Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 47 48
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 9 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.17% 2.64% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.61% 2.77% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile £455 £485 £461
25th Percentile £463 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - +7.84%
75th Percentile - £638 -
90th Percentile - £700 -
South West median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 249 433 471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.68% 95.37% 96.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 216 287
10th Percentile £191 £356 £363
25th Percentile £343 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £729 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 52 46
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.93 £31.50
25th Percentile £14.51 £32.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £35.17 £67.50 £76.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.90% -11.76% +135.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £73.75 £84.20
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £61.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +9.76% +13.89%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester -1 8 £700 +30.23% 1
Azure Engineer
South West

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure Certification
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Azure Stack
3 6 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 6 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
4 2 (22.22%) Databricks
4 2 (22.22%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
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%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Azure Certification
2 6 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) NetApp