Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Technical Lead
Somerset > Taunton

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Taunton is £720, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 11.46% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £588 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £720 - -
75th Percentile £730 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £720 £620 -
% change year-on-year +16.13% - -

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 92 17 33
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.83% 100.00% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 16 27
10th Percentile £406 £535 £425
25th Percentile £431 £615 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £713 £588
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +21.28% -13.06%
75th Percentile £650 £879 £600
90th Percentile £730 £950 £613
Somerset median daily rate £523 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -0.48% +16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.23% -
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £23.08 £25.00
% change year-on-year +149.13% -7.68% -50.74%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in Taunton over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in Taunton

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 9 (81.82%) Service Management
2 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
3 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
4 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
4 6 (54.55%) ITIL
4 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (54.55%) SCCM
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
5 5 (45.45%) QA
5 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (27.27%) AWS
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) .NET
7 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
7 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
7 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
7 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 2 (18.18%) AI
7 2 (18.18%) API Design
7 2 (18.18%) ATL
7 2 (18.18%) Azure
7 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Bicep
7 2 (18.18%) C#
7 2 (18.18%) CI/CD

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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) MSI
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) ATL
1 2 (18.18%) COM
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) CSS3
1 2 (18.18%) GeoJSON
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) HTML5
1 2 (18.18%) MFC
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Service Management
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (54.55%) ITIL
3 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
4 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) AI
6 2 (18.18%) API Design
6 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
6 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) SOLID
6 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bicep
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) NCSC
2 2 (18.18%) WCAG
3 1 (9.09%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
Technical Leader jobs