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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 73 114 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 11.25% 10.26% 12.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.29% 41.16% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 90 100
10th Percentile £327 £349 £360
25th Percentile £355 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £508 £516
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £623 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £73.12 - £42.36
25th Percentile £74.05 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £76.85 - £70.00
75th Percentile £78.40 - -
90th Percentile £78.58 - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +75.77%

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 241 277 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 37.13% 24.93% 29.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 191 253
10th Percentile £235 £270 £338
25th Percentile £355 £367 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -3.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £725
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 28 22
10th Percentile £18.13 £28.66 £20.78
25th Percentile £18.51 £69.06 £30.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +30.23% +37.82%
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% +40.00% +140.96%

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 6 July 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 (4.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.99%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) GCP
3 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.48%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.74%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.74%) SaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.37%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) HTTP
1 4 (5.48%) NetScaler
2 2 (2.74%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.37%) DHCP
3 1 (1.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) Power BI
1 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.11%) Power Query
3 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.37%) Looker
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Git
2 8 (10.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.40%) Finance
2 20 (27.40%) Public Sector
3 15 (20.55%) Manufacturing
4 14 (19.18%) Electronics
4 14 (19.18%) Marketing
4 14 (19.18%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (42.47%) Developer
2 12 (16.44%) Azure Developer
2 12 (16.44%) Lead
3 11 (15.07%) C# Developer
4 10 (13.70%) Senior
5 8 (10.96%) Applications Support
5 8 (10.96%) Architect
5 8 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Support Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Applications Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead .NET Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.29%) React
2 16 (21.92%) .NET
3 13 (17.81%) CSS
3 13 (17.81%) HTML
4 8 (10.96%) AngularJS
5 7 (9.59%) FastAPI
5 7 (9.59%) OpenID
6 6 (8.22%) ARM Templates
6 6 (8.22%) Node.js
7 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.48%) JMS
7 4 (5.48%) SOAP
7 4 (5.48%) XML
7 4 (5.48%) XSD
8 2 (2.74%) Kafka
8 2 (2.74%) Next.js
9 1 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (1.37%) RESTful
9 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.59%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.11%) PKI
5 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.37%) Clustering
6 1 (1.37%) FMCG
6 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Replication
6 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Windows
2 9 (12.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) DevOps
2 19 (26.03%) Agile
3 18 (24.66%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (23.29%) TDD
5 14 (19.18%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.18%) Digital Marketing
5 14 (19.18%) Programme Management
6 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
7 12 (16.44%) Continuous Delivery
7 12 (16.44%) OO
7 12 (16.44%) User Experience
8 11 (15.07%) Mentoring
8 11 (15.07%) Project Delivery
9 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (13.70%) Scrum
10 9 (12.33%) Computer Science
10 9 (12.33%) Service Management
10 9 (12.33%) Software Delivery
10 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
10 9 (12.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.77%) C#
2 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.44%) Python
3 12 (16.44%) SQL
4 10 (13.70%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) Bicep
7 1 (1.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (28.77%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.33%) Azure Certification
3 9 (12.33%) Degree
4 8 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.11%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) PMO
3 1 (1.37%) SLA
3 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.48%) Docker
3 4 (5.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.48%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) Terraform
2 7 (9.59%) MIIS
3 6 (8.22%) SCCM
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.37%) Ansible
6 1 (1.37%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.37%) Grafana
6 1 (1.37%) Kibana
6 1 (1.37%) logstash
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.37%) Nessus
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.55%) SAP
3 8 (10.96%) Google
3 8 (10.96%) VMware
4 4 (5.48%) Blue Prism
4 4 (5.48%) Citrix
4 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.11%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco
7 1 (1.37%) Databricks
7 1 (1.37%) Dell
7 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.37%) Qualys
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.37%) Veritas
7 1 (1.37%) webMethods