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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 7 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Azure 106 17 9
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 31.93% 12.41% 4.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 74.65% 47.22% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 14 9
10th Percentile £413 £412 £196
25th Percentile £450 £458 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -30.77%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £488
90th Percentile £621 £646 £515
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +130.00% - -

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 142 36 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 42.77% 26.28% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 30 24
10th Percentile £335 £406 £198
25th Percentile £401 £431 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +12.86% -25.15%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £525
90th Percentile £607 £639 £536
South West median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 0 3
10th Percentile £32.50 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.58%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £14.50
% change year-on-year +210.64% +27.66% -72.82%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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
Yeovil - 41 - -
Taunton - 31 £450 - 1
Bath +7 18 £550 +10.00% 20
Street +2 3 £663 +6.00% 10
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 (10.38%) IIS
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) InDesign
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.87%) AWS
2 19 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (8.49%) GCP
5 7 (6.60%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.60%) PaaS
6 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.77%) IaaS
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.89%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.89%) Boomi
10 2 (1.89%) GitHub
10 2 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.89%) SaaS
11 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) Firewall
2 5 (4.72%) DHCP
2 5 (4.72%) DNS
3 4 (3.77%) VPN
4 1 (0.94%) HTTP
4 1 (0.94%) LAN
4 1 (0.94%) SMTP
4 1 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) Power BI
3 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.89%) Metadata
4 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.89%) Power Query
5 1 (0.94%) Big Data
5 1 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.94%) GIS
5 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (0.94%) MSI
3 1 (0.94%) webpack
General
1 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (11.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.77%) Finance
3 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.94%) Banking
5 1 (0.94%) Legal
5 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (36.79%) Consultant
1 39 (36.79%) Implementation Consultant
2 17 (16.04%) Architect
3 9 (8.49%) Technical Architect
4 8 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.55%) Site Engineer
4 8 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (6.60%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.60%) Migration Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Automation Tester
6 6 (5.66%) Azure Architect
6 6 (5.66%) Data Architect
6 6 (5.66%) Senior
6 6 (5.66%) Tester
7 5 (4.72%) .NET Architect
7 5 (4.72%) .NET Technical Architect
7 5 (4.72%) Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.70%) .NET
2 17 (16.04%) .NET Framework
3 6 (5.66%) Playwright
4 2 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (1.89%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.89%) FHIR
4 2 (1.89%) Middleware
4 2 (1.89%) PySpark
5 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.94%) ATL
5 1 (0.94%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (0.94%) GeoJSON
5 1 (0.94%) Kafka
5 1 (0.94%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (0.94%) React
5 1 (0.94%) REST
5 1 (0.94%) RESTful
5 1 (0.94%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.66%) Legacy Code
4 4 (3.77%) Wiki
5 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.83%) FMCG
5 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.89%) NHS
6 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) PMI
7 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.98%) Windows
2 17 (16.04%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.66%) Linux
4 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) ERP
2 39 (36.79%) PLM
3 30 (28.30%) DevOps
4 23 (21.70%) CI/CD
5 13 (12.26%) Agile
6 12 (11.32%) Analytics
6 12 (11.32%) Migration
7 11 (10.38%) Data Modelling
7 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (9.43%) ETL
8 10 (9.43%) High Availability
8 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.49%) Incident Response
9 9 (8.49%) Runbook
10 8 (7.55%) Decision-Making
10 8 (7.55%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.21%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.55%) C#
2 8 (7.55%) SQL
3 6 (5.66%) Bicep
3 6 (5.66%) Python
4 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
4 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.94%) C++
6 1 (0.94%) Java
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) CBAP
6 1 (0.94%) IIBA
6 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.94%) PMP
6 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 3 (2.83%) GDPR
3 3 (2.83%) SNOMED CT
4 2 (1.89%) HL7
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.66%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.83%) Docker
3 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (12.26%) Terraform
2 5 (4.72%) Ansible
3 3 (2.83%) SCCM
4 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (36.79%) Siemens
2 34 (32.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.66%) Databricks
4 5 (4.72%) Google
4 5 (4.72%) InterSystems
5 3 (2.83%) VMware
6 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.94%) Adobe
7 1 (0.94%) Citrix
7 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.94%) NetApp
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.94%) SAP
7 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.94%) Veeam