Azure Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Microsoft Azure
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 30 21 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 15.96% 10.55% 11.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.72% 45.65% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 21
10th Percentile £220 £420 £385
25th Percentile £278 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £685
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -16.06% +19.23%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £715
90th Percentile £698 £848 £748
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £85.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -23.53% +304.76% -44.00%

All Cloud Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 58 46 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 30.85% 23.12% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 31 47
10th Percentile £160 £213 £180
25th Percentile £220 £378 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £495 £460
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +7.61% -8.00%
75th Percentile £484 £600 £701
90th Percentile £606 £673 £746
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £21.24
25th Percentile £57.50 £12.50 £23.10
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 £27.40
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -52.55% +27.43%
75th Percentile £72.50 £15.00 £32.89
90th Percentile - £15.90 £35.47
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% +100.00% +60.92%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Somerset

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Somerset over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Somerset

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Azure

Azure
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 within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Bath -3 9 £375 -16.67% 10
Yeovil - 9 £450 - 1
Bridgwater - 5 £220 -
Taunton -1 2 £716 +24.46% 6
Azure
South West

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 8 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) ShareGate
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
1 4 (13.33%) VPN
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) WAN
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) Kerberos
3 2 (6.67%) LAN
3 2 (6.67%) SMTP
3 2 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) BGP
4 1 (3.33%) MPLS
4 1 (3.33%) OSPF
4 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) Metadata
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Electronics
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) LDAP
1 2 (6.67%) OAuth
1 2 (6.67%) OpenID
1 2 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.33%) IoT
2 1 (3.33%) iPad
2 1 (3.33%) iPhone
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) NHS
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (10.00%) Linux
5 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Migration
2 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (20.00%) ITIL
3 6 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 5 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (13.33%) Antivirus Management
5 4 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.33%) Runbook
6 3 (10.00%) High Availability
6 3 (10.00%) Server Hardening
6 3 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CCNP
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) CCIE
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) JNCIE
4 1 (3.33%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (23.33%) SCCM
3 3 (10.00%) Nessus
3 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (10.00%) WSUS
4 1 (3.33%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.33%) HP ALM
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Qualys
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.67%) PTC
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) McAfee
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) Starlink
5 1 (3.33%) VMware