Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Technical Lead
Somerset > Taunton

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Taunton is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 2.82% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £620 -
% change year-on-year -23.39% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Taunton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Taunton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Taunton with a recognized job title 69 14 32
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.18% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 13 27
10th Percentile £403 £526 £500
25th Percentile £431 £600 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +12.50% -10.85%
75th Percentile £600 £900 £603
90th Percentile £630 £980 £617
Somerset median daily rate £501 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.67% +16.67% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - £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 £21.01 £25.00
% change year-on-year +173.68% -15.96% -51.46%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in Taunton

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Taunton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Taunton

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton

For the 6 months to 10 June 2026, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Taunton region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) ATL
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data

Technical Leader Skill Set
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ATL
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) MFC
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft