Azure Developer Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Microsoft Azure Developer daily rate in Scotland is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 128 156
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Developer 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.045% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.048% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile £475 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £525 £388 £625
90th Percentile - - £650
UK median daily rate £563 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -3.02% +0.87% +6.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Azure Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Developer in Scotland

Azure Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Developer in Scotland

Azure Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 2 - -
Edinburgh +5 1 £500 +33.33%
Azure Developer
UK

Azure Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Azure Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering

Azure Developer Skill Set
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle