Azure Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft Azure
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 61 63 150
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.23% 10.54% 14.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.96% 40.13% 50.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 50 124
10th Percentile £373 £350 £238
25th Percentile £414 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £642 £597 £641
90th Percentile £725 £663 £724
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £66.25 - -
25th Percentile £75.63 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.00 £15.35
% change year-on-year +130.00% +62.87% -78.07%

All Cloud Computing 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 197 157 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.12% 26.25% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 104 230
10th Percentile £363 £213 £269
25th Percentile £406 £417 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £601 £625
90th Percentile £695 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.69% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile - - £19.58
25th Percentile £16.62 £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 £60.00 £28.99 £36.94
90th Percentile £93.75 - £61.13
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £16.95
% change year-on-year +116.98% +56.39% -70.53%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Azure job vacancy trend in Bristol

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Bristol over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Bristol

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Bristol over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Bristol

Azure
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 3 (4.92%) Apache
1 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) CMS
3 1 (1.64%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Primavera
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (49.18%) AWS
2 20 (32.79%) GCP
3 10 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.11%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.48%) GitHub
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.92%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.64%) Datadog
10 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.28%) WAN
2 1 (1.64%) 2G
2 1 (1.64%) 5G
2 1 (1.64%) DHCP
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) LAN
2 1 (1.64%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.64%) VPN
2 1 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (8.20%) Power BI
2 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.64%) Metadata
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Electronics
5 2 (3.28%) Law
5 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Developer
2 9 (14.75%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Architect
4 7 (11.48%) Senior
5 6 (9.84%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) React
2 7 (11.48%) Node.js
3 5 (8.20%) CSS
3 5 (8.20%) HTML
4 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.56%) REST
4 4 (6.56%) SOAP
4 4 (6.56%) Spring
5 3 (4.92%) .NET
5 3 (4.92%) OAuth
5 3 (4.92%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.92%) OpenID
5 3 (4.92%) RESTful
5 3 (4.92%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (4.92%) SAML
5 3 (4.92%) Vue
6 2 (3.28%) Express.js
6 2 (3.28%) Kafka
6 2 (3.28%) Next.js
7 1 (1.64%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.48%) Onboarding
3 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) DevOps
2 21 (34.43%) Agile
3 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
4 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (18.03%) Data Modelling
5 10 (16.39%) Analytics
5 10 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
7 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (13.11%) Migration
7 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (11.48%) ETL
8 7 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (11.48%) RBAC
8 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) Python
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.56%) Bicep
5 4 (6.56%) Java
5 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.92%) C#
6 3 (4.92%) Ruby
7 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.64%) Bash
8 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.64%) Go
8 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (32.79%) SC Cleared
1 20 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.84%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.64%) CCNA
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CSPO
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) GDPR
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) PSD2
2 3 (4.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) GRC
4 1 (1.64%) NCSC
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Active Directory
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) Terraform
3 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.92%) Argo
5 2 (3.28%) Ansible
5 2 (3.28%) Kibana
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.64%) Grafana
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (32.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) Databricks
3 4 (6.56%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.92%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.92%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.92%) SAP
5 2 (3.28%) Cisco
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) VMware
6 1 (1.64%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.64%) Brocade
6 1 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.64%) Foundry
6 1 (1.64%) NetApp
6 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.64%) Siemens
6 1 (1.64%) Sitecore