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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 118 87 106
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.59% 14.05% 13.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.88% 35.37% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 45 58
10th Percentile £350 £403 £295
25th Percentile £423 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £456
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +1.37% -1.35%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £538
90th Percentile £643 £638 £658
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.55
25th Percentile - - £21.91
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £24.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £36.66 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 - £22.23
% change year-on-year - - -61.33%

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 320 246 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.27% 39.74% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 141 175
10th Percentile £238 £413 £170
25th Percentile £400 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -3.69%
75th Percentile £556 £528 £538
90th Percentile £609 £581 £645
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £18.38
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile - - £23.59
90th Percentile £36.66 - £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £15.09 £18.69
% change year-on-year +4.77% -19.25% -57.29%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Edinburgh

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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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Edinburgh

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 (8.47%) Confluence
2 9 (7.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) nginx
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.58%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (22.88%) AWS
3 22 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (17.80%) Power Platform
5 17 (14.41%) GCP
6 12 (10.17%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.78%) SaaS
8 7 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.93%) IaaS
8 7 (5.93%) OneDrive
8 7 (5.93%) PaaS
9 6 (5.08%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.08%) PowerApps
10 5 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.39%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.39%) OCI
12 3 (2.54%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.71%) Firewall
2 9 (7.63%) DNS
2 9 (7.63%) VPN
3 8 (6.78%) Network Security
4 6 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (3.39%) Internet
5 4 (3.39%) IPsec
5 4 (3.39%) LAN
5 4 (3.39%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.39%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.69%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.69%) NGFW
6 2 (1.69%) SSL
7 1 (0.85%) DHCP
7 1 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.63%) Power BI
3 8 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.54%) Power Query
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.69%) Metadata
6 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.85%) DataStage
7 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) JIRA
2 4 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
General
1 42 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.12%) Finance
3 28 (23.73%) Public Sector
4 16 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.78%) Banking
6 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Front Office
9 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 20 (16.95%) Analyst
1 20 (16.95%) Architect
2 13 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (7.63%) Senior
4 8 (6.78%) IT Support
4 8 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.93%) Business Analyst
5 7 (5.93%) Consultant
5 7 (5.93%) DBA
5 7 (5.93%) Developer
5 7 (5.93%) IT Analyst
6 6 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.08%) Data Architect
6 6 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.08%) Service Analyst
6 6 (5.08%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (4.24%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (4.24%) Service Desk Support
7 5 (4.24%) Service Desk Support Analyst
7 5 (4.24%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.17%) Terraform
2 6 (5.08%) .NET
3 3 (2.54%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.54%) Kafka
3 3 (2.54%) React
4 2 (1.69%) ADO
4 2 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.69%) JSON
4 2 (1.69%) REST
4 2 (1.69%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.69%) Spring
4 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.85%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) Middleware
5 1 (0.85%) SOAP
5 1 (0.85%) WinForms
5 1 (0.85%) WPF
5 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Cloud Native
1 14 (11.86%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.93%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.39%) PKI
6 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.58%) Windows
2 10 (8.47%) Linux
3 9 (7.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.69%) Android
4 2 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.29%) DevOps
2 27 (22.88%) Agile
3 24 (20.34%) CI/CD
4 19 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (15.25%) AI
5 18 (15.25%) Migration
6 17 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (14.41%) Data Protection
7 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.56%) Roadmaps
7 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (9.32%) ITIL
9 11 (9.32%) Scrum
10 10 (8.47%) Cloud Security
10 10 (8.47%) Data Modelling
10 10 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (8.47%) Observability
11 9 (7.63%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.34%) Python
2 23 (19.49%) SQL
3 13 (11.02%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.08%) Bicep
5 4 (3.39%) Bash
5 4 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.54%) C#
6 3 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.69%) Go
7 2 (1.69%) Java
7 2 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) R
8 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (5.08%) Degree
3 5 (4.24%) MCSE
4 4 (3.39%) CCNP
4 4 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.39%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.39%) PMP
5 3 (2.54%) CISSP
5 3 (2.54%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) CBAP
6 2 (1.69%) CCSK
6 2 (1.69%) CISM
6 2 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CRISC
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.02%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (5.93%) QA
3 6 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.54%) GDPR
4 3 (2.54%) PMO
5 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (17.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.24%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.24%) Grafana
3 5 (4.24%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.39%) SCCM
5 2 (1.69%) Ansible
5 2 (1.69%) Argo
5 2 (1.69%) Istio
5 2 (1.69%) linkerd
6 1 (0.85%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 46 (38.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.63%) Cisco
3 6 (5.08%) Databricks
3 6 (5.08%) F5
3 6 (5.08%) Oracle
3 6 (5.08%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.24%) VMware
5 4 (3.39%) Citrix
5 4 (3.39%) Splunk
6 3 (2.54%) Apple
6 3 (2.54%) Google
6 3 (2.54%) Meraki
6 3 (2.54%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.54%) RedGate
6 3 (2.54%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) Siemens
7 1 (0.85%) webMethods
82 Azure jobs in Edinburgh