Knowledge Transfer Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Knowledge Transfer
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 7 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.70% 3.98% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 5.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £577 -
25th Percentile £500 £598 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £643 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% - -
75th Percentile £600 £683 -
90th Percentile - £702 -
South West median daily rate £700 £492 £519
% change year-on-year +42.42% -5.25% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £78.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

Knowledge Transfer 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 147 137 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 77.78% 77.84% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 88 102
10th Percentile £160 £204 £144
25th Percentile £243 £380 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £485 £479
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +1.31% -12.95%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £593
90th Percentile £649 £755 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 26
10th Percentile £44.90 - £35.00
25th Percentile £59.38 £12.50 £46.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £16.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +290.63% -69.17% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £25.00 £62.22
90th Percentile £64.43 £38.50 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Knowledge Transfer job vacancy trend in Somerset

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Knowledge Transfer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Knowledge Transfer.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
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 Knowledge Transfer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 24 November 2025. 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
Taunton - 3 £550 -
Yeovil - 3 - - 1
Bath - 1 - -
Knowledge Transfer
South West

Knowledge Transfer
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Research Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
1 1 (14.29%) Express.js
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Runbook
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Privileged Identity Management
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Key Management
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) PLM
3 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) PTC
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) VMware