QA Contract Job Trends in Bury

Quality Assurance (QA)
Manchester > Bury

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bury requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bury 50.00% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £689 - -
25th Percentile £710 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £774 - -
90th Percentile £790 - -
Manchester median daily rate £509 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +23.27% -2.94% -7.61%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bury

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 Bury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bury 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £689 - -
25th Percentile £710 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £774 - -
90th Percentile £790 - -
Manchester median daily rate £492 £477 £450
% change year-on-year +3.25% +5.89% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bury

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

QA job vacancy trend in Bury

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Daily Rate Trend in Bury

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bury citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (37.50%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Claude Code
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (37.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) CloudOps Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Next.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Culture of Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) Monorepo
3 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) Cloud Operations
4 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (62.50%) FinOps
4 5 (62.50%) Information Security
5 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (50.00%) Release Management
5 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (50.00%) SDLC
5 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
6 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Programming
6 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (37.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes