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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 60 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 14 14 31
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.78% 1.79% 2.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.36% 6.97% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 26
10th Percentile £381 £281 £416
25th Percentile £505 £350 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £444 £613
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -27.55% +4.61%
75th Percentile £695 £503 £686
90th Percentile £711 £538 £720
South West median daily rate £475 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +0.09%
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 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 220 201 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.95% 25.70% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 123 241
10th Percentile £325 £225 £300
25th Percentile £404 £394 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £650
90th Percentile £650 £788 £720
South West median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile - £25.26 £20.25
25th Percentile - £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -49.23%
75th Percentile £22.59 - £40.88
90th Percentile £85.63 - £80.00
South West median hourly rate £20.69 £67.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -69.36% +200.00% -61.04%

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 17 November 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 & 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) CMake
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) GoogleTest
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Maven
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 2 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Electronics
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Manager
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Facilities Management Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Facilities Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Express.js
1 2 (14.29%) Next.js
1 2 (14.29%) Node.js
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (7.14%) JAX-RS
2 1 (7.14%) LESS
2 1 (7.14%) OpenCV
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Sass
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) CUDA
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (7.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Validation
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) API Management
6 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Programme Management
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
7 2 (14.29%) Contract Management
7 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (14.29%) RBAC
7 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bicep
1 3 (21.43%) C#
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
1 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kibana
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
3 1 (7.14%) SAP