QA Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 53 31
Rank change year-on-year +14 -22 +11
Contract jobs citing QA 13 25 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.72% 2.86% 6.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.98% 15.15% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 38
10th Percentile £347 £312 £350
25th Percentile £466 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £484 £560 £572
90th Percentile £576 £595 £588
South East median daily rate £488 £444 £450
% change year-on-year +9.86% -1.39% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.51
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
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 93 165 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 19.46% 18.86% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 123 95
10th Percentile £171 £246 £145
25th Percentile £353 £368 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £533 £575
90th Percentile £619 £613 £619
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £18.00 - £11.39
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £12.31
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.71%
75th Percentile £29.06 - £14.51
90th Percentile £30.00 - £18.70
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -11.29% +47.27% -17.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Milton Keynes +21 12 £475 -2.56% 11
High Wycombe -1 1 - - 4
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
1 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) QA Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Software Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
1 1 (7.69%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
2 2 (15.38%) Business Case
2 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
2 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) BDD
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Defect Management
3 1 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) QA Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (7.69%) SDET
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) NEC