Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Cloud Native
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 15.29% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 37.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Somerset median daily rate £553 £613 -
% change year-on-year -9.80% - -

All Generic Skills
Taunton

Cloud Native 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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 41.18% 47.06% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 5
10th Percentile £406 £585 -
25th Percentile £431 £615 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.50% +7.92% -10.58%
75th Percentile £488 £715 £606
90th Percentile £600 - £655
Somerset median daily rate £495 £633 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +26.50% +8.70%
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 £14.00 £43.01 £40.00
% change year-on-year -67.45% +7.51% -3.03%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Taunton

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Taunton over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Taunton

Cloud Native
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 5 (38.46%) Confluence
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 5 (38.46%) MSI
General
1 5 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Architect
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) .NET
1 9 (69.23%) .NET Framework
2 7 (53.85%) .NET Core
2 7 (53.85%) GeoJSON
2 7 (53.85%) RESTful
3 5 (38.46%) ATL
3 5 (38.46%) COM
3 5 (38.46%) CSS
3 5 (38.46%) CSS3
3 5 (38.46%) HTML
3 5 (38.46%) HTML5
3 5 (38.46%) MFC
3 5 (38.46%) REST
3 5 (38.46%) WPF
4 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 2 (15.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 4 (30.77%) Wiki
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) DevSecOps
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) API Design
3 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
3 7 (53.85%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (53.85%) Microservices
3 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 7 (53.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
4 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
5 5 (38.46%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (38.46%) SOLID
5 5 (38.46%) Static Application Security Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Bicep
1 9 (69.23%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) NCSC
2 5 (38.46%) Accessibility
2 5 (38.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft