Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 5.79% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Somerset median daily rate £500 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Taunton

Azure AKS 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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 85 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 70.25% 9.09% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 2 4
10th Percentile £406 £710 -
25th Percentile £431 £710 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £716 £575
Median % change year-on-year -34.32% +24.46% -17.09%
75th Percentile £563 £726 £600
90th Percentile £730 £730 -
Somerset median daily rate £500 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +400.00% -52.55%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Taunton

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Architect
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Technical Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Wiki
2 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) DevSecOps
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Release Management
3 5 (71.43%) Software Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bicep
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft