User Experience Contract Job Trends in Taunton

UX
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User Experience 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 12.00% - 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £690
Somerset median daily rate £550 £388 £690
% change year-on-year +41.94% -43.84% +176.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

User Experience 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 23 23 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 92.00% 95.83% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 31
10th Percentile £490 £455 £612
25th Percentile £510 £513 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £690
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -16.67% +18.97%
75th Percentile £715 £656 £734
90th Percentile £800 £935 £750
Somerset median daily rate £425 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.06% +5.49%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Taunton

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing User Experience

User Experience
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (33.33%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) MODAF
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) UX Research
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware