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

 6 months to
19 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 64 58 145
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.32% 10.09% 14.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.07% 36.94% 50.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 46 114
10th Percentile £368 £350 £232
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £636
90th Percentile £704 £665 £717
South West median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £66.25 - -
25th Percentile £75.63 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.00 £15.35
% change year-on-year +130.00% +62.87% -78.07%

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 206 157 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.34% 27.30% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 104 217
10th Percentile £363 £213 £263
25th Percentile £406 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile - - £22.50
25th Percentile £16.62 £25.26 £29.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.13 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% -32.61% -38.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.99 £59.06
90th Percentile £93.75 - £77.63
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.81 £15.47
% change year-on-year +114.45% +73.32% -73.10%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 3 (4.69%) Apache
1 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Primavera
2 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (51.56%) AWS
2 19 (29.69%) GCP
3 8 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.94%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.94%) GitHub
5 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.81%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.69%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.56%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.56%) Datadog
10 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) 2G
1 1 (1.56%) 5G
1 1 (1.56%) DHCP
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
1 1 (1.56%) LAN
1 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.56%) WAN
1 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (7.81%) Power BI
2 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.69%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.56%) GIS
5 1 (1.56%) Metadata
5 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.56%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) GitLab
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.56%) JIRA
4 1 (1.56%) Maven
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Electronics
5 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Law
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Developer
2 11 (17.19%) Architect
3 9 (14.06%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Senior
6 5 (7.81%) Data Architect
6 5 (7.81%) Lead
6 5 (7.81%) Migration Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) React
2 6 (9.38%) Node.js
3 5 (7.81%) CSS
3 5 (7.81%) HTML
4 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.25%) REST
4 4 (6.25%) SOAP
4 4 (6.25%) Spring
5 3 (4.69%) .NET
5 3 (4.69%) OAuth
5 3 (4.69%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.69%) OpenID
5 3 (4.69%) RESTful
5 3 (4.69%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (4.69%) SAML
5 3 (4.69%) Vue
6 2 (3.13%) Kafka
7 1 (1.56%) JAX-RS
7 1 (1.56%) LESS
7 1 (1.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.94%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Agile
1 20 (31.25%) DevOps
2 13 (20.31%) Migration
3 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (17.19%) Analytics
4 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.19%) Data Modelling
4 11 (17.19%) ETL
5 10 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
5 10 (15.63%) Validation
6 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 7 (10.94%) Data Engineering
8 7 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.94%) RBAC
9 6 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.13%) SQL
2 17 (26.56%) Python
3 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.94%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.25%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.69%) Bicep
6 3 (4.69%) C#
6 3 (4.69%) Ruby
7 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.56%) Go
8 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (40.63%) SC Cleared
1 26 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Degree
3 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) CCNA
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CSPO
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) GDPR
2 5 (7.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.25%) QA
4 3 (4.69%) NIST
4 3 (4.69%) PSD2
4 3 (4.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.56%) NCSC
6 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.56%) SLA
6 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 8 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (6.25%) Terraform
3 3 (4.69%) Argo
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.56%) Ansible
5 1 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (1.56%) Kibana
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Databricks
3 4 (6.25%) Google
3 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.69%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Foundry
6 1 (1.56%) NEC
6 1 (1.56%) NetApp
6 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.56%) Siemens
6 1 (1.56%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.56%) VMware
70 Azure jobs in Bristol