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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 812 829 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.75% 19.15% 17.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.43% 53.90% 51.53%
Number of salaries quoted 458 404 609
10th Percentile £31,025 £38,225 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.60% - +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 2,856 1,538 2,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.33% 35.52% 34.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 850 1,336
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,175 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,140 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.35% +2.62% +6.84%

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 6 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 6 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 -40 404 £52,067 -5.33% 47
Edinburgh 0 290 £65,000 +8.33% 74
Aberdeen +9 34 £45,000 -18.18% 14
Dundee +7 23 £51,250 +100.98% 1
Lanarkshire -2 13 £45,000 -7.22% 20
Aberdeenshire +10 7 £28,500 -29.19% 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 6 £41,250 -
Fife -9 5 £33,000 +10.00%
North Lanarkshire -9 3 £45,000 +20.35%
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Stirling -3 2 £45,500 +82.00%
Midlothian - 2 - - 13
West Dunbartonshire -1 1 £27,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Highlands - 1 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 £60,000 - 1
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 (7.39%) ArcGIS
1 60 (7.39%) GeoServer
2 31 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.09%) Cloud Foundry
5 14 (1.72%) 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%) Apache Solr
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
1 404 (49.75%) AWS
2 181 (22.29%) GCP
3 147 (18.10%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (9.11%) Power Platform
5 73 (8.99%) Entra ID
6 58 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (6.90%) SaaS
8 40 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (4.56%) PaaS
10 33 (4.06%) IaaS
11 22 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (2.09%) 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 9 (1.11%) OpenShift
16 9 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.11%) Serverless
17 8 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.67%) WAN
2 43 (5.30%) Firewall
3 32 (3.94%) DNS
4 24 (2.96%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.46%) VPN
6 19 (2.34%) Kerberos
7 17 (2.09%) Internet
7 17 (2.09%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.72%) LAN
8 14 (1.72%) VLAN
9 12 (1.48%) NetScaler
10 11 (1.35%) BGP
11 10 (1.23%) Broadband
11 10 (1.23%) DHCP
11 10 (1.23%) VoIP
12 9 (1.11%) Wireless
13 8 (0.99%) SSL
14 7 (0.86%) DKIM
14 7 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (0.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (12.56%) SQL Server
2 73 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (7.76%) Power BI
4 61 (7.51%) GIS
5 60 (7.39%) QGIS
6 57 (7.02%) Data Lake
7 47 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
8 39 (4.80%) Qlik Sense
9 32 (3.94%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.69%) Relational Database
11 29 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.59%) Big Data
13 17 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (2.09%) CockroachDB
14 15 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.48%) Tableau
17 11 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (4.31%) Jenkins
2 27 (3.33%) JIRA
3 22 (2.71%) Git
4 15 (1.85%) GitLab
5 12 (1.48%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.11%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.99%) Selenium
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.49%) Snyk
9 4 (0.49%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.37%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
10 3 (0.37%) Maven
11 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.25%) Gradle
11 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 225 (27.71%) Finance
2 172 (21.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 142 (17.49%) Social Skills
4 135 (16.63%) Law
5 65 (8.00%) Marketing
6 56 (6.90%) Banking
7 54 (6.65%) Legal
8 42 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (2.83%) Games
11 21 (2.59%) Public Sector
12 20 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.72%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.35%) Billing
15 10 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.74%) Police
16 6 (0.74%) Retail
17 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.25%) Aviation
18 2 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (26.97%) Senior
2 187 (23.03%) Software Engineer
3 150 (18.47%) Lead
4 131 (16.13%) Developer
5 101 (12.44%) Architect
6 96 (11.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 65 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 54 (6.65%) Analyst
9 51 (6.28%) Lead Software Engineer
10 50 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 49 (6.03%) .NET Developer
12 41 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (4.80%) Java Engineer
14 38 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
15 35 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
15 35 (4.31%) Senior Developer
16 34 (4.19%) Lead Java Engineer
17 33 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
18 32 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
19 28 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (23.65%) .NET
2 99 (12.19%) .NET Core
3 96 (11.82%) React
4 87 (10.71%) CSS
5 71 (8.74%) AngularJS
6 60 (7.39%) Leaflet
6 60 (7.39%) OpenLayers
6 60 (7.39%) PostGIS
7 48 (5.91%) .NET Framework
7 48 (5.91%) ASP.NET Web API
8 42 (5.17%) ASP.NET
8 42 (5.17%) PySpark
8 42 (5.17%) Spring
9 39 (4.80%) Entity Framework
10 38 (4.68%) Spring Boot
11 35 (4.31%) HTML
12 32 (3.94%) REST
13 29 (3.57%) Kafka
14 28 (3.45%) OAuth
15 27 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 143 (17.61%) Public Cloud
2 66 (8.13%) Algorithms
3 59 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 56 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.34%) Private Cloud
7 18 (2.22%) Social Media
8 17 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.72%) PKI
12 13 (1.60%) Replication
13 12 (1.48%) Clustering
14 11 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (1.23%) Cyberattack
15 10 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 106 (13.05%) Windows
2 83 (10.22%) Linux
3 64 (7.88%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.71%) Unix
5 15 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.35%) 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
1 327 (40.27%) Agile
2 235 (28.94%) Software Engineering
3 232 (28.57%) DevOps
4 148 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 133 (16.38%) SDLC
7 103 (12.68%) Operational Stability
8 100 (12.32%) Artificial Intelligence
9 99 (12.19%) Actionable Insight
10 94 (11.58%) Machine Learning
11 83 (10.22%) Mentoring
12 77 (9.48%) Migration
13 74 (9.11%) Web Development
14 71 (8.74%) Community of Practice
15 70 (8.62%) Decision-Making
16 67 (8.25%) Full Stack Development
17 66 (8.13%) OO
18 62 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (7.51%) Client Onboarding
19 61 (7.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 172 (21.18%) Python
2 169 (20.81%) C#
3 153 (18.84%) SQL
4 150 (18.47%) Java
5 126 (15.52%) JavaScript
6 44 (5.42%) PowerShell
7 35 (4.31%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.22%) Bash
9 17 (2.09%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.99%) Groovy
11 7 (0.86%) Perl
11 7 (0.86%) PHP
12 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.62%) Ruby
13 4 (0.49%) Bicep
13 4 (0.49%) R
13 4 (0.49%) Scala
14 3 (0.37%) C++
14 3 (0.37%) Go
14 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 97 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 86 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.39%) Degree
4 35 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 32 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.71%) CCNA
7 22 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.34%) DBS Check
9 15 (1.85%) CISSP
9 15 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.60%) CISM
11 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.99%) MCSE
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.74%) HND
13 6 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.93%) QA
2 15 (1.85%) GDPR
2 15 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.48%) NIST
4 11 (1.35%) 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 94 (11.58%) Active Directory
2 67 (8.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (7.64%) Docker
4 30 (3.69%) Hyper-V
5 25 (3.08%) VMware NSX
6 20 (2.46%) 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
1 100 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 98 (12.07%) Terraform
3 48 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (5.17%) Ansible
5 19 (2.34%) Grafana
5 19 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.60%) FortiGate
7 12 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.86%) 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
1 245 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 93 (11.45%) VMware
3 81 (9.98%) Google
4 60 (7.39%) ESRI
5 39 (4.80%) Alteryx
6 33 (4.06%) Cisco
7 23 (2.83%) Oracle
8 17 (2.09%) 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 (1.72%) NetApp
12 11 (1.35%) Sophos
13 10 (1.23%) Meraki
14 8 (0.99%) Sparx
15 7 (0.86%) Apple
15 7 (0.86%) EMC
15 7 (0.86%) Xamarin