Senior Contract Job Trends in Yeovil

Senior
Somerset > Yeovil

The median Senior daily rate in Yeovil is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 17 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yeovil 14.05% - 12.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.41% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £260 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £670 - -
90th Percentile £703 - -
Somerset median daily rate £481 £416 £450
% change year-on-year +15.69% -7.56% -38.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.00 - -
Median hourly rate £92.53 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £92.53 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yeovil

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yeovil. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Yeovil with a recognized job title 118 9 8
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.52% 31.03% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 2 1
10th Percentile £209 £469 -
25th Percentile £513 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £513 £275
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% +86.36% -18.52%
75th Percentile £715 £553 -
90th Percentile £793 £566 -
Somerset median daily rate £523 £530 £450
% change year-on-year -1.42% +17.78% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 3 5
10th Percentile £52.50 £31.62 £31.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £41.33 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +33.33% -13.28%
75th Percentile £80.75 £66.25 £61.25
90th Percentile £97.56 £70.00 £69.50
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £23.08 £32.50
% change year-on-year +149.13% -28.98% -37.13%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Yeovil

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yeovil.

Senior job vacancy trend in Yeovil

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Yeovil

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Yeovil.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Yeovil

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Yeovil

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Yeovil over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Yeovil

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Yeovil

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Yeovil.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Yeovil

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yeovil

For the 6 months to 31 July 2026, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yeovil region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 11 (64.71%) DV Cleared
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) SIEM
3 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
3 4 (23.53%) VSAN
3 4 (23.53%) vSphere
4 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (17.65%) DHCP
4 3 (17.65%) DNS
4 3 (17.65%) Docker
4 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) PowerShell

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yeovil 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
1 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (23.53%) VSAN
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
4 2 (11.76%) BGP
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) OSPF
4 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
4 2 (11.76%) VPN
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) PKI
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (23.53%) SIEM
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Converged Infrastructure
4 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
4 2 (11.76%) ERP
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Logistics
4 2 (11.76%) Network Design
4 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bash
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) DV Cleared
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
2 4 (23.53%) vSphere
3 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (17.65%) Docker
3 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco