DevOps Contract Job Trends in Taunton

DevOps
Somerset > Taunton

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 24.00% - 22.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% - 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £600
25th Percentile - - £658
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £718
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.81%
75th Percentile - - £751
90th Percentile - - £753
Somerset median daily rate £500 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.58% -17.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

DevOps 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 24 10 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 96.00% 100.00% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 25
10th Percentile £460 £614 £520
25th Percentile £500 £616 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £638
90th Percentile £630 £671 £741
Somerset median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.54 - -
75th Percentile £43.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +342.31% -67.50% -20.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Taunton

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing DevOps

DevOps
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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Wiki
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Key Management
2 3 (50.00%) Runbook
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) MODAF
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NCSC
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware