Azure Engineer Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 77 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +62
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 7 12 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.92% 0.95% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.00% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 8
10th Percentile - £50,000 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,500 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -18.90% -20.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £54,500 £68,428
90th Percentile £76,500 - £74,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +32.08% -18.46% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 638 1,196 1,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.17% 94.85% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 270 678 876
10th Percentile £25,452 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,928 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +0.80% +2.63%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,080 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Edinburgh

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (57.14%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) VMS
4 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 4 (57.14%) DNS
4 4 (57.14%) Firewall
4 4 (57.14%) Finance
4 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
4 4 (57.14%) GitHub
4 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (57.14%) Coaching
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (57.14%) Azure App Service
4 4 (57.14%) Bicep
5 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Azure App Service
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Health Technology
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (57.14%) Coaching
3 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 4 (57.14%) Bicep
3 4 (57.14%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft