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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 105 81 96
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.87% 11.72% 10.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.61% 31.64% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 59 77
10th Percentile £427 £325 £360
25th Percentile £491 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £435 £515
Median % change year-on-year +26.44% -15.53% -1.90%
75th Percentile £618 £573 £590
90th Percentile £689 £655 £745
South West median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.90% - -9.09%
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% +21.43%
75th Percentile - £78.40 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.58 -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -17.65% +41.67%

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 322 256 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.12% 37.05% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 164 163
10th Percentile £363 £263 £270
25th Percentile £456 £362 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £612 £575 £588
90th Percentile £665 £650 £715
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 29
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £30.77
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.42 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -73.04% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.06 - -
90th Percentile £99.13 £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £19.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.34% -73.04% +100.00%

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 18 August 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 (3.81%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.95%) SAP EHS
1 1 (0.95%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.29%) AWS
2 25 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 23 (21.90%) GCP
4 18 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.62%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (5.71%) GitHub
8 6 (5.71%) Serverless
9 5 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.76%) SaaS
10 4 (3.81%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.81%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.81%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.57%) Firewall
1 9 (8.57%) WAN
2 5 (4.76%) BGP
2 5 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (1.90%) VSAN
4 1 (0.95%) Calico
4 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Data Lake
2 6 (5.71%) Power BI
3 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.90%) EDRMS
4 2 (1.90%) Metadata
4 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.90%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.95%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) GIS
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.95%) Power Query
5 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.95%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.95%) Gatling
4 1 (0.95%) Gradle
4 1 (0.95%) JIRA
4 1 (0.95%) JUnit
4 1 (0.95%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.95%) MLflow
4 1 (0.95%) NUnit
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.95%) Selenium
4 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.24%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.62%) Local Government
4 5 (4.76%) Military
5 3 (2.86%) Aviation
5 3 (2.86%) Finance
5 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Police
6 2 (1.90%) Advertising
6 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Legal
6 2 (1.90%) Marketing
7 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (30.48%) Architect
2 23 (21.90%) Consultant
3 13 (12.38%) Azure Consultant
3 13 (12.38%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (10.48%) Azure Architect
4 11 (10.48%) Lead
5 9 (8.57%) Senior
6 7 (6.67%) Active Directory Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) IT Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (2.86%) Data Architect
9 3 (2.86%) Team Leader
9 3 (2.86%) Technical Leader
9 3 (2.86%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.67%) Node.js
2 6 (5.71%) React
3 5 (4.76%) REST
4 4 (3.81%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.81%) LDAP
4 4 (3.81%) OAuth
4 4 (3.81%) OpenID
4 4 (3.81%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.86%) .NET
5 3 (2.86%) Kafka
5 3 (2.86%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.86%) SAML
5 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.86%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.90%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.90%) PySpark
6 2 (1.90%) RESTful
6 2 (1.90%) SOAP
6 2 (1.90%) Swagger
6 2 (1.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.90%) Clustering
5 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.95%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.95%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.95%) PKI
6 1 (0.95%) Replication
6 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.48%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Linux
3 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.71%) DevOps
2 22 (20.95%) CI/CD
3 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 18 (17.14%) Agile
6 17 (16.19%) Migration
7 15 (14.29%) Analytics
8 14 (13.33%) Containerisation
9 13 (12.38%) Data Governance
9 13 (12.38%) RBAC
9 13 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (11.43%) Data Modelling
10 12 (11.43%) Decision-Making
10 12 (11.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 12 (11.43%) Validation
11 11 (10.48%) AI
11 11 (10.48%) Microservices
11 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.52%) Data Architecture
13 9 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) Python
2 16 (15.24%) SQL
3 9 (8.57%) Java
4 5 (4.76%) Bash
5 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.90%) BeanShell
6 2 (1.90%) C++
6 2 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.90%) Go
6 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.90%) R
7 1 (0.95%) C#
7 1 (0.95%) Groovy
7 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 36 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.90%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.90%) CCNA
7 2 (1.90%) Degree
7 2 (1.90%) MCSE
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.95%) CCSK
8 1 (0.95%) CCSP
8 1 (0.95%) CISM
8 1 (0.95%) CISSP
8 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.95%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) NCSC
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.86%) SLA
4 2 (1.90%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.95%) NIST
5 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (16.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.38%) Docker
3 6 (5.71%) Hyper-V
3 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.95%) KVM
5 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.10%) Terraform
3 6 (5.71%) FortiGate
4 5 (4.76%) Ansible
5 4 (3.81%) Grafana
6 3 (2.86%) Argo
6 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.90%) Cilium
7 2 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.90%) Istio
7 2 (1.90%) VxRail
8 1 (0.95%) CASB
8 1 (0.95%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.95%) QRadar
8 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (49.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Databricks
3 6 (5.71%) Google
3 6 (5.71%) VMware
4 5 (4.76%) Oracle
4 5 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.76%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.81%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.81%) SAP
6 3 (2.86%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.90%) Cisco
7 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.90%) Splunk
8 1 (0.95%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.95%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.95%) IBM
8 1 (0.95%) NEC
8 1 (0.95%) webMethods