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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 6 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure 125 26 16
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 30.94% 15.29% 7.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 68.68% 54.17% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 19 15
10th Percentile £400 £325 £205
25th Percentile £445 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -28.30%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £600
90th Percentile £751 £662 £857
South West median daily rate £540 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +7.90% -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 -
% 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 182 48 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 45.05% 28.24% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 40 28
10th Percentile £319 £185 £205
25th Percentile £406 £309 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% -10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £655 £533 £600
90th Percentile £736 £639 £669
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £523
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.09% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 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% +40.00%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 47 £450 -36.62% 4
Yeovil +3 47 £365 -28.78% 18
Bath -2 18 £538 +14.67% 15
Street +3 2 £663 +6.00% 7
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 (8.80%) IIS
2 9 (7.20%) Confluence
3 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) InDesign
2 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.60%) AWS
2 29 (23.20%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.80%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (4.80%) GCP
4 6 (4.80%) GitHub
5 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.20%) PaaS
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.60%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.60%) Boomi
8 2 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.60%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) Firewall
2 7 (5.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.80%) DNS
4 4 (3.20%) DHCP
4 4 (3.20%) VLAN
4 4 (3.20%) VSAN
5 3 (2.40%) BGP
5 3 (2.40%) OSPF
5 3 (2.40%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (2.40%) VPN
6 2 (1.60%) Network Security
7 1 (0.80%) HTTP
7 1 (0.80%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.20%) Geospatial Data
3 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.60%) Power BI
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.80%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.80%) Big Data
7 1 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.80%) GIS
7 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.80%) Metadata
7 1 (0.80%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (10.40%) JIRA
2 9 (7.20%) Git
3 8 (6.40%) MSI
4 1 (0.80%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 10 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
2 8 (6.40%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.20%) Finance
5 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.60%) Legal
7 1 (0.80%) Advertising
7 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (31.20%) Consultant
1 39 (31.20%) Implementation Consultant
2 19 (15.20%) Architect
3 16 (12.80%) Lead
4 11 (8.80%) Technical Architect
5 10 (8.00%) Developer
5 10 (8.00%) Senior
6 9 (7.20%) DBA
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Site Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Automation Tester
8 7 (5.60%) Migration Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Tester
9 6 (4.80%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) DV Cleared DBA
9 6 (4.80%) SQL DBA
10 5 (4.00%) .NET Architect
10 5 (4.00%) .NET Technical Architect
10 5 (4.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.00%) .NET
2 24 (19.20%) .NET Framework
3 10 (8.00%) GeoJSON
3 10 (8.00%) RESTful
4 9 (7.20%) .NET Core
5 8 (6.40%) ATL
5 8 (6.40%) COM
5 8 (6.40%) MFC
5 8 (6.40%) REST
6 7 (5.60%) CSS
6 7 (5.60%) CSS3
6 7 (5.60%) HTML
6 7 (5.60%) HTML5
6 7 (5.60%) Playwright
6 7 (5.60%) WPF
7 2 (1.60%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.60%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.60%) FHIR
7 2 (1.60%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.60%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.80%) Legacy Code
5 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.20%) Wiki
7 3 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.40%) NHS
7 3 (2.40%) PKI
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.80%) PMI
9 1 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.00%) Windows
2 13 (10.40%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.60%) Linux
4 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.40%) ERP
2 40 (32.00%) DevOps
3 39 (31.20%) PLM
4 36 (28.80%) CI/CD
5 27 (21.60%) Agile
6 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (15.20%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (13.60%) DevSecOps
9 16 (12.80%) Test Automation
10 14 (11.20%) Migration
11 13 (10.40%) Containerisation
12 12 (9.60%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.80%) High Availability
13 11 (8.80%) Microservices
13 11 (8.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 10 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.00%) Data Modelling
14 10 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
15 9 (7.20%) Deployment Automation
15 9 (7.20%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.60%) SQL
2 16 (12.80%) Python
3 15 (12.00%) C#
4 12 (9.60%) Bicep
5 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.40%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.20%) Bash
9 1 (0.80%) C++
9 1 (0.80%) Java
9 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (44.80%) Security Cleared
2 36 (28.80%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.60%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) Degree
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.80%) CBAP
6 1 (0.80%) IIBA
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.80%) PMP
6 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.80%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) NCSC
2 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.60%) WCAG
4 6 (4.80%) QA
5 5 (4.00%) ISO 9000
6 4 (3.20%) GDPR
7 3 (2.40%) SLA
7 3 (2.40%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (1.60%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Docker
2 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.20%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.20%) vSphere
5 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.80%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 27 (21.60%) Terraform
2 12 (9.60%) Ansible
2 12 (9.60%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.80%) Argo
4 1 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (32.80%) Microsoft
2 39 (31.20%) Siemens
3 11 (8.80%) Oracle
4 7 (5.60%) VMware
5 5 (4.00%) InterSystems
6 3 (2.40%) Cisco
7 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.60%) Google
7 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.80%) Adobe
8 1 (0.80%) Databricks
8 1 (0.80%) Informatica
8 1 (0.80%) Thales