Quality Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Quality Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
South East median daily rate £355 - £600

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,923 1,749 2,317
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.39% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,124 1,487
10th Percentile £213 £330 £206
25th Percentile £381 £414 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +9.38% +5.22%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £579
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 52 44
10th Percentile £18.95 £17.52 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £21.49 £17.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £55.94 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +166.08% -2.21%
75th Percentile £70.42 £71.25 £54.09
90th Percentile £85.78 £80.25 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Quality Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in Berkshire

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in Berkshire

Quality Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Quality Engineer in Berkshire

Quality Engineer
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 Quality Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 4 £350 - 8
Quality Engineer
South East

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Quality Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) QA
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) BT
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS

Quality Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BT