Test Assurance Contracts in Birmingham

Test Assurance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.39% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £413 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £550
75th Percentile £438 - £600
90th Percentile - - £623
West Midlands median daily rate £425 - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Test Assurance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 798 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.27% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 537 880
10th Percentile £248 £263 £219
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in Birmingham

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in Birmingham

Test Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Assurance Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) ServiceNow