Azure Contract Job Trends in Bath

Microsoft Azure
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 16 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 15.53% 14.29% 14.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.61% 38.46% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 6
10th Percentile £425 - £306
25th Percentile £443 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £569 £477 £475
90th Percentile £610 £566 £574
Somerset median daily rate £475 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +11.76% -26.09% -16.06%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bath

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 Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 31 26 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 30.10% 37.14% 39.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 16
10th Percentile £156 £140 £209
25th Percentile £369 £225 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -13.24% +3.03%
75th Percentile £547 £467 £478
90th Percentile £620 £494 £551
Somerset median daily rate £500 £333 £485
% change year-on-year +50.38% -31.44% +5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £12.80
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £14.50
75th Percentile £15.24 - £15.75
90th Percentile - - £16.20
Somerset median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +400.00% -52.55%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

Azure job vacancy trend in Bath

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Bath

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Bath over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Bath

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath 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 4 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) Boomi
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
1 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Data Migration Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Integration Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Architect
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) Loki
4 1 (6.25%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
1 10 (62.50%) ETL
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Data Integration
4 5 (31.25%) Data Migration
4 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (31.25%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Data Security
5 4 (25.00%) ERP
5 4 (25.00%) Information Assurance
5 4 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Argo
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) InterSystems
3 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle