QA Contracts in Bracknell

Quality Assurance (QA)
Berkshire > Bracknell

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bracknell 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +1
Contract jobs citing QA 7 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bracknell 2.52% 1.23% 4.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.97% 4.76% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £216 - -
25th Percentile £278 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +10.81% +8.82% +4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £21.75 £47.25 £47.08
% change year-on-year -53.97% +0.36% +121.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bracknell

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 Bracknell with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 78 42 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 28.06% 25.77% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 5
10th Percentile £279 £160 £321
25th Percentile £381 £168 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £338 £575
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -41.30% +91.67%
75th Percentile £560 £525 £588
90th Percentile £918 £570 £595
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £63.27 £20.70 -
25th Percentile £64.42 £21.75 £68.08
Median hourly rate £67.59 £24.50 £68.17
Median % change year-on-year +175.88% -64.06% -
75th Percentile £69.51 £28.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £69.91 £29.90 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.59 £20.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year +229.71% -2.61% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Bracknell

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Bracknell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bracknell

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Bracknell over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Bracknell

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Bracknell

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bracknell 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DBA
1 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Matrix Management
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) F#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) BICSI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) BICSI RCDD
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Graylog
1 1 (14.29%) Nagios
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk