QA Contracts in the East of England

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 68 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 +23
Contract jobs citing QA 27 54 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.41% 2.61% 4.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.77% 18.49% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 38 58
10th Percentile £281 £209 £343
25th Percentile £363 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £494 £478
Median % change year-on-year -24.05% +3.40% +6.11%
75th Percentile £447 £588 £575
90th Percentile £475 £700 £643
England median daily rate £525 £515 £509
% change year-on-year +1.94% +1.23% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £16.96 - £46.48
25th Percentile £20.09 - £47.75
Median hourly rate £26.13 £43.63 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.12% -10.50% +225.00%
75th Percentile £32.09 - £61.44
90th Percentile £35.19 - £66.39
England median hourly rate £15.57 £22.49 £47.50
% change year-on-year -30.78% -52.66% +156.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 161 292 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.42% 14.11% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 184 274
10th Percentile £258 £185 £141
25th Percentile £363 £256 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £427
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.51% +9.22%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £606 £732 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.38% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.88
25th Percentile £14.41 £13.29 £13.06
Median hourly rate £15.79 £17.61 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -35.96% +83.33%
75th Percentile £25.00 £51.45 £49.31
90th Percentile £27.45 £74.90 £68.33
England median hourly rate £21.00 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -50.59% +54.55% +31.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for QA in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Hertfordshire +7 16 £375 -38.37% 39
Bedfordshire -8 7 £493 +3.68% 2
Cambridgeshire -12 3 £213 -55.26% 29
Norfolk +6 1 - - 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.70%) Collibra
3 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
1 2 (7.41%) Internet
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Ataccama
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.70%) MS Access
3 1 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.70%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Games
4 4 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.70%) Automotive
6 1 (3.70%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.70%) Electronics
6 1 (3.70%) French Language
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Lead
2 8 (29.63%) Test Leader
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Data Governance Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Data Governance Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Governance Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Quality Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 9 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (29.63%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (25.93%) Acceptance Criteria
3 7 (25.93%) Test Management
3 7 (25.93%) Test Planning
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.81%) Agile
6 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
6 4 (14.81%) Data Management
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
7 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 3 (11.11%) Master Data Management
7 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) CCNA
2 1 (3.70%) CCNP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) HNC
2 1 (3.70%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) SAP
2 2 (7.41%) Alteryx
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Dataiku
3 1 (3.70%) Talend
3 1 (3.70%) Trillium