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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 115 94 120
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 19.56% 14.85% 13.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.18% 36.15% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 55 66
10th Percentile £350 £149 £325
25th Percentile £428 £406 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £625 £534 £538
90th Percentile £628 £648 £656
Scotland median daily rate £523 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +14.63% -8.75% +2.56%
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 249 260 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.35% 41.07% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 150 230
10th Percentile £373 £192 £300
25th Percentile £440 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -4.74% -
75th Percentile £575 £529 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 1
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.71 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £20.82 -
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +57.24% +32.62% -
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £55.46 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
% change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -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 20 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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.87%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.87%) FileNet
2 1 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.43%) AWS
2 23 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (17.39%) GCP
4 16 (13.91%) Power Platform
5 15 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (5.22%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.35%) OCI
9 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.48%) Collibra
10 3 (2.61%) GitHub
10 3 (2.61%) IaaS
10 3 (2.61%) PaaS
10 3 (2.61%) SaaS
11 2 (1.74%) Akamai
11 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.74%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.70%) Firewall
2 4 (3.48%) VPN
3 3 (2.61%) DHCP
3 3 (2.61%) DNS
3 3 (2.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.87%) Internet
4 1 (0.87%) Intranet
4 1 (0.87%) IPsec
4 1 (0.87%) LAN
4 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.87%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.22%) Power BI
3 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.74%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.74%) Metadata
4 2 (1.74%) MySQL
4 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.87%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) JIRA
2 10 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.96%) Git
4 4 (3.48%) ER Studio
4 4 (3.48%) ERwin
5 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.74%) git-flow
5 2 (1.74%) GitLab
6 1 (0.87%) Maven
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.87%) Postman
6 1 (0.87%) Selenium
6 1 (0.87%) Storybook
6 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 35 (30.43%) Finance
2 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.22%) Public Sector
4 14 (12.17%) Banking
5 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.09%) Retail Banking
7 6 (5.22%) Legal
8 5 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.48%) Retail
10 3 (2.61%) Billing
11 2 (1.74%) Back Office
11 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (16.52%) Developer
2 11 (9.57%) Architect
3 9 (7.83%) .NET Developer
4 8 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Senior
5 7 (6.09%) Analyst
5 7 (6.09%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Data Modeller
8 4 (3.48%) DBA
8 4 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.48%) Implementation Specialist
8 4 (3.48%) Project Support Officer
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.43%) .NET
2 10 (8.70%) Spring
3 9 (7.83%) React
3 9 (7.83%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.09%) RESTful
5 4 (3.48%) REST
6 3 (2.61%) CSS
6 3 (2.61%) HTML
6 3 (2.61%) Node.js
6 3 (2.61%) PySpark
7 2 (1.74%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.74%) Express.js
7 2 (1.74%) Jest
7 2 (1.74%) JSON
7 2 (1.74%) OAuth
7 2 (1.74%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.87%) Kafka
8 1 (0.87%) NumPy
8 1 (0.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.83%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.96%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.09%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.35%) Wiki
6 3 (2.61%) Clustering
6 3 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.61%) PKI
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Replication
8 1 (0.87%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.30%) Windows
2 11 (9.57%) Unix
3 9 (7.83%) Linux
4 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (45.22%) DevOps
2 50 (43.48%) Agile
3 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
4 26 (22.61%) Migration
5 19 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (10.43%) Coaching
7 12 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (9.57%) ITIL
9 10 (8.70%) Data Governance
10 9 (7.83%) Data Modelling
10 9 (7.83%) Data Protection
10 9 (7.83%) Decision-Making
10 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (7.83%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (7.83%) Project Management
10 9 (7.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 9 (7.83%) Scrum
11 8 (6.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.48%) SQL
2 20 (17.39%) Python
3 14 (12.17%) Java
4 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.96%) Shell Script
5 6 (5.22%) C#
5 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.61%) Bash
7 3 (2.61%) Bicep
8 2 (1.74%) Korn
8 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.87%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.87%) Go
9 1 (0.87%) Perl
9 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) Degree
2 5 (4.35%) CISSP
3 4 (3.48%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) APMG
6 1 (0.87%) CEH
6 1 (0.87%) CISA
6 1 (0.87%) CISM
6 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.87%) HND
6 1 (0.87%) ISEB
6 1 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.87%) MCSE
6 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
1 7 (6.09%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) COBIT
3 5 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) NIST
5 2 (1.74%) GRC
5 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
5 2 (1.74%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.87%) PSD2
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.96%) Active Directory
1 8 (6.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.87%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Terraform
2 10 (8.70%) Ansible
3 8 (6.96%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.22%) Grafana
5 2 (1.74%) SCCM
6 1 (0.87%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.87%) linkerd
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.87%) vRealize
6 1 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) Oracle
3 10 (8.70%) Databricks
4 7 (6.09%) F5
5 5 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.48%) CheckPoint
6 4 (3.48%) Dell
6 4 (3.48%) HP
6 4 (3.48%) VMware
7 3 (2.61%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.61%) Spotify
8 2 (1.74%) Cisco
8 2 (1.74%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.74%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.87%) Adobe
9 1 (0.87%) IBM
9 1 (0.87%) Pega
9 1 (0.87%) Qualys
9 1 (0.87%) Salesforce