DICOM Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring DICOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DICOM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.36% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - -
South West median daily rate £570 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

DICOM falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 50 23 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 17.92% 19.17% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 12 25
10th Percentile - £451 £211
25th Percentile £263 £545 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £618 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +12.27% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £673 £600
90th Percentile £606 £765 £625
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -1.90% -3.67% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £60.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £60.38 - £12.06
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £12.43
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.14%
75th Percentile £63.38 - £12.82
90th Percentile £64.05 - £31.41
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -28.83%

DICOM
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

DICOM job vacancy trend in Somerset

DICOM
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 DICOM within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 March 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
Bath - 1 £570 - 2
DICOM
South West

DICOM
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Practice Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) InterSystems