Quality Engineer Contracts in Reading

Quality Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in Reading is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £350 - -

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 1,124 1,036 1,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.05% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 684 874
10th Percentile £213 £363 £190
25th Percentile £406 £453 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £499
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.28% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £594
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £503 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -4.19% +8.14% +6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 22 11
10th Percentile £20.17 £17.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £51.86 £49.43 £23.38
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.84 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% +116.13% -31.03%
75th Percentile £75.83 £70.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £59.04
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £55.94 £21.05
% change year-on-year +4.21% +165.76% -2.09%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in Reading

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in Reading

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Quality Engineer 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) QA
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) BT
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS

Quality Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BT