Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Devon

Code Quality (Software Quality)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 34
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 0.32% 1.88% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 2.16% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £481 -
25th Percentile £425 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £501
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +3.50% -8.87%
75th Percentile £475 £539 -
90th Percentile - £542 -
South West median daily rate £450 £500 £573
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.66% -2.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Devon

Code Quality 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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 139 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 84.42% 86.88% 81.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 74 104
10th Percentile £277 £145 £145
25th Percentile £410 £231 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £655 £534 £600
90th Percentile £800 £588 £685
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 16
10th Percentile £12.71 £23.07 £41.25
25th Percentile £14.31 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £18.50 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% -61.31% +73.33%
75th Percentile £19.78 - £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £28.85 -
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +7.14%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Code Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Devon

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Code Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Code Quality

Code Quality
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 Code Quality within the Devon region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Exeter -22 1 £450 -13.25% 4
Code Quality
South West

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB