Azure Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 57 57
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -21
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 9 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.16% 1.25% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.37% 1.35% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £475 £336 £358
25th Percentile £494 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +10.81%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 379 444 502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 92.50% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 306 409
10th Percentile £300 £323 £179
25th Percentile £425 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £588
90th Percentile £743 £700 £658
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 13
10th Percentile £15.05 £35.00 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.79 £50.63 £12.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £71.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +257.50% -60.00%
75th Percentile £69.69 £81.98 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.88 £83.40 £57.04
South West median hourly rate £49.00 £65.00 £45.60
% change year-on-year -24.62% +42.54% +7.29%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Cheltenham +3 5 £575 - 2
Gloucester +17 2 - -
Azure Engineer
South West

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 4 (44.44%) Python
4 4 (44.44%) Bicep
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (33.33%) Docker
6 2 (22.22%) GCP
6 2 (22.22%) GitLab
6 2 (22.22%) GitHub
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) AWS
6 2 (22.22%) PaaS
6 2 (22.22%) Windows
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) VMware
6 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Snyk
2 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) GitOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Log Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bicep
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Argo
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft