QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Quality Assurance Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

As of 5 June 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Cheltenham.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.76% - 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% - 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £379
25th Percentile - - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £463
75th Percentile - - £528
90th Percentile - - £556
Gloucestershire median daily rate - - £463

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 124 53 200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 92.98% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 32 92
10th Percentile £156 £514 £363
25th Percentile £380 £568 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +9.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £671
90th Percentile £700 £749 £736
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 14
10th Percentile - - £63.75
25th Percentile £12.43 £55.00 £67.50
Median hourly rate £74.50 £60.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -15.49% -12.35%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £73.44
90th Percentile - - £73.75
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -26.28%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 5 June 2026, QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware