Code Quality Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter 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 37 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 0.47% 3.80% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 4.69% 1.02%
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 -
Devon median daily rate £450 £519 £501
% change year-on-year -13.25% +3.50% -8.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 64 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 86.98% 81.01% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 31 71
10th Percentile £309 £275 £143
25th Percentile £418 £309 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £655 £550 £650
90th Percentile £800 £588 £685
Devon median daily rate £525 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £13.40 - -
25th Percentile £14.43 - -
Median hourly rate £17.39 - -
75th Percentile £19.78 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median hourly rate £18.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -26.44% -61.31% +73.33%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in Exeter

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

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

Code Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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