Azure Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 25 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 -21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 241 794 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.83% 11.57% 19.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.48% 29.09% 53.61%
Number of salaries quoted 120 457 388
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,950 £37,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £84,339
UK median annual salary £60,500 £58,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.42% -6.40% -

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 581 2,729 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.88% 39.77% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 277 1,012 840
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,772
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -4.97% +1.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £81,800 £82,699
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in Scotland.

Salary trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 June 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 -13 95 £62,500 -3.85% 87
Glasgow +16 80 £62,500 +19.05% 115
Lanarkshire -7 21 £56,500 +25.56% 12
Renfrewshire - 6 £45,000 - 27
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 - 2
Highlands +8 4 £40,000 - 3
North Lanarkshire +2 4 - - 1
Stirling -1 3 - -
Fife -6 3 £45,000 +36.36% 18
West Lothian +8 2 - - 18
Aberdeen +4 2 - - 6
West Dunbartonshire -3 2 - -
Dundee -3 1 £37,500 -26.83% 13
Inverclyde -8 1 - - 1
East Ayrshire -27 1 - - 2
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 3
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Azure
UK

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 49 (20.33%) Confluence
2 12 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.98%) Umbraco
3 8 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.07%) Apache
6 3 (1.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 135 (56.02%) AWS
2 120 (49.79%) GCP
3 25 (10.37%) SaaS
4 19 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (4.56%) GitHub
7 10 (4.15%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.90%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.49%) IaaS
10 6 (2.49%) PaaS
11 5 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.07%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.66%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.22%) DNS
1 15 (6.22%) Firewall
2 13 (5.39%) VPN
3 12 (4.98%) DHCP
4 6 (2.49%) Wireless
5 5 (2.07%) DKIM
5 5 (2.07%) DMARC
5 5 (2.07%) Network Security
5 5 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.66%) BGP
6 4 (1.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (1.66%) IPsec
6 4 (1.66%) SSL
6 4 (1.66%) VLAN
7 3 (1.24%) OSPF
8 2 (0.83%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.83%) Modbus
8 2 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (29.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.22%) NoSQL
3 14 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.56%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.90%) MySQL
8 6 (2.49%) Power BI
9 5 (2.07%) Big Data
10 4 (1.66%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.66%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (24.90%) GitLab
2 53 (21.99%) JIRA
3 52 (21.58%) Maven
4 50 (20.75%) Bitbucket
5 49 (20.33%) Cucumber
5 49 (20.33%) Selenium
5 49 (20.33%) SonarQube
5 49 (20.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (7.88%) Git
7 14 (5.81%) Jenkins
8 6 (2.49%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.24%) Gradle
9 3 (1.24%) JUnit
10 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.83%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.83%) Mockito
10 2 (0.83%) Postman
10 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.41%) Snyk
General
1 121 (50.21%) Finance
2 79 (32.78%) Banking
3 78 (32.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (16.60%) Social Skills
5 29 (12.03%) Law
6 22 (9.13%) Marketing
7 15 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.07%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.07%) Legal
8 5 (2.07%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.66%) Games
9 4 (1.66%) Retail
10 3 (1.24%) Electronics
10 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.24%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Front Office
12 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (38.17%) Software Engineer
2 44 (18.26%) Senior
3 41 (17.01%) Lead
4 32 (13.28%) Architect
5 29 (12.03%) Developer
6 20 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.39%) Analyst
9 11 (4.56%) Lead Architect
9 11 (4.56%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.15%) Data Architect
10 10 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Java Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.32%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (36.93%) React
2 70 (29.05%) CSS
3 66 (27.39%) Spring
4 64 (26.56%) Spring Boot
5 61 (25.31%) Kafka
6 59 (24.48%) HTML
7 53 (21.99%) Hibernate
8 52 (21.58%) JPA
9 51 (21.16%) Redux
10 33 (13.69%) .NET
11 22 (9.13%) RESTful
12 19 (7.88%) OAuth
13 18 (7.47%) OpenID
13 18 (7.47%) SAML
14 17 (7.05%) .NET Core
14 17 (7.05%) AngularJS
15 13 (5.39%) jQuery
16 12 (4.98%) REST
17 11 (4.56%) Ajax
18 8 (3.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.99%) Enterprise Software
2 51 (21.16%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.47%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.64%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.73%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.07%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.66%) Replication
9 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.24%) IoT
10 3 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.77%) Windows
2 21 (8.71%) Linux
3 11 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.15%) Unix
5 6 (2.49%) VMS
5 6 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.66%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (47.72%) Agile
2 108 (44.81%) DevOps
3 105 (43.57%) CI/CD
4 103 (42.74%) Software Engineering
5 77 (31.95%) Microservices
6 75 (31.12%) Containerisation
7 71 (29.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (29.05%) SDLC
9 67 (27.80%) Test Automation
10 60 (24.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (23.65%) Front End Development
11 57 (23.65%) TDD
12 56 (23.24%) Clean Code
13 51 (21.16%) Performance Optimisation
14 39 (16.18%) Analytics
15 32 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (8.30%) MVC
18 19 (7.88%) Artificial Intelligence
18 19 (7.88%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 102 (42.32%) SQL
2 93 (38.59%) Java
3 80 (33.20%) JavaScript
4 35 (14.52%) Python
5 27 (11.20%) C#
6 22 (9.13%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.39%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.73%) Go
8 9 (3.73%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.32%) C++
10 6 (2.49%) C
11 5 (2.07%) Bash
11 5 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.83%) Elixir
12 2 (0.83%) F#
12 2 (0.83%) Ruby
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) JCL
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (6.22%) Degree
2 12 (4.98%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.73%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.32%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.66%) CCNP
8 3 (1.24%) CCNA
8 3 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) ACCA
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.83%) PMP
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.24%) QA
2 7 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.66%) GDPR
4 4 (1.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.83%) JTAG
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (33.61%) Docker
2 13 (5.39%) Hyper-V
3 9 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.90%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.83%) Firmware
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (39.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.54%) Terraform
3 13 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.90%) Grafana
6 6 (2.49%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.07%) Ansible
8 4 (1.66%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.41%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.41%) Puppet
11 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 49 (20.33%) Solace
3 11 (4.56%) Google
4 10 (4.15%) VMware
5 7 (2.90%) Oracle
6 6 (2.49%) Cisco
6 6 (2.49%) Databricks
6 6 (2.49%) Facebook
6 6 (2.49%) Splunk
7 5 (2.07%) Apple
7 5 (2.07%) ArcSight
7 5 (2.07%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.66%) F5
8 4 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.24%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.83%) Aruba
10 2 (0.83%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 2 (0.83%) Sybase