Senior Contracts in Taunton

Senior
Somerset > Taunton

The median Senior daily rate in Taunton is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 3 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Taunton 11.11% 19.05% 11.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.11% 19.35% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 5
10th Percentile - £601 £523
25th Percentile - £617 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £705 £570
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +23.75% -
75th Percentile - £818 £679
90th Percentile - £847 £698
Somerset median daily rate £450 £670 £530
% change year-on-year -32.79% +26.38% +8.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Taunton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Taunton. 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 Taunton with a recognized job title 27 62 51
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 98.41% 98.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 56 38
10th Percentile £563 £387 £404
25th Percentile £573 £565 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +24.64% +10.37%
75th Percentile £606 £717 £604
90th Percentile £624 £809 £682
Somerset median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £15.60 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.84 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £14.25 £19.13 -
90th Percentile £15.60 £19.35 -
Somerset median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -50.00% +0.50% +15.70%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Taunton

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Taunton.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Taunton

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Taunton.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Taunton

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Taunton

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Taunton region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Identification
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Identification
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript