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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 151 86 103
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 23.70% 13.40% 11.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.80% 32.21% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 56 59
10th Percentile £356 £210 £355
25th Percentile £417 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.32% -1.84% -2.31%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £588
90th Percentile £683 £598 £712
Scotland median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%
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% -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% -67.78%

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 286 267 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.90% 41.59% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 179 214
10th Percentile £352 £194 £333
25th Percentile £413 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £469 £480
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £588
90th Percentile £671 £600 £663
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £23.36 £21.84 £15.38
25th Percentile £38.60 £22.50 £15.80
Median hourly rate £64.00 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% +41.71% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £25.23 £17.61
90th Percentile - £28.38 £17.68
Scotland median hourly rate £42.50 £24.18 £17.00
% change year-on-year +75.77% +42.24% -28.70%

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 5 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 17 (11.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) Apache
3 3 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.66%) FileNet
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.81%) Azure DevOps
2 35 (23.18%) AWS
3 20 (13.25%) Power Platform
4 19 (12.58%) GCP
5 12 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.96%) GitHub
7 8 (5.30%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.64%) Azure AI
8 7 (4.64%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 7 (4.64%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 7 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.97%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.65%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.65%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.65%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.65%) IaaS
11 4 (2.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.62%) Firewall
2 6 (3.97%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) DHCP
3 3 (1.99%) DNS
3 3 (1.99%) VPN
4 2 (1.32%) LAN
4 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.32%) WAN
5 1 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.66%) Internet
5 1 (0.66%) Intranet
5 1 (0.66%) IPsec
5 1 (0.66%) SAN
5 1 (0.66%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.66%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.95%) Power BI
2 11 (7.28%) Metadata
2 11 (7.28%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.97%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.99%) Big Data
6 3 (1.99%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.99%) MySQL
6 3 (1.99%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.32%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (17.22%) JIRA
2 15 (9.93%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.64%) GitLab
4 6 (3.97%) Git
5 4 (2.65%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.65%) ERwin
6 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.99%) Snyk
7 2 (1.32%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.32%) NUnit
7 2 (1.32%) Postman
7 2 (1.32%) Selenium
7 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.32%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.66%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.66%) Storybook
8 1 (0.66%) Subversion
8 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 51 (33.77%) Finance
2 38 (25.17%) Public Sector
2 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.95%) Banking
4 11 (7.28%) Legal
5 10 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.97%) Retail Banking
8 5 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.99%) Billing
9 3 (1.99%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Back Office
10 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (15.23%) Architect
1 23 (15.23%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (11.92%) Developer
3 17 (11.26%) Java Engineer
4 16 (10.60%) Analyst
5 9 (5.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 9 (5.96%) Security Engineer
5 9 (5.96%) Senior
6 8 (5.30%) .NET Developer
6 8 (5.30%) Security Analyst
7 7 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 7 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Report Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Design Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.97%) Project Officer
8 6 (3.97%) Project Support Officer
8 6 (3.97%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Support Officer
9 5 (3.31%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.23%) .NET
2 15 (9.93%) Spring
2 15 (9.93%) Spring Boot
3 13 (8.61%) React
3 13 (8.61%) RESTful
4 7 (4.64%) REST
5 5 (3.31%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.31%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.65%) CSS
6 4 (2.65%) HTML
6 4 (2.65%) Jest
6 4 (2.65%) Kafka
6 4 (2.65%) Node.js
6 4 (2.65%) SLSA
7 3 (1.99%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.99%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.99%) LINQ
7 3 (1.99%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.96%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.30%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.64%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.64%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.31%) PKI
8 4 (2.65%) Wiki
9 3 (1.99%) Clustering
9 3 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.99%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.61%) Windows
2 3 (1.99%) Unix
3 2 (1.32%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Solaris
4 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (43.71%) DevOps
2 47 (31.13%) Agile
3 41 (27.15%) CI/CD
4 30 (19.87%) Migration
5 26 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (16.56%) AI
7 23 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (12.58%) Machine Learning
9 18 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (10.60%) Analytics
11 15 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (9.27%) Microservices
12 14 (9.27%) OCR
13 13 (8.61%) Mentoring
13 13 (8.61%) Software Engineering
14 12 (7.95%) Data Governance
14 12 (7.95%) Data Modelling
14 12 (7.95%) UML
14 12 (7.95%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.85%) Python
1 33 (21.85%) SQL
2 22 (14.57%) Java
3 18 (11.92%) C#
4 12 (7.95%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.64%) Bicep
7 6 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.31%) Bash
9 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.99%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) Korn
12 1 (0.66%) JCL
12 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
12 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.61%) Degree
2 6 (3.97%) CISSP
3 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.31%) CISM
3 5 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (2.65%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.99%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.99%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) FFIEC
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.66%) APMG
7 1 (0.66%) CEH
7 1 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.66%) ISEB
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.66%) MCSE
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.60%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.62%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (6.62%) QA
3 8 (5.30%) GDPR
4 6 (3.97%) NIST
5 5 (3.31%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.99%) COBIT
7 2 (1.32%) GRC
7 2 (1.32%) NCSC
7 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.66%) PMO
8 1 (0.66%) PSD2
8 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.66%) SLA
8 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.65%) Docker
3 3 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.32%) Firmware
4 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (18.54%) Terraform
2 9 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.97%) Ansible
4 4 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.99%) SCCM
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.66%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.66%) Grafana
7 1 (0.66%) Istio
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.66%) vRealize
7 1 (0.66%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.28%) Oracle
3 10 (6.62%) Google
4 9 (5.96%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.97%) Databricks
6 5 (3.31%) BiZZdesign
6 5 (3.31%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.65%) F5
7 4 (2.65%) Informatica
7 4 (2.65%) Talend
8 3 (1.99%) Black Duck
8 3 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.99%) Checkmarx
8 3 (1.99%) Dell
8 3 (1.99%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.99%) HP
8 3 (1.99%) Spotify
8 3 (1.99%) Tenable
8 3 (1.99%) Thales
8 3 (1.99%) VMware