QA Contracts in Devon

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Devon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 34 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing QA 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 2.55% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.28% 4.76% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.75%
75th Percentile £555 - £538
90th Percentile £591 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +21.55% -9.50% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £11.30 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.22% - -
South West median hourly rate £14.00 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -72.00% -9.09% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Devon

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Devon with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 43 21 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 15.64% 10.40% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 18 30
10th Percentile £150 £104 £120
25th Percentile £152 £131 £132
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £138 £208
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -33.73% -59.51%
75th Percentile £473 £327 £392
90th Percentile £600 £411 £546
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £480
% change year-on-year +2.44% +6.77% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £19.16 - -
25th Percentile £30.95 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% - -
75th Percentile £42.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £64.15 £68.82
% change year-on-year -29.85% -6.79% +37.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Devon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Devon.

Daily rate trend for QA in Devon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Devon over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Devon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Devon.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Devon

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Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Devon region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Plymouth - 4 £61 - 12
Exeter +2 1 £562 - 2
Cullompton - 1 - -
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (28.57%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) QA Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Quality Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Head of QA
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO 9001