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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 16 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 22 11 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 14.57% 5.39% 19.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.41% 35.48% 61.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 26
10th Percentile £418 £205 £466
25th Percentile £463 £406 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £663
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -28.30% +34.38%
75th Percentile £625 £544 £715
90th Percentile £643 £600 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 39 31 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 25.83% 15.20% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 42
10th Percentile £375 £217 £201
25th Percentile £409 £397 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £622
Median % change year-on-year - -23.67% +39.85%
75th Percentile £595 £529 £711
90th Percentile £638 £595 £741
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £16.93
25th Percentile - £12.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £26.90
Median % change year-on-year - -51.67% +25.10%
75th Percentile - £13.50 £40.39
90th Percentile - - £46.16
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £19.50 £54.18
% change year-on-year -3.23% -64.01% +151.98%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -4 10 £500 +5.26% 16
Street - 5 £625 - 8
Yeovil - 3 £513 - 2
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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) Google Ads
5 1 (4.55%) Pendo
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) WAN
2 2 (9.09%) BGP
2 2 (9.09%) DHCP
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) MPLS
2 2 (9.09%) OSPF
2 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 2 (9.09%) VLAN
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) SSH
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) NUnit
1 1 (4.55%) Postman
1 1 (4.55%) Selenium
1 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Agile Product Owner
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
1 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.55%) Playwright
2 1 (4.55%) Swagger
2 1 (4.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Analytics
3 4 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
3 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
4 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
4 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.64%) Data Science
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Migration
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Perl
3 1 (4.55%) R
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) CCNP
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 2 (9.09%) CCIE
5 2 (9.09%) JNCIE
5 2 (9.09%) JNCIP
6 1 (4.55%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Nessus
2 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco
1 4 (18.18%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 2 (9.09%) Juniper
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.55%) Apple
4 1 (4.55%) Criteo
4 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Qualys
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat