Azure Architect Contracts in Gloucester

Microsoft Azure Architect
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Gloucester is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 1.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £725 £600 -
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 58 59 144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 95.16% 97.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 47 98
10th Percentile £142 £315 £375
25th Percentile £221 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £700 £543 £674
90th Percentile £860 £630 £720
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £54.20
25th Percentile - £17.50 -
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -75.64% -
75th Percentile - £20.50 £84.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £67.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year -46.67% -11.76% +282.50%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Architect in Gloucester

Azure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Architect in Gloucester

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, Azure Architect 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 Gloucester region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep

Azure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle