Performance Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Performance Monitoring
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Performance Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.11% 0.56% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.62% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £450
South West median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Performance Monitoring 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 335 161 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 74.28% 90.96% 70.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 93 89
10th Percentile £284 £186 £200
25th Percentile £413 £263 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% - +3.90%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £746 £678
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 25 10
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.06 -
25th Percentile £48.88 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £18.51 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +236.30% +15.69% -69.17%
75th Percentile £90.63 £63.75 £41.88
90th Percentile £100.00 - £61.88
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +3.85%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Performance Monitoring job vacancy trend in Somerset

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Performance Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Performance Monitoring

Performance Monitoring
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 Performance Monitoring within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
Taunton - 5 £450 -
Performance Monitoring
South West

Performance Monitoring
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 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (60.00%) Wiki
2 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (60.00%) Release Management
2 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Database Security
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Bicep
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft