Azure Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Microsoft Azure
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 7 31 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 8.54% 12.30% 7.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.67% 37.35% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 12
10th Percentile £586 £374 £429
25th Percentile £609 £481 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £678 £638 £633
90th Percentile £704 £791 £786
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 15 83 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 18.29% 32.94% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 48 49
10th Percentile £333 £479 £484
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £700
90th Percentile £680 £721 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - - £24.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £58.25
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.17 £33.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +6.58% -57.69% +432.79%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
General
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Digital
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 1 (14.29%) Flask
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) gRPC
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Go
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Podman
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) VMware