Developer Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Developer
South West > Somerset

The median Developer daily rate in Somerset is £454, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 16 3
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 7 14 45
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.66% 8.28% 25.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.98% 9.21% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 24
10th Percentile £403 - £358
25th Percentile £414 £413 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £431
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -24.93%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £650
90th Percentile £579 £600 £735
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £48.46
25th Percentile - - £59.68
Median hourly rate - - £63.42
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% - +13.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 176 152 173
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 89.94% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 105 112
10th Percentile £186 £203 £143
25th Percentile £254 £263 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +9.09% -22.35%
75th Percentile £494 £615 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 27
10th Percentile £22.06 - £29.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £12.50 £45.50
Median hourly rate £44.00 £14.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +203.45% -72.06% +3.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £24.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £62.70 £38.20 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £56.91
% change year-on-year -48.46% +14.22% -12.45%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Somerset

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Somerset.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Somerset

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Somerset over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Somerset

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Somerset.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Somerset

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Bath +3 5 £428 +0.59% 21
Street 0 1 £557 - 2
Taunton -3 1 £550 -4.35%
Developer
South West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Developer 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 Somerset region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) GIS
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) ESRI
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) PostGIS
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 1 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) CMS
4 1 (14.29%) Confluence

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Dagster
2 1 (14.29%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) GIS
2 2 (28.57%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Tech for Good
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) PostGIS
2 2 (28.57%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
3 1 (14.29%) Express.js
3 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 1 (14.29%) Flask
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) LDAP
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) ODBC
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ESRI
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) BMC
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Ivanti
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
34 Developer jobs in Somerset