Software Engineering Job Trends in Taunton

Software Engineering
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 4.76% 13.33% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 16.67% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £38,698 £37,050 -
25th Percentile £39,374 £39,000 £35,534
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £44,500 £36,214
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +22.88% -16.94%
75th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £36,895
90th Percentile - £54,350 -
Somerset median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +55.00% -12.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 12 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 78.57% 80.00% 78.00%
Number of salaries quoted 46 7 30
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,498 £12,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,375 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £36,214
Median % change year-on-year - +10.45% -17.49%
75th Percentile £45,938 £53,125 £44,688
90th Percentile £51,500 £57,250 £55,500
Somerset median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Taunton

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Taunton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Taunton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Taunton over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Taunton

Software Engineering
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Vue
1 3 (75.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Software Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft