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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 85 100 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.04% 11.64% 10.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.60% 30.77% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 54 88
10th Percentile £366 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £552
90th Percentile £625 £668 £618
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £489
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.93% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £20.08 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +13.29% -62.69%
Scotland median hourly rate - £24.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -57.95% +27.38%

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 269 325 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.26% 37.83% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 199 365
10th Percentile £299 £211 £232
25th Percentile £425 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -3.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £525
90th Percentile £591 £658 £589
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £14.53 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -22.96%
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.77 -
90th Percentile - £20.25 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +24.82% -63.24% +14.20%

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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 2 July 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 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.53%) WordPress
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.18%) IIS
3 1 (1.18%) JBoss
3 1 (1.18%) nginx
3 1 (1.18%) OpenROAD
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.65%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (20.00%) AWS
3 13 (15.29%) Power Platform
4 12 (14.12%) GCP
5 10 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (7.06%) IaaS
6 6 (7.06%) PaaS
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.88%) SaaS
7 5 (5.88%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.71%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.53%) OCI
9 3 (3.53%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (8.24%) Relational Database
4 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 5 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.53%) MariaDB
7 3 (3.53%) Metadata
7 3 (3.53%) MySQL
7 3 (3.53%) Power BI
7 3 (3.53%) Power Query
7 3 (3.53%) Redis
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.35%) PowerCenter
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.18%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Git
2 5 (5.88%) JIRA
3 4 (4.71%) Postman
3 4 (4.71%) Selenium
4 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.53%) GitLab
4 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.35%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.35%) Subversion
5 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.35%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.18%) JUnit
6 1 (1.18%) MSTest
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.18%) Ranorex
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 31 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 30 (35.29%) Public Sector
3 26 (30.59%) Finance
4 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Banking
6 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.53%) Legal
9 2 (2.35%) Back Office
9 2 (2.35%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Front Office
10 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Architect
2 13 (15.29%) Developer
3 9 (10.59%) Analyst
4 6 (7.06%) Lead
4 6 (7.06%) Technical Architect
5 5 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 5 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Senior
5 5 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 4 (4.71%) DBA
6 4 (4.71%) Security Analyst
6 4 (4.71%) Security Specialist
7 3 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (3.53%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (3.53%) QA Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Tester
7 3 (3.53%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) .NET
2 11 (12.94%) RESTful
3 10 (11.76%) React
4 6 (7.06%) JSON
4 6 (7.06%) REST
5 5 (5.88%) YAML
6 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.71%) Web Services
7 3 (3.53%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.53%) CSS
7 3 (3.53%) HTML
7 3 (3.53%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (3.53%) XML
8 2 (2.35%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.35%) Blazor
8 2 (2.35%) PySpark
8 2 (2.35%) SOAP
8 2 (2.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.24%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.06%) PKI
4 5 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.71%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (4.71%) Wiki
6 3 (3.53%) CMDB
6 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.53%) Legacy Code
6 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.53%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.35%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.35%) NHS
7 2 (2.35%) Replication
8 1 (1.18%) Clustering
8 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.88%) Linux
4 3 (3.53%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.35%) AIX
5 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.18%) Solaris
6 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) DevOps
2 32 (37.65%) Agile
3 26 (30.59%) CI/CD
4 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (12.94%) Mentoring
7 10 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (11.76%) Migration
7 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.59%) Analytics
8 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (10.59%) Roadmaps
9 8 (9.41%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (9.41%) Scrum
9 8 (9.41%) Security Operations
9 8 (9.41%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.24%) API Design
10 7 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (8.24%) Data Protection
10 7 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.06%) SQL
2 16 (18.82%) Python
3 14 (16.47%) Java
4 13 (15.29%) C#
5 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
6 6 (7.06%) Bash
7 5 (5.88%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.71%) Perl
9 3 (3.53%) Bicep
9 3 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.35%) C++
10 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.35%) VBA
10 2 (2.35%) VBScript
11 1 (1.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Degree
2 3 (3.53%) CISA
2 3 (3.53%) CISM
2 3 (3.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 3 (3.53%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.35%) CISSP
3 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.35%) ISEB
3 2 (2.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.35%) MCSE
3 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) CEH
4 1 (1.18%) GCFA
4 1 (1.18%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (8.24%) QA
3 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.53%) PERC
4 3 (3.53%) WCAG
5 2 (2.35%) NIST
5 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.18%) COBIT
6 1 (1.18%) GDPR
6 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.18%) PMO
6 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.88%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.18%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.06%) Ansible
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.88%) SCCM
3 5 (5.88%) Terraform
4 4 (4.71%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.53%) Grafana
5 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.18%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.18%) linkerd
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (31.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Oracle
3 5 (5.88%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco
5 3 (3.53%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.53%) Informatica
5 3 (3.53%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.35%) Dell
6 2 (2.35%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.35%) IBM
6 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) Tenable
6 2 (2.35%) Teradata
6 2 (2.35%) VMware
7 1 (1.18%) Commvault
7 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.18%) Qualys
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.18%) SonicWALL