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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 5 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure 116 27 14
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 30.29% 16.07% 6.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 72.50% 52.94% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 19 13
10th Percentile £406 £325 £242
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -28.30%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £745 £662 -
South West median daily rate £525 £516 £500
% change year-on-year +1.69% +3.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -

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 160 51 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 41.78% 30.36% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 40 26
10th Percentile £350 £185 £215
25th Percentile £406 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £533 £564
90th Percentile £693 £639 £600
South West median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.09% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 1 3
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +400.00% -69.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £72.50 £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £67.50
% change year-on-year +204.72% -72.04% +28.57%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +6 44 £450 -36.62% 4
Yeovil +1 41 - - 1
Bath -1 20 £550 +17.33% 16
Street +2 2 £663 +6.00% 12
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 11 (9.48%) IIS
2 6 (5.17%) Confluence
3 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) InDesign
2 1 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 27 (23.28%) AWS
3 11 (9.48%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (5.17%) GCP
5 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.31%) GitHub
6 4 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.45%) PaaS
6 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.72%) Boomi
8 2 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Firewall
2 3 (2.59%) DNS
3 1 (0.86%) DHCP
3 1 (0.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.86%) SMTP
3 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.66%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.03%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.45%) Power BI
5 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.59%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.72%) Power Query
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.86%) Big Data
7 1 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.86%) GIS
7 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.86%) Metadata
7 1 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) JIRA
2 7 (6.03%) Git
3 6 (5.17%) MSI
4 1 (0.86%) GitLab
4 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 10 (8.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.45%) Finance
6 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (33.62%) Consultant
1 39 (33.62%) Implementation Consultant
2 19 (16.38%) Architect
3 12 (10.34%) Lead
4 11 (9.48%) Technical Architect
5 8 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Developer
5 8 (6.90%) Site Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) Automation Tester
6 7 (6.03%) Migration Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) Senior
6 7 (6.03%) Tester
7 6 (5.17%) DBA
8 5 (4.31%) .NET Architect
8 5 (4.31%) .NET Technical Architect
8 5 (4.31%) Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.45%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.14%) .NET
2 22 (18.97%) .NET Framework
3 8 (6.90%) GeoJSON
3 8 (6.90%) RESTful
4 7 (6.03%) .NET Core
4 7 (6.03%) Playwright
5 6 (5.17%) ATL
5 6 (5.17%) COM
5 6 (5.17%) MFC
5 6 (5.17%) REST
6 5 (4.31%) CSS
6 5 (4.31%) CSS3
6 5 (4.31%) HTML
6 5 (4.31%) HTML5
6 5 (4.31%) WPF
7 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.72%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.72%) Middleware
7 2 (1.72%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.93%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.17%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.45%) Wiki
6 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.59%) NHS
6 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.86%) PMI
8 1 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.38%) Windows
2 12 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (37.07%) ERP
2 40 (34.48%) DevOps
3 39 (33.62%) PLM
4 32 (27.59%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.97%) Agile
6 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (12.07%) Migration
7 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
8 13 (11.21%) Data Modelling
9 12 (10.34%) Decision-Making
9 12 (10.34%) ETL
10 11 (9.48%) DevSecOps
10 11 (9.48%) High Availability
10 11 (9.48%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (7.76%) Analytics
11 9 (7.76%) Containerisation
11 9 (7.76%) Microservices
11 9 (7.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 9 (7.76%) Validation
12 8 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.66%) SQL
2 13 (11.21%) C#
3 12 (10.34%) Python
4 10 (8.62%) Bicep
5 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.03%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.59%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.86%) C++
10 1 (0.86%) Java
10 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (39.66%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) Degree
5 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.86%) CBAP
6 1 (0.86%) IIBA
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.86%) PMP
6 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.03%) NCSC
3 6 (5.17%) QA
4 5 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.31%) WCAG
5 4 (3.45%) GDPR
6 3 (2.59%) ISO 9000
6 3 (2.59%) SLA
6 3 (2.59%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (1.72%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (15.52%) Terraform
2 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.17%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (33.62%) Siemens
2 37 (31.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.03%) Oracle
4 5 (4.31%) InterSystems
5 3 (2.59%) Databricks
6 2 (1.72%) Google
6 2 (1.72%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.86%) Adobe
7 1 (0.86%) Informatica
7 1 (0.86%) VMware