Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Operational Stability
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.83% - 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% - 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £488 - £458
25th Percentile £544 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £471
75th Percentile - - £487
90th Percentile - - £489
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £471
% change year-on-year +4.55% +16.71% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Operational Stability 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 142 128 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 65.14% 81.53% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 79 98
10th Percentile £182 £205 £143
25th Percentile £263 £331 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -16.81%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 22
10th Percentile £34.03 - £36.00
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £46.71
Median hourly rate £40.54 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +211.85% -74.95% +15.31%
75th Percentile £60.00 £15.00 £62.11
90th Percentile £63.90 £15.90 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £38.22 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -41.20% +8.62% -2.70%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Somerset

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
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 Operational Stability within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 10 January 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 - 1 £450 -
Operational Stability
South West

Operational Stability
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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
1 3 (75.00%) SOAR
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) HP