Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Technical Leadership
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 14.71% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 - -
75th Percentile £730 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £644 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

Technical Leadership 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 88 16 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 86.27% 94.12% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 15 28
10th Percentile £406 £532 £513
25th Percentile £431 £610 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £715 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +19.17% -11.21%
75th Percentile £670 £886 £606
90th Percentile £730 £960 £644
Somerset median daily rate £523 £520 £531
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.07% +8.92%
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% -51.64%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Taunton

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in Taunton over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in Taunton

Technical Leadership
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 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (13.33%) PaaS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) MSI
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Lead
2 8 (53.33%) Technical Leader
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Developer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell Developer
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
1 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 4 (26.67%) GeoJSON
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) ATL
3 2 (13.33%) COM
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) CSS3
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) HTML5
3 2 (13.33%) MFC
3 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Swagger
3 2 (13.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (13.33%) Wiki
5 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (53.33%) ITIL
1 8 (53.33%) Service Management
2 7 (46.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) API Design
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Hydrography
6 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) Bicep
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) NCSC
3 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (13.33%) ISO 9000
3 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) SCCM
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft