CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Taunton

CI/CD
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 16.22% - 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% - 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £455 - £578
25th Percentile £491 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile - - £619
90th Percentile - - £623
Somerset median daily rate £550 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% -17.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

CI/CD 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 36 3 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 97.30% 100.00% 96.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 24
10th Percentile £400 - £521
25th Percentile £431 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 - £616
90th Percentile £630 - £625
Somerset median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £40.54 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.62% -4.23% -22.10%
75th Percentile £43.84 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £32.50
% change year-on-year +210.64% -43.05% -18.75%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Taunton

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Taunton over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Taunton

CI/CD
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Database Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) MODAF Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ADO
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Database Security
3 2 (33.33%) MODAF
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) UX Research
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware