Azure Engineer Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 85 98
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +44
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 22 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.86% 0.91% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 0.98% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile - £50,392 £52,000
25th Percentile - £53,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile - £75,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +7.44%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 1,106 921 1,220
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 93.22% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 590 427 956
10th Percentile £27,450 £31,250 £30,865
25th Percentile £30,202 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,125 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 9 March 2026, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Azure
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (86.36%) Agile
2 19 (86.36%) Asset Management
2 19 (86.36%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (86.36%) Azure Key Vault
2 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 19 (86.36%) Coaching
2 19 (86.36%) dbt
2 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 19 (86.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (86.36%) PowerShell
2 19 (86.36%) Snowflake
2 19 (86.36%) SQL
2 19 (86.36%) Terraform
3 11 (50.00%) C#
3 11 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 11 (50.00%) OAuth
3 11 (50.00%) OO
3 11 (50.00%) OpenAPI
3 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (50.00%) Swagger
4 8 (36.36%) Accessibility
4 8 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (36.36%) Data Sharing

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (86.36%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (86.36%) Azure Key Vault
2 19 (86.36%) dbt
2 19 (86.36%) Snowflake
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
General
1 19 (86.36%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 11 (50.00%) OAuth
1 11 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 11 (50.00%) Swagger
2 8 (36.36%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Agile
1 19 (86.36%) Asset Management
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
1 19 (86.36%) Coaching
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
1 19 (86.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 11 (50.00%) OO
2 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (36.36%) Data Sharing
3 8 (36.36%) Data Transformation
3 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) RBAC
3 8 (36.36%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) PowerShell
1 19 (86.36%) SQL
2 11 (50.00%) C#
3 8 (36.36%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 19 (86.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft