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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 27 4
Rank change year-on-year -10 -23 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 234 815 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.79% 11.96% 19.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.78% 28.11% 53.87%
Number of salaries quoted 123 459 412
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £38,075
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.09% +1.60%

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 547 2,899 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.22% 42.54% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 291 1,011 871
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,114 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -14 103 £60,000 -7.69% 244
Glasgow +26 67 £62,500 +25.00% 256
Lanarkshire -6 21 £56,500 +24.18% 9
Renfrewshire - 6 £45,000 - 37
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 - 2
Highlands +8 4 £40,000 -
North Lanarkshire +1 4 - -
Stirling -1 3 - -
Fife -10 3 £45,000 +36.36% 21
West Lothian +6 2 - - 21
Aberdeen +3 2 - - 223
West Dunbartonshire -2 2 - -
Inverclyde -10 1 - -
East Ayrshire -27 1 - - 2
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 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 (20.94%) Confluence
2 14 (5.98%) Umbraco
3 12 (5.13%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (2.56%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.28%) Apache
6 3 (1.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.85%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.85%) nginx
7 2 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.43%) IIS
8 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 126 (53.85%) AWS
2 111 (47.44%) GCP
3 25 (10.68%) SaaS
4 20 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.85%) GitHub
8 8 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.56%) IaaS
9 6 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.56%) PaaS
10 5 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.14%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.14%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.98%) DNS
1 14 (5.98%) Firewall
2 13 (5.56%) VPN
3 12 (5.13%) DHCP
4 6 (2.56%) Wireless
5 5 (2.14%) DKIM
5 5 (2.14%) DMARC
5 5 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.71%) BGP
6 4 (1.71%) IPsec
6 4 (1.71%) Network Security
6 4 (1.71%) SSL
6 4 (1.71%) VLAN
7 3 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (1.28%) OSPF
8 2 (0.85%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (31.20%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.98%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.70%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.85%) Power BI
6 7 (2.99%) MySQL
7 5 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.71%) Big Data
9 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.43%) Redis
11 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (25.64%) GitLab
2 53 (22.65%) JIRA
3 52 (22.22%) Maven
4 50 (21.37%) Bitbucket
5 49 (20.94%) Cucumber
5 49 (20.94%) Selenium
5 49 (20.94%) SonarQube
5 49 (20.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (6.41%) Git
7 13 (5.56%) Jenkins
8 9 (3.85%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.28%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.28%) Gradle
9 3 (1.28%) JUnit
9 3 (1.28%) Postman
9 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.85%) Mockito
10 2 (0.85%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 110 (47.01%) Finance
2 74 (31.62%) Banking
3 68 (29.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (17.95%) Social Skills
5 17 (7.26%) Law
6 15 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.98%) Marketing
8 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.71%) Agriculture
9 4 (1.71%) Games
9 4 (1.71%) Retail
10 3 (1.28%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Front Office
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (35.04%) Software Engineer
2 42 (17.95%) Senior
3 34 (14.53%) Developer
3 34 (14.53%) Lead
4 30 (12.82%) Architect
5 19 (8.12%) Senior Software Engineer
6 15 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.98%) Analyst
8 11 (4.70%) Lead Architect
8 11 (4.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.85%) .NET Developer
9 9 (3.85%) Data Architect
10 8 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.42%) Team Leader
11 7 (2.99%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.56%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.56%) ERP Manager
12 6 (2.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (36.32%) React
2 72 (30.77%) CSS
3 64 (27.35%) Spring
4 62 (26.50%) Kafka
4 62 (26.50%) Spring Boot
5 59 (25.21%) HTML
6 53 (22.65%) Hibernate
7 52 (22.22%) JPA
8 51 (21.79%) Redux
9 35 (14.96%) .NET
10 22 (9.40%) RESTful
11 16 (6.84%) .NET Core
12 15 (6.41%) OAuth
13 14 (5.98%) AngularJS
13 14 (5.98%) OpenID
13 14 (5.98%) SAML
14 13 (5.56%) jQuery
15 11 (4.70%) Ajax
15 11 (4.70%) REST
16 9 (3.85%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 53 (22.65%) Enterprise Software
2 52 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.41%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.99%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.71%) Replication
9 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.85%) IoT
11 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.38%) Windows
2 20 (8.55%) Linux
3 11 (4.70%) Unix
3 11 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.56%) VMS
4 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (46.58%) DevOps
2 106 (45.30%) Agile
3 101 (43.16%) CI/CD
4 91 (38.89%) Software Engineering
5 77 (32.91%) Microservices
6 74 (31.62%) Containerisation
7 70 (29.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 65 (27.78%) SDLC
8 65 (27.78%) Test Automation
9 59 (25.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (24.36%) Front End Development
10 57 (24.36%) TDD
11 56 (23.93%) Clean Code
12 52 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
13 34 (14.53%) Analytics
14 31 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (8.55%) MVC
17 17 (7.26%) Artificial Intelligence
18 16 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.03%) SQL
2 86 (36.75%) Java
3 82 (35.04%) JavaScript
4 32 (13.68%) Python
5 29 (12.39%) C#
6 20 (8.55%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.99%) C++
8 7 (2.99%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.14%) Go
9 5 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.71%) C
11 3 (1.28%) Bash
12 2 (0.85%) Elixir
12 2 (0.85%) F#
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
12 2 (0.85%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) JCL
13 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (7.26%) Degree
2 9 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.14%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.28%) CCNP
6 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.85%) ACCA
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.85%) CCNA
7 2 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.85%) PMP
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (24.36%) QA
2 7 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.71%) GDPR
3 4 (1.71%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) JTAG
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (33.33%) Docker
2 13 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 8 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.99%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (37.61%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.69%) Terraform
3 13 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.14%) Grafana
6 4 (1.71%) Ansible
6 4 (1.71%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (1.71%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.28%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.43%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 49 (20.94%) Solace
3 9 (3.85%) VMware
4 7 (2.99%) Google
5 6 (2.56%) Cisco
5 6 (2.56%) Databricks
6 5 (2.14%) Apple
6 5 (2.14%) ArcSight
6 5 (2.14%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.14%) Oracle
7 4 (1.71%) Splunk
8 3 (1.28%) F5
8 3 (1.28%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.85%) Aruba
9 2 (0.85%) Facebook
9 2 (0.85%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.85%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.85%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.85%) Sybase