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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 92 63 122
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.06% 10.50% 11.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.74% 29.03% 42.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 48 95
10th Percentile £375 £355 £285
25th Percentile £450 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% -11.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £575
90th Percentile £663 £629 £600
South West median daily rate £534 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +4.15% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +27.78% - -

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 281 217 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.57% 36.17% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 145 200
10th Percentile £359 £235 £258
25th Percentile £425 £355 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £571
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
South West median daily rate £509 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +4.73% -2.85% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 24
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £20.20
25th Percentile - £18.51 £69.06
Median hourly rate £16.62 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% -73.04% +21.74%
75th Percentile £22.72 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 £35.45 -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £67.50
% change year-on-year +204.72% -72.04% +22.73%

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 June 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
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 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.17%) Apache
3 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.09%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) SAP EHS
1 1 (1.09%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (40.22%) AWS
2 21 (22.83%) GCP
3 14 (15.22%) Entra ID
3 14 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (14.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (10.87%) Power Platform
6 8 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (7.61%) GitHub
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.17%) dbt
11 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.17%) IaaS
11 2 (2.17%) PaaS
11 2 (2.17%) SaaS
11 2 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.09%) Calico
2 1 (1.09%) DHCP
2 1 (1.09%) DNS
2 1 (1.09%) LAN
2 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.09%) WAN
2 1 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) Power BI
2 7 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.43%) Delta Lake
4 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.26%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.17%) GIS
6 2 (2.17%) Metadata
6 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.17%) Spatial Data
6 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.09%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Power Query
7 1 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.09%) Tableau
7 1 (1.09%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) GitLab
3 4 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.09%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.09%) Gatling
4 1 (1.09%) Gradle
4 1 (1.09%) JUnit
4 1 (1.09%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.09%) MLflow
4 1 (1.09%) NUnit
4 1 (1.09%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.09%) Selenium
4 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.35%) Finance
4 3 (3.26%) Marketing
5 2 (2.17%) Advertising
5 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Local Government
5 2 (2.17%) Military
5 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Electronics
6 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Legal
6 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Architect
2 16 (17.39%) Consultant
3 12 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 12 (13.04%) Lead
4 9 (9.78%) Azure Architect
4 9 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.61%) Azure Consultant
5 7 (7.61%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Consultant
6 6 (6.52%) Active Directory Consultant
6 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) IT Consultant
7 5 (5.43%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.26%) Data Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) Node.js
2 6 (6.52%) React
2 6 (6.52%) REST
3 4 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.35%) Kafka
3 4 (4.35%) OAuth
3 4 (4.35%) OpenID
4 3 (3.26%) .NET
4 3 (3.26%) LDAP
4 3 (3.26%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.26%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.26%) SAML
4 3 (3.26%) SOAP
4 3 (3.26%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.26%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.17%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.17%) PySpark
5 2 (2.17%) RESTful
5 2 (2.17%) Swagger
5 2 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.09%) PKI
4 1 (1.09%) Replication
4 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
3 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.74%) DevOps
2 19 (20.65%) CI/CD
2 19 (20.65%) Data Modelling
3 18 (19.57%) Analytics
4 16 (17.39%) Roadmaps
5 15 (16.30%) Agile
6 14 (15.22%) Data Governance
7 13 (14.13%) Data Engineering
7 13 (14.13%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (14.13%) ETL
7 13 (14.13%) Migration
8 12 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (11.96%) Data Architecture
10 10 (10.87%) Microservices
10 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.78%) Containerisation
11 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
12 8 (8.70%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.74%) SQL
2 19 (20.65%) Python
3 8 (8.70%) Java
4 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.17%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) C++
5 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.17%) R
6 1 (1.09%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) Go
6 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.26%) Degree
3 3 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.09%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) CCNA
5 1 (1.09%) CCSK
5 1 (1.09%) CCSP
5 1 (1.09%) CISM
5 1 (1.09%) CISSP
5 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.52%) QA
3 5 (5.43%) GDPR
4 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.26%) NCSC
4 3 (3.26%) NIST
5 1 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.09%) PMO
5 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.70%) Docker
3 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.09%) KVM
4 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (3.26%) Ansible
3 3 (3.26%) Grafana
3 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.17%) Argo
4 2 (2.17%) Cilium
4 2 (2.17%) Istio
4 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.09%) CASB
5 1 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.09%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.09%) SCCM
5 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.04%) Databricks
3 6 (6.52%) SAP
4 3 (3.26%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.26%) Google
4 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.17%) NEC
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco
6 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.09%) IBM
6 1 (1.09%) NetApp
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle
6 1 (1.09%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.09%) Siemens
6 1 (1.09%) Splunk
6 1 (1.09%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) webMethods