Azure Contracts in Gloucester

Microsoft Azure
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 3 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 27 36 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 29.67% 42.86% 32.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.70% 66.67% 70.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 43
10th Percentile £257 £425 £360
25th Percentile £425 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +17.84% +27.59%
75th Percentile £700 £594 £588
90th Percentile £880 £706 £600
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -

All Cloud Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 46 54 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 50.55% 64.29% 46.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 40 56
10th Percentile £325 £290 £375
25th Percentile £409 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £700 £594 £600
90th Percentile £750 £706 £661
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £24.40
25th Percentile - - £44.50
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.08% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +71.43% -71.23% +398.63%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Gloucester

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Gloucester

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Gloucester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Gloucester

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (37.04%) SharePoint
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (11.11%) Confluence
4 1 (3.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Entra ID
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.81%) SaaS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.70%) IaaS
6 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) HTTP
2 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Node.js
1 2 (7.41%) React
1 2 (7.41%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (11.11%) iPad
1 3 (11.11%) iPhone
1 3 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.70%) Android
5 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.70%) Rocky
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 5 (18.52%) DevSecOps
5 4 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 3 (11.11%) Inventory Management
6 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (11.11%) Time Management
6 3 (11.11%) Zero Trust
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) Go
4 2 (7.41%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) VB
5 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Degree
4 3 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.70%) MCP
6 1 (3.70%) MCSA
6 1 (3.70%) MCSE
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) NCSC
2 3 (11.11%) PMO
3 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) Docker
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
3 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (14.81%) Ansible
5 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (7.41%) Puppet
7 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) McAfee
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Symantec