Value-Added Service Contract Job Trends in the South West

Value-Added Service
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Value-Added Service skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Value-Added Service 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.027% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Value-Added Service falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 301 253 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.12% 12.89% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 179 212
10th Percentile £210 £213 £339
25th Percentile £450 £269 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £688 £588 £613
90th Percentile £725 £654 £675
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 4 25
10th Percentile £12.71 £26.70 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.67 £40.07 -
Median hourly rate £26.14 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.73% -13.08% +15.06%
75th Percentile £90.00 £64.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £64.85 £81.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +10.63% -39.13% +1.79%

Value-Added Service
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Value-Added Service relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Value-Added Service job vacancy trend in the South West

Value-Added Service
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Value-Added Service.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Value-Added Service

Value-Added Service
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 Value-Added Service within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Bristol - 1 - -
Value-Added Service
England

Value-Added Service
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Asset Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Autodesk
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Samsung
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec