Head of QA Contracts in England

Head of Quality Assurance
UK > England

The median Head of Quality Assurance daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 - 773
Rank change year-on-year - - -153
Contract jobs requiring a Head of QA 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% - 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £488
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £537
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £663
UK median daily rate £600 - £548
% change year-on-year - - -40.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Head of QA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of QA in England

Head of QA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Head of QA in England

Head of QA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of QA within the 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
London - 2 - - 2
South West - 1 £600 -
Head of QA
UK

Head of QA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Head of QA 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 England region featuring Head of QA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) ZeroMQ
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) Contentful
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Finsemble
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol

Head of QA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (33.33%) Contentful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Gatling
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
1 1 (33.33%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Finsemble