QA Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 53 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 -18 +23
Contract jobs citing QA 5 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.67% 0.38% 3.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.73% 4.26% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 13
10th Percentile £280 - £305
25th Percentile £320 £206 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £213 £475
Median % change year-on-year +88.24% -55.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £419 £219 £538
90th Percentile £498 - £550
East of England median daily rate £479 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +27.66% -21.05% +5.56%

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 22 47 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.36% 9.02% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 56
10th Percentile £250 £363 £185
25th Percentile £252 £405 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £410 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +3.53%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £516
90th Percentile £599 £612 £581
East of England median daily rate £500 £410 £475
% change year-on-year +21.95% -13.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £14.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £14.74 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.01 £25.00 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year -27.96% +84.09% +1.53%
75th Percentile £18.12 - £14.60
90th Percentile £18.18 £63.75 £16.77
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £17.14
% change year-on-year +100.38% -7.85% -36.54%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Cambridgeshire

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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 1 July 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 +10 3 £413 +94.12% 91
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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 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Digital Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace