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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 139 134
Rank change year-on-year +54 -5 -20
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 54 16 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.95% 0.51% 1.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.56% 2.17% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 24 8 25
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,675 £46,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £32,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -53.20% +15.75%
75th Percentile £32,750 £39,250 £97,500
90th Percentile - £58,900 £117,236
UK median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% -10.45% -7.59%

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 565 738 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.35% 23.68% 22.65%
Number of salaries quoted 230 276 368
10th Percentile £26,475 £31,279 £31,175
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £52,683 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.41% +0.35% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,743 £65,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +0.88%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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
Edinburgh +19 21 £30,500 -25.15% 11
Glasgow +17 17 £30,500 -6.15% 10
Aberdeen - 10 £30,000 - 8
Dundee - 6 - -
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 (3.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (46.30%) AWS
3 20 (37.04%) GitHub
4 12 (22.22%) Azure AI
4 12 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
6 1 (1.85%) IaaS
6 1 (1.85%) PaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (42.59%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) Power BI
1 12 (22.22%) Tableau
2 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (40.74%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (42.59%) Multimedia
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.41%) Law
4 4 (7.41%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Analyst
1 24 (44.44%) Junior
1 24 (44.44%) Junior Analyst
2 23 (42.59%) Trainee
3 12 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 12 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 12 (22.22%) Developer
3 12 (22.22%) Junior Data Analyst
3 12 (22.22%) Junior Security Analyst
3 12 (22.22%) Security Analyst
3 12 (22.22%) Trainee Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Trainee Software Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Trainee Web Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Web Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (42.59%) CSS
1 23 (42.59%) HTML
2 3 (5.56%) React
2 3 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (3.70%) .NET
3 2 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) Mentoring
2 33 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (25.93%) AI
4 12 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (9.26%) Web Development
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (3.70%) Black-Box Testing
8 2 (3.70%) CI/CD
8 2 (3.70%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (3.70%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (3.70%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (3.70%) Observability
8 2 (3.70%) Service-Level Objective
8 2 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (3.70%) Software Engineering
9 1 (1.85%) Business Case
9 1 (1.85%) Customer Service
9 1 (1.85%) Incident Response
9 1 (1.85%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 39 (72.22%) Python
2 23 (42.59%) JavaScript
3 14 (25.93%) SQL
4 11 (20.37%) R
5 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.70%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (44.44%) AWS Certification
1 24 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (42.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 12 (22.22%) CompTIA CySA+
3 12 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.85%) CCNA
4 1 (1.85%) CCNP
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CISM
4 1 (1.85%) CISSP
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Grafana
3 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (22.22%) ForeScout
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) Fortinet