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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 66 47 138
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.83% 9.07% 13.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.57% 30.72% 50.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 41 105
10th Percentile £350 £355 £214
25th Percentile £421 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £668 £707
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £66.25 - -
25th Percentile £75.63 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £51.85 -
% change year-on-year +10.90% - -

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 231 153 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.39% 29.54% 26.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 111 198
10th Percentile £350 £213 £238
25th Percentile £406 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £603 £576
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 5
10th Percentile £15.43 - £12.53
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.81 £13.85
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +93.59% -78.69%
75th Percentile £93.75 £37.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £100.25 £49.86 £36.45
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £27.13 £14.50
% change year-on-year +111.98% +87.07% -74.78%

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 28 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Bristol over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Bristol

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 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 4 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.52%) CMS
4 1 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Primavera
2 1 (1.52%) SAP EHS
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) AWS
2 15 (22.73%) GCP
3 9 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 8 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.58%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.55%) GitHub
10 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
10 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.52%) Cloud Run
11 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.52%) Serverless
11 1 (1.52%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) 2G
1 1 (1.52%) 5G
1 1 (1.52%) DHCP
1 1 (1.52%) LAN
1 1 (1.52%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.52%) WAN
1 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) Power BI
2 5 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.58%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.55%) Metadata
3 3 (4.55%) Star Schema
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.03%) GIS
4 2 (3.03%) Spatial Data
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.52%) Big Data
5 1 (1.52%) Power Query
5 1 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.52%) Tableau
5 1 (1.52%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.52%) JUnit
4 1 (1.52%) Maven
4 1 (1.52%) MLflow
4 1 (1.52%) NUnit
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.52%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Finance
3 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Electronics
5 2 (3.03%) Local Government
5 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (21.21%) Architect
2 9 (13.64%) Data Engineer
2 9 (13.64%) Lead
3 8 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (12.12%) Developer
4 6 (9.09%) Senior
5 5 (7.58%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Data Migration Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) REST
2 3 (4.55%) SOAP
3 2 (3.03%) CSS
3 2 (3.03%) HTML
3 2 (3.03%) Kafka
3 2 (3.03%) NumPy
3 2 (3.03%) OAuth
3 2 (3.03%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.03%) OpenID
3 2 (3.03%) Pandas
3 2 (3.03%) PySpark
3 2 (3.03%) RESTful
3 2 (3.03%) SAML
4 1 (1.52%) Flask
4 1 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.52%) pytest
4 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.52%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.52%) CMDB
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.27%) DevOps
2 15 (22.73%) Analytics
3 14 (21.21%) Agile
4 13 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (19.70%) Data Modelling
4 13 (19.70%) Migration
4 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 11 (16.67%) ETL
7 9 (13.64%) Data Engineering
7 9 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (13.64%) Validation
8 7 (10.61%) Data Transformation
8 7 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) Data Migration
9 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) Python
1 16 (24.24%) SQL
2 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.52%) Bicep
4 1 (1.52%) C#
4 1 (1.52%) Go
4 1 (1.52%) Java
4 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.52%) Scala
4 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 25 (37.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CCNA
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CSPO
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) GDPR
2 6 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.58%) QA
4 3 (4.55%) NIST
5 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.03%) NCSC
5 2 (3.03%) PSD2
5 2 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.52%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.52%) PMO
6 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.52%) Grafana
4 1 (1.52%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Databricks
3 6 (9.09%) SAP
4 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.03%) ForgeRock
5 2 (3.03%) NEC
5 2 (3.03%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco
6 1 (1.52%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) NetApp
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.52%) Siemens
6 1 (1.52%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.52%) VMware