Graceful Degradation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Graceful Degradation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Graceful Degradation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Graceful Degradation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £438 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Graceful Degradation 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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,331 1,497 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.10% 90.18% 83.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 993 1,751
10th Percentile £305 £232 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 106 340
10th Percentile £16.62 £19.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.33 £53.13 £27.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £67.53
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

Graceful Degradation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Graceful Degradation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Graceful Degradation job vacancy trend in the South West

Graceful Degradation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Graceful Degradation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Graceful Degradation

Graceful Degradation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Graceful Degradation within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Somerset - 3 £438 -
Graceful Degradation
England

Graceful Degradation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Legacy Code
1 3 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA