QA Tester Contracts in Northern Ireland

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > Northern Ireland

As of 19 April 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in Northern Ireland.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 26 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.35% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 0.53% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £575 £425
% change year-on-year -17.39% +35.29% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 143 188 192
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.62% 92.16% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 82 91
10th Percentile £173 £172 £145
25th Percentile £303 £300 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £419 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -1.47% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £500
90th Percentile £650 £599 £525
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 16
10th Percentile - £12.97 £10.26
25th Percentile £12.25 £14.32 £11.88
Median hourly rate £15.38 £15.25 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -7.27% +26.50%
75th Percentile £21.00 £16.31 £21.00
90th Percentile £28.54 £17.11 £22.63
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings that featured QA Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in Northern Ireland

QA Tester
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 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
County Antrim +4 2 - -
QA Tester
UK

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, QA Tester 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 Northern Ireland region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA