QA Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Quality Assurance (QA)
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 9.09% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £173 - -
25th Percentile £202 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £252 - -
75th Percentile £301 - -
90th Percentile £330 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £252 £275 -
% change year-on-year -8.55% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 13.64% - 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £184 - -
25th Percentile £230 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.74%
75th Percentile £334 - £725
90th Percentile £344 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £313 £275 £700
% change year-on-year +13.64% -60.71% +21.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

QA job vacancy trend in Blackpool

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Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Blackpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Blackpool over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Blackpool

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Google Tag Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Migration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Measurement
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User Research
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft