Technical Developer Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Technical Developer
South West > Somerset

The median Technical Developer daily rate in Somerset is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £538 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 345 142 201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 85.54% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 98 125
10th Percentile £236 £263 £205
25th Percentile £379 £411 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £588
90th Percentile £675 £730 £604
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 5 33
10th Percentile £22.25 £14.87 £12.30
25th Percentile £50.00 £18.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £21.01 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +173.68% -15.96% -51.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £67.50 £58.60
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £46.73 £55.00
% change year-on-year +23.05% -15.04% -14.06%

Technical Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Technical Developer job vacancy trend in Somerset

Technical Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Developer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Taunton - 1 £475 - 1
Technical Developer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2026, Technical 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 Technical Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) ATL
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) Git

Technical 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ATL
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) MFC
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft