) Spring
3 8 (7.21%) React
3 8 (7.21%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.60%) REST
5 3 (2.70%) Node.js
5 3 (2.70%) PySpark
6 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.80%) CSS
6 2 (1.80%) Express.js
6 2 (1.80%) HTML
6 2 (1.80%) JSON
6 2 (1.80%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.90%) JMS
7 1 (0.90%) Kafka
7 1 (0.90%) OAuth
7 1 (0.90%) SAML
7 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.01%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.11%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.31%) PKI
5 5 (4.50%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (4.50%) Wiki
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.70%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.70%) Replication
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.90%) NHS
8 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.91%) Windows
2 9 (8.11%) Unix
3 7 (6.31%) Linux
4 6 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (49.55%) DevOps
2 49 (44.14%) Agile
3 34 (30.63%) CI/CD
4 21 (18.92%) Migration
5 20 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (9.91%) Coaching
9 11 (9.91%) Data Governance
9 11 (9.91%) Data Protection
9 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (8.11%) Data Architecture
10 9 (8.11%) Data Modelling
10 9 (8.11%) Decision-Making
10 9 (8.11%) Microservices
10 9 (8.11%) Project Management
10 9 (8.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 8 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (7.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.62%) SQL
2 22 (19.82%) Python
3 15 (13.51%) Java
4 7 (6.31%) C#
5 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.70%) Perl
8 2 (1.80%) Bash
9 1 (0.90%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.90%) Bicep
9 1 (0.90%) Go
9 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) Degree
2 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.60%) CISSP
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.90%) APMG
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.90%) CISA
5 1 (0.90%) CISM
5 1 (0.90%) HND
5 1 (0.90%) ISEB
5 1 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.90%) MCSE
5 1 (0.90%) SANS
5 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) QA
2 6 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (4.50%) COBIT
4 4 (3.60%) GDPR
5 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.70%) NIST
6 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.80%) NCSC
6 2 (1.80%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.90%) PSD2
7 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.21%) Docker
2 7 (6.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.90%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (18.92%) Terraform
2 10 (9.01%) Ansible
3 8 (7.21%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.41%) Grafana
5 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.60%) SCCM
7 1 (0.90%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.90%) linkerd
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.90%) vRealize
7 1 (0.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.01%) Databricks
2 10 (9.01%) Oracle
3 6 (5.41%) F5
4 5 (4.50%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.60%) CheckPoint
5 4 (3.60%) Dell
5 4 (3.60%) HP
5 4 (3.60%) VMware
6 3 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.70%) Spotify
7 2 (1.80%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.80%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.80%) Qualys
8 1 (0.90%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.90%) Meraki
8 1 (0.90%) Pega
8 1 (0.90%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.90%) Talend