Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Somerset

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
South West > Somerset

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Somerset is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.73% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% -11.36%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Somerset. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Somerset with a recognized job title 433 164 172
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 86.77% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 106 116
10th Percentile £191 £216 £203
25th Percentile £409 £329 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £723 £649
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 4 6
10th Percentile £24.89 £16.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £44.06 £21.98 £13.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £42.58 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.80% +39.59% -41.22%
75th Percentile £92.53 £63.13 £57.81
90th Percentile £99.17 £68.75 £64.38
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +12.50%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Somerset

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Somerset.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Somerset

Azure DevOps Engineer
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 DevOps Engineer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 15 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 - 8 £400 - 1
Azure DevOps Engineer
South West

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 15 September 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Somerset region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 7 (87.50%) ARM Templates
2 7 (87.50%) Azure AKS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Bash
2 7 (87.50%) Bicep
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (87.50%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (87.50%) DevSecOps
2 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 7 (87.50%) Event-Driven
2 7 (87.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (87.50%) Git
2 7 (87.50%) Identity Management
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) Performance Management
2 7 (87.50%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (87.50%) Release Management
2 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (87.50%) Software Delivery
2 7 (87.50%) Terraform

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure AKS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) ARM Templates
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Product Ownership
1 7 (87.50%) Wiki
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (87.50%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (87.50%) DevSecOps
2 7 (87.50%) Event-Driven
2 7 (87.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (87.50%) Identity Management
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) Performance Management
2 7 (87.50%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (87.50%) Release Management
2 7 (87.50%) Software Delivery
2 7 (87.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (87.50%) Bash
2 7 (87.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft