Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Cloud Computing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 64 68
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 9 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.69% 0.29% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.84% 0.78% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £383 -
25th Percentile £413 £414 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -16.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £438 £552 £593
90th Percentile - £584 £597
South West median daily rate £438 £450 £650
% change year-on-year -2.78% -30.77% +18.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bristol

Cloud Computing 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 317 256 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.33% 36.62% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 165 175
10th Percentile £380 £259 £265
25th Percentile £452 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -2.33%
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% +27.27%
75th Percentile £50.06 - -
90th Percentile £99.13 £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £44.28 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +134.66% -73.04% +40.00%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in Bristol

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Advertising
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Consultant
2 7 (77.78%) Azure Consultant
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Runbook
2 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
2 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft