QA Contracts in Wiltshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 77 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 -25 -6
Contract jobs citing QA 5 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.53% 1.27% 2.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.27% 11.29% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 14
10th Percentile £517 £458 £404
25th Percentile £517 £503 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% +26.32% -15.56%
75th Percentile £542 £625 £568
90th Percentile £546 £676 £650
South West median daily rate £550 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +20.88% -9.00% -0.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 220 124 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 23.31% 11.23% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 97 101
10th Percentile £299 £413 £413
25th Percentile £410 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £691 £700 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £518 £479
% change year-on-year +1.45% +8.15% -4.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £47.43
25th Percentile £10.63 - -
Median hourly rate £11.25 - £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.10%
75th Percentile £11.88 - £69.53
90th Percentile - - £72.00
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £64.57 £68.82
% change year-on-year -30.31% -6.17% +37.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Wiltshire 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
Devizes - 3 - -
Swindon +5 1 £520 -5.02% 6
Corsham -13 1 £533 -13.06%
QA
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (20.00%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Interaction Designer
1 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Content Development
2 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) UX Design
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks