QA Contracts in Berkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -11
Contract jobs citing QA 44 66 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.67% 3.35% 2.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% 24.63% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 22
10th Percentile £301 £313 £363
25th Percentile £422 £344 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £469
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £558
90th Percentile £562 £630 £609
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £22.74 -
25th Percentile - £29.09 £18.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £40.35 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.58% +83.42% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £51.79 £34.75
90th Percentile - £58.25 £51.40
South East median hourly rate £15.29 £10.82 £50.00
% change year-on-year +41.31% -78.36% +92.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 220 268 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.33% 13.58% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 112 141
10th Percentile £335 £270 £308
25th Percentile £450 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -8.65% +10.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £43.91 £15.58
25th Percentile £44.84 £60.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £63.43 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +188.32% +4.76%
75th Percentile £87.31 £68.84 £51.11
90th Percentile £89.00 £73.11 £73.59
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.33% -42.11% +152.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 7 July 2025. 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
Reading -4 13 £500 -9.09% 33
Wokingham -3 9 £500 -19.68% 3
Bracknell +9 7 £625 +78.57% 9
Windsor 0 6 £500 -20.00% 2
Slough -4 2 £239 - 12
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.27%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) AWS
2 3 (6.82%) GitHub
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.55%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.55%) Serverless
4 1 (2.27%) Figma
4 1 (2.27%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Miro
4 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) 5G
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.27%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.27%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.27%) EDMS
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) JIRA
2 7 (15.91%) Selenium
3 2 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (2.27%) DBeaver
4 1 (2.27%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) Subversion
4 1 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.27%) Automotive
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Consultant
2 5 (11.36%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.09%) QA Consultant
3 4 (9.09%) Senior
3 4 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Tester
5 2 (4.55%) Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Cabling Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) OSS Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Project Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) QA Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Release Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) JSON
1 2 (4.55%) RFC 2544
2 1 (2.27%) CSS
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.27%) Life Science
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (38.64%) Test Automation
3 15 (34.09%) Agile
4 12 (27.27%) DevOps
5 11 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
6 10 (22.73%) Project Management
6 10 (22.73%) Test Scripting
7 8 (18.18%) ITIL
7 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
8 7 (15.91%) Exploratory Testing
8 7 (15.91%) Mathematics
8 7 (15.91%) Optimization Problems
8 7 (15.91%) PRINCE2
8 7 (15.91%) Validation
9 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (13.64%) Data Collection
9 6 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (13.64%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 7 (15.91%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Degree
2 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
3 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 7 (15.91%) PMP
5 5 (11.36%) AWS Certification
5 5 (11.36%) Master's Degree
5 5 (11.36%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) HP ALM
1 4 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (4.55%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) HP
2 3 (6.82%) Remedy
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco
3 2 (4.55%) Cramer
3 2 (4.55%) Infoblox
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Adobe
4 1 (2.27%) BMC
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Workday