QA Engineer Contracts in Basildon

Quality Assurance Engineer
Essex > Basildon

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Basildon.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 15.79% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 15.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Essex median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. 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 Basildon with a recognized job title 19 47 24
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 95.92% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 15
10th Percentile £315 £440 £429
25th Percentile £320 £525 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +13.86% +1.00%
75th Percentile £487 £600 £533
90th Percentile £488 £660 £565
Essex median daily rate £400 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -12.57% +1.67% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 4
10th Percentile £32.00 £35.65 £56.63
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £57.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +11.55% +56.88%
75th Percentile £45.00 £80.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £48.00 - £67.85
Essex median hourly rate £26.25 £40.31 £43.32
% change year-on-year -34.88% -6.94% +80.48%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Basildon

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Basildon region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) TestRail
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (33.33%) Fraud Detection

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
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