Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Public Cloud
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.71% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - -
South West median daily rate £675 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% -7.16%

All Generic Skills
Somerset

Public Cloud 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 105 61 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 24.71% 36.09% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 43 28
10th Percentile £400 £253 £160
25th Percentile £431 £530 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £633 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +26.50% +8.40%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £602
90th Percentile £730 - £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 15
10th Percentile - £24.66 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.00 £30.13 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.24 £43.01 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.56% +7.51% -3.03%
75th Percentile £91.91 £59.63 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £67.35 £44.50
South West median hourly rate £53.68 £19.94 £57.44
% change year-on-year +169.18% -65.29% -22.38%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Somerset

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 17 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
Yeovil - 3 £900 - 1
Public Cloud
South West

Public Cloud
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VCAP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware