QA Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Quality Assurance (QA)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 11 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing QA 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 1.32% 5.13% 0.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.75% 100.00% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £251 - -
25th Percentile £317 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £562
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £542 - £581
90th Percentile £607 - -
Devon median daily rate £431 £500 £61
% change year-on-year -13.75% +714.73% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 16 2 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 7.05% 5.13% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 18
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £364 - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +7.53% +16.25%
75th Percentile £638 - £561
90th Percentile £828 - £618
Devon median daily rate £488 £500 £170
% change year-on-year -2.50% +194.12% +23.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

QA job vacancy trend in Exeter

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Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Exeter

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Exeter over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Exeter

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Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing QA

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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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Scientific Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Support
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Fortran
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks