Microsoft Purview Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 112 136
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.61% 0.063% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £563 £463 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £775 £488 £638
90th Percentile £780 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.37% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

Microsoft Purview 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 568 565 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.69% 35.83% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 363 449
10th Percentile £313 £308 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £588 £528 £588
90th Percentile £651 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £11.84 £19.77 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +55.64% -12.98%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £57.00 £27.04 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Purview relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Microsoft Purview job vacancy trend in Scotland

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microsoft Purview.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Purview in Scotland

Microsoft Purview
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 Microsoft Purview within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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 +13 9 £700 +47.37% 2
Microsoft Purview
UK

Microsoft Purview
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Metadata
2 4 (44.44%) Data Lake
2 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) E-Discovery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Architect
2 2 (22.22%) IT Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
1 4 (44.44%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) API Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Case Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
3 2 (22.22%) Data Security
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) E-Discovery
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Information Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata Management
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (22.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks