Azure Certification Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Azure Certification
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 36 50 61
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.82% 1.86% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.47% 3.03% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - £510 £304
25th Percentile £300 £544 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £413
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +45.45% -13.16%
75th Percentile £488 £647 £503
90th Percentile £615 £664 £531
South West median daily rate £373 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -37.92% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 144 264 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 52.55% 61.54% 71.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 144 242
10th Percentile £250 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £661 £691 £675
90th Percentile £752 £759 £724
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 28
10th Percentile £53.87 £15.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £58.25 £15.86 £64.63
Median hourly rate £71.50 £24.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +194.85% -68.91% +41.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £83.31
90th Percentile - £68.88 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Gloucestershire

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Gloucestershire

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Gloucestershire

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester -1 2 £588 +17.50% 7
Filton - 2 £300 -
Azure Certification
South West

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Rocky
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) MCSE
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Veeam
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Dell