Agile Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Agile Software Development
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Agile 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 20.83% 15.79% 20.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.73% 16.67% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £510 £540 £578
25th Percentile £525 £563 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £650
90th Percentile £590 £630 £696
Somerset median daily rate £550 £625 £586
% change year-on-year -12.00% +6.61% -9.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 18 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 91.67% 94.74% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 21
10th Percentile £470 £493 £500
25th Percentile £500 £506 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £617
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -4.70% -5.15%
75th Percentile £715 £666 £700
90th Percentile £725 £1,100 £748
Somerset median daily rate £370 £498 £450
% change year-on-year -25.63% +10.56% -18.18%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Agile job vacancy trend in Taunton

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) WCF
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) WPF
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) MODAF
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) UX Research
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) B2C
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) SOA
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (60.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft