Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Cloud Native
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.73% 1.53% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.35% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £538 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £652 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% - -
75th Percentile £687 £625 -
90th Percentile £692 - -
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Somerset

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 68 50 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 23.53% 38.17% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 32 25
10th Percentile £244 £185 £137
25th Percentile £319 £368 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £570
90th Percentile £607 - £606
South West median daily rate £523 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -0.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £12.10
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - £21.01 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -47.48% +110.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £53.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% +33.13% +308.16%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Somerset

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Somerset over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Somerset

Cloud Native
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 Cloud Native within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bath -1 2 £674 +12.25% 2
Street - 1 - - 1
Taunton - 1 £450 -
Yeovil - 1 - -
Cloud Native
South West

Cloud Native
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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FHIR
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HL7
1 2 (40.00%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) InterSystems