QA Contracts in Bedfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 22 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing QA 7 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.79% 4.89% 3.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.95% 20.45% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £427 £438 £420
25th Percentile £449 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £529 £528 £575
90th Percentile £548 £538 £590
East of England median daily rate £375 £494 £478
% change year-on-year -24.05% +3.40% +6.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 39 44 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 15.54% 23.91% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 25
10th Percentile £448 £281 £320
25th Percentile £500 £422 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +20.00%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £600 - £575
East of England median daily rate £410 £450 £428
% change year-on-year -8.89% +5.14% +9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile - - £25.48
25th Percentile £15.39 £51.25 £51.69
Median hourly rate £15.79 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.92% -22.22% -
75th Percentile £16.20 £53.75 £69.06
90th Percentile £24.46 - £69.63
East of England median hourly rate £15.79 £17.61 £27.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -35.96% +83.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Bedfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Luton -7 6 £493 +9.44% 2
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (14.29%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Collibra
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Ataccama
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) MS Access
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Data Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Governance Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Data Management
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Master Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Alteryx
3 1 (14.29%) Dataiku
3 1 (14.29%) Talend
3 1 (14.29%) Trillium