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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 243 349 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.36% 12.94% 13.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 35.58% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 224 318
10th Percentile £309 £400 £314
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £18.71 £29.28 £27.56
25th Percentile £24.13 £46.62 £40.00
Median hourly rate £34.24 £59.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +32.64% -53.65%
75th Percentile £44.52 £62.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.06 £67.17 £49.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £53.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +15.61% +7.00%

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 729 981 1,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.07% 36.36% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 726 777
10th Percentile £226 £250 £305
25th Percentile £369 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +6.74%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £634 £636 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 17
10th Percentile £15.94 £17.72 £18.87
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%
75th Percentile £19.57 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £34.48 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 0 105 £460 -14.02% 54
Edinburgh +2 90 £500 +5.26% 67
Perthshire +3 8 £525 -7.57%
Aberdeen +5 6 £350 -15.15% 15
Renfrewshire +2 5 £600 +15.38% 2
South Lanarkshire +5 4 £370 -0.11%
Stirling -2 3 £420 -2.33%
Highlands - 3 - -
Lanarkshire +1 2 £388 -21.52% 20
Aberdeenshire - 2 £313 - 5
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 14 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.70%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.47%) Confluence
6 4 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.65%) Apache
6 4 (1.65%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.41%) WildFly
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.12%) Sketch
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Maximo
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (25.51%) AWS
2 50 (20.58%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (16.05%) Entra ID
4 36 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.64%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (8.23%) GCP
7 14 (5.76%) Snowflake
8 11 (4.53%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (4.53%) SaaS
9 10 (4.12%) Figma
10 9 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 9 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.70%) IaaS
11 6 (2.47%) PaaS
12 5 (2.06%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.65%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.23%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.58%) Firewall
2 9 (3.70%) DNS
3 7 (2.88%) DHCP
3 7 (2.88%) SAN
3 7 (2.88%) WAN
4 6 (2.47%) LAN
4 6 (2.47%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (2.06%) SSL
5 5 (2.06%) VPN
6 4 (1.65%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.65%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.65%) SMTP
7 3 (1.23%) NAS
8 2 (0.82%) MPLS
8 2 (0.82%) Network Security
8 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.41%) BGP
9 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.41%) Internet
9 1 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.00%) Power BI
2 13 (5.35%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.65%) DB2
6 4 (1.65%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.23%) Big Data
7 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.23%) MySQL
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.41%) Impala
8 1 (0.41%) Metadata
8 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.41%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 14 (5.76%) JIRA
2 9 (3.70%) Git
3 8 (3.29%) Selenium
4 7 (2.88%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.65%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.23%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.23%) Subversion
7 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.82%) JUnit
7 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.82%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.41%) Appium
8 1 (0.41%) Gradle
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 61 (25.10%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.16%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.40%) Finance
4 20 (8.23%) Banking
5 12 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.06%) Aviation
9 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (14.81%) Developer
2 28 (11.52%) Architect
3 26 (10.70%) Senior
4 23 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (7.82%) Analyst
6 17 (7.00%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.94%) Lead
8 11 (4.53%) Project Manager
9 10 (4.12%) .NET Developer
9 10 (4.12%) Designer
9 10 (4.12%) UX Designer
10 9 (3.70%) Consultant
10 9 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (3.29%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.29%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.11%) React
2 26 (10.70%) .NET
3 16 (6.58%) Kafka
4 14 (5.76%) Spring
4 14 (5.76%) Spring Boot
5 13 (5.35%) RESTful
6 8 (3.29%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.29%) OpenTracing
7 7 (2.88%) REST
7 7 (2.88%) Web Services
8 5 (2.06%) CSS
8 5 (2.06%) Middleware
9 4 (1.65%) Flash
9 4 (1.65%) LDAP
9 4 (1.65%) Playwright
9 4 (1.65%) POSIX
9 4 (1.65%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.65%) WinForms
9 4 (1.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.00%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.94%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.12%) Legacy Applications
5 10 (4.12%) PKI
6 9 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 9 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.29%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.88%) Wiki
9 5 (2.06%) Clustering
9 5 (2.06%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.06%) SCADA
10 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.65%) NVMe
10 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.65%) Smartphone
11 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.81%) Windows
2 15 (6.17%) Apple iOS
2 15 (6.17%) Windows Server
3 13 (5.35%) Linux
4 11 (4.53%) Unix
4 11 (4.53%) Windows 10
5 10 (4.12%) Android
6 4 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.45%) DevOps
2 72 (29.63%) Agile
3 25 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (9.47%) User Experience
5 22 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (8.64%) Scrum
6 21 (8.64%) SDLC
6 21 (8.64%) Test Automation
6 21 (8.64%) User Stories
7 19 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (7.41%) Microservices
9 17 (7.00%) Computer Science
9 17 (7.00%) Data Protection
10 16 (6.58%) Migration
11 15 (6.17%) CI/CD
11 15 (6.17%) Project Delivery
11 15 (6.17%) Software Engineering
11 15 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (5.76%) High Availability
12 14 (5.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.46%) Python
2 36 (14.81%) Java
3 27 (11.11%) SQL
4 24 (9.88%) C#
5 21 (8.64%) PowerShell
5 21 (8.64%) Scala
6 9 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 9 (3.70%) Perl
7 8 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.65%) VB
8 4 (1.65%) VB6
9 3 (1.23%) C++
9 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.82%) Rust
10 2 (0.82%) VBA
10 2 (0.82%) VBScript
11 1 (0.41%) Bash
11 1 (0.41%) Elixir
11 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (6.17%) Degree
2 12 (4.94%) Azure Certification
2 12 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.53%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.88%) MCSE
6 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.82%) ISEB
10 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.41%) CCNA
11 1 (0.41%) CCNP
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 13 (5.35%) QA
3 6 (2.47%) PMO
4 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (16.87%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.93%) Docker
3 14 (5.76%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.65%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.65%) GPFS
6 4 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.65%) NFS
6 4 (1.65%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.41%) KVM
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 32 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.64%) Terraform
3 18 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (3.70%) SCCM
5 8 (3.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.29%) Zipkin
6 5 (2.06%) Ansible
6 5 (2.06%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.65%) Grafana
7 4 (1.65%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 4 (1.65%) vMotion
8 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.82%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.82%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.41%) Nagios
9 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.88%) Databricks
3 15 (6.17%) Oracle
4 12 (4.94%) VMware
5 9 (3.70%) Citrix
6 8 (3.29%) Google
7 6 (2.47%) Adobe
7 6 (2.47%) Splunk
8 5 (2.06%) Apple
8 5 (2.06%) Cisco
8 5 (2.06%) HP
8 5 (2.06%) Sybase
9 4 (1.65%) Brocade
9 4 (1.65%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.65%) EMC
9 4 (1.65%) IBM
9 4 (1.65%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.65%) Informatica
9 4 (1.65%) Infragistics
9 4 (1.65%) MuleSoft