Finance Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Taunton

Financial
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	2	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Finance	0	10	0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton	-	62.50%	-
As % of the General category	-	76.92%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	0	4	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	£638	-
Somerset median daily rate	£190	£575	£435
% change year-on-year	-66.96%	+32.18%	-20.91%

All General Skills
Taunton

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills	12	13	17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton	60.00%	81.25%	68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	8	6	15
10^th Percentile	£293	£500	£575
25^th Percentile	£463	£506	£584
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£531	£588	£625
Median % change year-on-year	-9.57%	-6.00%	-3.85%
75^th Percentile	£633	£666	£695
90^th Percentile	£737	£888	£744
Somerset median daily rate	£350	£550	£538
% change year-on-year	-36.36%	+2.23%	-5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Median hourly rate	-	-	£11.87
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-34.96%
Somerset median hourly rate	£50.25	-	£46.09
% change year-on-year	-	-	-7.82%