QA Analyst Contracts in Reading

Quality Assurance Analyst
Berkshire > Reading

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in Reading is £505 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 86 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.85% 0.19% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £505 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,096 981 1,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.52% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 663 879
10th Percentile £213 £363 £185
25th Percentile £413 £456 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in Reading

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in Reading.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in Reading

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, QA Analyst 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 Reading region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (60.00%) Test Management
5 4 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) JIRA
6 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (20.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) Adobe
7 2 (20.00%) HTML
7 2 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) E-business
7 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
7 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (20.00%) Test Automation

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (60.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) E-business
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (10.00%) API Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) V-Model
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe