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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 106 32 21
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 23.25% 16.49% 10.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 61.99% 49.23% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 23 17
10th Percentile £406 £214 £420
25th Percentile £450 £241 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -26.09% -16.06%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £600
90th Percentile £747 £695 £848
South West median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £93.28 - -
25th Percentile £94.40 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £96.27 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.10% - -
75th Percentile £98.13 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £99.25 - -
South West median hourly rate £96.27 £65.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +48.10% -23.53% +360.70%

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 171 65 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 37.50% 33.51% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 52 32
10th Percentile £188 £160 £214
25th Percentile £425 £220 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £333 £485
Median % change year-on-year +50.38% -31.44% +5.43%
75th Percentile £656 £470 £600
90th Percentile £750 £571 £665
South West median daily rate £535 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +12.63% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 3
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £15.24 £57.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +400.00% -52.55%
75th Percentile £95.68 £72.50 £15.00
90th Percentile £99.06 - £15.90
South West median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.44% -73.04% +101.18%

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 September 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 September 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 65 £470 -33.80% 5
Bath -1 16 £524 +39.67% 35
Yeovil -10 12 £525 +16.67% 16
Bridgwater -5 2 £313 +42.05% 3
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 19 (17.92%) Confluence
2 17 (16.04%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.77%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.83%) Trello
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (45.28%) Azure DevOps
2 33 (31.13%) AWS
3 12 (11.32%) Azure AKS
4 11 (10.38%) GitHub
5 7 (6.60%) GCP
6 5 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.72%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.72%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (4.72%) PaaS
7 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.77%) Miro
7 4 (3.77%) Serverless
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.83%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.89%) Boomi
9 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.21%) Firewall
2 11 (10.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.55%) DHCP
3 8 (7.55%) DNS
4 6 (5.66%) VLAN
4 6 (5.66%) VSAN
5 4 (3.77%) VPN
6 3 (2.83%) BGP
6 3 (2.83%) OSPF
6 3 (2.83%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.26%) Geospatial Data
2 10 (9.43%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.72%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.77%) Big Data
5 4 (3.77%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Git
2 23 (21.70%) JIRA
3 11 (10.38%) MSI
4 3 (2.83%) GitLab
4 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.94%) Snyk
General
1 17 (16.04%) Public Sector
2 14 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.60%) Finance
4 7 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.77%) Retail
6 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Advertising
7 1 (0.94%) Legal
7 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (15.09%) Developer
1 16 (15.09%) Lead
2 14 (13.21%) Architect
3 11 (10.38%) Technical Architect
4 9 (8.49%) .NET Developer
4 9 (8.49%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (8.49%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.49%) DBA
4 9 (8.49%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.49%) Senior
5 7 (6.60%) Analyst
5 7 (6.60%) Automation Tester
5 7 (6.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.60%) Tester
6 6 (5.66%) DV Cleared DBA
6 6 (5.66%) SQL DBA
7 5 (4.72%) .NET Architect
7 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (37.74%) Terraform
2 27 (25.47%) .NET
3 21 (19.81%) .NET Framework
4 16 (15.09%) .NET Core
5 14 (13.21%) REST
6 13 (12.26%) GeoJSON
6 13 (12.26%) RESTful
7 11 (10.38%) ATL
7 11 (10.38%) COM
7 11 (10.38%) CSS
7 11 (10.38%) CSS3
7 11 (10.38%) HTML
7 11 (10.38%) HTML5
7 11 (10.38%) MFC
7 11 (10.38%) WPF
8 10 (9.43%) ARM Templates
9 7 (6.60%) Playwright
10 4 (3.77%) ADO
10 4 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (3.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.09%) Product Ownership
2 16 (15.09%) Wiki
3 15 (14.15%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (13.21%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.60%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.72%) PKI
7 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.94%) NHS
9 1 (0.94%) PMI
9 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.75%) Windows
2 8 (7.55%) Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (58.49%) DevOps
2 52 (49.06%) CI/CD
3 47 (44.34%) Agile
4 37 (34.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (31.13%) DevSecOps
6 28 (26.42%) Containerisation
7 27 (25.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (22.64%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (19.81%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (19.81%) Test Automation
10 16 (15.09%) Observability
10 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (14.15%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (14.15%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (14.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 14 (13.21%) Decision-Making
12 14 (13.21%) Knowledge Transfer
12 14 (13.21%) Microservices
13 13 (12.26%) API Design
13 13 (12.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.58%) Bicep
2 23 (21.70%) Python
3 21 (19.81%) C#
4 19 (17.92%) SQL
5 16 (15.09%) PowerShell
6 15 (14.15%) Bash
7 11 (10.38%) JavaScript
7 11 (10.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (73.58%) Security Cleared
2 53 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (22.64%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) VCAP
5 2 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Degree
6 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) NCSC
2 11 (10.38%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.38%) WCAG
3 10 (9.43%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.72%) ISO 9000
5 3 (2.83%) QA
5 3 (2.83%) SLA
6 2 (1.89%) GRC
7 1 (0.94%) GDPR
7 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.94%) NIST
7 1 (0.94%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 29 (27.36%) Docker
2 11 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.66%) VMware NSX
3 6 (5.66%) vSphere
4 5 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.89%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.21%) Ansible
3 5 (4.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.83%) VxRail
5 1 (0.94%) Argo
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.94%) Nessus
Vendors
1 52 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.38%) VMware
3 10 (9.43%) Oracle
4 4 (3.77%) CyberArk
4 4 (3.77%) InterSystems
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco
5 3 (2.83%) Thales
6 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.94%) Informatica
7 1 (0.94%) McAfee
7 1 (0.94%) Starlink