Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Customer Requirements
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.87% 1.83% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.95% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £614 £460
25th Percentile £688 £616 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £697 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +27.50% -24.81%
75th Percentile £802 £666 £550
90th Percentile £861 £671 £580
South West median daily rate £387 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -32.65% -3.36% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £99.17 - -
25th Percentile £99.71 - -
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £6.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year +1150.00% -87.46% -20.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Customer Requirements 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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 154 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 78.04% 93.90% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 93 94
10th Percentile £351 £225 £204
25th Percentile £413 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £520 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -2.07% +8.92%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £600
90th Percentile £729 £763 £646
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 26 24
10th Percentile £32.50 £16.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £22.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.64%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.81 £41.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 £57.28
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in Somerset

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in Somerset over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in Somerset

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yeovil - 7 £697 - 4
Customer Requirements
South West

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (75.00%) VSAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) PKI
2 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (87.50%) DevSecOps
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (75.00%) SIEM
4 5 (62.50%) Converged Infrastructure
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) IT Strategy
4 5 (62.50%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
6 3 (37.50%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) VCAP
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) Hyper-V
3 6 (75.00%) Docker
3 6 (75.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (75.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (62.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
3 2 (25.00%) Thales