DORA Job Trends in Somerset

Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring DORA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	79	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing DORA	3	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset	0.26%	-	-
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	1.78%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£61,250	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	-	-
75^th Percentile	£63,750	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South West median annual salary	£62,500	-	£92,500

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

DORA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Somerset.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills	169	47	38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset	14.73%	10.76%	5.41%
Number of salaries quoted	82	8	21
10^th Percentile	£30,100	£28,932	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£35,438	£45,535	£32,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£55,000	£45,000
Median % change year-on-year	-9.09%	+22.22%	-30.77%
75^th Percentile	£63,750	£72,500	£60,000
90^th Percentile	£86,500	£117,500	£76,250
South West median annual salary	£52,500	£50,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-	-13.04%

DORA Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DORA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

DORA Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DORA 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
Street	-	2	-	-
Bath	-	1	£62,500	-
DORA South West

DORA Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, job vacancies citing DORA 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 DORA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cyber Resilience	100.0%	3
1	Microsoft	100.0%	3
3	AI	66.7%	2
3	Architectural Patterns	66.7%	2
3	AWS	66.7%	2
3	Azure	66.7%	2
3	Domain-Driven Design	66.7%	2
3	Event-Driven	66.7%	2
3	Event-Driven Architecture	66.7%	2
3	GCP	66.7%	2
3	Google	66.7%	2
3	GraphQL	66.7%	2
3	ISO 20022	66.7%	2
3	LLM	66.7%	2
3	Microservices	66.7%	2
3	Presales	66.7%	2
3	REST	66.7%	2
3	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	66.7%	2
3	Software Engineering	66.7%	2
3	Stakeholder Management	66.7%	2
3	Technical Discovery	66.7%	2
3	Technical Leadership	66.7%	2
23	(ISC)2 CCSP	33.3%	1
23	CCSP	33.3%	1
23	Cisco Certification	33.3%	1
23	CISM	33.3%	1
23	CISSP	33.3%	1
23	Cloud Security	33.3%	1
23	Cybersecurity	33.3%	1
23	Data Loss Prevention	33.3%	1

DORA 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.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ISO 20022	66.7%	2
2	GDPR	33.3%	1
2	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	1