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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 4 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Taunton 16.00% 22.22% 46.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.39% 23.08% 51.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 19
10th Percentile £530 £544 £580
25th Percentile £575 £572 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £677
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -11.31% -1.96%
75th Percentile £620 - £732
90th Percentile - £619 £763
Somerset median daily rate £557 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -7.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 23 26 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 92.00% 96.30% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 37
10th Percentile £500 £425 £579
25th Percentile £520 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £575 £685
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -16.06% +20.23%
75th Percentile £745 £619 £738
90th Percentile £900 £770 £771
Somerset median daily rate £450 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.06% +7.60%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) Express.js
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (75.00%) Business Case
2 3 (75.00%) Culture Change
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Supplier Management
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware