QA Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Quality Assurance (QA)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 25 32 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing QA 6 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.86% 6.89% 3.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.64% 46.94% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 10
10th Percentile £339 £431 £473
25th Percentile £383 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.46% +11.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £420 £588 £541
90th Percentile £461 - £552
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £410 £558 £500
% change year-on-year -26.46% +11.50% +12.68%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 44 49 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.95% 14.67% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 37 36
10th Percentile £395 £345 £220
25th Percentile £440 £463 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £622
90th Percentile £620 £600 £714
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £14.63 - -
25th Percentile £19.44 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £35.25 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -72.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for QA in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Telephony Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (16.67%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Governance Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) Jest
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) BBC
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) API Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Google