DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Taunton

DevSecOps
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 17 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 13.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
Somerset median daily rate £553 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

DevSecOps 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 107 20 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 86.99% 95.24% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 18 24
10th Percentile £406 £514 £448
25th Percentile £413 £563 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £695 £575
Median % change year-on-year -31.65% +20.87% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £837 £600
90th Percentile £730 £930 £661
Somerset median daily rate £523 £516 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% +3.25% +2.56%
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 £16.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% +15.69% -69.17%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Taunton

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Taunton over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Taunton

DevSecOps
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 11 (64.71%) Confluence
2 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (76.47%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Git
2 11 (64.71%) JIRA
2 11 (64.71%) MSI
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 5 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) .NET Architect
5 2 (11.76%) .NET Technical Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) .NET
1 15 (88.24%) .NET Framework
2 13 (76.47%) .NET Core
2 13 (76.47%) GeoJSON
2 13 (76.47%) RESTful
3 11 (64.71%) ATL
3 11 (64.71%) COM
3 11 (64.71%) CSS
3 11 (64.71%) CSS3
3 11 (64.71%) HTML
3 11 (64.71%) HTML5
3 11 (64.71%) MFC
3 11 (64.71%) REST
3 11 (64.71%) WPF
4 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
4 2 (11.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (64.71%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (64.71%) Onboarding
3 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
3 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 4 (23.53%) Wiki
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
1 15 (88.24%) DevOps
1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 13 (76.47%) API Design
2 13 (76.47%) Containerisation
2 13 (76.47%) Deployment Automation
2 13 (76.47%) Microservices
2 13 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 13 (76.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 11 (64.71%) Dependency Management
3 11 (64.71%) Design Patterns
3 11 (64.71%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 11 (64.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (64.71%) Knowledge Transfer
3 11 (64.71%) SOLID
3 11 (64.71%) Static Application Security Testing
3 11 (64.71%) Virtual Environments
4 9 (52.94%) Client Onboarding
4 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Bicep
1 15 (88.24%) C#
2 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 11 (64.71%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (76.47%) NCSC
2 11 (64.71%) Accessibility
2 11 (64.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Terraform
2 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft