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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 108 78 94
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.98% 11.26% 10.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.44% 31.08% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 56 79
10th Percentile £428 £330 £370
25th Percentile £488 £372 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -16.67% -2.33%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £590
90th Percentile £700 £663 £735
South West median daily rate £540 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £73.12 -
25th Percentile - £74.05 £77.50
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.59% +30.77%
75th Percentile - £78.40 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.58 -
South West median hourly rate £96.27 £70.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +37.52% -17.65% +109.88%

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 323 251 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 23.87% 36.22% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 160 163
10th Percentile £379 £283 £278
25th Percentile £463 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.68% -9.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £627 £575 £589
90th Percentile £675 £639 £735
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 29
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £30.77
25th Percentile £14.39 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.42 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -73.04% +105.88%
75th Percentile £52.69 - -
90th Percentile £99.88 £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +76.99%

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 1 September 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 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.93%) SAP EHS
1 1 (0.93%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.41%) AWS
2 27 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 23 (21.30%) GCP
4 22 (20.37%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (6.48%) Serverless
8 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (5.56%) GitHub
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Databricks
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Functions
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.63%) SaaS
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.26%) Firewall
2 9 (8.33%) WAN
3 5 (4.63%) BGP
3 5 (4.63%) DNS
4 2 (1.85%) VSAN
5 1 (0.93%) Calico
5 1 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.41%) Data Lake
2 6 (5.56%) Power BI
3 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.78%) EDRMS
4 3 (2.78%) Metadata
4 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.85%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.85%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.93%) Tableau
6 1 (0.93%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Git
2 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.93%) Gatling
4 1 (0.93%) Gradle
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) JUnit
4 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.93%) MLflow
4 1 (0.93%) NUnit
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.93%) Selenium
4 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.74%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.41%) Local Government
4 5 (4.63%) Military
5 4 (3.70%) Finance
6 3 (2.78%) Aviation
6 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Police
7 2 (1.85%) Advertising
7 2 (1.85%) Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Legal
7 2 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (29.63%) Architect
2 23 (21.30%) Consultant
3 15 (13.89%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (12.04%) Azure Consultant
5 11 (10.19%) Azure Architect
5 11 (10.19%) Lead
6 9 (8.33%) Senior
7 7 (6.48%) Active Directory Consultant
7 7 (6.48%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) IT Consultant
7 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Consultant
7 7 (6.48%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Developer
9 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (2.78%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.78%) Team Leader
10 3 (2.78%) Technical Leader
10 3 (2.78%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.59%) Terraform
2 7 (6.48%) Node.js
3 6 (5.56%) React
4 5 (4.63%) REST
5 4 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.70%) LDAP
5 4 (3.70%) OAuth
5 4 (3.70%) OpenID
5 4 (3.70%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.78%) .NET
6 3 (2.78%) Kafka
6 3 (2.78%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.78%) SAML
6 3 (2.78%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.78%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.85%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (1.85%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.85%) RESTful
7 2 (1.85%) SOAP
7 2 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.85%) Clustering
4 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.93%) PKI
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.19%) Windows
2 5 (4.63%) Linux
3 4 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.93%) DevOps
2 23 (21.30%) CI/CD
3 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (19.44%) Roadmaps
4 19 (17.59%) Agile
5 16 (14.81%) Migration
6 14 (12.96%) Analytics
6 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
7 13 (12.04%) AI
7 13 (12.04%) Data Governance
7 13 (12.04%) Data Modelling
7 13 (12.04%) RBAC
7 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 12 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 11 (10.19%) Microservices
9 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (10.19%) Validation
10 10 (9.26%) Data Architecture
11 9 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.59%) Python
2 16 (14.81%) SQL
3 9 (8.33%) Java
4 5 (4.63%) Bash
5 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.85%) BeanShell
6 2 (1.85%) C++
6 2 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.85%) Go
6 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.85%) R
7 1 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) Groovy
7 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 38 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.85%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.85%) CCNA
7 2 (1.85%) Degree
7 2 (1.85%) MCSE
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.93%) CCSK
8 1 (0.93%) CCSP
8 1 (0.93%) CISM
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
8 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) NCSC
3 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.78%) SLA
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.04%) Docker
3 7 (6.48%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.93%) KVM
6 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.63%) Ansible
4 4 (3.70%) Grafana
5 3 (2.78%) Argo
5 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.85%) Cilium
6 2 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.85%) Istio
6 2 (1.85%) VxRail
7 1 (0.93%) CASB
7 1 (0.93%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.93%) QRadar
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.04%) Databricks
3 7 (6.48%) VMware
4 6 (5.56%) Google
5 5 (4.63%) Oracle
5 5 (4.63%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.63%) Zscaler
6 4 (3.70%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.70%) SAP
7 2 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.85%) Cisco
7 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.85%) Splunk
8 1 (0.93%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.93%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.93%) Foundry
8 1 (0.93%) IBM
8 1 (0.93%) webMethods