Azure Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft Azure
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 119 153 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 11.26% 12.90% 12.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.35% 42.86% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 122 149
10th Percentile £278 £351 £324
25th Percentile £425 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £588
90th Percentile £600 £675 £678
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £60.70 £34.14
% change year-on-year - +77.82% -32.74%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 281 357 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.58% 30.10% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 275 350
10th Percentile £262 £325 £261
25th Percentile £331 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £566 £634 £588
90th Percentile £625 £716 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 10
10th Percentile £13.52 £26.70 £17.20
25th Percentile £66.25 £32.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +47.44% -13.33%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £43.23
South West median hourly rate £19.50 £52.93 £26.25
% change year-on-year -63.16% +101.62% -41.67%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Bristol

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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 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.20%) Confluence
4 4 (3.36%) Apache
5 3 (2.52%) CMS
5 3 (2.52%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.68%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.84%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.84%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.84%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.84%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.84%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.84%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.73%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (20.17%) AWS
3 22 (18.49%) Power Platform
4 18 (15.13%) Entra ID
5 16 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (10.08%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.88%) GCP
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Stack
9 5 (4.20%) PaaS
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.36%) GitHub
10 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.36%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.36%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.36%) SaaS
11 3 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.45%) Firewall
2 7 (5.88%) SAN
3 6 (5.04%) FTP
3 6 (5.04%) WAN
4 5 (4.20%) DNS
4 5 (4.20%) LAN
5 4 (3.36%) HTTP
6 3 (2.52%) DHCP
7 2 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.84%) Intranet
8 1 (0.84%) MQTT
8 1 (0.84%) Skype
8 1 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.81%) Power BI
2 9 (7.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.36%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.36%) Triplestore
5 3 (2.52%) GIS
6 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.84%) Metadata
7 1 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (8.40%) JIRA
2 6 (5.04%) Artifactory
2 6 (5.04%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.20%) Git
3 5 (4.20%) NUnit
3 5 (4.20%) Postman
3 5 (4.20%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.36%) GitLab
5 3 (2.52%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.68%) Selenium
General
1 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.40%) Legal
4 8 (6.72%) Finance
4 8 (6.72%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.04%) Electronics
6 6 (5.04%) Marketing
7 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.36%) Banking
8 4 (3.36%) Local Government
9 3 (2.52%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.68%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Law
11 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) Architect
2 15 (12.61%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (10.92%) Analyst
4 11 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.24%) Developer
4 11 (9.24%) Senior
5 10 (8.40%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Network Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.20%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.13%) .NET
2 9 (7.56%) GraphQL
3 8 (6.72%) CSS
3 8 (6.72%) HTML
3 8 (6.72%) REST
4 6 (5.04%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.04%) SailPoint
4 6 (5.04%) YAML
5 5 (4.20%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.20%) Kafka
5 5 (4.20%) Playwright
6 4 (3.36%) Apache Jena
6 4 (3.36%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.36%) JSON
6 4 (3.36%) PostGIS
6 4 (3.36%) XML
7 3 (2.52%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.52%) Blazor
7 3 (2.52%) PySpark
7 3 (2.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.04%) Replication
3 5 (4.20%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.36%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.52%) IoT
5 3 (2.52%) PKI
6 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Clustering
7 1 (0.84%) CSOC
7 1 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.84%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.45%) Windows
2 11 (9.24%) Linux
3 10 (8.40%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.72%) VMS
5 5 (4.20%) Android
5 5 (4.20%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.52%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.68%) Unix
7 2 (1.68%) Windows 2000
7 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.68%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.82%) DevOps
2 32 (26.89%) Agile
3 25 (21.01%) Business Intelligence
4 24 (20.17%) CI/CD
5 20 (16.81%) Migration
6 17 (14.29%) Data Management
7 14 (11.76%) Data Protection
8 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (10.08%) Containerisation
9 12 (10.08%) Test Automation
10 11 (9.24%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.40%) Change Management
11 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (7.56%) Analytics
12 9 (7.56%) Architectural Patterns
12 9 (7.56%) Computer Science
12 9 (7.56%) Software Engineering
13 8 (6.72%) Architectural Design
13 8 (6.72%) Architecture Governance
13 8 (6.72%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.85%) SQL
2 17 (14.29%) C#
3 10 (8.40%) PowerShell
3 10 (8.40%) TypeScript
4 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.56%) Python
5 7 (5.88%) Bash
6 4 (3.36%) SPARQL
7 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.84%) Bicep
8 1 (0.84%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.08%) DV Cleared
2 12 (10.08%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.40%) Degree
4 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.84%) CISA
4 1 (0.84%) CISM
4 1 (0.84%) CISSP
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.84%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.36%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (3.36%) NCSC
4 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (19.33%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.29%) Docker
3 8 (6.72%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.04%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.52%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.52%) vSphere
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (10.92%) Terraform
2 9 (7.56%) Ansible
2 9 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.56%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (7.56%) vCenter Server
3 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.68%) SCCM
5 1 (0.84%) Grafana
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.84%) Puppet
5 1 (0.84%) vRealize
5 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.61%) VMware
3 9 (7.56%) CA
4 8 (6.72%) Cisco
4 8 (6.72%) Databricks
4 8 (6.72%) SAP
5 6 (5.04%) CheckPoint
5 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.04%) Veeam
6 4 (3.36%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.36%) Dell
7 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.68%) Juniper
7 2 (1.68%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.68%) Okta
7 2 (1.68%) Oracle
8 1 (0.84%) Apple
8 1 (0.84%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.84%) Informatica
8 1 (0.84%) Veritas