Azure Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 25 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 811 829 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.86% 19.05% 18.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.27% 53.80% 52.03%
Number of salaries quoted 454 401 609
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £34,832
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.35% +0.80% +8.70%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,869 1,541 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.96% 35.42% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 851 1,324
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £41,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £68,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,510 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in Scotland.

Salary trend for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in Scotland

Azure
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -41 409 £50,000 -9.09% 48
Edinburgh 0 285 £65,000 +8.33% 82
Aberdeen +12 34 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Dundee +6 22 £51,250 +100.98% 2
Lanarkshire -1 13 £45,000 -7.22% 19
Aberdeenshire +10 7 £28,500 -29.19% 4
Dumfries and Galloway - 6 £41,250 - 1
Fife -9 5 £33,000 +10.00%
North Lanarkshire -7 3 £45,000 +20.35%
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Stirling -4 2 £45,500 +82.00%
Midlothian - 2 - - 16
West Dunbartonshire -1 1 £27,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Highlands - 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 £60,000 -
Inverclyde - 1 £45,000 -
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 60 (7.40%) ArcGIS
1 60 (7.40%) GeoServer
2 31 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.10%) Cloud Foundry
5 15 (1.85%) IIS
6 10 (1.23%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.99%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.74%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.62%) Confluence
10 4 (0.49%) Apache
10 4 (0.49%) Captiva
10 4 (0.49%) FileNet
10 4 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.37%) CMS
12 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.25%) WildFly
13 1 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 410 (50.55%) AWS
2 185 (22.81%) GCP
3 146 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (8.88%) Power Platform
5 70 (8.63%) Entra ID
6 57 (7.03%) SaaS
7 56 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (4.56%) PaaS
10 33 (4.07%) IaaS
11 22 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (2.22%) GitHub
13 16 (1.97%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (1.85%) Datadog
15 13 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.23%) Serverless
17 9 (1.11%) OpenShift
17 9 (1.11%) Power Automate
18 8 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.80%) WAN
2 43 (5.30%) Firewall
3 33 (4.07%) DNS
4 24 (2.96%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.47%) VPN
6 19 (2.34%) Kerberos
7 18 (2.22%) Internet
8 17 (2.10%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.73%) LAN
9 14 (1.73%) VLAN
10 12 (1.48%) NetScaler
11 11 (1.36%) BGP
12 10 (1.23%) Broadband
12 10 (1.23%) DHCP
12 10 (1.23%) VoIP
13 9 (1.11%) Wireless
14 8 (0.99%) DKIM
14 8 (0.99%) DMARC
14 8 (0.99%) SSL
15 7 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (12.70%) SQL Server
2 73 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (7.77%) Power BI
4 61 (7.52%) GIS
5 60 (7.40%) QGIS
6 57 (7.03%) Data Lake
7 47 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (4.81%) Qlik Sense
9 33 (4.07%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.70%) Relational Database
11 29 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.59%) Big Data
13 17 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (2.10%) CockroachDB
14 15 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.48%) Tableau
17 11 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (4.56%) Jenkins
2 27 (3.33%) JIRA
3 23 (2.84%) Git
4 15 (1.85%) GitLab
5 12 (1.48%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.11%) Selenium
6 9 (1.11%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.49%) Maven
8 4 (0.49%) Snyk
8 4 (0.49%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.37%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.25%) Gradle
10 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 231 (28.48%) Finance
2 177 (21.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 141 (17.39%) Law
3 141 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 67 (8.26%) Marketing
5 59 (7.27%) Banking
6 55 (6.78%) Legal
7 43 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (2.84%) Games
10 21 (2.59%) Investment Banking
10 21 (2.59%) Public Sector
11 14 (1.73%) Retail Banking
12 11 (1.36%) Billing
13 10 (1.23%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.74%) Police
14 6 (0.74%) Retail
15 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Aviation
16 2 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (26.76%) Senior
2 193 (23.80%) Software Engineer
3 151 (18.62%) Lead
4 129 (15.91%) Developer
5 102 (12.58%) Architect
6 97 (11.96%) Senior Software Engineer
7 65 (8.01%) Data Engineer
8 54 (6.66%) Analyst
9 53 (6.54%) Lead Software Engineer
10 49 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (5.92%) .NET Developer
12 42 (5.18%) Java Engineer
13 41 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
14 36 (4.44%) Lead Java Engineer
15 35 (4.32%) Cloud Architect
16 34 (4.19%) Senior Developer
17 33 (4.07%) Systems Engineer
18 32 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
19 29 (3.58%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (23.55%) .NET
2 99 (12.21%) .NET Core
3 95 (11.71%) React
4 87 (10.73%) CSS
5 70 (8.63%) AngularJS
6 60 (7.40%) Leaflet
6 60 (7.40%) OpenLayers
6 60 (7.40%) PostGIS
7 48 (5.92%) .NET Framework
7 48 (5.92%) ASP.NET Web API
8 43 (5.30%) Spring
9 42 (5.18%) ASP.NET
9 42 (5.18%) PySpark
10 40 (4.93%) Spring Boot
11 39 (4.81%) Entity Framework
12 35 (4.32%) HTML
13 33 (4.07%) REST
14 30 (3.70%) Kafka
15 28 (3.45%) OAuth
16 27 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 148 (18.25%) Public Cloud
2 68 (8.38%) Algorithms
3 60 (7.40%) Onboarding
4 57 (7.03%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 20 (2.47%) Private Cloud
6 19 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.22%) Social Media
8 17 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.85%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.73%) PKI
12 13 (1.60%) Clustering
12 13 (1.60%) Replication
13 12 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.36%) Cyberattack
15 10 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 105 (12.95%) Windows
2 82 (10.11%) Linux
3 63 (7.77%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.71%) Unix
5 15 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.36%) VMS
7 9 (1.11%) Android
7 9 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.49%) Mesosphere
10 2 (0.25%) CentOS
10 2 (0.25%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (40.69%) Agile
2 240 (29.59%) Software Engineering
3 228 (28.11%) DevOps
4 148 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (18.13%) CI/CD
6 138 (17.02%) SDLC
7 108 (13.32%) Operational Stability
8 105 (12.95%) Artificial Intelligence
9 99 (12.21%) Actionable Insight
9 99 (12.21%) Machine Learning
10 82 (10.11%) Mentoring
11 75 (9.25%) Migration
12 74 (9.12%) Community of Practice
12 74 (9.12%) Web Development
13 71 (8.75%) Decision-Making
14 67 (8.26%) OO
15 66 (8.14%) Full Stack Development
16 64 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (7.64%) Client Onboarding
18 61 (7.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 173 (21.33%) Python
2 169 (20.84%) C#
3 158 (19.48%) Java
4 154 (18.99%) SQL
5 125 (15.41%) JavaScript
6 43 (5.30%) PowerShell
7 34 (4.19%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.10%) Bash
8 17 (2.10%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.99%) Groovy
10 7 (0.86%) Perl
11 6 (0.74%) PHP
12 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.62%) Ruby
13 4 (0.49%) Bicep
13 4 (0.49%) C++
13 4 (0.49%) Go
13 4 (0.49%) R
13 4 (0.49%) Scala
14 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 86 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.64%) Degree
4 35 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 32 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.71%) CCNA
7 22 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.34%) DBS Check
9 16 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.85%) CISSP
11 13 (1.60%) CISM
12 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.99%) MCSE
14 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.74%) HND
14 6 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.81%) QA
2 15 (1.85%) GDPR
2 15 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.48%) NIST
4 11 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.62%) ISO 22301
6 4 (0.49%) SLA
6 4 (0.49%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 91 (11.22%) Active Directory
2 67 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (7.64%) Docker
4 30 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.21%) VMware NSX
6 20 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.74%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.49%) vSphere
10 2 (0.25%) KVM
10 2 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (12.45%) Kubernetes
1 101 (12.45%) Terraform
2 47 (5.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (5.18%) Ansible
4 19 (2.34%) Grafana
4 19 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.60%) FortiGate
6 12 (1.48%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.99%) CASB
8 7 (0.86%) Puppet
9 6 (0.74%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.62%) SCCM
11 4 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.49%) Istio
12 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.12%) Nessus
13 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 242 (29.84%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.59%) VMware
3 82 (10.11%) Google
4 60 (7.40%) ESRI
5 39 (4.81%) Alteryx
6 33 (4.07%) Cisco
7 23 (2.84%) Oracle
8 17 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.85%) Citrix
10 15 (1.85%) Databricks
10 15 (1.85%) Splunk
10 15 (1.85%) Veeam
11 14 (1.73%) NetApp
12 11 (1.36%) Sophos
13 10 (1.23%) Meraki
14 8 (0.99%) IBM
14 8 (0.99%) Sparx
15 7 (0.86%) Apple
15 7 (0.86%) EMC