QA Contracts in Dorset

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 20 26 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing QA 8 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 4.88% 4.17% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.36% 27.27% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £756 £363 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £431 £700
Median % change year-on-year +76.81% -38.39% +40.00%
75th Percentile £769 £602 £750
90th Percentile - £638 -
South West median daily rate £550 £453 £490
% change year-on-year +21.55% -7.65% -2.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 33 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 13.41% 15.28% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 19
10th Percentile £321 - £345
25th Percentile £394 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £727 £629 £498
90th Percentile £769 £638 £740
South West median daily rate £525 £515 £484
% change year-on-year +1.94% +6.46% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 12
10th Percentile - £17.85 £49.38
25th Percentile - £48.99 £55.30
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £61.97
Median % change year-on-year - +0.06% +6.51%
75th Percentile - £68.56 £73.07
90th Percentile - £72.98 £81.01
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £64.57 £68.82
% change year-on-year -30.31% -6.17% +37.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Dorset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Dorset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Dorset

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Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth -1 4 - - 7
QA
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 4 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (50.00%) IPsec
1 4 (50.00%) LAN
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (50.00%) Middleware
1 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) CentOS
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google