Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Security Monitoring
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Security Monitoring 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 33 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.72% 0.83% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -17.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Security 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 194 109 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.53% 90.83% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 74 95
10th Percentile £263 £250 £184
25th Percentile £335 £386 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +3.65% -8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £588
90th Percentile £630 £722 £625
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 4 31
10th Percentile £40.37 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £17.01 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -53.73% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £19.14 £42.50
90th Percentile - £20.26 £55.46
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Somerset

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Security 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 Security Monitoring 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 - 2 £478 - 1
Security Monitoring
South West

Security 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 2 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform