The aim of this paper is to establish a saturation result for the complex q-Durrmeyer polynomials \((D_{n,q}f)(z)\) , where \(q \in (0,1)\) , \(f \in C[0,1].\) It is known that the sequence \(\{(D_{n,q}f)(z)\}_{n \in {\mathbb {N}}}\) converges uniformly on any compact set in \({\mathbb {C}}\) to the limit function \((D_{\infty ,q}f)(z)\) , which, therefore, is entire. Previously, the rate of this convergence has been estimated as \(O(q^n)\) , \(n \rightarrow \infty .\) In the present article, this result is refined to derive Voronovskaya-type formula and to demonstrate that this rate is \(o(q^n)\) , \(n \rightarrow \infty \) on a set possessing an accumulation point if and only if f takes on the same value at all \(q^j\) , \(j \in {\mathbb {N}}_{0}\) .