NsoIT Contracts in the South West

New Style of IT (NsoIT)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring NsoIT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NsoIT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 139 144
Rank change year-on-year +77 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing NsoIT 49 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.92% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 0.68% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 16 21
10th Percentile £514 £473 -
25th Percentile £525 £501 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £656 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £675
England median daily rate £575 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +9.00% -4.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

NsoIT 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 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

NsoIT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing NsoIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for NsoIT in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NsoIT in the South West.

Daily rate trend for NsoIT in the South West

NsoIT
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NsoIT in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NsoIT in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NsoIT in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for NsoIT in the South West

NsoIT
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 NsoIT within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wiltshire +54 41 £580 +9.95% 2
Dorset - 8 £550 -
NsoIT
England

NsoIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (46.94%) Confluence
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Skype
2 4 (8.16%) BGP
2 4 (8.16%) OSPF
3 3 (6.12%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (6.12%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (6.12%) DMVPN
3 3 (6.12%) Firewall
3 3 (6.12%) VXLAN
4 2 (4.08%) iSCSI
4 2 (4.08%) SAN
4 2 (4.08%) VSAN
5 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.04%) VLAN
5 1 (2.04%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 23 (46.94%) JIRA
2 18 (36.73%) Git
3 12 (24.49%) Bitbucket
4 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 21 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Network Design Architect
6 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Coordinator
7 1 (2.04%) Service Manager
7 1 (2.04%) Telephony Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.04%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Flash
2 11 (22.45%) REST
3 10 (20.41%) SOAP
4 3 (6.12%) Spine.js
5 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Clustering
2 6 (12.24%) PKI
3 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 25 (51.02%) Windows
2 18 (36.73%) Windows Server
3 17 (34.69%) Linux
4 6 (12.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Service Management
2 33 (67.35%) System Testing
3 28 (57.14%) Agile
4 27 (55.10%) Validation
5 19 (38.78%) Configuration Management
6 18 (36.73%) Critical Thinking
7 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (32.65%) Waterfall
9 14 (28.57%) High Availability
9 14 (28.57%) Power Management
10 13 (26.53%) Computer Science
10 13 (26.53%) Network Virtualisation
11 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (22.45%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (20.41%) Reverse Engineering
14 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
15 8 (16.33%) ITIL
16 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) PowerShell
2 18 (36.73%) Python
3 10 (20.41%) Bash
4 4 (8.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (97.96%) Security Cleared
2 47 (95.92%) SC Cleared
3 34 (69.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 25 (51.02%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (38.78%) Degree
6 15 (30.61%) CCNP
7 12 (24.49%) CCNA
7 12 (24.49%) Master's Degree
8 10 (20.41%) OCA
8 10 (20.41%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (18.37%) RHCA
9 9 (18.37%) RHCE
10 7 (14.29%) MCSE
10 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
12 3 (6.12%) MCSA
13 1 (2.04%) CISA
13 1 (2.04%) CISSP
13 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
13 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) GRC
1 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
1 1 (2.04%) NIST
1 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.04%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (55.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (55.10%) vCenter Server
2 18 (36.73%) Ansible
3 10 (20.41%) Progress Chef
3 10 (20.41%) Puppet
4 8 (16.33%) Terraform
5 4 (8.16%) WSUS
6 3 (6.12%) OPNET
7 2 (4.08%) SCOM
8 1 (2.04%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 34 (69.39%) VMware
2 25 (51.02%) Cisco
3 22 (44.90%) Atlassian
4 10 (20.41%) Oracle
5 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.08%) Remedy
6 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) BMC
7 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.04%) Veeam