SaaS Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring SaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SaaS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 11.11% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Somerset median daily rate £425 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -36.54%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Taunton

SaaS 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 17 2 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 62.96% 25.00% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £311 - £538
25th Percentile £484 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.97%
75th Percentile £597 - £743
90th Percentile £600 - £753
Somerset median daily rate £410 £563 £425
% change year-on-year -27.11% +32.35% -26.02%

SaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

SaaS job vacancy trend in Taunton

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing SaaS

SaaS
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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Atlassian