Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Gloucester is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 4 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 2.86% 8.33% 8.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.31% 9.00% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £445 £418 £483
25th Percentile £541 £481 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +17.07% -
75th Percentile - £700 £531
90th Percentile - - £543
Gloucestershire median daily rate £700 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 121 100 96
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.43% 92.59% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 79 70
10th Percentile £227 £133 £309
25th Percentile £375 £386 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £568
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -15.42% +3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £669
90th Percentile £725 £734 £706
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -13.64% -1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £43.39 £20.88 £21.00
25th Percentile - £21.49 £22.31
Median hourly rate £51.21 £23.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +122.65% -26.40% +40.45%
75th Percentile £53.10 £24.81 £67.25
90th Percentile £62.34 £25.60 £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £67.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -46.67% +38.55% -18.80%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Gloucester over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Gloucester

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucester region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Linux

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
4 1 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft