Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Software Engineering
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 9.02% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £479 - -
Somerset median daily rate £448 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -2.19% +1.67% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

Software Engineering 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 106 17 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 86.89% 94.44% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 16 23
10th Percentile £406 £535 £450
25th Percentile £413 £615 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £715 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +19.17% -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £879 -
90th Percentile £730 £950 £675
Somerset median daily rate £523 £520 £516
% change year-on-year +0.48% +0.78% +4.51%
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 £16.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% +15.69% -69.05%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Taunton

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

Software Engineering
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 (27.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (27.27%) GitHub
1 3 (27.27%) GitHub Copilot
1 3 (27.27%) PaaS
1 3 (27.27%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) .NET Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Lead Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
2 3 (27.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Wiki
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Informatics
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Backlog Refinement
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
2 3 (27.27%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) OOD
2 3 (27.27%) Service Management
2 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (18.18%) AI
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft