Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Decision-Making
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 16 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 14.16% 11.76% 12.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.33% 12.50% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -9.57% -
75th Percentile £500 - £600
90th Percentile £530 - -
Somerset median daily rate £481 £516 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% -10.22% +31.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

Decision-Making 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 98 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 86.73% 94.12% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 15 24
10th Percentile £406 £532 £463
25th Percentile £431 £610 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £715 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +19.17% -11.31%
75th Percentile £630 £886 -
90th Percentile £730 £960 £669
Somerset median daily rate £523 £520 £516
% change year-on-year +0.48% +0.78% +5.85%
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% -51.82%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Taunton

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Data Mart
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Snyk
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Architect
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Technical Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Delivery Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Service Manager
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Agile Project Manager
6 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Developer
6 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Wiki
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) PMI
3 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Project Management
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
4 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
6 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (25.00%) ITIL
6 4 (25.00%) Kanban
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (25.00%) Sprint Review
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Bicep
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 2 (12.50%) PMP
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VirtualBox
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) VMware