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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 193 143
Rank change year-on-year +64 -50 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 16 12 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.63% 0.27% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.40% 1.56% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 23
10th Percentile - £39,100 £48,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £58,750 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £62,500 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year -51.20% -24.53% +57.75%
75th Percentile £40,188 £66,250 £96,539
90th Percentile £73,675 £78,250 £116,789
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £68,344
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.89% -2.37%

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 471 770 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.61% 17.62% 24.29%
Number of salaries quoted 178 311 421
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,034
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £50,309 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% +0.34% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,625 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -3.45% +5.45%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +81 11 £30,500 -51.20% 10
Edinburgh +15 5 £30,500 -51.20% 12
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) GitHub
4 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
1 9 (56.25%) Law
2 8 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (50.00%) Marketing
3 6 (37.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Trainee
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Trainee Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Trainee Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) CSS
1 6 (37.50%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Observability
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Agile
4 1 (6.25%) Business Development
4 1 (6.25%) Change Management
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Project Planning
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Grafana
2 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet