Publishing Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Publishing
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Publishing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 3.70% - -
As % of the General category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £525 - -

All General Skills
Taunton

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12 6 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 44.44% 85.71% 72.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 20
10th Percentile £255 - £569
25th Percentile £378 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £641
90th Percentile £600 - £732
Somerset median daily rate £405 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -29.57% +15.00% -9.09%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Publishing job vacancy trend in Taunton

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Publishing

Publishing
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 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ATL
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) MFC
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle