Azure Certification Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 107 151
Rank change year-on-year +7 +44 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 16 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.97% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.74% 2.14% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £466 £425 £400
25th Percentile £500 £453 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £664 £578 £584
90th Percentile £683 £591 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 428 515 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.89% 24.87% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 302 374
10th Percentile £175 £179 £182
25th Percentile £309 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -0.55% -2.16%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile £588 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 46 11
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.80 £15.35 £15.87
Median hourly rate £21.00 £19.50 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -10.01% -56.99%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £51.39
90th Percentile £63.08 £61.50 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £40.33 £55.13
% change year-on-year -27.46% -26.85% +23.88%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Scotland

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Scotland

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Scotland

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -9 13 £596 +25.53% 10
Edinburgh 0 2 £476 -17.30% 7
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) AWS
3 7 (43.75%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) iPaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Twilio
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
4 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (18.75%) Financial Institution
6 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Architect
2 11 (68.75%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) EDI
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) JMS
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (43.75%) Architectural Patterns
3 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven
4 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Community of Practice
5 5 (31.25%) Data Security
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
7 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 2 (12.50%) ETL
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (12.50%) Project Management
8 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) AWS Certification
2 9 (56.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (18.75%) Degree
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.25%) Genesys
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase