Git Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Git Distributed Version Control System
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Git 11 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 12.50% - 2.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 55.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.96%
75th Percentile £459 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
Somerset median daily rate £413 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -27.34%

All Development Application Skills
Taunton

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 20 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 22.73% - 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.80%
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £633 £450
% change year-on-year -24.90% +40.56% -10.00%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Git job vacancy trend in Taunton

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Git

Git
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 8 (72.73%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
1 10 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
1 8 (72.73%) MSI
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) .NET
1 10 (90.91%) .NET Framework
2 8 (72.73%) .NET Core
2 8 (72.73%) ATL
2 8 (72.73%) COM
2 8 (72.73%) CSS
2 8 (72.73%) CSS3
2 8 (72.73%) GeoJSON
2 8 (72.73%) HTML
2 8 (72.73%) HTML5
2 8 (72.73%) MFC
2 8 (72.73%) REST
2 8 (72.73%) RESTful
2 8 (72.73%) WPF
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (72.73%) Onboarding
3 6 (54.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
4 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 2 (18.18%) Wiki
5 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) Deployment Automation
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) DevSecOps
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) API Design
3 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 8 (72.73%) Dependency Management
3 8 (72.73%) Design Patterns
3 8 (72.73%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (72.73%) Knowledge Transfer
3 8 (72.73%) Microservices
3 8 (72.73%) SOLID
3 8 (72.73%) Static Application Security Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
3 8 (72.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 8 (72.73%) Virtual Environments
4 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 9 (81.82%) Python
3 8 (72.73%) Bicep
3 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 8 (72.73%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) Accessibility
1 8 (72.73%) NCSC
1 8 (72.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft