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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 153 75 106
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 25.29% 12.36% 11.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.31% 30.74% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 46 59
10th Percentile £373 £199 £355
25th Percentile £440 £400 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.78% -5.26% -1.45%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £575
90th Percentile £675 £581 £750
Scotland median daily rate £550 £465 £480
% change year-on-year +18.41% -3.23% -4.00%
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 £57.00 £24.00 £35.11
% change year-on-year +137.50% -31.64% +98.14%

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 287 244 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 47.44% 40.20% 39.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 156 228
10th Percentile £373 £192 £363
25th Percentile £438 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £625 £527 £559
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 £50.00 £24.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year +107.56% +35.95% -

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 10 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 5 (3.27%) Apache
3 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.65%) FileNet
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.10%) Azure DevOps
2 38 (24.84%) AWS
3 20 (13.07%) GCP
3 20 (13.07%) Power Platform
4 12 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (6.54%) GitHub
6 8 (5.23%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.92%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.61%) Azure AI
9 4 (2.61%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 4 (2.61%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 4 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.61%) Collibra
9 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.61%) IaaS
9 4 (2.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.54%) Firewall
2 6 (3.92%) Network Security
3 3 (1.96%) DHCP
3 3 (1.96%) DNS
3 3 (1.96%) VPN
4 2 (1.31%) LAN
4 2 (1.31%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) Intranet
5 1 (0.65%) IPsec
5 1 (0.65%) SAN
5 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.65%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.84%) Power BI
2 11 (7.19%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.88%) Metadata
4 6 (3.92%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.61%) MySQL
6 4 (2.61%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.96%) Big Data
7 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.31%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.31%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.65%) GIS
9 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.65%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (16.99%) JIRA
2 17 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.92%) Git
3 6 (3.92%) GitLab
4 4 (2.61%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.61%) ERwin
5 3 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.96%) Snyk
6 2 (1.31%) Selenium
6 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.31%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.65%) Postman
7 1 (0.65%) Storybook
7 1 (0.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 54 (35.29%) Finance
2 38 (24.84%) Public Sector
3 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.50%) Banking
5 9 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (5.88%) Legal
6 8 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.92%) Retail Banking
8 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Billing
9 3 (1.96%) Retail
10 2 (1.31%) Back Office
10 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (13.73%) Architect
2 19 (12.42%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (12.42%) Developer
3 16 (10.46%) Analyst
4 13 (8.50%) Java Engineer
5 10 (6.54%) .NET Developer
5 10 (6.54%) Senior
6 9 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 9 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 8 (5.23%) Security Analyst
8 7 (4.58%) Report Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) DBA
9 6 (3.92%) Design Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Project Officer
9 6 (3.92%) Project Support Officer
9 6 (3.92%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.07%) .NET
2 13 (8.50%) React
2 13 (8.50%) Spring
2 13 (8.50%) Spring Boot
3 10 (6.54%) RESTful
4 4 (2.61%) Kafka
4 4 (2.61%) REST
4 4 (2.61%) SLSA
5 3 (1.96%) CSS
5 3 (1.96%) HTML
5 3 (1.96%) PySpark
6 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.31%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.31%) Express.js
6 2 (1.31%) Jest
6 2 (1.31%) JSON
6 2 (1.31%) Node.js
6 2 (1.31%) OAuth
7 1 (0.65%) OpenID
7 1 (0.65%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.15%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.54%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.92%) Wiki
7 5 (3.27%) PKI
8 3 (1.96%) Clustering
8 3 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.96%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.84%) Windows
2 4 (2.61%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Unix
3 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Solaris
4 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.41%) DevOps
2 48 (31.37%) Agile
3 42 (27.45%) CI/CD
4 32 (20.92%) Migration
5 25 (16.34%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (13.73%) AI
8 18 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (10.46%) Analytics
9 16 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (10.46%) Machine Learning
10 14 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (8.50%) Data Governance
11 13 (8.50%) Data Modelling
12 12 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (7.84%) Data Protection
12 12 (7.84%) Mentoring
12 12 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (7.84%) UML
13 11 (7.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.53%) SQL
2 33 (21.57%) Python
3 19 (12.42%) Java
4 13 (8.50%) C#
5 12 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.58%) Bicep
6 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.61%) Bash
10 3 (1.96%) C++
11 2 (1.31%) Korn
11 2 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.65%) JCL
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.65%) VBA
12 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.50%) Degree
2 6 (3.92%) CISSP
3 5 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.27%) CISM
3 5 (3.27%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.96%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.31%) FFIEC
5 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.65%) APMG
6 1 (0.65%) CEH
6 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.65%) ISEB
6 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.65%) MCSE
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.54%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (6.54%) QA
3 7 (4.58%) GDPR
4 6 (3.92%) NIST
5 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.96%) COBIT
6 2 (1.31%) GRC
6 2 (1.31%) NCSC
6 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.65%) PMO
7 1 (0.65%) PSD2
7 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.31%) Firmware
3 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (19.61%) Terraform
2 10 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.58%) Ansible
4 4 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.96%) SCCM
6 2 (1.31%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.31%) Grafana
6 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.65%) Istio
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.65%) vRealize
7 1 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) Oracle
3 9 (5.88%) Databricks
3 9 (5.88%) Google
4 7 (4.58%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.92%) F5
6 5 (3.27%) BiZZdesign
6 5 (3.27%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.61%) Informatica
7 4 (2.61%) Talend
8 3 (1.96%) Black Duck
8 3 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.96%) Checkmarx
8 3 (1.96%) Cisco
8 3 (1.96%) Dell
8 3 (1.96%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.96%) HP
8 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.96%) Tenable
8 3 (1.96%) Thales