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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 6 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure 135 26 15
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 31.76% 15.38% 6.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 68.18% 53.06% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 19 14
10th Percentile £403 £325 £205
25th Percentile £436 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -2.44% -24.07%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £662 £862
South West median daily rate £540 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +7.95% -0.99% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 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 £85.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% -23.53% +41.67%

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 198 49 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 46.59% 28.99% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 41 28
10th Percentile £319 £188 £205
25th Percentile £406 £325 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £656 £531 £600
90th Percentile £738 £638 £669
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 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 £70.00
% change year-on-year +204.72% -73.04% +33.33%

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 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Somerset

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Somerset over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 July 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 55 £450 -36.62% 11
Yeovil +3 48 £638 +24.39% 3
Bath -1 19 £525 +12.00% 16
Street +4 2 £663 +6.00% 9
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 13 (9.63%) Confluence
2 11 (8.15%) IIS
3 4 (2.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Trello
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) InDesign
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.89%) AWS
2 36 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.15%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (5.19%) GCP
5 6 (4.44%) GitHub
6 5 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.96%) PaaS
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.22%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.48%) Boomi
9 2 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.15%) Firewall
2 8 (5.93%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.19%) DNS
4 5 (3.70%) DHCP
4 5 (3.70%) VSAN
5 4 (2.96%) VLAN
6 3 (2.22%) BGP
6 3 (2.22%) OSPF
6 3 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (2.22%) VPN
7 2 (1.48%) Network Security
8 1 (0.74%) HTTP
8 1 (0.74%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.41%) Geospatial Data
3 8 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.48%) Big Data
6 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.48%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.48%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.74%) GIS
7 1 (0.74%) Metadata
7 1 (0.74%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (12.59%) JIRA
2 11 (8.15%) Git
3 9 (6.67%) MSI
4 1 (0.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) Snyk
4 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
2 13 (9.63%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.19%) Finance
4 7 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.48%) Legal
7 1 (0.74%) Advertising
7 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (28.89%) Consultant
1 39 (28.89%) Implementation Consultant
2 19 (14.07%) Architect
3 16 (11.85%) Lead
4 11 (8.15%) Developer
4 11 (8.15%) Technical Architect
5 10 (7.41%) Senior
6 9 (6.67%) DBA
7 8 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Site Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Automation Tester
8 7 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (5.19%) Migration Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Tester
9 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared DBA
9 6 (4.44%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.70%) .NET Architect
10 5 (3.70%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.96%) .NET
2 25 (18.52%) .NET Framework
3 11 (8.15%) GeoJSON
3 11 (8.15%) RESTful
4 10 (7.41%) .NET Core
5 9 (6.67%) ATL
5 9 (6.67%) COM
5 9 (6.67%) MFC
5 9 (6.67%) REST
6 8 (5.93%) CSS
6 8 (5.93%) CSS3
6 8 (5.93%) HTML
6 8 (5.93%) HTML5
6 8 (5.93%) WPF
7 7 (5.19%) Playwright
8 2 (1.48%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.48%) FHIR
8 2 (1.48%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (8.15%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.44%) Legacy Code
4 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.96%) PKI
5 4 (2.96%) Wiki
6 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.22%) NHS
6 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.48%) PMI
7 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.00%) Windows
2 13 (9.63%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.93%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.30%) DevOps
2 43 (31.85%) ERP
3 40 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 39 (28.89%) PLM
5 34 (25.19%) Agile
6 25 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (14.07%) DevSecOps
9 17 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (12.59%) Test Automation
10 16 (11.85%) Decision-Making
11 15 (11.11%) Containerisation
12 14 (10.37%) Migration
12 14 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (8.89%) Microservices
13 12 (8.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 11 (8.15%) Data Modelling
14 11 (8.15%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (8.15%) High Availability
14 11 (8.15%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.07%) Python
2 18 (13.33%) SQL
3 16 (11.85%) C#
4 14 (10.37%) Bicep
5 12 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.70%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) C++
9 1 (0.74%) Java
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 43 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.07%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) Degree
5 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.48%) VCAP
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CBAP
6 1 (0.74%) IIBA
6 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.74%) PMP
6 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) NCSC
2 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.93%) WCAG
4 6 (4.44%) QA
5 5 (3.70%) ISO 9000
6 4 (2.96%) GDPR
7 3 (2.22%) SLA
7 3 (2.22%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (1.48%) GRC
8 2 (1.48%) HL7
9 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (12.59%) Docker
2 8 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.70%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.70%) vSphere
5 4 (2.96%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.74%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 30 (22.22%) Terraform
2 15 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.63%) Ansible
4 5 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.48%) VxRail
6 1 (0.74%) Argo
6 1 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.74%) Nessus
6 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 39 (28.89%) Siemens
3 11 (8.15%) Oracle
4 8 (5.93%) VMware
5 5 (3.70%) InterSystems
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco
6 3 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.48%) Google
7 2 (1.48%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.48%) Thales
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) Databricks
8 1 (0.74%) Informatica