Azure Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft Azure
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 106 128 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.53% 14.45% 12.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.30% 42.38% 41.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 74 95
10th Percentile £301 £413 £325
25th Percentile £400 £449 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £530 £490
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +8.16% +15.29%
75th Percentile £514 £613 £554
90th Percentile £591 £684 £633
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -7.50% +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £56.68 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £57.33 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £59.03 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.10 -
90th Percentile - £60.37 -
Scotland median hourly rate £34.24 £59.03 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.00% +32.64% -53.65%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 309 302 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.52% 34.09% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 214 233
10th Percentile £209 £363 £214
25th Percentile £363 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +10.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £510 £600 £550
90th Percentile £600 £674 £600
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £15.20 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £18.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +59.09% -70.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £23.00
90th Percentile - £59.83 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -56.93%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 12 (11.32%) Apache Spark
2 10 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.77%) SAS
5 2 (1.89%) Apache
6 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.43%) Sketch
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Maximo
1 1 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 45 (42.45%) AWS
2 22 (20.75%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (19.81%) Entra ID
4 16 (15.09%) Power Platform
5 15 (14.15%) GCP
6 11 (10.38%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (10.38%) Snowflake
7 10 (9.43%) Figma
8 8 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (5.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (5.66%) SaaS
10 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.77%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.83%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.83%) IaaS
13 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
14 1 (0.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (3.77%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (3.77%) iSCSI
2 4 (3.77%) SAN
3 3 (2.83%) DNS
3 3 (2.83%) Firewall
4 1 (0.94%) BGP
4 1 (0.94%) DHCP
4 1 (0.94%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.94%) IPsec
4 1 (0.94%) MPLS
4 1 (0.94%) Network Security
4 1 (0.94%) OSPF
4 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.94%) VoIP
4 1 (0.94%) VPN
4 1 (0.94%) WAN
4 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.49%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.55%) Power BI
4 6 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.77%) DB2
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.89%) MySQL
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.94%) Big Data
8 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.94%) DTS
8 1 (0.94%) Impala
8 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (0.94%) JUnit
3 1 (0.94%) Mockito
General
1 17 (16.04%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.15%) Banking
3 13 (12.26%) Finance
4 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.81%) Developer
2 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (15.09%) Java Developer
3 10 (9.43%) Designer
3 10 (9.43%) UX Designer
4 8 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (6.60%) Analyst
5 7 (6.60%) Python Engineer
5 7 (6.60%) Senior
6 6 (5.66%) Architect
6 6 (5.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) IT Support
7 5 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Administrator
8 4 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) Spring Boot
2 13 (12.26%) Kafka
2 13 (12.26%) React
2 13 (12.26%) Spring
3 12 (11.32%) RESTful
4 8 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (7.55%) OpenTracing
5 4 (3.77%) Flash
5 4 (3.77%) POSIX
6 3 (2.83%) REST
6 3 (2.83%) Web Services
7 2 (1.89%) .NET
7 2 (1.89%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.89%) NumPy
7 2 (1.89%) Pandas
7 2 (1.89%) PySpark
7 2 (1.89%) Spring Security
8 1 (0.94%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.32%) Data Structures
3 11 (10.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.55%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.77%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.77%) NVMe
6 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.32%) Windows
2 11 (10.38%) Apple iOS
3 10 (9.43%) Android
3 10 (9.43%) Unix
4 9 (8.49%) Linux
5 7 (6.60%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.77%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.64%) DevOps
2 22 (20.75%) Agile
3 15 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (14.15%) Microservices
3 15 (14.15%) User Stories
4 14 (13.21%) Computer Science
5 13 (12.26%) SDLC
5 13 (12.26%) User Experience
6 12 (11.32%) UX Design
6 12 (11.32%) Visualisation
7 11 (10.38%) GitOps
8 10 (9.43%) Data Engineering
8 10 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (9.43%) DataOps
8 10 (9.43%) End-to-End Testing
8 10 (9.43%) MLOps
8 10 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
8 10 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (8.49%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.13%) Python
2 31 (29.25%) Java
3 20 (18.87%) Scala
4 11 (10.38%) PowerShell
4 11 (10.38%) SQL
5 9 (8.49%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.72%) Perl
7 3 (2.83%) C#
8 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.94%) Bash
9 1 (0.94%) Elixir
9 1 (0.94%) Go
9 1 (0.94%) Ruby
9 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.66%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (2.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) CCNA
6 1 (0.94%) CCNP
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (26.42%) Docker
2 16 (15.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.77%) GPFS
3 4 (3.77%) NFS
4 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.09%) Terraform
3 10 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.55%) Zipkin
5 4 (3.77%) Ansible
5 4 (3.77%) Grafana
5 4 (3.77%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (2.83%) SCCM
7 2 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.32%) Databricks
3 10 (9.43%) Oracle
4 7 (6.60%) Google
5 6 (5.66%) Adobe
5 6 (5.66%) Splunk
6 5 (4.72%) Sybase
7 4 (3.77%) Brocade
7 4 (3.77%) EMC
7 4 (3.77%) IBM
7 4 (3.77%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.77%) NetApp
7 4 (3.77%) Veritas
8 2 (1.89%) VMware
8 2 (1.89%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.94%) Apple
9 1 (0.94%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds