Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.54% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +2.22%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Somerset

Azure AKS 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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 179 52 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 39.43% 29.55% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 41 26
10th Percentile £218 £160 £209
25th Percentile £430 £213 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £655 £494 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £715
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 4
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £15.24 £57.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +400.00% -52.55%
75th Percentile £95.68 £72.50 £14.25
90th Percentile £99.06 - £15.60
South West median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +87.79%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Somerset

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. 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
Taunton - 7 £500 - 1
Azure AKS
South West

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Architect
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Technical Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Wiki
2 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) DevSecOps
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Release Management
3 5 (71.43%) Software Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bicep
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft