Data Sovereignty Job Trends in Somerset

Data Sovereignty
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Sovereignty in permanent job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Sovereignty over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	80	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Data Sovereignty	2	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset	0.17%	-	-
As % of the General category	0.33%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
South West median annual salary	-	-	-

All General Skills
Somerset

Data Sovereignty falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Somerset.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills	599	312	301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset	52.22%	71.40%	42.82%
Number of salaries quoted	368	148	132
10^th Percentile	£27,000	£24,250	£31,325
25^th Percentile	£32,440	£26,500	£40,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£43,000	£35,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+22.86%	-36.36%	+22.22%
75^th Percentile	£53,750	£48,155	£73,750
90^th Percentile	£66,500	£63,250	£81,250
South West median annual salary	£50,000	£42,750	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+16.96%	-18.57%	-

Data Sovereignty Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Sovereignty within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 22 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Street	-	2	-	-
Data Sovereignty South West

Data Sovereignty Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, job vacancies citing Data Sovereignty also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Somerset region with a requirement for Data Sovereignty.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	2
1	Architectural Patterns	100.0%	2
1	AWS	100.0%	2
1	Azure	100.0%	2
1	Cyber Resilience	100.0%	2
1	Domain-Driven Design	100.0%	2
1	DORA	100.0%	2
1	Event-Driven	100.0%	2
1	Event-Driven Architecture	100.0%	2
1	GCP	100.0%	2
1	Google	100.0%	2
1	GraphQL	100.0%	2
1	ISO 20022	100.0%	2
1	LLM	100.0%	2
1	Microservices	100.0%	2
1	Microsoft	100.0%	2
1	Presales	100.0%	2
1	REST	100.0%	2
1	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	100.0%	2
1	Software Engineering	100.0%	2
1	Stakeholder Management	100.0%	2
1	Technical Discovery	100.0%	2
1	Technical Leadership	100.0%	2

Data Sovereignty Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Banking	100.0%	2
1	Corporate Banking	100.0%	2
1	Finance	100.0%	2
1	Retail	100.0%	2
1	Retail Banking	100.0%	2