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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 6 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing Azure 87 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 30.53% 16.52% 6.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 69.05% 39.58% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 14 12
10th Percentile £431 £433 £205
25th Percentile £463 £463 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +26.32% -25.49%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £631
90th Percentile £628 £646 £722
South West median daily rate £504 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.05% +5.00% -12.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £51.85 £15.35
% change year-on-year +10.90% +237.79% -78.07%

All Cloud Computing 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 126 48 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 44.21% 41.74% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 37 29
10th Percentile £225 £392 £203
25th Percentile £319 £450 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.53% -26.02%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £525
90th Percentile £600 £743 £630
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £12.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +342.31% - -25.71%
75th Percentile £58.75 £13.50 £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -74.78%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Azure job vacancy trend 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 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 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
Yeovil - 43 £488 -
Taunton - 20 £481 - 4
Bath -1 8 £550 +10.00% 13
Street +3 3 £663 +6.00% 13
Azure
South West

Azure
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 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.20%) IIS
3 7 (8.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) InDesign
2 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.39%) AWS
2 14 (16.09%) Entra ID
3 11 (12.64%) Azure Monitor
3 11 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.20%) GCP
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (5.75%) PaaS
5 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (4.60%) IaaS
6 4 (4.60%) ShareGate
7 3 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.30%) SaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) Firewall
2 6 (6.90%) DHCP
2 6 (6.90%) DNS
3 5 (5.75%) VPN
4 2 (2.30%) Network Security
4 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.15%) DKIM
5 1 (1.15%) DMARC
5 1 (1.15%) HTTP
5 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.15%) LAN
5 1 (1.15%) NAS
5 1 (1.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.15%) SMTP
5 1 (1.15%) WAN
5 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) Power BI
3 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.30%) Power Query
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Git
1 1 (1.15%) JIRA
1 1 (1.15%) MSI
1 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
1 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 16 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.15%) Banking
4 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.15%) Finance
4 1 (1.15%) Legal
4 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (49.43%) Consultant
2 39 (44.83%) Implementation Consultant
3 13 (14.94%) Architect
4 7 (8.05%) Data Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Senior
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Architect
6 5 (5.75%) Site Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Administrator
7 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Migration Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) .NET
2 8 (9.20%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (2.30%) Entity Framework
3 2 (2.30%) FHIR
3 2 (2.30%) PySpark
4 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.15%) ATL
4 1 (1.15%) Blazor
4 1 (1.15%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (1.15%) GeoJSON
4 1 (1.15%) OAuth
4 1 (1.15%) OpenID
4 1 (1.15%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (1.15%) React
4 1 (1.15%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) RESTful
4 1 (1.15%) SignalR
4 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.60%) Legacy Code
2 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.45%) FMCG
3 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.30%) NHS
4 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Wiki
5 1 (1.15%) CMDB
5 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.15%) PMI
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Windows
2 15 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.05%) Linux
4 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) ERP
1 39 (44.83%) PLM
2 16 (18.39%) DevOps
3 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
3 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (13.79%) Agile
4 12 (13.79%) Runbook
5 11 (12.64%) Migration
6 10 (11.49%) Analytics
6 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.20%) Incident Response
7 8 (9.20%) SIEM
8 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (8.05%) Change Management
8 7 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (6.90%) Data Modelling
9 6 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.90%) Validation
10 5 (5.75%) Business Continuity
10 5 (5.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.05%) Bicep
3 6 (6.90%) SQL
4 5 (5.75%) Python
5 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.15%) C++
7 1 (1.15%) Java
7 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.45%) Degree
5 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) CBAP
6 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) IIBA
6 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.15%) PMP
6 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
1 7 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.75%) NCSC
3 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 3 (3.45%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) HL7
4 2 (2.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 18 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.30%) Docker
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (13.79%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) SCCM
3 3 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (44.83%) Siemens
2 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.90%) Databricks
4 5 (5.75%) Google
5 4 (4.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) Citrix
6 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.15%) InterSystems
6 1 (1.15%) NetApp
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.15%) Veeam