Azure Contracts in Somerset

Microsoft Azure
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 27 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 16.17% 6.64% 15.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.10% 41.67% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 24
10th Percentile £325 £205 £406
25th Percentile £413 £397 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £663
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -30.19% +29.27%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £717
90th Percentile £656 £761 £738
South West median daily rate £503 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.43% -6.36% +5.62%
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 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +75.77%

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 49 36 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 29.34% 15.93% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 27 45
10th Percentile £188 £205 £182
25th Percentile £325 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £703
90th Percentile £638 - £742
South West median daily rate £475 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £34.16
25th Percentile £57.50 £12.50 £36.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 £42.40
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -69.34% +97.20%
75th Percentile £72.50 £13.50 £46.80
90th Percentile - - £48.72
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -73.04% +36.59% +146.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Somerset.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Somerset

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Somerset over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Somerset

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Somerset.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Somerset

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 4 July 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 +2 15 £469 +4.17% 158
Street - 4 £625 - 16
Yeovil - 4 £513 -
Taunton -1 1 £710 +23.48% 13
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 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Google Ads
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.70%) Pendo
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (7.41%) BGP
3 2 (7.41%) MPLS
3 2 (7.41%) OSPF
3 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.41%) VLAN
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) DHCP
4 1 (3.70%) DNS
4 1 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Advertising
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Security Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
1 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Security
1 7 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
2 5 (18.52%) Patch Management
2 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (14.81%) Analytics
3 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 3 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 3 (11.11%) Migration
4 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 3 (11.11%) Server Hardening
4 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) C#
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) CCNP
4 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.41%) CCIE
5 2 (7.41%) JNCIE
5 2 (7.41%) JNCIP
6 1 (3.70%) CCNA
6 1 (3.70%) Degree
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Nessus
1 3 (11.11%) SCCM
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
1 3 (11.11%) WSUS
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Data Guard
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Cisco
1 4 (14.81%) Databricks
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Qualys
2 3 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
3 2 (7.41%) Juniper
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Apple
4 1 (3.70%) Criteo