QA Analyst Contracts in Cheshire

Quality Assurance Analyst
North West > Cheshire

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in Cheshire is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 57 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 9 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.79% 0.92% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile - £416 -
25th Percentile £463 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - -
75th Percentile £500 £447 -
90th Percentile - £449 -
North West median daily rate £488 £444 £275
% change year-on-year +9.86% +61.36% -14.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 472 481 492
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 88.91% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 330 278
10th Percentile £275 £262 £184
25th Percentile £380 £392 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £486 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +11.11% +0.34%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £629 £651 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in Cheshire

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in Cheshire

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Macclesfield -10 9 £488 +11.43%
QA Analyst
North West

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA Analyst 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 Cheshire region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Data Management
1 9 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (100.00%) QA
1 9 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 9 (100.00%) Power BI
1 9 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 9 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 8 (88.89%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (77.78%) Data Lake
3 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
4 6 (66.67%) Collibra
4 6 (66.67%) Ataccama
4 6 (66.67%) Power Automate
4 6 (66.67%) Dataiku
4 6 (66.67%) Alteryx
4 6 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (66.67%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (66.67%) Data Architecture
4 6 (66.67%) SAS
4 6 (66.67%) Trillium
4 6 (66.67%) Python
4 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (55.56%) Data Mining
5 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (55.56%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
5 5 (55.56%) Social Skills

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 9 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 6 (66.67%) Collibra
2 6 (66.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Power BI
2 7 (77.78%) Data Lake
3 6 (66.67%) Ataccama
3 6 (66.67%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (55.56%) Data Mining
5 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (88.89%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (100.00%) Data Management
2 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
3 6 (66.67%) Data Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 9 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
2 6 (66.67%) Alteryx
2 6 (66.67%) Dataiku
2 6 (66.67%) Trillium