Azure Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft Azure
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 46 120 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 8.57% 11.35% 13.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.88% 43.80% 43.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 90 134
10th Percentile £355 £215 £354
25th Percentile £381 £365 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £630
90th Percentile £606 £614 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £25.00 - £60.70
% change year-on-year - - +77.82%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

Azure 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 165 274 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.73% 25.92% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 194 295
10th Percentile £213 £259 £318
25th Percentile £355 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £557 £570 £630
90th Percentile £668 £630 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 24
10th Percentile - £12.86 £18.40
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.96 £28.88
Median hourly rate £18.51 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.08% +14.58% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.25 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Bristol

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) AWS
2 13 (28.26%) GCP
3 8 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.52%) SaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure App Service
6 2 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) IaaS
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) DHCP
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Power Query
3 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.17%) Looker
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) NUnit
3 1 (2.17%) Postman
3 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (41.30%) Public Sector
2 17 (36.96%) Finance
3 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 13 (28.26%) Electronics
4 13 (28.26%) Manufacturing
4 13 (28.26%) Marketing
4 13 (28.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Applications Support
3 8 (17.39%) Architect
3 8 (17.39%) C# Developer
3 8 (17.39%) Support Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Applications Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Applications Support Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Azure Developer
5 6 (13.04%) C# Application Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Specialist
8 2 (4.35%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) .NET
1 10 (21.74%) CSS
1 10 (21.74%) HTML
2 8 (17.39%) OpenID
3 7 (15.22%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.35%) React
5 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.17%) Django
5 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.17%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) Next.js
5 1 (2.17%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth
5 1 (2.17%) PySpark
5 1 (2.17%) REST
5 1 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Management Information System
2 7 (15.22%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) DevOps
2 17 (36.96%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.26%) Digital Marketing
3 13 (28.26%) Programme Management
4 10 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (21.74%) Service Management
4 10 (21.74%) Software Delivery
4 10 (21.74%) TDD
4 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 9 (19.57%) Computer Science
5 9 (19.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (19.57%) Web Development
6 8 (17.39%) Application Security
6 8 (17.39%) Service Delivery
6 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 8 (17.39%) User Experience
7 7 (15.22%) Agile
7 7 (15.22%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 7 (15.22%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) C#
2 10 (21.74%) JavaScript
2 10 (21.74%) Python
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Bash
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) Degree
4 8 (17.39%) Azure Certification
4 8 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) MIIS
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (2.17%) logstash
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
5 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) SAP
2 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Veritas