QA Contracts in West Sussex

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > West Sussex

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 34 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -25 +30
Contract jobs citing QA 2 8 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 0.77% 2.74% 13.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.90% 24.24% 53.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 41
10th Percentile - £508 -
25th Percentile £425 £513 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £475 £602 £540
90th Percentile - £617 £563
South East median daily rate £488 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +11.43% -2.78% +5.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 29 33 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 11.20% 11.30% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 71
10th Percentile £385 £393 £380
25th Percentile £463 £475 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +13.27%
75th Percentile £500 £644 £580
90th Percentile £525 £763 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.19 - -
Median hourly rate £13.37 - -
75th Percentile £13.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% +28.57% -17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for QA in West Sussex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for QA in West Sussex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for QA in West Sussex

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Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Crawley - 1 £450 - 5
Burgess Hill - 1 - - 5
QA
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (50.00%) Dagger
1 1 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (50.00%) Ktor
1 1 (50.00%) OkHttp
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Retrofit
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat