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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 51 41
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 5 10 34
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.39% 1.73% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 5.13% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 26
10th Percentile £370 £485 £450
25th Percentile £401 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.87% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £506 £628 £538
90th Percentile £518 £675 £590
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -11.73%

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 275 195 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.43% 33.74% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 133 200
10th Percentile £363 £235 £262
25th Percentile £413 £355 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.49% -3.75%
75th Percentile £606 £563 £569
90th Percentile £665 £664 £625
South West median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 18
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £13.52
25th Percentile - £18.32 £66.25
Median hourly rate £16.62 £18.51 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% -73.56% +21.74%
75th Percentile £22.72 £18.87 -
90th Percentile £94.88 £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £19.50
% change year-on-year +204.72% -3.23% -64.01%

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 20 May 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Gatling
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Istio
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP