Data Structures Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Data Structures
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 8.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £439 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 - -
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
Somerset median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
Taunton

Data Structures falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 51.35% - 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £431 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £550 - £606
90th Percentile £589 - £681
Somerset median daily rate £419 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -23.82% +10.00% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.77%
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate - £21.01 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -47.48% +63.27%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Taunton

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Data Structures.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Data Structures

Data Structures
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 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Database Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) ATL
2 1 (33.33%) Blazor
2 1 (33.33%) COM
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) GeoJSON
2 1 (33.33%) MFC
2 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) SignalR
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Database Security
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle