Quality Engineer Contracts in England

Quality Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in England is £405 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 527 625 757
Rank change year-on-year +98 +132 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 21 43 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.085% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.090% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 35 20
10th Percentile £57 £350 £406
25th Percentile £206 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -1.82% +69.23%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £613
90th Percentile £588 £592 £633
UK median daily rate £380 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -27.62% -4.55% +46.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £21.99 - -
25th Percentile £24.28 - -
Median hourly rate £28.48 - £45.20
75th Percentile £33.05 - -
90th Percentile £35.57 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.48 - £45.20

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%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
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 Quality Engineer 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 +90 4 £575 +9.52% 13
North of England +17 4 £450 -18.55% 43
South East +14 4 £360 - 40
South West - 4 £61 - 23
North West +18 3 £450 -21.74% 24
East Midlands - 2 £256 - 4
Midlands - 2 £256 - 16
North East +1 1 - - 10
East of England - 1 - - 10
Quality Engineer
UK

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Quality Engineer 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (52.38%) QA
2 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 4 (19.05%) ISO 9001
4 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
4 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (14.29%) Data Validation
5 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 3 (14.29%) Degree
5 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
5 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 3 (14.29%) Validation
6 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
6 2 (9.52%) Automotive
6 2 (9.52%) Management Information System

Quality Engineer 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) dbt
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) JMeter
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
3 2 (9.52%) Automotive
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
3 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
3 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 3 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 3 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
5 2 (9.52%) Conflict Management
5 2 (9.52%) Customer Experience
5 2 (9.52%) Information Management
5 2 (9.52%) Scrum
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.76%) HNC
4 1 (4.76%) HND
4 1 (4.76%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) QA
2 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (19.05%) ISO 9001
3 2 (9.52%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (4.76%) ISO 14001
4 1 (4.76%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) BT
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Informatica