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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 154 90 86
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 21.15% 14.49% 10.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.38% 33.71% 28.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 60 42
10th Percentile £355 £242 £314
25th Percentile £422 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £466 £470
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -0.80% -1.05%
75th Percentile £631 £538 £625
90th Percentile £686 £609 £750
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +10.53% +3.26% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile - £21.18 -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £15.10
Median hourly rate £64.00 £23.00 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year +178.26% +44.02% -
75th Percentile - £24.00 £16.85
90th Percentile - £24.11 -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.00 £23.00 £34.24
% change year-on-year +147.83% -32.82% -42.00%

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 325 267 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.64% 43.00% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 175 185
10th Percentile £350 £239 £231
25th Percentile £413 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +1.17% -1.16%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £460
% change year-on-year +1.71% +1.52% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile - £21.40 £15.66
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £23.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +172.34% +38.24% -
75th Percentile - £24.14 £17.50
90th Percentile - £26.28 -
Scotland median hourly rate £14.44 £23.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year -38.55% +38.24% -72.26%

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 9 May 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 14 (9.09%) Confluence
2 4 (2.60%) Apache
2 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 11 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (30.52%) Azure DevOps
2 31 (20.13%) AWS
3 21 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 18 (11.69%) GCP
5 14 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.49%) Power Automate
7 8 (5.19%) Azure AI
7 8 (5.19%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 8 (5.19%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 8 (5.19%) GitHub
8 7 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.55%) Serverless
9 6 (3.90%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.90%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.60%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.14%) Firewall
2 8 (5.19%) DNS
2 8 (5.19%) Network Security
3 7 (4.55%) VPN
4 5 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.60%) LAN
5 4 (2.60%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.95%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.95%) DHCP
6 3 (1.95%) Internet
6 3 (1.95%) IPsec
6 3 (1.95%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.30%) WAN
8 1 (0.65%) Intranet
8 1 (0.65%) SAN
8 1 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.44%) Power BI
2 11 (7.14%) Metadata
3 10 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.95%) Big Data
7 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.95%) MySQL
7 3 (1.95%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.30%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (12.99%) JIRA
2 15 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.90%) Git
3 6 (3.90%) GitLab
4 3 (1.95%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.95%) ERwin
4 3 (1.95%) Snyk
5 2 (1.30%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.30%) NUnit
5 2 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.65%) Postman
6 1 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) Storybook
6 1 (0.65%) Subversion
6 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (27.92%) Finance
2 39 (25.32%) Public Sector
3 38 (24.68%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.19%) Legal
6 7 (4.55%) Banking
7 5 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (16.88%) Architect
2 24 (15.58%) Analyst
2 24 (15.58%) Azure Engineer
3 18 (11.69%) Java Engineer
4 13 (8.44%) Developer
4 13 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (7.79%) Senior
6 10 (6.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 9 (5.84%) Security Analyst
7 9 (5.84%) Security Engineer
8 8 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 8 (5.19%) Report Analyst
9 7 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) DBA
9 7 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Azure Software Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Design Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) SQL DBA
11 5 (3.25%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.58%) .NET
2 14 (9.09%) React
2 14 (9.09%) Spring
2 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 9 (5.84%) RESTful
4 5 (3.25%) REST
5 4 (2.60%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.60%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.60%) Kafka
5 4 (2.60%) SLSA
6 3 (1.95%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.95%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (1.95%) Entity Framework
6 3 (1.95%) Jest
6 3 (1.95%) LINQ
6 3 (1.95%) NgRx
7 2 (1.30%) CSS
7 2 (1.30%) JSON
7 2 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.74%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.84%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.90%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.60%) Clustering
6 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) PKI
7 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.95%) Wiki
8 2 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.30%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.30%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.39%) Windows
2 5 (3.25%) Linux
2 5 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.95%) Unix
4 2 (1.30%) Android
4 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.30%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Solaris
5 1 (0.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (44.81%) DevOps
2 36 (23.38%) CI/CD
3 31 (20.13%) Agile
4 25 (16.23%) AI
5 24 (15.58%) Migration
6 21 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.99%) Machine Learning
8 17 (11.04%) Data Modelling
8 17 (11.04%) Data Protection
9 15 (9.74%) OCR
9 15 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (9.09%) Analytics
10 14 (9.09%) Roadmaps
11 13 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (8.44%) Software Engineering
12 12 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (7.79%) Microservices
12 12 (7.79%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.03%) SQL
2 31 (20.13%) Python
3 20 (12.99%) Java
4 17 (11.04%) C#
5 15 (9.74%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.19%) Bicep
7 7 (4.55%) Bash
8 4 (2.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.95%) C++
9 3 (1.95%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.30%) Go
10 2 (1.30%) Korn
10 2 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.65%) JCL
11 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.65%) VBA
11 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (7.14%) Degree
2 8 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (5.19%) CISSP
3 6 (3.90%) CISM
3 6 (3.90%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.30%) CCNP
6 2 (1.30%) CCSK
6 2 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.30%) FFIEC
6 2 (1.30%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.30%) PMP
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 10 (6.49%) QA
4 6 (3.90%) NIST
5 4 (2.60%) GDPR
6 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.30%) GRC
7 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.65%) NCSC
8 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (8.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.25%) Docker
3 4 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.30%) Firmware
4 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (14.94%) Terraform
2 10 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.60%) Ansible
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.30%) Grafana
5 2 (1.30%) linkerd
5 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.65%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.65%) Istio
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.49%) Google
2 10 (6.49%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.90%) Oracle
4 5 (3.25%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (2.60%) Cisco
6 3 (1.95%) Black Duck
6 3 (1.95%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.95%) Databricks
6 3 (1.95%) F5
6 3 (1.95%) Informatica
6 3 (1.95%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.95%) Talend
6 3 (1.95%) Tenable
7 2 (1.30%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.30%) Citrix
7 2 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.30%) Splunk
7 2 (1.30%) Thales
7 2 (1.30%) VMware