QA Contracts in the Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 56 67
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing QA 82 128 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.97% 3.75% 3.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.24% 24.95% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 89 116
10th Percentile £254 £262 £313
25th Percentile £351 £290 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £428
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.75% +6.88%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £495
90th Percentile £688 £595 £575
England median daily rate £517 £510 £510
% change year-on-year +1.37% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £12.35 - £13.51
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £13.96
Median hourly rate £15.90 £13.00 £15.35
Median % change year-on-year +22.31% -15.31% -28.60%
75th Percentile £18.12 £17.96 £17.36
90th Percentile £35.00 £20.63 £18.20
England median hourly rate £15.75 £22.49 £46.75
% change year-on-year -29.95% -51.90% +142.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 386 513 666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.00% 15.01% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 334 478
10th Percentile £255 £250 £207
25th Percentile £354 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £753 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 13 16
10th Percentile £11.25 £11.30 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £12.06
Median hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +17.28% +6.58%
75th Percentile £26.15 £27.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £51.02 £25.31
England median hourly rate £22.04 £40.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -44.91% +46.79% +29.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for QA in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
West Midlands -3 58 £525 +23.97% 109
East Midlands +5 23 £303 -19.33% 68
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (3.66%) CMS
1 3 (3.66%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.22%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.22%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.22%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.61%) Azure
2 15 (18.29%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.10%) Azure AKS
3 5 (6.10%) Azure App Service
3 5 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.66%) GCP
4 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.22%) Boomi
5 1 (1.22%) SaaS
5 1 (1.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) WAN
2 4 (4.88%) Internet
2 4 (4.88%) LAN
3 3 (3.66%) ADSL
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
3 3 (3.66%) Ethernet
3 3 (3.66%) MPLS
3 3 (3.66%) PSTN
3 3 (3.66%) SSL
3 3 (3.66%) VPN
4 2 (2.44%) Firewall
4 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.22%) OLAP
4 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Selenium
2 6 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.10%) Git
4 3 (3.66%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.66%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.66%) JIRA
4 3 (3.66%) Postman
4 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (3.66%) Subversion
4 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.44%) Appium
5 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.44%) Maven
5 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.44%) TestNG
5 2 (2.44%) UI Automator
5 2 (2.44%) XCUITest
6 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.22%) JMeter
6 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.41%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.54%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Banking
6 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.44%) Automotive
7 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Electronics
7 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.44%) Retail
8 1 (1.22%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (8.54%) Analyst
1 7 (8.54%) Developer
2 6 (7.32%) Architect
2 6 (7.32%) Project Manager
3 5 (6.10%) Angular Developer
3 5 (6.10%) Production Manager
3 5 (6.10%) Quality Inspector
4 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (4.88%) Lead
4 4 (4.88%) QA Analyst
4 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
4 4 (4.88%) Technical Manager
4 4 (4.88%) Test Manager
5 3 (3.66%) Coordinator
5 3 (3.66%) Forensic Manager
5 3 (3.66%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (3.66%) Senior
5 3 (3.66%) Test Engineer
6 2 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (2.44%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) .NET
1 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
1 5 (6.10%) RESTful
2 2 (2.44%) CSS
2 2 (2.44%) HTML
2 2 (2.44%) JSON
2 2 (2.44%) Middleware
2 2 (2.44%) REST
2 2 (2.44%) Web Services
2 2 (2.44%) XML
3 1 (1.22%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.22%) Jest
3 1 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.22%) NestJS
3 1 (1.22%) Next.js
3 1 (1.22%) Node.js
3 1 (1.22%) Playwright
3 1 (1.22%) React
3 1 (1.22%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
1 6 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.10%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.10%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.88%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.66%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) CCTV
5 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Android
2 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.93%) Agile
2 21 (25.61%) DevOps
3 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (17.07%) Test Automation
5 13 (15.85%) User Experience
6 12 (14.63%) Time Management
7 10 (12.20%) Conflict Management
7 10 (12.20%) Critical Thinking
7 10 (12.20%) Decision-Making
7 10 (12.20%) ITIL
7 10 (12.20%) Test Strategy
8 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.98%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (9.76%) Change Control
9 8 (9.76%) Scrum
9 8 (9.76%) Validation
10 7 (8.54%) Asset Management
10 7 (8.54%) Software Testing
10 7 (8.54%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.20%) SQL
2 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
3 5 (6.10%) Bicep
3 5 (6.10%) C#
4 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.44%) Java
5 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.44%) Swift
6 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Degree
2 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (7.32%) ISTQB
5 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.10%) HNC
5 5 (6.10%) HND
5 5 (6.10%) NVQ Level 3
6 4 (4.88%) ISEB
7 3 (3.66%) BC Cleared
7 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.22%) CCNA
8 1 (1.22%) CCNP
8 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 4 (4.88%) ISO17020
2 3 (3.66%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.66%) SLA
3 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.22%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.22%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Ansible
2 1 (1.22%) Grafana
2 1 (1.22%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.22%) Kibana
2 1 (1.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Salesforce
2 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.88%) Cisco
5 3 (3.66%) BT
5 3 (3.66%) Openreach
5 3 (3.66%) SAP
6 2 (2.44%) Databricks
7 1 (1.22%) Dell
7 1 (1.22%) HP