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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 100 94 137
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 16.13% 12.14% 13.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.32% 32.53% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 57 80
10th Percentile £413 £321 £323
25th Percentile £449 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £620 £500 £525
90th Percentile £625 £555 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £477
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.46% -
Scotland median hourly rate - £22.23 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +25.47% -

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 248 289 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.00% 37.34% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 173 270
10th Percentile £412 £191 £250
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.96% -2.37%
75th Percentile £550 £520 £538
90th Percentile £625 £587 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% +24.15% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.58% +19.31% -

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 25 October 2025.

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 6 (6.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Apache
2 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.00%) FileNet
2 1 (1.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.00%) AWS
2 24 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (21.00%) GCP
4 15 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 13 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (6.00%) OCI
8 5 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (4.00%) Azure AI
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 4 (4.00%) Collibra
9 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.00%) GitHub
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.00%) Apigee
11 2 (2.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (3.00%) Network Security
2 3 (3.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) Power BI
2 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.00%) Metadata
3 3 (3.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.00%) Power Query
5 1 (1.00%) Redis
5 1 (1.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.00%) JIRA
4 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.00%) git-flow
5 2 (2.00%) Postman
5 2 (2.00%) Selenium
5 2 (2.00%) webpack
6 1 (1.00%) GitLab
6 1 (1.00%) Maven
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (31.00%) Finance
2 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.00%) Banking
5 8 (8.00%) Legal
6 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.00%) Retail Banking
8 4 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.00%) Retail
9 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (15.00%) Developer
2 14 (14.00%) Architect
3 10 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Lead
5 6 (6.00%) .NET Developer
5 6 (6.00%) Analyst
5 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 4 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (4.00%) Security Analyst
7 4 (4.00%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.00%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Implementation Project Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Project Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) .NET
2 12 (12.00%) RESTful
3 11 (11.00%) React
4 5 (5.00%) Spring
4 5 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.00%) CSS
5 3 (3.00%) HTML
5 3 (3.00%) Node.js
5 3 (3.00%) REST
6 2 (2.00%) Express.js
6 2 (2.00%) Jest
6 2 (2.00%) JSON
6 2 (2.00%) PySpark
6 2 (2.00%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.00%) YAML
7 1 (1.00%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.00%) Blazor
7 1 (1.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.00%) PKI
4 4 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (4.00%) Wiki
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.00%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.00%) Replication
6 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.00%) Windows
2 9 (9.00%) Unix
3 7 (7.00%) Linux
4 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.00%) DevOps
2 41 (41.00%) Agile
3 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (19.00%) Migration
5 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (12.00%) Data Protection
10 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 9 (9.00%) API Design
11 9 (9.00%) Microservices
11 9 (9.00%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (8.00%) Containerisation
12 8 (8.00%) Incident Response
12 8 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (8.00%) Project Delivery
12 8 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.00%) Python
2 21 (21.00%) SQL
3 13 (13.00%) Java
4 9 (9.00%) C#
5 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.00%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.00%) Bash
8 3 (3.00%) Perl
9 2 (2.00%) Bicep
10 1 (1.00%) BeanShell
10 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.00%) Go
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.00%) CISSP
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.00%) CISA
4 3 (3.00%) CISM
4 3 (3.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) APMG
6 1 (1.00%) HND
6 1 (1.00%) ISEB
6 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.00%) MCSE
6 1 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (6.00%) QA
2 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.00%) COBIT
3 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.00%) NIST
5 2 (2.00%) NCSC
5 2 (2.00%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.00%) PSD2
6 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) ISA Server
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Terraform
2 12 (12.00%) Ansible
3 10 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.00%) Grafana
5 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.00%) SCCM
7 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.00%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.00%) linkerd
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.00%) vRealize
8 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Oracle
3 9 (9.00%) Databricks
4 6 (6.00%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.00%) F5
5 4 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.00%) Dell
5 4 (4.00%) HP
5 4 (4.00%) VMware
6 3 (3.00%) ForgeRock
6 3 (3.00%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.00%) Cisco
7 2 (2.00%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.00%) Qualys
7 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.00%) Tenable
8 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.00%) Meraki
8 1 (1.00%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.00%) Talend