QA Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Quality Assurance (QA)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 8.22% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
Somerset median daily rate £438 £450 £398
% change year-on-year -2.78% +13.21% -24.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 19.18% 18.75% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £400 £604 £573
25th Percentile £413 £610 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £620 £602
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +2.99% -7.38%
75th Percentile £478 - £620
90th Percentile £499 - £623
Somerset median daily rate £514 £370 £500
% change year-on-year +38.99% -26.00% +3.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

QA job vacancy trend in Taunton

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Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Site Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Legacy Code
1 5 (83.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (83.33%) Graceful Degradation
1 5 (83.33%) High Availability
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (83.33%) Runbook
1 5 (83.33%) Service-Level Objective
1 5 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VirtualBox
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) VMware