Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Software Delivery
South West > Somerset

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.50% 0.59% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 - -
South West median daily rate £588 £370 £538
% change year-on-year +58.78% -31.16% -10.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Software Delivery 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 317 159 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 78.47% 93.53% 74.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 97
10th Percentile £350 £225 £200
25th Percentile £413 £371 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.42% +8.72%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £600
90th Percentile £726 £775 £643
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 24 32
10th Percentile £26.65 £15.65 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.94 £40.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £59.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £27.34 £55.50
% change year-on-year +110.31% -50.74% -14.62%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Somerset

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
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 Software Delivery within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 10 July 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 -6 1 £655 - 1
Software Delivery
South West

Software Delivery
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Loki
1 1 (50.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware