GitHub Contract Job Trends in Taunton

GitHub
Somerset > Taunton

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 9.92% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
Somerset median daily rate £473 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Taunton

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 85 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 70.25% 11.11% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 2 4
10th Percentile £406 £710 -
25th Percentile £431 £710 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £716 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.97% +24.46% -17.09%
75th Percentile £591 £726 £600
90th Percentile £730 £730 -
Somerset median daily rate £488 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +14.71% -15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +400.00% -62.64%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Taunton

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing GitHub

GitHub
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 6 (50.00%) Confluence
2 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub Copilot
2 5 (41.67%) PaaS
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) IntelliJ
3 2 (16.67%) MSI
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell Developer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) .NET
1 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (41.67%) .NET Core
2 5 (41.67%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) ATL
3 2 (16.67%) COM
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS3
3 2 (16.67%) GeoJSON
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) MFC
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (41.67%) Wiki
2 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
2 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (33.33%) AI
3 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) OO
4 3 (25.00%) OOD
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Bicep
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
1 2 (16.67%) WCAG
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VirtualBox
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) VMware