QA Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 66 62
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing QA 24 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.29% 1.41% 1.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.58% 13.40% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 13
10th Percentile £302 £160 £408
25th Percentile £313 £203 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £343 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% -23.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £537 £447 £488
90th Percentile £550 £478 -
South West median daily rate £475 £507 £475
% change year-on-year -6.28% +6.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £13.46 £73.25 -
25th Percentile £15.48 £74.00 £64.25
Median hourly rate £15.96 £74.22 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.50% +8.35% +83.40%
75th Percentile £73.75 £74.44 £72.75
90th Percentile - £75.97 -
South West median hourly rate £15.96 £13.26 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.36% -73.48% -7.41%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 154 97 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.10% 10.54% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 35 101
10th Percentile £296 £190 £369
25th Percentile £363 £299 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -21.74% +16.16%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £680
90th Percentile £697 £750 £800
South West median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 31 26
10th Percentile £15.48 £66.25 £33.00
25th Percentile £31.25 - £37.56
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +52.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £83.40
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.44 -
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +20.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing QA

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Simulink
1 4 (16.67%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 4 (16.67%) Git
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
1 4 (16.67%) Postman
1 4 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
1 4 (16.67%) Rational Team Concert
1 4 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 4 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 7 (29.17%) Aerospace
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Law
3 5 (20.83%) Legal
3 5 (20.83%) Retail
4 4 (16.67%) Aviation
4 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
1 5 (20.83%) QA Officer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (16.67%) JMS
1 4 (16.67%) React
1 4 (16.67%) SOAP
1 4 (16.67%) XML
1 4 (16.67%) XSD
2 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (20.83%) Scrum
3 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
4 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 4 (16.67%) OO
4 4 (16.67%) OOP
4 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Requirements Management
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.50%) User Experience
5 3 (12.50%) Workflow
6 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Ada
1 4 (16.67%) C
1 4 (16.67%) Fortran
1 4 (16.67%) MATLAB
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Blue Prism
2 4 (16.67%) MathWorks
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.67%) Twitter
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat