Azure Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Microsoft Azure
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 13 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 43.33% - 28.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 76.47% - 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £311 - £530
25th Percentile £484 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £683
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £597 - £749
90th Percentile £600 - £753
Somerset median daily rate £525 £588 £475
% change year-on-year -10.64% +23.68% -25.49%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Taunton

Azure 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 17 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 56.67% 33.33% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £311 - £530
25th Percentile £484 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £683
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.02%
75th Percentile £597 - £749
90th Percentile £600 - £753
Somerset median daily rate £410 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -23.72% +26.47% -26.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.10%
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year +342.31% - -25.71%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Taunton

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Taunton over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Taunton

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Azure

Azure
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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) InDesign
1 1 (7.69%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (7.69%) Figma
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) DKIM
3 1 (7.69%) DMARC
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) HTTP
3 1 (7.69%) NAS
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) SMTP
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) GIS
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) MSI
1 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
1 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (7.69%) ATL
2 1 (7.69%) Blazor
2 1 (7.69%) COM
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) GeoJSON
2 1 (7.69%) MFC
2 1 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SignalR
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
1 2 (15.38%) Wiki
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) CMDB
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.69%) PMI
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
3 3 (23.08%) Key Management
3 3 (23.08%) MODAF
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Runbook
3 3 (23.08%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) UX Research
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (15.38%) RBAC
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Bicep
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) NCSC
2 3 (23.08%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (23.08%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) VMware