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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing QA 14 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 6.86% - 2.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.73% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £300 - £337
25th Percentile £326 - £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - £395
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.84%
75th Percentile £641 - £469
90th Percentile £694 - £507
County Antrim median daily rate £408 - £395
% change year-on-year - - -16.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.52 - -
Median hourly rate £27.54 - -
75th Percentile £27.57 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £27.54 - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 59 15 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 28.92% 10.64% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 5 17
10th Percentile £300 - £203
25th Percentile £361 £167 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £185 £395
Median % change year-on-year +177.03% -53.16% -20.16%
75th Percentile £603 £213 £510
90th Percentile £663 £439 £587
County Antrim median daily rate £506 £185 £395
% change year-on-year +173.65% -53.16% -20.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 1
10th Percentile £12.31 - -
25th Percentile £12.63 - -
Median hourly rate £14.33 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.76% +34.33% -
75th Percentile £15.33 - -
90th Percentile £24.50 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £14.33 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year -40.76% +34.33% -

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Belfast over the 6 months to 28 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) HTTP
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DB2
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (7.14%) GIS
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (7.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Account Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Technical Account Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Technical Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Derivative
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Equities
3 1 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Application Security
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 2 (14.29%) Content Management
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Decision Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.14%) Load Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Management
5 1 (7.14%) Regulatory Change
5 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) MiFID
1 1 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Ab Initio
3 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce