Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Public Cloud
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 69 68
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +31
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 3 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.37% 0.14% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 0.61% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £385
25th Percentile £531 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +8.64%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £800
90th Percentile £679 - -
South West median daily rate £650 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.13% +4.91%

All Generic Skills
Bristol

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 252 163 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.73% 23.25% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 66 205
10th Percentile £285 £143 £218
25th Percentile £450 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.11% -15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £675
90th Percentile £687 £706 £738
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 27
10th Percentile £6.00 £36.78 £61.25
25th Percentile £15.62 £60.63 £70.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £80.78
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -13.34% +24.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £67.80 - £83.90
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -50.37% -3.57% +9.38%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Bristol

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Bristol

Public Cloud
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (33.33%) VMware