Azure Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 97 140 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.15% 11.84% 13.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.79% 30.04% 39.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 99 178
10th Percentile £325 £393 £363
25th Percentile £383 £425 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £575
90th Percentile £731 £650 £664
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £16.00 - £32.85
25th Percentile £17.37 - £37.88
Median hourly rate £20.08 £17.72 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -62.69% -
75th Percentile £22.35 - £48.75
90th Percentile £23.45 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.18 £59.03 £44.82
% change year-on-year -59.03% +31.69% -53.31%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 315 466 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.21% 39.42% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 357 462
10th Percentile £217 £210 £363
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £663 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £453 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -4.63% -2.86% +8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £15.80 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £17.91
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -31.85% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.75
90th Percentile £20.84 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
% change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Edinburgh

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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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.28%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.15%) Confluence
3 2 (2.06%) Apache
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.03%) JBoss
4 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.03%) WildFly
4 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) Azure DevOps
2 21 (21.65%) Power Platform
3 11 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.28%) AWS
4 9 (9.28%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (7.22%) PaaS
6 6 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.15%) IaaS
8 4 (4.12%) GCP
8 4 (4.12%) SaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.09%) GitHub
9 3 (3.09%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) Firewall
1 6 (6.19%) LAN
1 6 (6.19%) WAN
2 5 (5.15%) SSL
3 2 (2.06%) DHCP
3 2 (2.06%) DNS
4 1 (1.03%) Internet
4 1 (1.03%) MPLS
4 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.03%) Network Security
4 1 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) Power BI
2 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.12%) Star Schema
4 3 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.03%) Big Data
5 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.03%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) JIRA
1 7 (7.22%) Selenium
1 7 (7.22%) WebDriver
2 5 (5.15%) Git
3 3 (3.09%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.09%) Subversion
4 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.03%) Gradle
5 1 (1.03%) JUnit
5 1 (1.03%) Maven
General
1 43 (44.33%) Public Sector
2 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.68%) Finance
4 9 (9.28%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.65%) Developer
2 18 (18.56%) Senior
3 17 (17.53%) Architect
4 13 (13.40%) .NET Developer
5 9 (9.28%) Project Manager
6 8 (8.25%) Senior .NET Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 6 (6.19%) Data Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Lead
8 6 (6.19%) Security Specialist
9 5 (5.15%) Automation Tester
9 5 (5.15%) React Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Tester
10 4 (4.12%) Project Support Officer
10 4 (4.12%) Security Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.77%) .NET
2 13 (13.40%) React
3 6 (6.19%) CSS
3 6 (6.19%) RESTful
3 6 (6.19%) Web Services
4 4 (4.12%) HTML
4 4 (4.12%) Middleware
4 4 (4.12%) SailPoint
5 3 (3.09%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.09%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (3.09%) J2EE
5 3 (3.09%) Kafka
6 2 (2.06%) ADO
6 2 (2.06%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.06%) jQuery
6 2 (2.06%) OAuth
6 2 (2.06%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.06%) OpenID
6 2 (2.06%) SOAP
6 2 (2.06%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (12.37%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.31%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (9.28%) Wiki
5 8 (8.25%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (6.19%) PKI
7 5 (5.15%) Client/Server
8 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
9 3 (3.09%) N-Tier
9 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
11 1 (1.03%) BYOD
11 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (1.03%) IoT
11 1 (1.03%) iPad
11 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Windows
2 7 (7.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.09%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) AIX
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.18%) Agile
1 38 (39.18%) DevOps
2 18 (18.56%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (14.43%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (14.43%) Data Protection
4 13 (13.40%) Security Operations
5 11 (11.34%) Threat Modelling
6 10 (10.31%) Knowledge Transfer
6 10 (10.31%) Penetration Testing
6 10 (10.31%) Project Delivery
7 9 (9.28%) Code Quality
7 9 (9.28%) Migration
7 9 (9.28%) Risk Assessment
7 9 (9.28%) Software Delivery
7 9 (9.28%) User Experience
8 8 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (8.25%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.25%) Data Modelling
8 8 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.40%) C#
1 13 (13.40%) SQL
2 8 (8.25%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.22%) Python
4 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.15%) Java
5 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.09%) C++
7 2 (2.06%) Perl
7 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.06%) VBA
7 2 (2.06%) VBScript
8 1 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (1.03%) Rust
8 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Degree
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (8.25%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (7.22%) MCSE
4 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) ISEB
5 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (7.22%) QA
3 4 (4.12%) PMO
4 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.09%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (15.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) SCCM
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.06%) Terraform
4 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) Databricks
3 5 (5.15%) VMware
4 4 (4.12%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.12%) Informatica
5 3 (3.09%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.09%) Cognizant
5 3 (3.09%) IDERA
6 2 (2.06%) Citrix
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco
7 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) HP
7 1 (1.03%) Meraki
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle