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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 112 25 14
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 24.83% 14.12% 7.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.92% 47.17% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 17 13
10th Percentile £406 £217 £415
25th Percentile £436 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% -16.06%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £748 £704 £866
South West median daily rate £540 £500 £503
% change year-on-year +8.00% -0.50% -8.64%
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 £70.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +37.52% -17.65% +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 178 53 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 39.47% 29.94% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 42 27
10th Percentile £221 £160 £210
25th Percentile £425 £214 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £379 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.01% -15.83% -5.26%
75th Percentile £656 £492 £600
90th Percentile £750 £671 £692
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 5
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 £13.50
90th Percentile £99.06 - £15.30
South West median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +76.99%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 68 £450 -37.12% 2
Bath +3 18 £525 +40.00% 19
Yeovil -12 12 £525 +2.44% 10
Bridgwater -5 2 £313 +42.05%
Street - 2 £663 - 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 (16.96%) Confluence
2 11 (9.82%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.93%) IIS
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.68%) Trello
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 42 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 40 (35.71%) AWS
3 10 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (8.93%) GitHub
4 7 (6.25%) GCP
5 6 (5.36%) Azure AKS
5 6 (5.36%) PaaS
6 5 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.57%) Miro
7 4 (3.57%) Serverless
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.68%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.79%) Boomi
9 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) Firewall
2 10 (8.93%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.04%) DNS
4 7 (6.25%) DHCP
5 6 (5.36%) VSAN
6 5 (4.46%) VLAN
7 4 (3.57%) VPN
8 3 (2.68%) BGP
8 3 (2.68%) OSPF
8 3 (2.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.61%) Geospatial Data
3 8 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.46%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.79%) Big Data
5 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.79%) Power BI
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.89%) Metadata
6 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (20.54%) JIRA
2 20 (17.86%) Git
3 11 (9.82%) MSI
4 2 (1.79%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.89%) Snyk
General
1 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.57%) Retail
6 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Advertising
7 1 (0.89%) Legal
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (15.18%) Developer
2 16 (14.29%) Architect
2 16 (14.29%) Lead
3 11 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (9.82%) Senior
3 11 (9.82%) Technical Architect
4 10 (8.93%) .NET Developer
5 9 (8.04%) DBA
5 9 (8.04%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (7.14%) Site Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Analyst
7 7 (6.25%) Automation Tester
7 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Tester
8 6 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared DBA
8 6 (5.36%) SQL DBA
9 5 (4.46%) .NET Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (33.04%) .NET
1 37 (33.04%) Terraform
2 30 (26.79%) .NET Framework
3 16 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 14 (12.50%) REST
4 14 (12.50%) RESTful
5 13 (11.61%) GeoJSON
6 11 (9.82%) ATL
6 11 (9.82%) COM
6 11 (9.82%) CSS
6 11 (9.82%) CSS3
6 11 (9.82%) HTML
6 11 (9.82%) HTML5
6 11 (9.82%) MFC
6 11 (9.82%) WPF
7 7 (6.25%) Playwright
8 4 (3.57%) ADO
8 4 (3.57%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.79%) Kafka
9 2 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 21 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 10 (8.93%) Product Ownership
4 10 (8.93%) Wiki
5 7 (6.25%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.36%) Legacy Code
7 5 (4.46%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.46%) PKI
8 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.68%) NHS
9 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.89%) PMI
10 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.68%) Windows
2 13 (11.61%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.04%) Linux
4 2 (1.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.46%) DevOps
2 51 (45.54%) CI/CD
3 44 (39.29%) Agile
4 33 (29.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (23.21%) DevSecOps
6 22 (19.64%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 18 (16.07%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (13.39%) Decision-Making
10 15 (13.39%) Microservices
10 15 (13.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 14 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
12 13 (11.61%) API Design
12 13 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (10.71%) Dependency Management
13 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.64%) C#
1 22 (19.64%) Python
2 19 (16.96%) Bicep
3 17 (15.18%) SQL
4 16 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.82%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 79 (70.54%) Security Cleared
2 57 (50.89%) SC Cleared
3 21 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) VCAP
5 2 (1.79%) Degree
5 2 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) NCSC
2 11 (9.82%) Accessibility
2 11 (9.82%) WCAG
3 8 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 7 (6.25%) QA
5 5 (4.46%) ISO 9000
6 3 (2.68%) GDPR
6 3 (2.68%) SLA
6 3 (2.68%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (1.79%) GRC
7 2 (1.79%) HL7
8 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (21.43%) Docker
2 10 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.36%) VMware NSX
4 6 (5.36%) vSphere
5 5 (4.46%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.79%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 23 (20.54%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.39%) Ansible
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.68%) VxRail
5 1 (0.89%) Argo
5 1 (0.89%) Grafana
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.89%) Nessus
5 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.93%) Oracle
2 10 (8.93%) VMware
3 5 (4.46%) InterSystems
4 4 (3.57%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.68%) Cisco
5 3 (2.68%) Thales
6 2 (1.79%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.89%) Informatica
7 1 (0.89%) McAfee
7 1 (0.89%) Starlink