QA Engineer Contracts in the South West

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > South West

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in the South West is £61 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 173 172
Rank change year-on-year +26 -1 -37
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.027% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.030% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £330
25th Percentile £57 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £61 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.54%
75th Percentile £388 - £419
90th Percentile £500 - £430
England median daily rate £440 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -26.67% +20.00% +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 2,957 3,370 3,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 92.56% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,526 2,536
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 273 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £51.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +9.30%
75th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £69.36
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured QA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the South West

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in the South West

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in the South West

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in the South West

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Devon - 3 £61 - 1
Gloucestershire - 2 £463 - 1
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, QA 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 South West region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (40.00%) White-Box Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) ERP

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) White-Box Testing
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) ISO 9001
3 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle