Azure Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft Azure
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Azure 80 97 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 11.44% 10.43% 11.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.25% 40.42% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 79 89
10th Percentile £332 £368 £323
25th Percentile £363 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £580 £589 £638
90th Percentile £658 £735 £692
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £73.12 - £33.54
25th Percentile £74.05 £77.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £76.85 £85.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £78.40 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £78.58 - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% +24.30%

All Cloud 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 256 240 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 36.62% 25.81% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 166 229
10th Percentile £263 £272 £313
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 29 17
10th Percentile £18.13 £30.77 £18.77
25th Percentile £18.51 - £33.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +100.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £37.28
% change year-on-year -73.04% +87.79% +86.38%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Azure 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 22 August 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) Apache
1 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) AWS
2 14 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (16.25%) GCP
4 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.50%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.50%) OCI
7 2 (2.50%) SaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.25%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.25%) IaaS
8 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) HTTP
2 4 (5.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.00%) Power BI
3 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.75%) Power Query
4 2 (2.50%) ClickHouse
4 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) Looker
5 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (18.75%) Git
2 8 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.25%) CMake
3 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.25%) GoogleTest
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
2 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 9 (11.25%) Electronics
4 9 (11.25%) Marketing
4 9 (11.25%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (40.00%) Developer
2 11 (13.75%) Senior
3 10 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Lead
4 9 (11.25%) C# Developer
5 8 (10.00%) Architect
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Applications Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Applications Support
7 6 (7.50%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) C# Application Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.75%) React
2 13 (16.25%) .NET
3 11 (13.75%) CSS
3 11 (13.75%) HTML
4 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.75%) FastAPI
5 7 (8.75%) Node.js
5 7 (8.75%) OpenID
6 6 (7.50%) ARM Templates
7 5 (6.25%) JMS
7 5 (6.25%) SOAP
7 5 (6.25%) XML
7 5 (6.25%) XSD
8 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.75%) Kafka
8 3 (3.75%) Next.js
9 2 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.25%) Jest
10 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) IoT
4 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.50%) PKI
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) CUDA
6 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.25%) FMCG
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.25%) Replication
6 1 (1.25%) Robotics
6 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.00%) DevOps
2 22 (27.50%) Agile
3 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
4 14 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (17.50%) TDD
5 13 (16.25%) OO
5 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (16.25%) Test Automation
6 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 11 (13.75%) Migration
7 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
7 11 (13.75%) Scrum
8 10 (12.50%) User Experience
9 9 (11.25%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (11.25%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (11.25%) OOP
9 9 (11.25%) Programme Management
10 8 (10.00%) BDD
10 8 (10.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) C#
2 18 (22.50%) Python
2 18 (22.50%) SQL
3 14 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.75%) Bash
6 3 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.50%) Bicep
7 2 (2.50%) Java
8 1 (1.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.50%) OCA
7 2 (2.50%) OCP
7 2 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.00%) XenDesktop
4 3 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) MIIS
3 5 (6.25%) SCCM
4 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.75%) Ansible
5 3 (3.75%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.75%) Kibana
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.50%) Grafana
6 2 (2.50%) logstash
6 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) Nessus
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) SAP
3 7 (8.75%) Google
4 6 (7.50%) VMware
5 5 (6.25%) Blue Prism
5 5 (6.25%) Oracle
5 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.00%) Citrix
6 4 (5.00%) Databricks
7 3 (3.75%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.50%) Cisco
8 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.25%) Brocade
9 1 (1.25%) Dell
9 1 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.25%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.25%) Okta
9 1 (1.25%) Qualys
9 1 (1.25%) webMethods