Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Cloud Platform Engineer
Somerset > Taunton

As of 15 October 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Taunton.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 0.93% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Somerset median daily rate £685 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 103 25 22
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.37% 100.00% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 21 13
10th Percentile £406 £450 £440
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% -16.06%
75th Percentile £610 £715 £600
90th Percentile £730 £750 £668
Somerset median daily rate £538 £442 £450
% change year-on-year +21.54% -1.72% -7.69%

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton

For the 6 months to 15 October 2026, Cloud Platform Engineer 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 Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared

Cloud Platform Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft