QA Contracts in Belfast

Quality Assurance (QA)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing QA 8 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 5.44% 5.65% 2.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.67% 70.00% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £299 - £331
25th Percentile £345 £313 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £325 £373
Median % change year-on-year +47.31% -12.75% -16.29%
75th Percentile £641 £338 £398
90th Percentile £694 £453 £402
County Antrim median daily rate £479 £325 £373
% change year-on-year +47.31% -12.75% -16.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Belfast

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 30 10 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 20.41% 8.06% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 16
10th Percentile £179 £283 £231
25th Percentile £273 £313 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £325 £385
Median % change year-on-year +25.38% -15.58% -0.65%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £542
90th Percentile £648 £569 £653
County Antrim median daily rate £408 £325 £385
% change year-on-year +25.38% -15.58% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £27.16 - -
25th Percentile £31.64 - -
Median hourly rate £54.24 - -
75th Percentile £82.41 - -
90th Percentile £89.52 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £54.24 - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Belfast

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Belfast

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Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (25.00%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (12.50%) Front Office
5 1 (12.50%) Military
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) GIS Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Derivative
1 3 (37.50%) Equities
2 2 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) MiFID
1 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Ab Initio
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce