QA Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Taunton
Quality Assurance Test Engineer
Somerset > Taunton
The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in Taunton is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 3 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 33 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract QA Test Engineer jobs | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Taunton | 1.85% | - | - |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 1.94% | - | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £450 | - | - |
| Somerset median daily rate | £575 | - | - |
All Contract IT Job Roles
Taunton
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in Taunton matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 3 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in Taunton matching a recognised job title | 103 | 27 | 20 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 95.37% | 100.00% | 90.91% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 67 | 20 | 11 |
| 10th Percentile | £406 | £440 | £425 |
| 25th Percentile | £431 | £500 | £500 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £550 | £575 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -4.35% | -11.54% |
| 75th Percentile | £650 | £715 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £730 | £775 | £638 |
| Somerset median daily rate | £550 | £425 | £450 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.41% | -5.56% | - |
QA Test Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract QA Test Engineer job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.
QA Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend in Taunton
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Test Engineer job vacancies in Taunton.
QA Test Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton
For the 6 months to 3 November 2026, QA Test Engineer contract job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract QA Test Engineer job ads across the Taunton region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ansible | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Azure | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | CI/CD | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Containerisation | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Decision-Making | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | DHCP | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | DNS | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | DV Cleared | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Firewall | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | GCP | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | GitHub | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | GitHub Actions | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | GitLab | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Infrastructure as Code | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Infrastructure Engineering | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Jenkins | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Kubernetes | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Linux | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Network Segmentation | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Observability | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Principle of Least Privilege | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | QA | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Security Cleared | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | TCP/IP | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Terraform | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Unix | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Validation | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | VirtualBox | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | VLAN | 100.0% | 2 |
QA Test Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
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