Azure Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 213 363 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 11.74% 11.07% 15.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.80% 43.58% 49.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 283 441
10th Percentile £310 £303 £400
25th Percentile £363 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% -6.36% +5.62%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £669
90th Percentile £700 £698 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.37% -2.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 12
10th Percentile £18.70 - £16.21
25th Percentile £25.00 - £42.01
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile £78.22 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £42.34 £60.70
% change year-on-year +6.28% -30.25% +27.79%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 549 833 1,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.25% 25.40% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 594 862
10th Percentile £225 £220 £313
25th Percentile £355 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +7.32%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £669
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 50 64
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.74 £13.66
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.25 £21.86
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +36.59% +146.99%
75th Percentile £32.69 - £75.50
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +2 70 £438 -12.50% 279
Gloucestershire +2 45 £613 +14.92% 211
Wiltshire -4 30 £569 +13.75% 100
Somerset +12 27 £500 +8.11% 153
Dorset +1 16 £419 +126.58% 74
Devon -3 12 £520 -4.36% 117
Cornwall +7 2 £575 +142.11% 3
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Maximo
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (40.85%) AWS
2 38 (17.84%) GCP
3 27 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.57%) Power Platform
6 13 (6.10%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (4.69%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (3.76%) SaaS
10 8 (3.76%) Serverless
11 7 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.82%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (1.88%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.63%) DNS
2 10 (4.69%) DHCP
2 10 (4.69%) VPN
3 9 (4.23%) Firewall
3 9 (4.23%) HTTP
3 9 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.35%) WAN
5 4 (1.88%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.88%) VLAN
6 3 (1.41%) LAN
6 3 (1.41%) Skype
7 2 (0.94%) BGP
7 2 (0.94%) MPLS
7 2 (0.94%) Network Security
7 2 (0.94%) OSPF
7 2 (0.94%) SAN
7 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.29%) Power BI
3 6 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.41%) Power Query
6 3 (1.41%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.41%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) Big Data
8 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.63%) Git
2 9 (4.23%) JIRA
3 5 (2.35%) GitLab
3 5 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.94%) Selenium
5 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.47%) Appium
6 1 (0.47%) Code Climate
6 1 (0.47%) MSI
6 1 (0.47%) Snyk
6 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 66 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.37%) Public Sector
3 35 (16.43%) Finance
4 21 (9.86%) Manufacturing
5 17 (7.98%) Marketing
6 16 (7.51%) Electronics
6 16 (7.51%) Telecoms
7 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.63%) Legal
9 8 (3.76%) Local Government
10 6 (2.82%) Banking
10 6 (2.82%) Military
11 5 (2.35%) Retail
12 4 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.94%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.47%) Advertising
14 1 (0.47%) Back Office
14 1 (0.47%) Billing
14 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 43 (20.19%) Developer
2 32 (15.02%) Architect
3 19 (8.92%) Analyst
3 19 (8.92%) Lead
4 17 (7.98%) Senior
5 16 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (7.04%) Security Architect
6 15 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (7.04%) Support Engineer
7 12 (5.63%) Azure Developer
8 11 (5.16%) C# Developer
9 10 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.23%) Applications Developer
11 8 (3.76%) Applications Support
11 8 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.76%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.29%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.29%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.80%) .NET
2 19 (8.92%) CSS
2 19 (8.92%) HTML
3 17 (7.98%) React
4 12 (5.63%) Node.js
5 10 (4.69%) ARM Templates
6 8 (3.76%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.29%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.29%) OpenID
8 6 (2.82%) RESTful
9 5 (2.35%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.88%) SOAP
10 4 (1.88%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.88%) XML
11 3 (1.41%) JSON
11 3 (1.41%) Middleware
11 3 (1.41%) OAuth
11 3 (1.41%) Spring
11 3 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.63%) Management Information System
1 12 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.29%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.35%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.88%) iPad
6 4 (1.88%) iPhone
7 3 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.41%) EPoS
7 3 (1.41%) PKI
7 3 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.41%) Replication
8 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (22.54%) Windows
2 25 (11.74%) Windows Server
3 17 (7.98%) Linux
4 9 (4.23%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.70%) DevOps
2 42 (19.72%) Agile
3 39 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (16.43%) CI/CD
5 26 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (10.33%) Containerisation
7 20 (9.39%) Cloud Security
7 20 (9.39%) Migration
8 19 (8.92%) Mentoring
9 18 (8.45%) ITIL
9 18 (8.45%) Service Management
9 18 (8.45%) TDD
9 18 (8.45%) Test Automation
10 17 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (7.98%) Roadmaps
11 16 (7.51%) Digital Marketing
11 16 (7.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (7.51%) Programme Management
12 15 (7.04%) User Experience
13 14 (6.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.72%) Python
2 34 (15.96%) PowerShell
3 26 (12.21%) C#
4 25 (11.74%) SQL
5 21 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.92%) Bash
7 15 (7.04%) Java
8 12 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.35%) VBA
10 3 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.41%) Go
11 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (38.97%) Security Cleared
2 65 (30.52%) SC Cleared
3 40 (18.78%) DV Cleared
4 21 (9.86%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.10%) Degree
6 11 (5.16%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.29%) ISTQB
9 5 (2.35%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.88%) MCSE
11 3 (1.41%) CCNP
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.94%) CCIE
12 2 (0.94%) CISSP
12 2 (0.94%) ISEB
12 2 (0.94%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.69%) QA
2 8 (3.76%) GDPR
2 8 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.82%) NIST
5 4 (1.88%) PMO
6 3 (1.41%) Basel III
6 3 (1.41%) IFRS
6 3 (1.41%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.41%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.41%) NCSC
7 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (11.74%) Docker
2 21 (9.86%) Active Directory
3 19 (8.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.10%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.88%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.47%) NFS
7 1 (0.47%) Samba
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (16.43%) Terraform
2 25 (11.74%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.39%) Ansible
3 20 (9.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.16%) Puppet
5 10 (4.69%) SCCM
6 7 (3.29%) MIIS
7 4 (1.88%) Grafana
7 4 (1.88%) Nessus
7 4 (1.88%) WSUS
8 3 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.94%) Automic
9 2 (0.94%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.94%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.47%) Nagios
10 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.86%) VMware
3 20 (9.39%) SAP
4 12 (5.63%) Google
5 9 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.29%) Databricks
7 6 (2.82%) Apple
7 6 (2.82%) Oracle
8 5 (2.35%) Cisco
8 5 (2.35%) Citrix
8 5 (2.35%) Qualys
9 4 (1.88%) McAfee
9 4 (1.88%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.41%) Ivanti
10 3 (1.41%) Splunk
11 2 (0.94%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.94%) Veeam