Technical Developer Job Trends in Somerset

Technical Developer
South West > Somerset

The median Technical Developer salary in Somerset is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Developer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 0.43% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +77.78% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Somerset with a recognized job title 1,052 377 633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 89.76% 87.43%
Number of salaries quoted 678 183 383
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,906 £28,875 £36,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,355 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -17.29% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,375 £63,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,462 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -8.18%

Technical Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Technical Developer job vacancy trend in Somerset

Technical Developer
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for Technical Developer job vacancies in Somerset.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Developer job vacancies in Somerset

Technical Developer
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Developer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Taunton - 2 £75,000 - 1
Technical Developer
South West

Technical Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 3 October 2026, Technical Developer 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 permanent job ads across the Somerset region featuring Technical Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Instructional Design
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Thales
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) ATL
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Bicep
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) COM
3 2 (40.00%) Confluence
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) CSS3

Technical Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) ATL
1 2 (40.00%) COM
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) GeoJSON
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) MFC
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
1 2 (40.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (60.00%) Instructional Design
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Thales