Azure Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 224 243 349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.77% 11.36% 12.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.30% 33.33% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 168 224
10th Percentile £366 £309 £400
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £616 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £22.65 £18.71 £29.28
25th Percentile £22.88 £24.13 £46.62
Median hourly rate £23.50 £34.24 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.36% -42.00% +32.64%
75th Percentile £23.88 £44.52 £62.91
90th Percentile £23.95 £50.06 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £61.85
% change year-on-year +7.14% -43.41% +15.61%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 617 729 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.92% 34.07% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 510 726
10th Percentile £307 £226 £250
25th Percentile £408 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -3.16% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £589 £634 £636
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 11
10th Percentile £17.31 £15.94 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.65 £16.50 £26.63
Median hourly rate £23.50 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% -71.92% +83.48%
75th Percentile £25.10 £19.57 £66.50
90th Percentile £27.07 £34.48 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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 -2 119 £496 +7.83% 106
Edinburgh 0 82 £466 -6.75% 131
Aberdeen 0 4 £475 +35.71% 35
Stirling -2 3 £400 -4.76%
Perthshire -2 3 £375 -28.57%
Renfrewshire +7 1 £525 -12.50% 46
Lanarkshire +1 1 - - 12
Dundee - 1 - - 14
West Lothian - 1 £500 - 2
Azure
UK

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.34%) Confluence
3 3 (1.34%) JBoss
3 3 (1.34%) OpenROAD
3 3 (1.34%) WordPress
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Camunda
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.34%) Sketch
4 1 (0.45%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.34%) Primavera
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.45%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.23%) AWS
1 61 (27.23%) Azure DevOps
2 25 (11.16%) Power Platform
3 24 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.82%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.04%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (8.04%) GitHub
6 16 (7.14%) SaaS
7 15 (6.70%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (5.80%) GCP
10 11 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.91%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.46%) IaaS
11 10 (4.46%) PaaS
11 10 (4.46%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.68%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.91%) Firewall
1 11 (4.91%) SAN
2 10 (4.46%) NAS
3 6 (2.68%) Network Security
3 6 (2.68%) VPN
3 6 (2.68%) WAN
4 5 (2.23%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (2.23%) Wireless
5 4 (1.79%) BGP
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.79%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.79%) OSPF
5 4 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.34%) DNS
7 2 (0.89%) DHCP
7 2 (0.89%) IPsec
7 2 (0.89%) SSL
8 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.27%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 13 (5.80%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.36%) Oracle Database
6 9 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.57%) DB2
7 8 (3.57%) Power BI
8 7 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.13%) MySQL
8 7 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (1.34%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.34%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.34%) Power Query
11 3 (1.34%) Redis
12 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.89%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 39 (17.41%) Git
2 26 (11.61%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.82%) JIRA
4 9 (4.02%) GitLab
4 9 (4.02%) JUnit
5 8 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.23%) Mockito
6 5 (2.23%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (1.79%) Postman
7 4 (1.79%) Selenium
8 3 (1.34%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.34%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.34%) PyCharm
8 3 (1.34%) Subversion
8 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.34%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.89%) Maven
General
1 85 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 61 (27.23%) Finance
3 57 (25.45%) Public Sector
4 41 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.48%) Banking
6 11 (4.91%) Back Office
7 9 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Front Office
10 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.34%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Electronics
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.45%) Marketing
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (20.98%) Developer
2 35 (15.63%) Analyst
3 34 (15.18%) Architect
4 23 (10.27%) Senior
5 22 (9.82%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.46%) Data Engineer
6 10 (4.46%) Designer
7 9 (4.02%) .NET Developer
7 9 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.02%) Java Developer
8 8 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (3.57%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.57%) Python Developer
8 8 (3.57%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.13%) Python Engineer
10 6 (2.68%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (2.68%) Lead
10 6 (2.68%) React Developer
10 6 (2.68%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.68%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.27%) .NET
2 17 (7.59%) AngularJS
2 17 (7.59%) React
3 15 (6.70%) REST
4 10 (4.46%) CSS
4 10 (4.46%) HTML
4 10 (4.46%) Node.js
5 9 (4.02%) JSON
5 9 (4.02%) Spring
6 8 (3.57%) ASP.NET
6 8 (3.57%) RESTful
6 8 (3.57%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.68%) .NET Framework
7 6 (2.68%) Kafka
7 6 (2.68%) PySpark
8 5 (2.23%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.79%) Blazor
9 4 (1.79%) Express.js
9 4 (1.79%) XML
9 4 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.68%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (2.68%) Wiki
4 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.79%) Clustering
5 4 (1.79%) CMDB
5 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.79%) Replication
5 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.34%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.09%) Windows
2 33 (14.73%) Linux
3 22 (9.82%) Unix
4 20 (8.93%) Windows Server
5 9 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.23%) AIX
6 5 (2.23%) Solaris
7 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.89%) Android
9 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (41.96%) DevOps
2 88 (39.29%) Agile
3 61 (27.23%) CI/CD
4 57 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (10.27%) Test Automation
6 21 (9.38%) SDLC
7 20 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (8.04%) ITIL
10 17 (7.59%) Roadmaps
10 17 (7.59%) Scrum
11 16 (7.14%) Data Protection
11 16 (7.14%) Waterfall
12 15 (6.70%) ETL
13 14 (6.25%) Project Management
13 14 (6.25%) Software Engineering
13 14 (6.25%) User Experience
14 13 (5.80%) Analytics
14 13 (5.80%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.21%) SQL
2 50 (22.32%) Python
3 33 (14.73%) Java
4 23 (10.27%) C#
5 21 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.46%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.23%) Bash
10 5 (2.23%) Bicep
11 4 (1.79%) C++
12 3 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.34%) VBA
12 3 (1.34%) VBScript
13 2 (0.89%) Go
13 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.89%) Perl
14 1 (0.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 25 (11.16%) Degree
2 18 (8.04%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.68%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.79%) CCNP
7 4 (1.79%) CISSP
7 4 (1.79%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.34%) GCIH
8 3 (1.34%) ISEB
8 3 (1.34%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.34%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.34%) PMP
8 3 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 14 (6.25%) QA
3 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.79%) GDPR
4 4 (1.79%) NIST
5 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.34%) PERC
5 3 (1.34%) PMO
5 3 (1.34%) SLA
5 3 (1.34%) WCAG
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (11.61%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.91%) Docker
3 6 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.23%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.23%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.79%) RACF
5 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.45%) GPFS
7 1 (0.45%) NFS
7 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.04%) Terraform
3 13 (5.80%) Ansible
3 13 (5.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.91%) Oracle RMAN
5 10 (4.46%) NetBackup
6 5 (2.23%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (1.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (1.79%) Oracle Flashback
7 4 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.79%) SCCM
8 3 (1.34%) Grafana
8 3 (1.34%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.45%) linkerd
10 1 (0.45%) Podman
10 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.18%) Oracle
3 11 (4.91%) Veritas
4 8 (3.57%) Cisco
4 8 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 8 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.57%) VMware
5 7 (3.13%) Databricks
5 7 (3.13%) Google
6 6 (2.68%) Citrix
6 6 (2.68%) IBM
7 5 (2.23%) Dell
7 5 (2.23%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.23%) Sybase
8 4 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.34%) Adobe
9 3 (1.34%) ArcSight
9 3 (1.34%) Autodesk
9 3 (1.34%) Informatica