Azure Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure 251 335 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.71% 12.54% 13.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.91% 34.08% 39.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 213 325
10th Percentile £313 £380 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £575
90th Percentile £622 £650 £646
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £16.91 £29.28 £41.15
25th Percentile £19.64 £46.62 £41.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £59.03 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year -59.03% +30.76% -43.22%
75th Percentile £38.97 £62.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £47.84 £67.17 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £54.00
% change year-on-year -43.41% +14.54% +4.85%

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 contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 719 983 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.55% 36.79% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 729 843
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £369 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £627 £621 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £16.22 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -40.66%
75th Percentile £21.64 £66.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £30.09 £76.00 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Edinburgh +4 102 £450 -5.26% 74
Glasgow 0 100 £450 -15.09% 51
Perthshire +3 9 £525 -7.57% 1
Aberdeen +3 5 £350 -15.15% 16
Renfrewshire 0 5 £513 -1.44% 1
South Lanarkshire +8 3 £370 -0.11%
Stirling -2 3 £420 -2.33% 1
Highlands - 3 - - 1
Lanarkshire 0 2 £388 -21.52% 21
Aberdeenshire - 2 £313 - 3
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 17 (6.77%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.39%) Confluence
5 4 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.59%) Apache
6 2 (0.80%) ArcGIS
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 10 (3.98%) Sketch
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.39%) Maximo
2 3 (1.20%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.51%) AWS
2 56 (22.31%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (16.73%) Entra ID
4 39 (15.54%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (14.74%) Power Platform
6 20 (7.97%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (7.57%) GCP
8 14 (5.58%) Snowflake
9 11 (4.38%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (3.98%) Figma
10 10 (3.98%) SaaS
11 9 (3.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 9 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.19%) IaaS
12 8 (3.19%) PaaS
13 7 (2.79%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.99%) PowerApps
15 4 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 3 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
16 3 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.58%) Firewall
2 7 (2.79%) DNS
2 7 (2.79%) WAN
3 6 (2.39%) LAN
3 6 (2.39%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (1.99%) DHCP
5 4 (1.59%) SSL
5 4 (1.59%) VPN
6 3 (1.20%) NAS
6 3 (1.20%) SAN
6 3 (1.20%) SMTP
7 2 (0.80%) MPLS
7 2 (0.80%) Network Security
7 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.40%) BGP
8 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.40%) IPsec
8 1 (0.40%) OSPF
8 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.37%) Power BI
2 15 (5.98%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.18%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.39%) Big Data
7 5 (1.99%) MySQL
8 4 (1.59%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.59%) Impala
8 4 (1.59%) Spark SQL
8 4 (1.59%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.40%) Metadata
10 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.40%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 19 (7.57%) JIRA
2 14 (5.58%) Git
3 10 (3.98%) Selenium
4 7 (2.79%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.20%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.20%) Subversion
7 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.80%) JUnit
7 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.80%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.40%) Appium
8 1 (0.40%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) Mockito
General
1 64 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.51%) Public Sector
3 35 (13.94%) Finance
4 18 (7.17%) Banking
5 11 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.99%) Aviation
7 5 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.99%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.80%) Legal
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (17.93%) Developer
2 27 (10.76%) Senior
3 25 (9.96%) Analyst
3 25 (9.96%) Architect
4 16 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (6.37%) Java Developer
5 15 (5.98%) .NET Developer
6 12 (4.78%) Lead
7 11 (4.38%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.98%) Business Analyst
8 10 (3.98%) Designer
8 10 (3.98%) UX Designer
9 9 (3.59%) Consultant
9 9 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) Senior .NET Developer
10 8 (3.19%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.19%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.75%) .NET
2 31 (12.35%) React
3 18 (7.17%) RESTful
4 16 (6.37%) Kafka
5 13 (5.18%) Spring
5 13 (5.18%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.98%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.59%) CSS
7 9 (3.59%) REST
7 9 (3.59%) Web Services
8 8 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (3.19%) OpenTracing
8 8 (3.19%) SOAP
9 6 (2.39%) HTML
10 5 (1.99%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.99%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.59%) Playwright
11 4 (1.59%) SailPoint
11 4 (1.59%) WinForms
11 4 (1.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.98%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.38%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.59%) Wiki
7 8 (3.19%) PKI
8 7 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.99%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.99%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.59%) Clustering
10 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.59%) SCADA
10 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.20%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.35%) Windows
2 15 (5.98%) Apple iOS
3 11 (4.38%) Android
3 11 (4.38%) Windows 10
4 10 (3.98%) Unix
5 9 (3.59%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.19%) Linux
7 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) AIX
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.87%) DevOps
2 77 (30.68%) Agile
3 25 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (9.96%) User Experience
4 24 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (9.56%) Scrum
5 22 (8.76%) Test Automation
5 22 (8.76%) User Stories
6 21 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (7.57%) Migration
8 18 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (7.17%) Microservices
9 16 (6.37%) CI/CD
9 16 (6.37%) SDLC
10 15 (5.98%) Data Protection
10 15 (5.98%) Software Engineering
10 15 (5.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (5.58%) End-to-End Testing
11 14 (5.58%) Project Delivery
12 13 (5.18%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.94%) Python
2 33 (13.15%) Java
3 29 (11.55%) SQL
4 25 (9.96%) C#
5 23 (9.16%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.37%) Scala
7 11 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.39%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.59%) Perl
10 4 (1.59%) VB
10 4 (1.59%) VB6
11 3 (1.20%) C++
12 2 (0.80%) Rust
12 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.80%) VBA
12 2 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (5.58%) Degree
2 13 (5.18%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.38%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.59%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.39%) MCSE
8 5 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.80%) ISEB
10 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.40%) CCNA
11 1 (0.40%) CCNP
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) HNC
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.98%) Disclosure Scotland
2 14 (5.58%) QA
3 6 (2.39%) PMO
4 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (17.93%) Active Directory
2 24 (9.56%) Docker
3 12 (4.78%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.20%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.20%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) KVM
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.37%) Terraform
4 10 (3.98%) SCCM
5 8 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.19%) Zipkin
6 4 (1.59%) Grafana
6 4 (1.59%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.20%) Ansible
7 3 (1.20%) vMotion
8 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.40%) Nagios
9 1 (0.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.96%) Databricks
3 18 (7.17%) Oracle
4 9 (3.59%) Citrix
4 9 (3.59%) VMware
5 6 (2.39%) Adobe
5 6 (2.39%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.39%) Google
5 6 (2.39%) HP
5 6 (2.39%) Splunk
6 5 (1.99%) Cisco
7 4 (1.59%) Apple
7 4 (1.59%) Informatica
7 4 (1.59%) Infragistics
7 4 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.20%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.20%) Cognizant
8 3 (1.20%) IDERA
8 3 (1.20%) Infoblox
8 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow