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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 21 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 32.31% 36.36% 25.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 60.00% 62.22% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 29
10th Percentile £226 - £400
25th Percentile £481 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -4.21% +4.40%
75th Percentile £850 £594 £600
90th Percentile £900 - £680
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £529 £550
% change year-on-year +16.26% -3.82% +10.00%

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 35 45 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 53.85% 58.44% 42.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 43
10th Percentile £225 £410 £310
25th Percentile £325 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £700 £594 £650
90th Percentile £900 £620 £700
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £51.20
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £34.34 £33.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year +4.06% -56.29% +415.71%

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 24 June 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 7 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (14.29%) IaaS
2 3 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Stack
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (9.52%) DHCP
2 2 (9.52%) HTTP
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Architect
1 4 (19.05%) Developer
1 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support
3 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Power Apps Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
1 2 (9.52%) React
1 2 (9.52%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (14.29%) iPad
1 3 (14.29%) iPhone
1 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
1 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.52%) Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.76%) Android
5 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
3 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps
4 4 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Antivirus Management
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Inventory Management
5 3 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) Time Management
5 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
6 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) Go
4 2 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) VB
5 1 (4.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (76.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (9.52%) Degree
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.76%) MCP
6 1 (4.76%) MCSA
6 1 (4.76%) MCSE
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) NCSC
2 3 (14.29%) PMO
3 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) Docker
3 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (4.76%) BitLocker
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (19.05%) Ansible
5 2 (9.52%) Puppet
6 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) McAfee
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) Symantec