Situational Awareness Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Situational Awareness
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Situational Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate - - £463
% change year-on-year - - -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.54 - -
South West median hourly rate £72.54 £90.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -19.40% +73.44% -13.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Situational Awareness falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 84 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 67.42% 90.32% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 47 97
10th Percentile £298 £280 £172
25th Percentile £375 £398 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +3.54%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £825
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 52
10th Percentile £21.80 - £13.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £14.41 £15.16
Median hourly rate £34.98 £14.81 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +136.19% -73.78% +0.36%
75th Percentile £72.28 £20.11 £64.31
90th Percentile £74.68 £23.04 £69.26
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.35
% change year-on-year -11.54% +24.16% -14.87%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Situational Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Situational Awareness job vacancy trend in Dorset

Situational Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) ICMP
1 1 (100.00%) L2TP
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) RIP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM