Azure Certification Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 137 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +9
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 22 15 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.84% 0.45% 1.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.98% 2.12% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 26
10th Percentile £27,650 £29,150 £46,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £32,500 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -60.76% +84.04%
75th Percentile £32,750 £63,750 £97,260
90th Percentile - £64,750 £117,236
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £68,344
% change year-on-year -4.00% -8.55% -2.99%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 553 706 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 21.11% 21.30% 22.85%
Number of salaries quoted 199 281 394
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £39,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% - +8.81%
75th Percentile £61,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,500 £74,700
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.45% +0.10% +4.55%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in Scotland

Azure Certification
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +8 13 £30,500 -6.15% 10
Edinburgh +11 7 £30,500 -51.20% 16
Aberdeen - 2 £30,000 - 9
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) AWS
3 12 (54.55%) GitHub
4 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (54.55%) Multimedia
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (36.36%) Law
2 8 (36.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Trainee
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Software Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Trainee Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Trainee Software Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Site Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Trainee Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Web Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) CSS
1 12 (54.55%) HTML
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Ubuntu
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 10 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Black-Box Testing
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (18.18%) Observability
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Service-Level Objective
4 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Web Development
6 1 (4.55%) AI
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) R
4 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
5 4 (18.18%) Java
5 4 (18.18%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (54.55%) AWS Certification
2 12 (54.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Grafana
2 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 4 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) Fortinet