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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 90 60 122
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.99% 10.51% 11.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.97% 30.00% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 47 95
10th Percentile £398 £355 £285
25th Percentile £463 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.04% -10.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £575
90th Percentile £663 £619 £600
South West median daily rate £528 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% -11.50%
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 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +130.00% - -

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 273 200 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.21% 35.03% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 135 203
10th Percentile £363 £235 £259
25th Percentile £415 £355 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £574 £566
90th Percentile £663 £661 £625
South West median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 19
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £13.63
25th Percentile - £18.32 £68.13
Median hourly rate £16.62 £18.51 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% -73.56% +21.74%
75th Percentile £22.72 £18.87 -
90th Percentile £94.88 £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +204.72% -10.14% -60.64%

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 25 May 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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.33%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) SAP EHS
1 1 (1.11%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.11%) AWS
2 23 (25.56%) GCP
3 13 (14.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 10 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (6.67%) GitHub
7 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.33%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.22%) dbt
10 2 (2.22%) IaaS
10 2 (2.22%) PaaS
10 2 (2.22%) SaaS
10 2 (2.22%) Serverless
11 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) Calico
2 1 (1.11%) DHCP
2 1 (1.11%) LAN
2 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.11%) WAN
2 1 (1.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (8.89%) Power BI
2 5 (5.56%) Delta Lake
3 3 (3.33%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.22%) GIS
4 2 (2.22%) Metadata
4 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) Spatial Data
4 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.11%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Power Query
5 1 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.11%) Tableau
5 1 (1.11%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Git
2 5 (5.56%) GitLab
3 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.11%) Gatling
4 1 (1.11%) Gradle
4 1 (1.11%) JUnit
4 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.11%) MLflow
4 1 (1.11%) NUnit
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.11%) Selenium
4 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.56%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Marketing
5 2 (2.22%) Local Government
5 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Electronics
6 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Legal
6 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.11%) Military
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Architect
2 13 (14.44%) Data Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) Lead
4 11 (12.22%) Consultant
5 9 (10.00%) Azure Architect
5 9 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.56%) Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) REST
2 6 (6.67%) Node.js
2 6 (6.67%) React
3 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.44%) Kafka
3 4 (4.44%) OAuth
3 4 (4.44%) OpenID
3 4 (4.44%) SOAP
4 3 (3.33%) .NET
4 3 (3.33%) LDAP
4 3 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.33%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.33%) SAML
4 3 (3.33%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.22%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.22%) PySpark
5 2 (2.22%) RESTful
5 2 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.11%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.11%) CMDB
5 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
5 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Linux
1 3 (3.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.44%) DevOps
2 21 (23.33%) Data Modelling
3 19 (21.11%) Analytics
4 18 (20.00%) Agile
4 18 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 14 (15.56%) Data Engineering
6 14 (15.56%) Data Governance
6 14 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (13.33%) Migration
9 11 (12.22%) ETL
10 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.00%) Data Architecture
11 9 (10.00%) Data Science
11 9 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 9 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 8 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.44%) SQL
2 19 (21.11%) Python
3 7 (7.78%) Java
4 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.22%) C++
6 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.22%) R
7 1 (1.11%) Bash
7 1 (1.11%) BeanShell
7 1 (1.11%) Bicep
7 1 (1.11%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (35.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) Degree
3 3 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.11%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) CCNA
5 1 (1.11%) CCSK
5 1 (1.11%) CCSP
5 1 (1.11%) CISM
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.67%) GDPR
2 6 (6.67%) QA
3 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) NIST
4 3 (3.33%) NCSC
5 1 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.11%) PMO
5 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.67%) Docker
3 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.11%) KVM
4 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.89%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Ansible
3 2 (2.22%) Cilium
3 2 (2.22%) Grafana
3 2 (2.22%) Istio
3 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.11%) Argo
4 1 (1.11%) CASB
4 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.11%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.11%) SCCM
4 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.33%) Databricks
3 6 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.33%) Google
4 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.22%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.22%) NEC
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.11%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.11%) NetApp
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle
6 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.11%) Siemens
6 1 (1.11%) VMware