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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 148 94 104
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 23.27% 15.46% 12.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.30% 35.34% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 60 59
10th Percentile £355 £242 £355
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.60% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £625 £538 £619
90th Percentile £686 £591 £750
Scotland median daily rate £539 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +13.37% -1.04% -4.00%
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 283 266 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.50% 43.75% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 174 199
10th Percentile £350 £193 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £479
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -3.18% +0.84%
75th Percentile £606 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £23.36 £21.84 £15.80
25th Percentile £38.60 £22.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% +41.71% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £25.23 £17.50
90th Percentile - £28.38 £17.61
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
% change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -62.22%

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 20 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 14 (9.46%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (30.41%) Azure DevOps
2 28 (18.92%) AWS
3 20 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.14%) GCP
5 13 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.08%) GitHub
7 8 (5.41%) Azure AI
7 8 (5.41%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 8 (5.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 8 (5.41%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (4.05%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.05%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.05%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.05%) Serverless
9 6 (4.05%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.41%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) Network Security
3 4 (2.70%) DNS
4 3 (2.03%) DHCP
4 3 (2.03%) VPN
5 2 (1.35%) LAN
5 2 (1.35%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.35%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.68%) Internet
6 1 (0.68%) Intranet
6 1 (0.68%) IPsec
6 1 (0.68%) SAN
6 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.68%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) Metadata
2 11 (7.43%) Power BI
2 11 (7.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.05%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.03%) Big Data
6 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.03%) MySQL
6 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.35%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (14.86%) JIRA
2 14 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.73%) GitLab
4 5 (3.38%) Git
5 4 (2.70%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.70%) ERwin
6 3 (2.03%) Snyk
7 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.35%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.35%) NUnit
7 2 (1.35%) Postman
7 2 (1.35%) Selenium
7 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.35%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.68%) Storybook
8 1 (0.68%) Subversion
8 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (29.73%) Finance
2 42 (28.38%) Public Sector
3 41 (27.70%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.76%) Banking
6 9 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.08%) Legal
7 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.03%) Billing
9 2 (1.35%) Back Office
9 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (16.22%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (15.54%) Architect
3 20 (13.51%) Analyst
4 18 (12.16%) Java Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Developer
6 12 (8.11%) Senior
7 9 (6.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 8 (5.41%) Report Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Security Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Security Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Azure Software Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Design Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Project Officer
10 6 (4.05%) Project Support Officer
10 6 (4.05%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.89%) .NET
2 15 (10.14%) React
2 15 (10.14%) Spring
2 15 (10.14%) Spring Boot
3 13 (8.78%) RESTful
4 7 (4.73%) REST
5 5 (3.38%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.70%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.70%) CSS
6 4 (2.70%) HTML
6 4 (2.70%) Kafka
6 4 (2.70%) Node.js
6 4 (2.70%) SLSA
7 3 (2.03%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.03%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.03%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.03%) Jest
7 3 (2.03%) LINQ
7 3 (2.03%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.08%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.73%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.73%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.38%) PKI
7 4 (2.70%) Wiki
8 3 (2.03%) Clustering
8 3 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (2.03%) Unix
2 3 (2.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.35%) Linux
3 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.68%) Solaris
4 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (43.24%) DevOps
2 42 (28.38%) Agile
3 38 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 26 (17.57%) AI
5 25 (16.89%) Migration
6 23 (15.54%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (13.51%) Machine Learning
9 15 (10.14%) OCR
9 15 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (9.46%) Analytics
10 14 (9.46%) Data Modelling
10 14 (9.46%) Microservices
10 14 (9.46%) Software Engineering
11 13 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.11%) Data Protection
12 12 (8.11%) Roadmaps
12 12 (8.11%) UML
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.62%) Python
1 32 (21.62%) SQL
2 22 (14.86%) Java
3 18 (12.16%) C#
4 12 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.05%) Bicep
6 6 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.38%) Bash
8 4 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.03%) C++
10 2 (1.35%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.68%) JCL
11 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.68%) VBA
11 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.78%) Degree
2 7 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.05%) CISSP
4 5 (3.38%) CISM
4 5 (3.38%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.70%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.03%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.35%) FFIEC
7 2 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.35%) MCSE
8 1 (0.68%) APMG
8 1 (0.68%) CEH
8 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.68%) ISEB
8 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (6.76%) QA
3 7 (4.73%) GDPR
4 6 (4.05%) NIST
5 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.35%) GRC
6 2 (1.35%) NCSC
6 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.68%) COBIT
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.68%) PMO
7 1 (0.68%) PSD2
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.03%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.35%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (16.22%) Terraform
2 8 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.70%) Ansible
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.03%) SCCM
5 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.76%) Google
2 10 (6.76%) OpenAI
3 9 (6.08%) Oracle
4 5 (3.38%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (2.70%) VMware
6 3 (2.03%) Black Duck
6 3 (2.03%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.03%) Checkmarx
6 3 (2.03%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.03%) Informatica
6 3 (2.03%) Spotify
6 3 (2.03%) Talend
6 3 (2.03%) Tenable
6 3 (2.03%) Thales
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco
7 2 (1.35%) Databricks
7 2 (1.35%) F5
7 2 (1.35%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.35%) Red Hat