QA Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 43 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing QA 8 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.29% 0.70% 2.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.63% 6.52% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile £273 - £323
25th Percentile £303 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.67%
75th Percentile £405 - £525
90th Percentile £413 - £550
East of England median daily rate £500 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +11.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 27 46 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.71% 10.77% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 39
10th Percentile £250 £363 £286
25th Percentile £252 £435 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £491 £585 £544
90th Percentile £597 £639 £589
East of England median daily rate £500 £413 £478
% change year-on-year +21.21% -13.61% +12.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £24.74 £12.90
25th Percentile - £39.37 £13.00
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year - +295.80% +0.59%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £13.87
90th Percentile - - £16.77
East of England median hourly rate £31.57 £25.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +26.26% +25.31% +24.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing QA

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Cambridge +4 6 £406 - 9
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (37.50%) WebLogic
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 1 (12.50%) Environmental Health
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Military
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Test Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Trainer
3 1 (12.50%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) ITSM
3 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Test Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Def Stans
1 1 (12.50%) IFRS
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
82 QA jobs in the East of England