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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 47 50
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 11 16 28
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.30% 2.52% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.88% 10.26% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 25
10th Percentile £459 £300 £415
25th Percentile £494 £350 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -23.40% +6.82%
75th Percentile £695 £538 £688
90th Percentile £719 - £720
South West median daily rate £475 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% -4.35%
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 187 156 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 22.16% 24.53% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 102 219
10th Percentile £362 £213 £269
25th Percentile £410 £322 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.64% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £17.97 - £19.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £29.81
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% -17.80% -49.23%
75th Percentile £63.75 £44.87 £36.94
90th Percentile £93.75 £73.45 £61.13
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year +19.82% +35.63% -68.13%

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 11 January 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) Kong
5 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) Sentry
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Facilities Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Facilities Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Express.js
1 2 (18.18%) Next.js
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) CSS3
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) HTML5
2 1 (9.09%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (9.09%) JAX-RS
2 1 (9.09%) LESS
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Sass
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) Validation
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (18.18%) Contract Negotiation
6 2 (18.18%) Epics
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Programme Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Bicep
2 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kibana
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle