Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft Azure DevOps
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 61 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 16 16 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.19% 1.73% 3.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.58% 6.64% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 29
10th Percentile £463 £324 £353
25th Percentile £484 £350 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -9.09% -5.25%
75th Percentile £641 £564 £675
90th Percentile £695 £590 £698
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% +6.82%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

Azure DevOps 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 243 241 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 33.33% 26.08% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 159 251
10th Percentile £305 £268 £313
25th Percentile £386 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £638
90th Percentile £650 £775 £713
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 15
10th Percentile £18.13 £66.25 £25.35
25th Percentile £18.51 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% +15.79%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile £35.63 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £34.80
% change year-on-year -73.04% +101.18% +58.16%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Bristol

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Bristol

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
5 1 (6.25%) Kong
5 1 (6.25%) Sentry
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (6.25%) CMake
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GoogleTest
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Electronics
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) C# Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead C# Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior C# Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) Express.js
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) React
4 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (6.25%) OpenCV
4 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) CUDA
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (6.25%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
5 5 (31.25%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) API Management
6 4 (25.00%) OO
6 4 (25.00%) Validation
7 3 (18.75%) BDD
7 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
7 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (18.75%) SOLID
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) Bicep
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) C++
6 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) NVIDIA