QA Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 45 56
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -21
Contract jobs citing QA 3 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.61% 2.50% 2.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.67% 19.48% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 6
10th Percentile - £300 £255
25th Percentile £206 £319 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -54.05% - +42.31%
75th Percentile £219 £500 £497
90th Percentile - £523 £563
East of England median daily rate £375 £488 £478
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.09% +6.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 45 77 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.13% 12.83% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 53 106
10th Percentile £363 £185 £183
25th Percentile £384 £240 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -17.65% +30.77%
75th Percentile £415 £500 £500
90th Percentile £560 £559 £600
East of England median daily rate £410 £450 £427
% change year-on-year -8.89% +5.51% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 8
10th Percentile - £12.00 £11.20
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.29 £11.50
Median hourly rate £14.97 £13.58 £13.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +2.49% -8.62%
75th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £13.81
90th Percentile - £17.68 £19.55
East of England median hourly rate £15.79 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.77% -36.36% +83.33%

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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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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 27 April 2024. 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 -2 1 £213 -56.96% 16
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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SSIS Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Physical Data Model
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality