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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 41
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 7 10 35
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.59% 1.89% 3.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 6.25% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 26
10th Percentile £370 £415 £450
25th Percentile £401 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £506 £588 £547
90th Percentile £518 £671 £651
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £92.50 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 234 160 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.86% 30.25% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 114 201
10th Percentile £350 £213 £241
25th Percentile £410 £357 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £576
90th Percentile £669 £673 £688
South West median daily rate £484 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -5.38% +2.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 5
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.41 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.06 £18.51 £13.85
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +33.65% -78.69%
75th Percentile £85.31 £31.12 £18.00
90th Percentile £99.88 £37.50 £36.45
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.75 £14.50
% change year-on-year +123.30% +77.59% -73.84%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend 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 9 April 2026.

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 & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (14.29%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Facilities Management Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Facilities Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Facilities Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Power Apps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS3
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (14.29%) JAX-RS
1 1 (14.29%) LESS
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Sass
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Change Control
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Programme Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
4 2 (28.57%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (28.57%) Epics
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP