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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 145 95 100
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 22.24% 15.75% 12.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.70% 36.26% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 62 56
10th Percentile £355 £251 £363
25th Percentile £413 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £625 £538 £638
90th Percentile £686 £589 £750
Scotland median daily rate £537 £475 £478
% change year-on-year +13.05% -0.52% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £21.40 £15.36
25th Percentile - £22.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £23.50 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +172.34% +39.51% -4.94%
75th Percentile - £24.14 £17.50
90th Percentile - £26.28 £17.63
Scotland median hourly rate £57.00 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +137.50% +35.44% -68.50%

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 286 262 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.87% 43.45% 39.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 174 198
10th Percentile £350 £198 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -3.28% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £597
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £23.36 £21.84 £15.80
25th Percentile £38.60 £22.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% +41.71% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £25.23 £17.50
90th Percentile - £28.38 £17.61
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
% change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -69.09%

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 27 March 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 15 (10.34%) Confluence
2 4 (2.76%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.34%) Azure DevOps
2 26 (17.93%) AWS
3 20 (13.79%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.34%) GCP
5 14 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.52%) Azure AI
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 8 (5.52%) GitHub
6 8 (5.52%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (4.14%) Azure Functions
7 6 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.14%) Serverless
7 6 (4.14%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.52%) Firewall
2 6 (4.14%) Network Security
3 5 (3.45%) DNS
4 4 (2.76%) VPN
5 3 (2.07%) DHCP
6 2 (1.38%) LAN
6 2 (1.38%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.38%) WAN
6 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.69%) Internet
7 1 (0.69%) Intranet
7 1 (0.69%) IPsec
7 1 (0.69%) SAN
7 1 (0.69%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.28%) Metadata
2 11 (7.59%) Power BI
2 11 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.14%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.07%) Big Data
6 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.07%) MySQL
6 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.38%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (15.17%) JIRA
2 14 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.14%) GitLab
4 5 (3.45%) Git
5 4 (2.76%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.76%) ERwin
6 3 (2.07%) Snyk
7 2 (1.38%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.38%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.38%) NUnit
7 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.69%) Postman
8 1 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.69%) Selenium
8 1 (0.69%) Storybook
8 1 (0.69%) Subversion
8 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (30.34%) Finance
2 41 (28.28%) Public Sector
3 40 (27.59%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.21%) Banking
5 9 (6.21%) Legal
6 8 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Billing
7 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.38%) Back Office
8 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.69%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (16.55%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (15.86%) Architect
3 21 (14.48%) Analyst
4 18 (12.41%) Java Engineer
5 15 (10.34%) Developer
6 11 (7.59%) Senior
7 9 (6.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 8 (5.52%) Report Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) Security Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) Security Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Software Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Design Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Project Officer
10 6 (4.14%) Project Support Officer
10 6 (4.14%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.24%) .NET
2 15 (10.34%) React
2 15 (10.34%) Spring
2 15 (10.34%) Spring Boot
3 11 (7.59%) RESTful
4 7 (4.83%) REST
5 5 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.76%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.76%) CSS
6 4 (2.76%) HTML
6 4 (2.76%) Kafka
6 4 (2.76%) Node.js
6 4 (2.76%) SLSA
7 3 (2.07%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.07%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.07%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.07%) Jest
7 3 (2.07%) LINQ
7 3 (2.07%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Data Protection Act
1 11 (7.59%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.21%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.83%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.76%) PKI
7 4 (2.76%) Wiki
8 3 (2.07%) Clustering
8 3 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.97%) Windows
2 3 (2.07%) Unix
2 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.38%) Linux
3 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.69%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.69%) Solaris
4 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.76%) DevOps
2 41 (28.28%) Agile
3 35 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 26 (17.93%) AI
5 24 (16.55%) Migration
6 23 (15.86%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (13.79%) Machine Learning
8 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (10.34%) OCR
10 14 (9.66%) Data Modelling
11 13 (8.97%) Analytics
11 13 (8.97%) Data Protection
11 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (8.97%) Microservices
11 13 (8.97%) Software Engineering
11 13 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.28%) Roadmaps
12 12 (8.28%) UML
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.38%) SQL
2 29 (20.00%) Python
3 22 (15.17%) Java
4 18 (12.41%) C#
5 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.14%) Bicep
7 6 (4.14%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.45%) Bash
9 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.07%) C++
11 2 (1.38%) Korn
12 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.69%) JCL
12 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.69%) VBA
12 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.97%) Degree
2 7 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.14%) CISSP
4 5 (3.45%) CISM
4 5 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.76%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.07%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.38%) FFIEC
7 2 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.38%) MCSE
8 1 (0.69%) APMG
8 1 (0.69%) CEH
8 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (6.21%) QA
4 6 (4.14%) GDPR
5 5 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.45%) NIST
6 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.38%) GRC
6 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.38%) PMO
7 1 (0.69%) COBIT
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.69%) NCSC
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (8.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.07%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.69%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (16.55%) Terraform
2 8 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.76%) Ansible
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.07%) SCCM
4 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.69%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Istio
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.69%) vRealize
5 1 (0.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.90%) Google
2 10 (6.90%) OpenAI
3 9 (6.21%) Oracle
4 5 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (2.76%) VMware
6 3 (2.07%) Black Duck
6 3 (2.07%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.07%) Checkmarx
6 3 (2.07%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.07%) Informatica
6 3 (2.07%) Spotify
6 3 (2.07%) Talend
6 3 (2.07%) Tenable
7 2 (1.38%) Cisco
7 2 (1.38%) F5
7 2 (1.38%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.38%) Thales
8 1 (0.69%) Atlassian