Azure Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 90 91 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.47% 11.08% 13.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.71% 30.23% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 48 119
10th Percentile £242 £321 £400
25th Percentile £409 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +2.63% -1.30%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £609 £750 £680
Scotland median daily rate £475 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £21.18 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.10 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.97 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.02% - -
75th Percentile £24.00 £16.85 -
90th Percentile £24.11 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £34.24 £59.03
% change year-on-year -32.82% -42.00% +32.64%

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 267 301 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.93% 36.66% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 189 380
10th Percentile £239 £256 £230
25th Percentile £413 £410 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £613
Scotland median daily rate £467 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +1.52% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £21.40 £15.66 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.50 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% - -
75th Percentile £24.14 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £26.28 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £23.50 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +38.24% -71.92% +83.48%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.22%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.33%) WordPress
4 2 (2.22%) Confluence
5 1 (1.11%) Apache
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.11%) IIS
5 1 (1.11%) JBoss
5 1 (1.11%) nginx
5 1 (1.11%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (14.44%) Power Platform
4 12 (13.33%) AWS
5 8 (8.89%) IaaS
5 8 (8.89%) PaaS
6 7 (7.78%) SaaS
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (6.67%) GCP
8 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.44%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.33%) CloudFront
10 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.33%) Google Analytics
10 3 (3.33%) iPaaS
10 3 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) SSL
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) HTTP
3 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.11%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (7.78%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.44%) MySQL
6 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.33%) Power BI
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.22%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.22%) Power Query
8 2 (2.22%) PowerCenter
8 2 (2.22%) Redis
9 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Git
2 6 (6.67%) JIRA
3 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.44%) Postman
3 4 (4.44%) Selenium
4 3 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.33%) GitLab
4 3 (3.33%) Subversion
4 3 (3.33%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.33%) WebDriver
5 2 (2.22%) Ant
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (2.22%) webpack
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.11%) JUnit
6 1 (1.11%) MSTest
6 1 (1.11%) Ranorex
6 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 36 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 25 (27.78%) Finance
4 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Back Office
7 2 (2.22%) Electronics
7 2 (2.22%) Front Office
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) Developer
2 14 (15.56%) Architect
3 9 (10.00%) Senior
3 9 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) .NET Developer
4 7 (7.78%) Lead
5 5 (5.56%) Analyst
5 5 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Exchange Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Exchange Support
5 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 4 (4.44%) DBA
6 4 (4.44%) QA Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) React Developer
6 4 (4.44%) Security Specialist
6 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) .NET
2 8 (8.89%) REST
3 7 (7.78%) AngularJS
3 7 (7.78%) JSON
4 6 (6.67%) React
5 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 5 (5.56%) RESTful
6 4 (4.44%) CSS
6 4 (4.44%) HTML
6 4 (4.44%) Node.js
7 3 (3.33%) Web Services
7 3 (3.33%) XML
7 3 (3.33%) YAML
8 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (2.22%) JSON Schema
8 2 (2.22%) OAuth
8 2 (2.22%) PySpark
8 2 (2.22%) SOAP
8 2 (2.22%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (6.67%) Wiki
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.33%) CMDB
4 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.22%) iPhone
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Linux
3 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.22%) AIX
6 2 (2.22%) Solaris
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) DevOps
2 31 (34.44%) Agile
3 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
4 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (10.00%) Analytics
5 9 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (10.00%) Migration
6 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (8.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 8 (8.89%) Scrum
7 7 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (7.78%) Data Modelling
7 7 (7.78%) Project Management
7 7 (7.78%) Roadmaps
7 7 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (7.78%) Time Management
8 6 (6.67%) Kanban
8 6 (6.67%) Software Engineering
8 6 (6.67%) Test Automation
8 6 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.44%) SQL
2 13 (14.44%) Python
3 10 (11.11%) C#
4 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.89%) Java
6 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.44%) Bash
8 4 (4.44%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.33%) C++
9 3 (3.33%) VBA
9 3 (3.33%) VBScript
10 2 (2.22%) Bicep
10 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.11%) Go
11 1 (1.11%) JCL
11 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.33%) ISEB
3 3 (3.33%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.22%) CISSP
4 2 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.22%) MCSE
4 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.11%) CEH
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) GCFA
5 1 (1.11%) GCIH
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.33%) PERC
3 3 (3.33%) WCAG
4 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.11%) GDPR
5 1 (1.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.11%) PMO
5 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.44%) Docker
4 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.33%) vSphere
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.11%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.56%) Ansible
3 5 (5.56%) Terraform
4 3 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.33%) SCCM
5 2 (2.22%) Data Guard
5 2 (2.22%) Grafana
5 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.11%) linkerd
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.33%) Oracle
3 8 (8.89%) Citrix
4 6 (6.67%) VMware
5 5 (5.56%) Google
5 5 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.44%) Databricks
7 3 (3.33%) Cisco
7 3 (3.33%) Informatica
7 3 (3.33%) SAP
8 2 (2.22%) Commvault
8 2 (2.22%) Dell
8 2 (2.22%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.22%) IBM
8 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.22%) Teradata
9 1 (1.11%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.11%) IDERA
9 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.11%) TSYS