QA Contracts in Cambridge

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 25 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 0
Contract jobs citing QA 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.86% 1.22% 1.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.78% 7.14% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £401 - £453
25th Percentile £402 £206 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £213 £469
Median % change year-on-year +91.18% -54.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £414 £219 £483
90th Percentile £417 - £489
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £360 £213 £475
% change year-on-year +69.41% -55.26% +26.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 18 28 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 10.29% 17.07% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 18
10th Percentile £231 £239 £158
25th Percentile £250 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £393 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% -17.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £414 £436 £563
90th Percentile £447 £545 £604
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £360 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -28.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Median hourly rate £17.80 £57.50 £16.77
Median % change year-on-year -69.04% +242.87% -61.89%
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.01 £41.25 £13.58
% change year-on-year -56.34% +203.76% +0.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for QA in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
1 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C
1 3 (60.00%) C++
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) IFRS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace