QA Contracts in Croydon

Quality Assurance (QA)
South London > Croydon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -19
Contract jobs citing QA 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 2.10% 2.81% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 41.67% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £535 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £540 £370
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +45.95% -33.93%
75th Percentile - £569 £385
90th Percentile - £584 -
South London median daily rate £380 £693 £410
% change year-on-year -45.13% +68.90% -26.79%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9 12 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 6.29% 6.74% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £405 £310 £225
25th Percentile £442 £400 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £430 £460
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -6.52% -13.21%
75th Percentile £567 £545 £775
90th Percentile £654 £586 £850
South London median daily rate £494 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +15.50% -14.50% -5.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Mimecast
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Information Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) OWASP
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Darktrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys