Azure Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Azure
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 10 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Azure 73 90 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.55% 18.52% 7.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.20% 44.12% 25.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 78 22
10th Percentile £350 £350 £190
25th Percentile £444 £400 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £564
90th Percentile £706 £650 £656
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £67.50 £34.14
% change year-on-year - +97.74% -31.73%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 158 204 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.98% 41.98% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 159 125
10th Percentile £213 £400 £209
25th Percentile £463 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +15.56%
75th Percentile £681 £673 £620
90th Percentile £708 £712 £678
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 5
10th Percentile £16.91 - -
25th Percentile £18.45 £35.00 £11.17
Median hourly rate £21.00 £73.00 £11.78
Median % change year-on-year -71.23% +519.69% -80.37%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £17.50
90th Percentile - - £19.00
South West median hourly rate £14.50 £57.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -74.78% +187.50% -55.56%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Gloucestershire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Gloucestershire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Gloucestershire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Gloucestershire

Azure
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 within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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 +4 37 £523 +17.75% 11
Cheltenham +13 21 £563 +2.27% 25
Filton - 6 £220 -
Azure
South West

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (19.18%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (23.29%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) Entra ID
4 12 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.70%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.22%) Power Automate
6 6 (8.22%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (6.85%) OneDrive
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.48%) PaaS
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.74%) GCP
11 1 (1.37%) SaaS
11 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) Firewall
2 2 (2.74%) DMZ
2 2 (2.74%) LAN
2 2 (2.74%) Network Security
2 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.74%) VPN
2 2 (2.74%) WAN
3 1 (1.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) Power BI
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.48%) JIRA
3 2 (2.74%) Git
3 2 (2.74%) GitLab
3 2 (2.74%) Snyk
3 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.37%) git-flow
4 1 (1.37%) MSI
4 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.48%) Finance
3 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Architect
1 18 (24.66%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Technical Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Administrator
5 7 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) SharePoint Architect
8 4 (5.48%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
8 4 (5.48%) Senior
9 3 (4.11%) Active Directory Administrator
9 3 (4.11%) Active Directory Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Power Apps Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) React
2 8 (10.96%) AngularJS
2 8 (10.96%) Spring
3 7 (9.59%) .NET
4 5 (6.85%) CSS
5 4 (5.48%) REST
6 3 (4.11%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.11%) Jest
6 3 (4.11%) Node.js
7 2 (2.74%) ADO
8 1 (1.37%) Blazor
8 1 (1.37%) HTML
8 1 (1.37%) jQuery
8 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Replication
2 4 (5.48%) IoT
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.74%) PKI
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Windows
2 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (6.85%) Linux
4 2 (2.74%) VMS
4 2 (2.74%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.37%) Solaris
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) DevOps
2 19 (26.03%) Agile
3 15 (20.55%) Migration
4 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (17.81%) Project Management
5 11 (15.07%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.33%) OOP
7 9 (12.33%) Unit Testing
8 8 (10.96%) Change Management
8 8 (10.96%) OO
8 8 (10.96%) Programme Management
8 8 (10.96%) SDLC
8 8 (10.96%) Secure Coding
8 8 (10.96%) Software Architecture
8 8 (10.96%) Strategic Thinking
9 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (8.22%) Analytics
10 6 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.92%) Python
2 15 (20.55%) C
2 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
4 11 (15.07%) Java
5 9 (12.33%) C#
6 5 (6.85%) Bicep
7 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.11%) SQL
9 1 (1.37%) Bash
9 1 (1.37%) C++
9 1 (1.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 44 (60.27%) Security Cleared
2 29 (39.73%) SC Cleared
3 19 (26.03%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.59%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.48%) Degree
5 4 (5.48%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.59%) Docker
3 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Terraform
2 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (8.22%) Ansible
4 4 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.11%) Grafana
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.74%) Argo
7 1 (1.37%) Packer
7 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.37%) Puppet
7 1 (1.37%) SELinux
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) Palo Alto
2 4 (5.48%) VMware
3 3 (4.11%) CA
4 2 (2.74%) Cisco
4 2 (2.74%) F5
4 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.37%) Citrix
5 1 (1.37%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat