OOD Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring OOD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OOD 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 2.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
Somerset median daily rate £470 - £400

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

OOD 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 98 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 86.73% 94.12% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 15 24
10th Percentile £406 £532 £463
25th Percentile £431 £610 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £715 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +19.17% -11.31%
75th Percentile £630 £886 -
90th Percentile £730 £960 £669
Somerset median daily rate £523 £520 £516
% change year-on-year +0.48% +0.78% +5.85%
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 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

OOD job vacancy trend in Taunton

OOD
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing OOD

OOD
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 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Wiki
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft