Azure Contracts in Cheltenham

Microsoft Azure
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 9 26 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 14.52% 13.98% 10.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.00% 44.07% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 13
10th Percentile £523 £350 £319
25th Percentile £606 £473 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +2.27% -13.73%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £650
90th Percentile - £725 £681
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -

All Cloud Skills
Cheltenham

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20 59 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 32.26% 31.72% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 50
10th Percentile £513 £442 £369
25th Percentile £550 £519 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile - £733 £751
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +7.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Cheltenham

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Cheltenham

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
2 7 (77.78%) DHCP
2 7 (77.78%) HTTP
2 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) Service Management
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Migration
6 1 (11.11%) RBAC
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Bash
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
1 7 (77.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
1 7 (77.78%) Hyper-V
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat
1 7 (77.78%) VMware