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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 233 247 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 14.64% 11.35% 13.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.58% 34.12% 37.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 167 245
10th Percentile £363 £308 £400
25th Percentile £414 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £21.18 £18.71 £55.38
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.13 £55.94
Median hourly rate £23.00 £34.24 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -32.82% -42.00% +32.64%
75th Percentile £24.00 £44.52 £62.91
90th Percentile £24.11 £50.06 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £36.25 £35.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year +3.57% -41.57% +10.93%

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 620 724 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.97% 33.26% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 497 749
10th Percentile £308 £243 £250
25th Percentile £406 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -3.16% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £21.40 £15.32 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.23 £45.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% -71.92% +83.48%
75th Percentile £24.14 £18.54 £66.50
90th Percentile £26.28 £31.27 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.19 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.45% -39.47% +59.09%

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 9 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 9 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 -3 117 £485 +5.43% 94
Edinburgh 0 90 £466 -4.36% 93
Aberdeen +2 4 £475 +35.71% 25
Perthshire -2 4 £375 -28.57%
Stirling +1 3 £400 -4.76%
Renfrewshire +8 1 £525 -12.50% 41
Lanarkshire +1 1 - - 11
Dundee - 1 - - 7
West Lothian - 1 £500 - 1
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 23 (9.87%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.29%) JBoss
3 3 (1.29%) OpenROAD
3 3 (1.29%) WordPress
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.29%) Sketch
4 1 (0.43%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.29%) Primavera
2 2 (0.86%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.43%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.75%) AWS
2 57 (24.46%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (12.45%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (11.16%) Power Platform
5 22 (9.44%) Entra ID
6 21 (9.01%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (7.30%) GitHub
8 15 (6.44%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.44%) SaaS
9 14 (6.01%) GCP
10 13 (5.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (4.72%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.29%) IaaS
12 10 (4.29%) PaaS
12 10 (4.29%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.00%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (2.58%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.72%) SAN
2 10 (4.29%) NAS
3 9 (3.86%) Firewall
4 6 (2.58%) Network Security
4 6 (2.58%) VPN
4 6 (2.58%) WAN
5 5 (2.15%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (2.15%) Wireless
6 4 (1.72%) BGP
6 4 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.72%) EIGRP
6 4 (1.72%) OSPF
6 4 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.29%) DNS
8 2 (0.86%) DHCP
8 2 (0.86%) IPsec
8 2 (0.86%) SSL
9 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.73%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.01%) RDBMS
4 12 (5.15%) Oracle Database
5 11 (4.72%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.29%) Power BI
7 8 (3.43%) DB2
8 7 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.58%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.15%) MySQL
10 5 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.86%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.86%) PowerCenter
13 2 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (16.74%) Git
2 24 (10.30%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.01%) JIRA
4 8 (3.43%) GitLab
4 8 (3.43%) JUnit
5 7 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (1.72%) Mockito
7 4 (1.72%) Postman
7 4 (1.72%) Selenium
8 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.29%) Subversion
8 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.29%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.86%) Ant
9 2 (0.86%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.86%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 84 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 61 (26.18%) Finance
2 61 (26.18%) Public Sector
3 43 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.01%) Banking
5 11 (4.72%) Back Office
6 9 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Front Office
9 4 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.29%) Legal
11 2 (0.86%) Electronics
11 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (19.74%) Developer
2 40 (17.17%) Architect
3 35 (15.02%) Analyst
4 24 (10.30%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (9.87%) Senior
6 12 (5.15%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.29%) Designer
8 9 (3.86%) Lead
8 9 (3.86%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.43%) .NET Developer
9 8 (3.43%) Java Developer
9 8 (3.43%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.43%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.00%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.58%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (2.58%) Python Engineer
11 6 (2.58%) React Developer
11 6 (2.58%) Release Manager
11 6 (2.58%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.01%) .NET
2 15 (6.44%) AngularJS
2 15 (6.44%) React
2 15 (6.44%) REST
3 11 (4.72%) CSS
3 11 (4.72%) HTML
4 10 (4.29%) Node.js
5 8 (3.43%) JSON
5 8 (3.43%) Spring
6 7 (3.00%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.00%) PySpark
6 7 (3.00%) RESTful
6 7 (3.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.15%) Kafka
8 4 (1.72%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.72%) Express.js
8 4 (1.72%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.72%) XML
9 3 (1.29%) Java SE
9 3 (1.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.72%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.58%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.58%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (2.58%) Wiki
4 5 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.72%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.72%) Clustering
5 4 (1.72%) CMDB
5 4 (1.72%) Replication
6 3 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.29%) PKI
6 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.31%) Windows
2 35 (15.02%) Linux
3 22 (9.44%) Unix
4 20 (8.58%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.15%) AIX
6 5 (2.15%) Solaris
7 4 (1.72%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.86%) Android
9 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.77%) DevOps
2 86 (36.91%) Agile
3 58 (24.89%) CI/CD
3 58 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (9.01%) SDLC
6 20 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (8.58%) Test Automation
7 18 (7.73%) ITIL
7 18 (7.73%) Software Engineering
8 17 (7.30%) Scrum
8 17 (7.30%) Waterfall
9 16 (6.87%) Data Protection
9 16 (6.87%) Roadmaps
10 15 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (6.44%) ETL
10 15 (6.44%) Project Management
11 14 (6.01%) Decision-Making
11 14 (6.01%) Migration
11 14 (6.01%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.75%) SQL
2 50 (21.46%) Python
3 30 (12.88%) Java
4 22 (9.44%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.01%) C#
6 19 (8.15%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.29%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.72%) Bash
10 4 (1.72%) Bicep
10 4 (1.72%) C++
11 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.29%) VBA
11 3 (1.29%) VBScript
12 2 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.86%) Go
12 2 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.86%) Perl
13 1 (0.43%) JCL
Qualifications
1 28 (12.02%) Degree
2 18 (7.73%) Azure Certification
3 13 (5.58%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.58%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.72%) CCNP
7 4 (1.72%) CISSP
7 4 (1.72%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.29%) GCIH
8 3 (1.29%) ISEB
8 3 (1.29%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.29%) PMP
8 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.15%) Disclosure Scotland
2 14 (6.01%) QA
3 6 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) NIST
5 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.29%) PERC
5 3 (1.29%) PMO
5 3 (1.29%) SLA
5 3 (1.29%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (11.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.72%) Docker
3 6 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.15%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.72%) RACF
5 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.29%) vSphere
7 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) GPFS
8 1 (0.43%) NFS
8 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (13.30%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (6.44%) Terraform
4 11 (4.72%) Ansible
4 11 (4.72%) Oracle RMAN
5 10 (4.29%) NetBackup
6 5 (2.15%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle Flashback
7 4 (1.72%) SCCM
8 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.86%) Grafana
9 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.43%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.43%) linkerd
10 1 (0.43%) Podman
10 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.59%) Oracle
3 11 (4.72%) Red Hat
3 11 (4.72%) Veritas
3 11 (4.72%) VMware
4 9 (3.86%) Citrix
4 9 (3.86%) Databricks
5 8 (3.43%) Cisco
5 8 (3.43%) CyberArk
5 8 (3.43%) Google
6 6 (2.58%) IBM
7 5 (2.15%) Dell
7 5 (2.15%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.15%) Sybase
8 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.29%) Adobe
9 3 (1.29%) ArcSight
9 3 (1.29%) Informatica
9 3 (1.29%) SAP