Software Quality Assurance Contracts in England

Software Quality Assurance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Quality Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Quality Assurance 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 528 627 769
Rank change year-on-year +99 +142 -158
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 10 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.055% 0.021%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% 0.42% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 11
10th Percentile £263 £265 £313
25th Percentile £288 £341 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £549 £500 £626
90th Percentile £625 £514 £656
UK median daily rate £408 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -9.44% +2.86% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £46.18
25th Percentile - £45.00 £47.65
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £50.10
Median % change year-on-year - -0.20% -14.03%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £52.55
90th Percentile - - £54.02
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £50.10
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -14.03%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Software Quality Assurance 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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,258 6,740 9,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.22% 13.35% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 4,585 6,397
10th Percentile £300 £276 £288
25th Percentile £408 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year - +0.19% +10.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 206 260
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.94 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £19.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.04 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.90% +50.91% +30.95%
75th Percentile £44.69 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £79.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.39%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Quality Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in England

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in England

Software Quality Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Quality Assurance in England

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in England

Software Quality Assurance
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 Software Quality Assurance within the England 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
London +100 8 £358 -20.56% 6
South West +14 2 £463 +23.33%
Software Quality Assurance
UK

Software Quality Assurance
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 (20.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) 5G
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) QA Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) QA Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software QA Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Software Quality Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (10.00%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Resource Management
5 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Open Source
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Use Case
6 2 (20.00%) User Stories
6 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle