Azure Architect Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Microsoft Azure Architect
Somerset > Taunton

The median Microsoft Azure Architect daily rate in Taunton is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 8.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 8.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Somerset median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Taunton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Taunton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Taunton with a recognized job title 25 22 33
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 91.67% 97.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 31
10th Percentile £450 £440 £581
25th Percentile £500 £500 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £685
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -16.06% +16.10%
75th Percentile £715 £600 £728
90th Percentile £750 £668 £750
Somerset median daily rate £442 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -1.72% -7.69% -0.51%

Azure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Azure Architect job vacancy trend in Taunton

Azure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in Taunton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Architect job vacancies in Taunton

Azure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, Azure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Taunton region featuring Azure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) MODAF
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) UX Research
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management

Azure Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) MODAF
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Research
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware