Azure Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 213 113 232
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 18.85% 12.67% 17.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 61.92% 37.42% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 60 85 196
10th Percentile £28,175 £46,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £29,563 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £98,474 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -5.98%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 344 302 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 30.44% 33.86% 44.97%
Number of salaries quoted 175 180 474
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £30,725
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,063 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,425
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Azure job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Azure
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Edinburgh

Azure
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 1 - -
Azure
Scotland

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (2.35%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (2.35%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (2.35%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (5.63%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.88%) Markit EDM
2 4 (1.88%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 61 (28.64%) GitHub
2 53 (24.88%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (16.90%) Power Platform
4 28 (13.15%) GitHub Copilot
4 28 (13.15%) Snowflake
5 26 (12.21%) Azure AI
6 25 (11.74%) AWS
6 25 (11.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (11.27%) Entra ID
7 24 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (10.33%) dbt
9 15 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (5.63%) OCI
11 11 (5.16%) OneDrive
11 11 (5.16%) SaaS
12 7 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.29%) GCP
13 6 (2.82%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.69%) Internet
2 7 (3.29%) DHCP
2 7 (3.29%) DNS
3 6 (2.82%) Firewall
4 5 (2.35%) Broadband
4 5 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.02%) Power BI
2 28 (13.15%) Tableau
3 14 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.88%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.88%) Metadata
5 3 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (7.04%) Git
2 14 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.63%) Oracle Forms
4 11 (5.16%) JIRA
5 4 (1.88%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.88%) ERwin
6 3 (1.41%) fastlane
7 2 (0.94%) Storybook
7 2 (0.94%) Xcode
8 1 (0.47%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Appium
8 1 (0.47%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.47%) Gradle
8 1 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.47%) TestRail
8 1 (0.47%) XCTest
8 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (48.36%) Social Skills
2 79 (37.09%) Finance
3 15 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.69%) Multimedia
4 10 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (3.76%) Marketing
6 5 (2.35%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.88%) Legal
8 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.94%) Games
9 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.47%) Advertising
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (26.29%) Analyst
2 46 (21.60%) Junior
3 45 (21.13%) Senior
4 40 (18.78%) Junior Analyst
5 20 (9.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 20 (9.39%) Data Analyst
5 20 (9.39%) Junior Data Analyst
5 20 (9.39%) Junior Security Analyst
5 20 (9.39%) Security Analyst
6 18 (8.45%) Applications Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) IT Support
8 15 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) Ethical Hacker
8 15 (7.04%) Support Analyst
9 12 (5.63%) Salesforce Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Developer
10 11 (5.16%) IT Analyst
10 11 (5.16%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.39%) OAuth
1 20 (9.39%) RESTful
1 20 (9.39%) SOAP
2 16 (7.51%) .NET
3 15 (7.04%) REST
4 14 (6.57%) JSON
5 12 (5.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 12 (5.63%) OAuth2
6 11 (5.16%) CSS
6 11 (5.16%) HTML
7 8 (3.76%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.76%) SAML
8 7 (3.29%) React
9 6 (2.82%) ADO
9 6 (2.82%) OpenAPI
9 6 (2.82%) Swagger
9 6 (2.82%) XML
9 6 (2.82%) YAML
10 5 (2.35%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.62%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.86%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.98%) Cyberattack
4 13 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.41%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.74%) Windows
2 9 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.29%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.35%) Linux
4 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.41%) Debian
5 3 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.94%) Android
6 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.80%) CI/CD
2 69 (32.39%) DevOps
3 68 (31.92%) Asset Management
3 68 (31.92%) Coaching
4 62 (29.11%) Agile
5 61 (28.64%) Mentoring
6 60 (28.17%) AI
7 48 (22.54%) Cybersecurity
8 45 (21.13%) Test Automation
9 38 (17.84%) Observability
10 37 (17.37%) Data Modelling
11 34 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (12.68%) Analytics
14 24 (11.27%) Clean Code
15 22 (10.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (9.39%) Root Cause Analysis
17 19 (8.92%) Migration
17 19 (8.92%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 78 (36.62%) Python
2 74 (34.74%) SQL
3 27 (12.68%) PowerShell
4 20 (9.39%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.04%) Java
6 13 (6.10%) C#
7 12 (5.63%) Apex Code
7 12 (5.63%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.63%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.82%) Bicep
8 6 (2.82%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.35%) R
10 3 (1.41%) Scala
10 3 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.94%) Bash
11 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (38.50%) Azure Certification
2 20 (9.39%) CompTIA CySA+
2 20 (9.39%) CompTIA Security+
3 16 (7.51%) CEH
3 16 (7.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.82%) CCNA
6 6 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.82%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (1.88%) Degree
8 3 (1.41%) CISM
8 3 (1.41%) CISSP
8 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) CBAP
10 1 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.16%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.29%) QA
3 6 (2.82%) GDPR
4 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.35%) WCAG
5 3 (1.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) GxP
6 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) NCSC
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.23%) Docker
3 3 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.94%) vSphere
5 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (19.72%) Terraform
2 12 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.82%) Grafana
4 6 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.41%) Ansible
6 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.47%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 134 (62.91%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.25%) ForeScout
3 12 (5.63%) Oracle
3 12 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.69%) Ab Initio
4 10 (4.69%) Cisco
5 7 (3.29%) Databricks
6 6 (2.82%) Okta
7 5 (2.35%) Dell
7 5 (2.35%) HP
8 4 (1.88%) IBM
9 3 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.94%) Google
11 1 (0.47%) Apple
11 1 (0.47%) FIS
11 1 (0.47%) Meraki
11 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.47%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow