Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Software Delivery
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 0.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Somerset median daily rate £578 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

Software Delivery 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 94 16 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 87.04% 94.12% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 15 28
10th Percentile £406 £532 £513
25th Percentile £431 £610 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £715 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +19.17% -11.31%
75th Percentile £650 £886 £606
90th Percentile £730 £960 £644
Somerset median daily rate £523 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -5.45% +12.82%
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%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Taunton

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
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 AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform