Quality Engineer Contracts

Quality Engineer
UK

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in the UK is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 661 824
Rank change year-on-year +102 +163 -131
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 23 57 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.096% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.10% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 45 22
10th Percentile £57 £350 £408
25th Percentile £176 £370 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% -4.55% +69.23%
75th Percentile £544 £573 £609
90th Percentile £588 £580 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £256 £524 £538
% change year-on-year -51.21% -2.51% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £21.99 - -
25th Percentile £24.28 - -
Median hourly rate £28.48 - £45.20
75th Percentile £33.05 - -
90th Percentile £35.57 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.48 - £45.20

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,410 56,464 84,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,305 39,470 59,485
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,664 1,570 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the UK

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in the UK

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Engineer in the UK

Quality Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Engineer in the UK

Quality Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Quality Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Quality Engineer in the UK

Quality Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +89 21 £405 -25.00% 151
UK excluding London +40 15 £256 -51.21% 156
Work from Home +125 7 £380 -27.62% 43
London +87 4 £575 +9.52% 12
North of England +19 4 £450 -18.55% 46
South East +17 4 £360 - 39
South West - 4 £61 - 27
North West +22 3 £450 -21.74% 29
East Midlands - 2 £256 - 5
Midlands - 2 £256 - 16
North East +3 1 - - 9
East of England - 1 - - 10

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 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 featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (56.52%) QA
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
4 4 (17.39%) ETL
4 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
4 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
4 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
4 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
5 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
5 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.04%) Data Validation
5 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Degree
5 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
5 3 (13.04%) Azure
5 3 (13.04%) Validation
5 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
5 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 2 (8.70%) Aerospace

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.70%) Confluence
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.35%) dbt
2 1 (4.35%) PaaS
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) JMeter
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Aerospace
3 2 (8.70%) Automotive
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Agile
1 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
2 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
2 4 (17.39%) ETL
3 3 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
3 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
3 3 (13.04%) Data Validation
3 3 (13.04%) Scrum
3 3 (13.04%) Validation
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Information Management
4 2 (8.70%) Regression Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Resource Management
4 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.35%) HNC
5 1 (4.35%) HND
5 1 (4.35%) IRCA
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) QA
2 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
3 2 (8.70%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (4.35%) ISO 14001
4 1 (4.35%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) BT
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.70%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) Informatica