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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 148 75 109
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 24.63% 12.30% 12.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.30% 30.61% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 47 59
10th Percentile £376 £209 £325
25th Percentile £445 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £625 £525 £575
90th Percentile £675 £580 £750
Scotland median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
Median hourly rate £64.00 £23.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +172.34% +32.62% -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +166.67% +35.44% -

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 283 245 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 47.09% 40.16% 39.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 158 229
10th Percentile £371 £192 £345
25th Percentile £439 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £625 £525 £556
90th Percentile £663 £600 £663
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £27.24 £21.62 -
25th Percentile £48.30 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £24.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +158.33% +35.44% -
75th Percentile £64.00 £24.18 -
90th Percentile - £25.86 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £16.57
% change year-on-year +128.31% +45.38% -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 6 February 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 17 (11.49%) Confluence
2 5 (3.38%) Apache
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) FileNet
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (27.70%) Azure DevOps
2 38 (25.68%) AWS
3 21 (14.19%) GCP
4 20 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.76%) GitHub
7 8 (5.41%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.05%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.38%) OCI
10 4 (2.70%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 4 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 4 (2.70%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.70%) IaaS
10 4 (2.70%) PaaS
10 4 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.43%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) Network Security
3 3 (2.03%) DHCP
3 3 (2.03%) DNS
3 3 (2.03%) VPN
4 2 (1.35%) LAN
4 2 (1.35%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) Internet
5 1 (0.68%) Intranet
5 1 (0.68%) IPsec
5 1 (0.68%) SAN
5 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.68%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) Power BI
2 11 (7.43%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.08%) Metadata
4 6 (4.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.70%) MySQL
6 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.03%) Big Data
7 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.35%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.35%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.68%) GIS
9 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (17.57%) JIRA
2 17 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.05%) Git
3 6 (4.05%) GitLab
4 4 (2.70%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.70%) ERwin
5 3 (2.03%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.03%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.03%) Snyk
6 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.35%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.68%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.68%) Storybook
7 1 (0.68%) Subversion
7 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 53 (35.81%) Finance
2 36 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 33 (22.30%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.46%) Banking
5 10 (6.76%) Legal
6 9 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.05%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.70%) Retail
10 3 (2.03%) Billing
11 2 (1.35%) Back Office
11 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.68%) Marketing
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (13.51%) Architect
2 19 (12.84%) Developer
3 17 (11.49%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (10.81%) Analyst
5 13 (8.78%) Java Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) .NET Developer
7 9 (6.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 9 (6.08%) Security Engineer
7 9 (6.08%) Senior
8 8 (5.41%) Security Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Report Analyst
10 6 (4.05%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Design Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) DBA
11 5 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.38%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.51%) .NET
2 13 (8.78%) React
2 13 (8.78%) Spring
2 13 (8.78%) Spring Boot
3 10 (6.76%) RESTful
4 4 (2.70%) Kafka
4 4 (2.70%) REST
4 4 (2.70%) SLSA
5 3 (2.03%) CSS
5 3 (2.03%) HTML
5 3 (2.03%) PySpark
6 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.35%) Express.js
6 2 (1.35%) Jest
6 2 (1.35%) JSON
6 2 (1.35%) Node.js
6 2 (1.35%) OAuth
7 1 (0.68%) Flask
7 1 (0.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.08%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.08%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.73%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.05%) Wiki
7 5 (3.38%) PKI
8 4 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.03%) Clustering
9 3 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Windows
2 4 (2.70%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) Unix
3 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (45.95%) DevOps
2 48 (32.43%) Agile
3 41 (27.70%) CI/CD
4 32 (21.62%) Migration
5 26 (17.57%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (13.51%) AI
8 17 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (10.81%) Analytics
10 15 (10.14%) Machine Learning
11 13 (8.78%) Data Governance
11 13 (8.78%) Data Modelling
11 13 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (8.11%) ITIL
12 12 (8.11%) Mentoring
12 12 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (8.11%) UML
13 11 (7.43%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.32%) SQL
2 32 (21.62%) Python
3 19 (12.84%) Java
4 13 (8.78%) C#
5 12 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.05%) Bicep
7 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.70%) Bash
10 3 (2.03%) C++
11 2 (1.35%) Korn
11 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) VBA
12 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.78%) Degree
2 6 (4.05%) CISSP
3 5 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.38%) CISM
3 5 (3.38%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.03%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.03%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.35%) FFIEC
5 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) APMG
6 1 (0.68%) CEH
6 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.68%) ISEB
6 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.68%) MCSE
6 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.08%) QA
3 8 (5.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (4.73%) GDPR
5 6 (4.05%) NIST
6 4 (2.70%) COBIT
7 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.35%) GRC
8 2 (1.35%) NCSC
8 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.68%) PMO
9 1 (0.68%) PSD2
9 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.03%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.35%) Firmware
3 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (20.27%) Terraform
2 10 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.41%) Ansible
4 4 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.03%) SCCM
6 2 (1.35%) Grafana
6 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.68%) Istio
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.68%) vRealize
7 1 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.78%) Oracle
3 9 (6.08%) Databricks
4 8 (5.41%) Google
5 7 (4.73%) F5
5 7 (4.73%) OpenAI
6 6 (4.05%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.38%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (2.70%) Dell
8 4 (2.70%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.70%) HP
8 4 (2.70%) Informatica
8 4 (2.70%) Talend
9 3 (2.03%) Black Duck
9 3 (2.03%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (2.03%) Cisco
9 3 (2.03%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.03%) Spotify
9 3 (2.03%) Thales
9 3 (2.03%) VMware