QA Contracts in Berkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 76 58
Rank change year-on-year +39 -18 +10
Contract jobs citing QA 90 36 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.56% 1.98% 3.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.35% 14.52% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 21 64
10th Percentile £319 £363 £341
25th Percentile £400 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% +8.82% +4.94%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £478
90th Percentile - £573 £538
South East median daily rate £488 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +11.43% -2.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £19.08 £24.18 £29.76
25th Percentile £19.94 £32.69 £36.15
Median hourly rate £21.75 £47.25 £47.08
Median % change year-on-year -53.97% +0.36% +121.56%
75th Percentile £23.44 £61.69 £57.81
90th Percentile £24.23 £70.13 £64.07
South East median hourly rate £10.82 £47.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year -77.10% -0.53% +143.59%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 355 248 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.97% 13.67% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 127 225
10th Percentile £241 £350 £313
25th Percentile £318 £403 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £600 £713 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £21.38 £18.50 £13.58
25th Percentile £33.81 £19.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £67.59 £20.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +229.71% -2.61% -
75th Percentile £75.67 £34.50 £22.89
90th Percentile £78.64 £70.73 £30.67
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -8.33% +42.52% -17.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for QA in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +34 61 £575 +10.58% 11
Newbury +9 12 £400 - 1
Bracknell -4 7 £350 - 1
Wokingham +2 2 £623 +266.18% 3
Slough +10 1 - - 3
Maidenhead -5 1 - - 5
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.33%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.11%) GCP
5 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) VPN
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
2 3 (3.33%) MPLS
2 3 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.22%) 2G
3 2 (2.22%) 3G
3 2 (2.22%) 4G
3 2 (2.22%) BGP
3 2 (2.22%) DSL
3 2 (2.22%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.22%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.22%) Internet
3 2 (2.22%) OSPF
3 2 (2.22%) PPP
3 2 (2.22%) RIP
3 2 (2.22%) WAN
4 1 (1.11%) ADSL
4 1 (1.11%) DNS
4 1 (1.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.44%) MySQL
2 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.22%) Metadata
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.11%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.11%) Git
3 1 (1.11%) Postman
3 1 (1.11%) Selenium
3 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.11%) Xcode
General
1 51 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.11%) Telecoms
3 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Finance
5 6 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Billing
7 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.22%) Automotive
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 2 (2.22%) Publishing
8 1 (1.11%) Aviation
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Build Engineer
2 21 (23.33%) Windows Build Engineer
2 21 (23.33%) Windows Engineer
3 11 (12.22%) Analyst
4 10 (11.11%) QA Analyst
5 9 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 8 (8.89%) QA Test Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) Test Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Lead
7 6 (6.67%) Telecoms Manager
8 5 (5.56%) Architect
8 5 (5.56%) Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Site Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) DBA
10 3 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Network Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) HTML
2 4 (4.44%) CSS
2 4 (4.44%) Node.js
2 4 (4.44%) React
3 3 (3.33%) .NET
3 3 (3.33%) React Native
4 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.22%) jQuery
4 2 (2.22%) XML
5 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.11%) Django
5 1 (1.11%) JSON
5 1 (1.11%) OAuth
5 1 (1.11%) OpenID
5 1 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.33%) Operational Technology
2 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.22%) SCADA
4 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.11%) CCTV
4 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.11%) IoT
4 1 (1.11%) iPad
4 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.00%) Windows
2 25 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 22 (24.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (23.33%) Windows 10
4 21 (23.33%) Windows NT
4 21 (23.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (23.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.33%) Linux
6 2 (2.22%) Android
7 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.89%) User Acceptance Testing
2 24 (26.67%) ITIL
2 24 (26.67%) Release Management
3 22 (24.44%) Customer Service
3 22 (24.44%) Service Management
4 21 (23.33%) Deployment Automation
5 18 (20.00%) Agile
6 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (14.44%) Project Management
8 12 (13.33%) DevOps
8 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 10 (11.11%) Project Delivery
9 10 (11.11%) Project Planning
9 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 9 (10.00%) Change Management
11 8 (8.89%) Coaching
11 8 (8.89%) Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (8.89%) Roadmaps
11 8 (8.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
1 8 (8.89%) SQL
2 5 (5.56%) C#
2 5 (5.56%) Java
3 3 (3.33%) F#
3 3 (3.33%) Python
4 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.44%) DV Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) Degree
4 5 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.33%) PMP
5 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) BC Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.11%) BICSI Certification
7 1 (1.11%) BICSI RCDD
7 1 (1.11%) CCIP
7 1 (1.11%) CCNP
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.22%) ISO 14001
1 2 (2.22%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.22%) PMO
2 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (24.44%) Active Directory
2 21 (23.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (23.33%) SCCM
1 21 (23.33%) Sysprep
1 21 (23.33%) WSUS
2 2 (2.22%) Ansible
2 2 (2.22%) Grafana
2 2 (2.22%) Graylog
2 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.22%) Nagios
2 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.22%) Adobe
4 2 (2.22%) ADVA
4 2 (2.22%) BT
4 2 (2.22%) Cisco
4 2 (2.22%) Juniper
4 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.22%) Splunk
5 1 (1.11%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (1.11%) Citrix
5 1 (1.11%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.11%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.11%) Nokia
5 1 (1.11%) Nokia Networks
5 1 (1.11%) Remedy
5 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.11%) Tellabs