Technical Leader Job Trends in Taunton

Technical Lead
Somerset > Taunton

The median Technical Lead salary in Taunton is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Leader 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 0.97% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median annual salary £75,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Taunton

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

Permanent vacancies in Taunton with a recognized job title 100 15 49
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.09% 83.33% 92.45%
Number of salaries quoted 89 8 40
10th Percentile £28,000 £21,834 £14,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,405 £20,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,710 £27,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +53.06% -37.91%
75th Percentile £46,250 £45,064 £39,438
90th Percentile £55,000 £52,625 £48,250
Somerset median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -10.00%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in Taunton

Technical Leader
Salary Trend in Taunton

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Taunton.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Taunton

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2026, Technical Leader 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 Taunton region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) ATL
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) Git

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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ATL
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) MFC
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft