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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 50 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Azure Certification 9 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.25% 2.44% -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.00% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile £463 £488 -
25th Percentile £641 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - -
75th Percentile - £694 -
90th Percentile - £700 -
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.33%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 150 275 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 54.15% 61.11% 76.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 147 218
10th Percentile £224 £425 £415
25th Percentile £348 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £700
90th Percentile £748 £743 £763
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 40
10th Percentile £26.00 - £34.88
25th Percentile £26.96 £15.75 £67.50
Median hourly rate £41.20 £23.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.18% -70.19% +41.82%
75th Percentile £70.56 £30.00 £79.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £43.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £64.57
% change year-on-year -64.07% +8.41% +7.62%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Gloucestershire

Azure Certification
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester -2 8 £700 +40.00% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Stack
2 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior IT Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft