QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Quality Assurance Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £290
% change year-on-year - +46.55% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 825 517 673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 89.29% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 342 456
10th Percentile £314 £166 £210
25th Percentile £406 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £591 £538 £625
90th Percentile £688 £639 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 48 20
10th Percentile £13.92 - £15.10
25th Percentile £16.96 £12.62 £17.88
Median hourly rate £26.55 £14.00 £31.81
Median % change year-on-year +89.61% -55.99% +36.83%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.31 £50.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £32.00 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.73 £25.08 £19.59
% change year-on-year +22.55% +28.00% -11.36%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 27 August 2026, QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SDET

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus