Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft Azure Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £370, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 66 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 6 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.87% 0.76% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.80% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile - £456 £419
25th Percentile £355 £484 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -35.65% +12.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £462 £613 £561
90th Percentile £488 £613 £606
South West median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 638 880 1,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 95.14% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 489 714
10th Percentile £250 £259 £325
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £640
90th Percentile £675 £700 £720
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 178 116
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.50 £18.99
25th Percentile £18.51 £54.06 £46.31
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.65 £80.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £61.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +9.76% +13.89%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Bristol

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) SAP
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (66.67%) Electronics
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
General
1 4 (66.67%) Electronics
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft