AI Contract Job Trends in Taunton

AI
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 2 10
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 -
Contract jobs citing AI 3 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 3.41% 47.06% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 50.00% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile - £614 -
25th Percentile £463 £620 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £883 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.18% - -
75th Percentile £488 £925 -
90th Percentile - £1,045 -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £870 £538
% change year-on-year -45.40% +61.86% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate - - £16.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

AI 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 74 16 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 84.09% 94.12% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 15 28
10th Percentile £405 £532 £513
25th Percentile £431 £610 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £715 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +19.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £690 £886 £606
90th Percentile £734 £960 £644
Somerset median daily rate £524 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -0.24% -0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.85 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -4.23% -
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

AI job vacancy trend in Taunton

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing AI

AI
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) MSI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ATL
1 2 (66.67%) COM
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) GeoJSON
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) MFC
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
1 2 (66.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft