Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 17 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 19.77% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £825 £450
% change year-on-year -42.42% +83.33% -34.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Taunton

Azure DevOps 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 60 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 69.77% 5.88% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 1 4
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £445 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £710 £575
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +23.48% -16.06%
75th Percentile £613 - £600
90th Percentile £730 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +400.00% -69.34%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Taunton

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Taunton over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Taunton

Azure DevOps
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 (35.29%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) InDesign
1 1 (5.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Figma
4 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) GIS
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 6 (35.29%) MSI
3 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 5 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Automation Tester
2 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 5 (29.41%) Tester
3 3 (17.65%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) .NET
1 8 (47.06%) .NET Framework
2 6 (35.29%) ATL
2 6 (35.29%) COM
2 6 (35.29%) GeoJSON
2 6 (35.29%) MFC
2 6 (35.29%) REST
3 5 (29.41%) .NET Core
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) CSS3
3 5 (29.41%) HTML
3 5 (29.41%) HTML5
3 5 (29.41%) Playwright
3 5 (29.41%) RESTful
3 5 (29.41%) WPF
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (5.88%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Cloud Native
1 7 (41.18%) Onboarding
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Wiki
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) PMI
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
4 9 (52.94%) Agile
5 7 (41.18%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (41.18%) DevSecOps
5 7 (41.18%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (41.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (35.29%) Dependency Management
7 5 (29.41%) API Design
7 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
7 5 (29.41%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (29.41%) Microservices
7 5 (29.41%) Performance Testing
7 5 (29.41%) SOLID
7 5 (29.41%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) Bicep
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
1 5 (29.41%) NCSC
1 5 (29.41%) WCAG
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle