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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 154 80 105
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 25.00% 12.64% 11.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.10% 32.13% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 51 58
10th Percentile £357 £170 £321
25th Percentile £431 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -2.31%
75th Percentile £625 £530 £575
90th Percentile £681 £588 £750
Scotland median daily rate £550 £468 £485
% change year-on-year +17.65% -3.61% -3.00%
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% -1.14%
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% -

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 290 249 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 47.08% 39.34% 39.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 161 224
10th Percentile £353 £192 £354
25th Percentile £433 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.15% +0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £534 £575
90th Percentile £669 £600 £663
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £477
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.66% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £27.24 £21.84 £15.36
25th Percentile £48.30 £22.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £62.00 £24.09 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +157.37% +43.01% -1.14%
75th Percentile £64.00 £25.23 £17.50
90th Percentile - £28.38 £17.63
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £16.85
% change year-on-year +106.78% +43.54% -18.20%

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 19 February 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 17 (11.04%) Confluence
2 4 (2.60%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.65%) FileNet
4 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 33 (21.43%) AWS
3 20 (12.99%) Power Platform
4 17 (11.04%) GCP
5 12 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.84%) GitHub
7 8 (5.19%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.55%) Azure AI
8 7 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 7 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 6 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.90%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.60%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.60%) IaaS
11 4 (2.60%) SaaS
11 4 (2.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.49%) Firewall
2 6 (3.90%) Network Security
3 3 (1.95%) DHCP
3 3 (1.95%) DNS
3 3 (1.95%) VPN
4 2 (1.30%) LAN
4 2 (1.30%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.30%) WAN
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) Intranet
5 1 (0.65%) IPsec
5 1 (0.65%) SAN
5 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.65%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) Power BI
2 11 (7.14%) Metadata
2 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.60%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.95%) Big Data
6 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.95%) MySQL
6 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.30%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.65%) GIS
8 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.65%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (16.88%) JIRA
2 15 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.90%) GitLab
4 5 (3.25%) Git
5 4 (2.60%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.60%) ERwin
6 3 (1.95%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.95%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.95%) Snyk
7 2 (1.30%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.30%) NUnit
7 2 (1.30%) Selenium
7 2 (1.30%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.30%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.65%) Maven
8 1 (0.65%) Postman
8 1 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.65%) Storybook
8 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 52 (33.77%) Finance
2 40 (25.97%) Public Sector
3 36 (23.38%) Social Skills
4 12 (7.79%) Banking
5 11 (7.14%) Legal
6 9 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.90%) Retail Banking
9 5 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Billing
10 3 (1.95%) Retail
11 2 (1.30%) Back Office
11 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (14.94%) Architect
2 22 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (12.99%) Developer
4 16 (10.39%) Analyst
4 16 (10.39%) Java Engineer
5 10 (6.49%) .NET Developer
6 9 (5.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 9 (5.84%) Security Engineer
6 9 (5.84%) Senior
7 8 (5.19%) Security Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 7 (4.55%) Report Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) DBA
9 6 (3.90%) Design Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.90%) Project Officer
9 6 (3.90%) Project Support Officer
9 6 (3.90%) Support Officer
10 5 (3.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.23%) .NET
2 14 (9.09%) Spring
2 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 12 (7.79%) React
3 12 (7.79%) RESTful
4 5 (3.25%) .NET Core
4 5 (3.25%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.25%) REST
5 4 (2.60%) Jest
5 4 (2.60%) Kafka
5 4 (2.60%) SLSA
6 3 (1.95%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.95%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (1.95%) CSS
6 3 (1.95%) Entity Framework
6 3 (1.95%) HTML
6 3 (1.95%) LINQ
6 3 (1.95%) NgRx
7 2 (1.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.84%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.84%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.19%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.25%) PKI
7 5 (3.25%) Wiki
8 3 (1.95%) Clustering
8 3 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.95%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.30%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.30%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.79%) Windows
2 3 (1.95%) Linux
2 3 (1.95%) Unix
3 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Solaris
4 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (45.45%) DevOps
2 47 (30.52%) Agile
3 42 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 31 (20.13%) Migration
5 25 (16.23%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (15.58%) AI
7 23 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (11.69%) Machine Learning
8 18 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (10.39%) Analytics
9 16 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (8.44%) Mentoring
11 13 (8.44%) Microservices
11 13 (8.44%) OCR
12 12 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (7.79%) Data Governance
12 12 (7.79%) Data Modelling
12 12 (7.79%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (7.79%) UML
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.03%) SQL
2 34 (22.08%) Python
3 21 (13.64%) Java
4 19 (12.34%) C#
5 12 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.55%) Bicep
6 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.25%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.25%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.60%) Bash
9 3 (1.95%) C++
10 2 (1.30%) Korn
10 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.65%) JCL
11 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.65%) VBA
11 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.44%) Degree
2 6 (3.90%) CISSP
3 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.25%) CISM
3 5 (3.25%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (2.60%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.95%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.30%) FFIEC
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) APMG
7 1 (0.65%) CEH
7 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.65%) ISEB
7 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.65%) MCSE
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.49%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (5.84%) QA
4 7 (4.55%) GDPR
5 6 (3.90%) NIST
6 5 (3.25%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.95%) COBIT
8 2 (1.30%) GRC
8 2 (1.30%) NCSC
8 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.65%) PMO
9 1 (0.65%) PSD2
9 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.60%) Docker
3 3 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.30%) Firmware
4 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (18.18%) Terraform
2 9 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.90%) Ansible
4 4 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.95%) SCCM
6 2 (1.30%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.65%) Grafana
7 1 (0.65%) Istio
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.65%) vRealize
7 1 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.79%) Oracle
3 9 (5.84%) Google
4 8 (5.19%) Databricks
4 8 (5.19%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.25%) BiZZdesign
5 5 (3.25%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.60%) F5
6 4 (2.60%) Informatica
6 4 (2.60%) Talend
7 3 (1.95%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.95%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.95%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.95%) Dell
7 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.95%) HP
7 3 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.95%) Spotify
7 3 (1.95%) Thales
7 3 (1.95%) VMware