Service Design Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Service Design
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Service Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Service Design 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 1.41% - 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% - 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £617
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £625 £750 £617
% change year-on-year -16.67% +21.65% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

Service Design 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 59 13 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 83.10% 92.86% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 26
10th Percentile £403 £523 £550
25th Percentile £431 £588 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.64% +7.92% -10.85%
75th Percentile £600 £900 £605
90th Percentile £642 £990 £619
Somerset median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.85 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £40.54 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.62% -4.23% -
75th Percentile £43.84 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.46%

Service Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Service Design job vacancy trend in Taunton

Service Design
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Service Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Service Design

Service Design
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Hydrography
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft