Azure Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 250 374 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.26% 13.07% 13.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.47% 36.17% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 247 333
10th Percentile £325 £400 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £15.62 £32.63 £27.56
25th Percentile £16.41 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.18% +29.21% -53.65%
75th Percentile £35.74 £60.55 £48.75
90th Percentile £46.54 £66.22 £49.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 747 1,034 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.65% 36.13% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 774 778
10th Percentile £256 £250 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -4 105 £475 -11.75% 59
Edinburgh +3 97 £500 +4.82% 69
Perthshire +4 7 £675 +18.84%
Renfrewshire +3 7 £600 +15.38%
Aberdeen +4 6 £350 -15.15% 14
South Lanarkshire +2 4 £370 -0.11% 1
Stirling -2 3 £420 -2.33%
Highlands - 3 - -
Lanarkshire 0 2 £388 -21.52% 15
Aberdeenshire - 2 £313 - 2
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 16 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.40%) Confluence
5 5 (2.00%) SAS
6 4 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.60%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.40%) WildFly
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Sketch
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Maximo
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (24.80%) AWS
2 48 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (16.40%) Entra ID
4 40 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (15.20%) Power Platform
6 20 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (7.20%) GCP
8 16 (6.40%) SaaS
9 15 (6.00%) Snowflake
10 12 (4.80%) IaaS
11 11 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 9 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.60%) PaaS
13 8 (3.20%) Figma
14 5 (2.00%) OpenShift
15 4 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 3 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
16 3 (1.20%) iPaaS
16 3 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.20%) Firewall
2 11 (4.40%) DNS
3 9 (3.60%) DHCP
3 9 (3.60%) WAN
4 7 (2.80%) LAN
4 7 (2.80%) SAN
5 6 (2.40%) VPN
6 5 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (2.00%) iSCSI
6 5 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.00%) SMTP
7 3 (1.20%) NAS
7 3 (1.20%) Network Security
7 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.80%) BGP
8 2 (0.80%) MPLS
8 2 (0.80%) OSPF
9 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.80%) Power BI
2 15 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.60%) DB2
8 4 (1.60%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.20%) MySQL
9 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.80%) Big Data
10 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.40%) DTS
11 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.40%) Redis
11 1 (0.40%) SSDT
11 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.40%) JIRA
2 7 (2.80%) Selenium
2 7 (2.80%) WebDriver
3 4 (1.60%) Git
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.20%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.20%) Subversion
4 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.80%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) Gradle
5 2 (0.80%) Maven
5 2 (0.80%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) gulp
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.40%) Travis CI
General
1 59 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.20%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.20%) Finance
4 16 (6.40%) Banking
5 12 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.00%) Aviation
9 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (18.00%) Architect
2 33 (13.20%) Developer
2 33 (13.20%) Senior
3 25 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.20%) Analyst
6 14 (5.60%) .NET Developer
6 14 (5.60%) Lead
6 14 (5.60%) Technical Architect
7 12 (4.80%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.00%) React Developer
8 10 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 10 (4.00%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.20%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.20%) Designer
10 8 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.20%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.20%) React
2 25 (10.00%) .NET
3 11 (4.40%) Kafka
4 9 (3.60%) RESTful
4 9 (3.60%) Spring
5 8 (3.20%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.20%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.40%) Middleware
6 6 (2.40%) OpenTracing
7 5 (2.00%) LDAP
8 4 (1.60%) CSS
8 4 (1.60%) Flash
8 4 (1.60%) HTML
8 4 (1.60%) POSIX
8 4 (1.60%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.60%) Web Services
9 3 (1.20%) J2EE
9 3 (1.20%) PySpark
9 3 (1.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.80%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.60%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.20%) Legacy Applications
5 12 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.80%) Wiki
6 10 (4.00%) Client/Server
7 9 (3.60%) PKI
8 7 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.40%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.40%) Clustering
10 5 (2.00%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.00%) SCADA
11 4 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.60%) NVMe
11 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.60%) Smartphone
12 3 (1.20%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.60%) Windows
2 18 (7.20%) Linux
3 14 (5.60%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.20%) Apple iOS
4 13 (5.20%) Unix
5 11 (4.40%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.20%) Android
7 4 (1.60%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.00%) DevOps
2 65 (26.00%) Agile
3 24 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (9.60%) User Experience
4 23 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (8.40%) Data Protection
7 19 (7.60%) CI/CD
7 19 (7.60%) Computer Science
7 19 (7.60%) Project Delivery
8 17 (6.80%) Analytics
8 17 (6.80%) High Availability
8 17 (6.80%) Roadmaps
9 16 (6.40%) SDLC
9 16 (6.40%) Test Automation
10 15 (6.00%) Scrum
11 14 (5.60%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (5.60%) Migration
11 14 (5.60%) Project Management
11 14 (5.60%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.00%) Python
2 36 (14.40%) Java
3 25 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 25 (10.00%) SQL
4 20 (8.00%) C#
4 20 (8.00%) Scala
5 9 (3.60%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.80%) Kotlin
6 7 (2.80%) Perl
7 3 (1.20%) C++
8 2 (0.80%) Bash
8 2 (0.80%) Go
8 2 (0.80%) Ruby
8 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.80%) VBA
8 2 (0.80%) VBScript
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) Elixir
9 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (6.00%) Degree
2 14 (5.60%) Azure Certification
3 12 (4.80%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.80%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.60%) MCSE
6 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.80%) CCNP
7 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.80%) ISEB
7 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) CCNA
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.80%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (4.00%) QA
3 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.40%) PMO
5 4 (1.60%) NIST
6 3 (1.20%) NCSC
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (16.40%) Active Directory
2 26 (10.40%) Docker
3 12 (4.80%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.00%) BitLocker
6 5 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (2.00%) Terminal Services
7 4 (1.60%) GPFS
7 4 (1.60%) NFS
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (11.60%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.20%) Terraform
3 18 (7.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.80%) SCCM
5 6 (2.40%) Ansible
5 6 (2.40%) vCenter Server
5 6 (2.40%) Zipkin
6 5 (2.00%) vMotion
7 4 (1.60%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) Puppet
9 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.40%) Grafana
9 1 (0.40%) Nagios
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.40%) Databricks
3 14 (5.60%) VMware
4 11 (4.40%) Oracle
5 10 (4.00%) Citrix
6 8 (3.20%) Google
7 6 (2.40%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.00%) Apple
8 5 (2.00%) Cisco
8 5 (2.00%) HP
8 5 (2.00%) Sybase
9 4 (1.60%) Adobe
9 4 (1.60%) Brocade
9 4 (1.60%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.60%) EMC
9 4 (1.60%) IBM
9 4 (1.60%) Informatica
9 4 (1.60%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.60%) NetApp
9 4 (1.60%) Veritas