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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 66 56 136
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.73% 10.53% 13.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.70% 34.57% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 49 105
10th Percentile £350 £355 £215
25th Percentile £423 £415 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £664 £707
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.69% -7.05%
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 230 162 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.98% 30.45% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 116 202
10th Percentile £350 £213 £242
25th Percentile £406 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £591 £579
90th Percentile £671 £672 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 5
10th Percentile £15.43 £18.13 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.62 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.51 £13.85
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +33.65% -78.69%
75th Percentile £93.75 £33.25 £18.00
90th Percentile £100.25 £37.50 £36.45
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.75 £14.50
% change year-on-year +123.30% +77.59% -74.78%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 4 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.52%) CMS
4 1 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Primavera
2 1 (1.52%) SAP EHS
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) AWS
2 17 (25.76%) GCP
3 9 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (4.55%) GitHub
8 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.03%) IaaS
8 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.03%) PaaS
8 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.03%) Serverless
9 1 (1.52%) Datadog
9 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) 2G
1 1 (1.52%) 5G
1 1 (1.52%) DHCP
1 1 (1.52%) LAN
1 1 (1.52%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.52%) WAN
1 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) Power BI
2 6 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.58%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.55%) Metadata
4 3 (4.55%) Star Schema
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.03%) GIS
5 2 (3.03%) Spatial Data
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.52%) Big Data
6 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.52%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.52%) Power Query
6 1 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.52%) Tableau
6 1 (1.52%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.52%) JUnit
4 1 (1.52%) Maven
4 1 (1.52%) MLflow
4 1 (1.52%) NUnit
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.52%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Finance
3 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Electronics
5 2 (3.03%) Local Government
5 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Architect
2 10 (15.15%) Data Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Lead
4 8 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Senior
6 5 (7.58%) Azure Architect
6 5 (7.58%) Data Architect
6 5 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (4.55%) Data Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) REST
2 3 (4.55%) PySpark
2 3 (4.55%) SOAP
3 2 (3.03%) CSS
3 2 (3.03%) HTML
3 2 (3.03%) Kafka
3 2 (3.03%) NumPy
3 2 (3.03%) Pandas
4 1 (1.52%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) ADO
4 1 (1.52%) CSS3
4 1 (1.52%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.52%) pytest
4 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.52%) React
4 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.52%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.52%) CMDB
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) DevOps
2 16 (24.24%) Agile
3 15 (22.73%) Analytics
3 15 (22.73%) Data Modelling
4 13 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (19.70%) Roadmaps
5 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.18%) Migration
5 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 11 (16.67%) ETL
7 10 (15.15%) Data Engineering
8 9 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (13.64%) Validation
9 7 (10.61%) Data Transformation
9 7 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (10.61%) Software Engineering
10 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.76%) SQL
2 15 (22.73%) Python
3 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.52%) Bicep
5 1 (1.52%) C#
5 1 (1.52%) Go
5 1 (1.52%) Java
5 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 26 (39.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CCNA
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CSPO
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 6 (9.09%) GDPR
2 5 (7.58%) QA
3 3 (4.55%) NIST
4 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.03%) NCSC
5 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.52%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.52%) PMO
5 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.52%) SCCM
3 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.67%) Databricks
3 6 (9.09%) SAP
4 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.03%) NEC
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco
6 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.52%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) NetApp
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.52%) Siemens
6 1 (1.52%) Sitecore