QA Contracts in Devon

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 -
Contract jobs citing QA 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 4.63% 2.00% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.81% 13.16% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £466 £57 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £61 -
Median % change year-on-year +694.36% - -
75th Percentile £516 £581 -
90th Percentile £521 £592 -
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
South West median hourly rate £78.98 £14.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +464.14% -58.82% -37.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Devon

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 21 38 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 19.44% 15.20% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 31 14
10th Percentile £353 £150 £104
25th Percentile £413 £150 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £170 £138
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% +23.64% -27.63%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £398
90th Percentile £533 £600 £506
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £27.91 - -
25th Percentile £28.32 £37.50 -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +122.22% -
75th Percentile £55.88 £42.50 -
90th Percentile £72.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +44.44% -30.77% +4.90%

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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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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 23 May 2025. 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 +13 3 - - 55
Plymouth -1 2 £488 +694.36% 56
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Statistics
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ESRI
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) VMware