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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 61 51 137
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.55% 9.77% 13.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.75% 33.33% 51.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 43 104
10th Percentile £363 £355 £215
25th Percentile £429 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £609 £600 £588
90th Percentile £659 £667 £708
South West median daily rate £506 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +5.00% -11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £66.25 - -
25th Percentile £75.63 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £51.85 -
% change year-on-year +10.90% - -

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 228 153 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.75% 29.31% 26.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 111 192
10th Percentile £350 £213 £251
25th Percentile £410 £348 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £582
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 6
10th Percentile - - £12.57
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £13.03
Median hourly rate £19.19 £26.81 £15.93
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +68.37% -75.50%
75th Percentile £93.75 £31.12 £41.06
90th Percentile £100.63 £49.86 £69.38
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.81 £14.50
% change year-on-year +114.45% +84.91% -71.00%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 16 (26.23%) GCP
3 8 (13.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (11.48%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.84%) GitHub
6 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.56%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.64%) Cloud Run
10 1 (1.64%) Datadog
10 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) 2G
1 1 (1.64%) 5G
1 1 (1.64%) DHCP
1 1 (1.64%) LAN
1 1 (1.64%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.64%) WAN
1 1 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) Power BI
2 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.56%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.92%) Star Schema
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.28%) GIS
5 2 (3.28%) Metadata
5 2 (3.28%) Spatial Data
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.64%) Power Query
6 1 (1.64%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) Maven
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) 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%) Local Government
5 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Architect
1 12 (19.67%) Developer
2 9 (14.75%) Data Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Lead
5 5 (8.20%) Data Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Senior
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Data Migration Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Architect
7 3 (4.92%) ForgeRock Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.28%) Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) CSS
1 5 (8.20%) HTML
1 5 (8.20%) REST
2 4 (6.56%) Spring
3 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.92%) Node.js
3 3 (4.92%) OAuth
3 3 (4.92%) OAuth2
3 3 (4.92%) OpenID
3 3 (4.92%) React
3 3 (4.92%) RESTful
3 3 (4.92%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (4.92%) SAML
3 3 (4.92%) SOAP
3 3 (4.92%) Vue
4 2 (3.28%) Kafka
4 2 (3.28%) PySpark
5 1 (1.64%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
1 8 (13.11%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.64%) CMDB
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) DevOps
2 15 (24.59%) Agile
3 14 (22.95%) Analytics
3 14 (22.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 13 (21.31%) Migration
5 11 (18.03%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.03%) Data Modelling
5 11 (18.03%) ETL
5 11 (18.03%) Roadmaps
6 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (14.75%) Data Governance
7 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.75%) Validation
8 8 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (11.48%) Data Engineering
9 7 (11.48%) Data Transformation
9 7 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.48%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) Python
2 15 (24.59%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.56%) Java
4 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.92%) Ruby
6 2 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.64%) Bicep
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (39.34%) Security Cleared
2 23 (37.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Degree
4 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CCNA
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) GDPR
2 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.56%) QA
4 3 (4.92%) NIST
4 3 (4.92%) PSD2
4 3 (4.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.64%) NCSC
6 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.64%) SLA
6 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Active Directory
1 7 (11.48%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.92%) Argo
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.64%) Ansible
5 1 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.64%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Databricks
3 4 (6.56%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.92%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.92%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.28%) NEC
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) NetApp
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.64%) Siemens
6 1 (1.64%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.64%) VMware