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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 16 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 80 86 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 11.05% 9.45% 12.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.52% 36.29% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 71 103
10th Percentile £332 £350 £315
25th Percentile £389 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £648
90th Percentile £695 £775 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £26.72
25th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £42.95
Median hourly rate £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £92.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £85.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -23.53% +304.76% -44.00%

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 246 237 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 33.98% 26.04% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 157 251
10th Percentile £305 £273 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £638
90th Percentile £650 £775 £713
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 15
10th Percentile £18.13 £66.25 £25.35
25th Percentile £18.51 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile £35.25 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% +100.00% +60.92%

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

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 16 September 2025.

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 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 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.50%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.00%) GCP
4 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.50%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.50%) OCI
7 2 (2.50%) SaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) HTTP
2 4 (5.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.00%) Power BI
3 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.75%) Power Query
4 2 (2.50%) ClickHouse
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.25%) Looker
5 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (18.75%) Git
2 8 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.25%) CMake
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Finance
2 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.25%) Electronics
4 5 (6.25%) Marketing
4 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Law
6 2 (2.50%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Developer
2 12 (15.00%) Senior
3 11 (13.75%) Lead
4 9 (11.25%) Architect
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Azure Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.25%) C# Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Web Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Lead .NET Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.00%) React
2 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
3 8 (10.00%) .NET
3 8 (10.00%) Node.js
4 7 (8.75%) FastAPI
4 7 (8.75%) OpenID
5 6 (7.50%) ARM Templates
5 6 (7.50%) CSS
5 6 (7.50%) HTML
6 5 (6.25%) JMS
6 5 (6.25%) SOAP
6 5 (6.25%) XML
6 5 (6.25%) XSD
7 4 (5.00%) Next.js
8 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.50%) Express.js
9 2 (2.50%) Kafka
10 1 (1.25%) Jest
10 1 (1.25%) OpenCV
10 1 (1.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) IoT
2 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.50%) PKI
3 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.25%) CUDA
4 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.25%) FMCG
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (1.25%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.50%) DevOps
2 24 (30.00%) Agile
3 13 (16.25%) OO
4 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (15.00%) Scrum
5 11 (13.75%) Migration
5 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
6 10 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (11.25%) OOP
7 9 (11.25%) Roadmaps
7 9 (11.25%) TDD
8 8 (10.00%) BDD
8 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (10.00%) SOLID
8 8 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (8.75%) Client Onboarding
9 7 (8.75%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.00%) SQL
2 17 (21.25%) Python
3 14 (17.50%) C#
4 13 (16.25%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.75%) Bicep
8 3 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.50%) Bash
9 2 (2.50%) Java
10 1 (1.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.50%) OCA
5 2 (2.50%) OCP
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
3 1 (1.25%) NCSC
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.00%) XenDesktop
4 3 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) MIIS
3 5 (6.25%) SCCM
4 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.75%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.75%) Kibana
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.50%) Ansible
7 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) Grafana
7 1 (1.25%) logstash
7 1 (1.25%) Nessus
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
2 6 (7.50%) SAP
2 6 (7.50%) VMware
3 5 (6.25%) Blue Prism
3 5 (6.25%) Databricks
3 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.00%) Citrix
5 3 (3.75%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.25%) Brocade
7 1 (1.25%) Dell
7 1 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.25%) Foundry
7 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.25%) Qualys
7 1 (1.25%) webMethods