QA Contracts in the South East

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 107 63
Rank change year-on-year +41 -44 +44
Contract jobs citing QA 156 114 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.84% 2.00% 4.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% 13.32% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 81 223
10th Percentile £313 £263 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £544
90th Percentile £586 £600 £600
England median daily rate £525 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +1.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 5
10th Percentile - £24.18 £18.91
25th Percentile £10.42 £32.69 £25.50
Median hourly rate £10.82 £47.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.10% -0.53% +143.59%
75th Percentile £19.50 £61.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £22.95 £70.13 £60.45
England median hourly rate £15.38 £22.49 £47.50
% change year-on-year -31.60% -52.66% +150.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 780 856 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.22% 15.04% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 541 781
10th Percentile £250 £200 £235
25th Percentile £363 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £640 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 45 53
10th Percentile £10.82 £16.49 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.38 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.68 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +14.29% -23.95%
75th Percentile £48.75 £50.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £64.04 £48.72
England median hourly rate £22.42 £38.55 £29.12
% change year-on-year -41.84% +32.38% +38.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for QA in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley +44 105 £500 +2.56% 83
Berkshire +37 87 £513 +12.33% 34
Surrey +13 17 £350 +27.27% 29
Hampshire -3 17 £450 +2.86% 45
Buckinghamshire +20 12 £475 -4.04% 24
Oxfordshire +10 6 £488 +8.33% 26
Kent - 5 - - 17
Sussex - 5 - - 2
East Sussex +6 4 £275 -42.11% 10
West Sussex -3 2 £450 -12.20% 9
Home Counties - 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (4.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.28%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.56%) Simulink
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.64%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (0.64%) Primavera
3 1 (0.64%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.26%) Azure
2 11 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.85%) GitHub
4 4 (2.56%) AWS
5 3 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.92%) SaaS
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.28%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.64%) GCP
7 1 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.64%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.64%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (2.56%) VPN
3 3 (1.92%) Firewall
3 3 (1.92%) MPLS
4 2 (1.28%) 2G
4 2 (1.28%) 3G
4 2 (1.28%) 4G
4 2 (1.28%) BGP
4 2 (1.28%) DSL
4 2 (1.28%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.28%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.28%) Internet
4 2 (1.28%) OSPF
4 2 (1.28%) PPP
4 2 (1.28%) RIP
4 2 (1.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.64%) NGN
5 1 (0.64%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.21%) MySQL
3 4 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.92%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.28%) Metadata
6 1 (0.64%) IDMS
6 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (12.18%) JIRA
2 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.56%) TestRail
3 2 (1.28%) Git
3 2 (1.28%) Postman
3 2 (1.28%) Selenium
3 2 (1.28%) SpecFlow
3 2 (1.28%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.28%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.64%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.64%) Gradle
4 1 (0.64%) JUnit
4 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.64%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.64%) Subversion
4 1 (0.64%) TestCafe
4 1 (0.64%) Xcode
General
1 71 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.31%) Telecoms
3 24 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.90%) Finance
5 8 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.85%) Aerospace
6 6 (3.85%) Automotive
7 4 (2.56%) Marketing
8 3 (1.92%) Billing
8 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.28%) French Language
9 2 (1.28%) German Language
9 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Legal
9 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Publishing
9 2 (1.28%) Retail
9 2 (1.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (13.46%) Build Engineer
2 20 (12.82%) Windows Build Engineer
2 20 (12.82%) Windows Engineer
3 17 (10.90%) Analyst
4 15 (9.62%) Project Manager
5 13 (8.33%) Architect
5 13 (8.33%) Developer
6 12 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.05%) Test Analyst
8 10 (6.41%) QA Analyst
9 8 (5.13%) Administrator
9 8 (5.13%) QA Test Analyst
10 7 (4.49%) Lead
10 7 (4.49%) Senior
11 6 (3.85%) Tester
12 5 (3.21%) Data Administrator
12 5 (3.21%) Java Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.21%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.21%) Site Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.13%) HTML
2 7 (4.49%) .NET
3 5 (3.21%) ASP.NET
3 5 (3.21%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.56%) CSS
4 4 (2.56%) Node.js
4 4 (2.56%) React
4 4 (2.56%) RESTful
4 4 (2.56%) XML
5 3 (1.92%) JSON
5 3 (1.92%) React Native
6 2 (1.28%) Blazor
6 2 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.28%) jQuery
6 2 (1.28%) Playwright
6 2 (1.28%) WCF
7 1 (0.64%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.64%) Ktor
7 1 (0.64%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.92%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.28%) SCADA
6 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.64%) CCTV
6 1 (0.64%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.64%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Life Science
6 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.64%) NHS
6 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.59%) Windows
2 24 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 21 (13.46%) Windows 10
3 21 (13.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (12.82%) Windows NT
4 20 (12.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 20 (12.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.77%) Linux
6 3 (1.92%) Android
6 3 (1.92%) Unix
7 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.64%) Solaris
7 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.72%) Agile
2 28 (17.95%) User Acceptance Testing
3 26 (16.67%) Project Management
4 25 (16.03%) ITIL
5 24 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (14.74%) Customer Service
7 21 (13.46%) DevOps
7 21 (13.46%) Release Management
7 21 (13.46%) Service Management
8 20 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
8 20 (12.82%) Scrum
8 20 (12.82%) Test Automation
9 19 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (10.90%) Project Delivery
11 16 (10.26%) Project Planning
12 12 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (7.05%) SDLC
14 10 (6.41%) Business Analysis
14 10 (6.41%) Mentoring
14 10 (6.41%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 13 (8.33%) SQL
2 10 (6.41%) Java
3 9 (5.77%) C#
4 4 (2.56%) F#
4 4 (2.56%) MATLAB
4 4 (2.56%) Python
5 3 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.64%) PHP
6 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.64%) VB
6 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.38%) Degree
3 23 (14.74%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.13%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 4 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.92%) HNC
9 2 (1.28%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.28%) PMP
10 1 (0.64%) CCDP
10 1 (0.64%) CCIP
10 1 (0.64%) CCNA
10 1 (0.64%) CCNP
10 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.64%) MBCS
10 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.28%) ISO 14001
1 2 (1.28%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.28%) PMO
1 2 (1.28%) SLA
2 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.64%) HL7
2 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 20 (12.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (13.46%) SCCM
2 20 (12.82%) Sysprep
2 20 (12.82%) WSUS
3 3 (1.92%) Ansible
3 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.28%) Grafana
4 2 (1.28%) Graylog
4 2 (1.28%) Nagios
4 2 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.28%) Terraform
5 1 (0.64%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.64%) SELinux
Vendors
1 27 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.90%) Oracle
3 4 (2.56%) Adobe
4 3 (1.92%) BT
4 3 (1.92%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.92%) SAP
4 3 (1.92%) Splunk
5 2 (1.28%) ADVA
5 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.28%) Cisco
5 2 (1.28%) Juniper
6 1 (0.64%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (0.64%) Citrix
6 1 (0.64%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) NEC
6 1 (0.64%) Nokia
6 1 (0.64%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.64%) Remedy
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
1,364 QA jobs in England