QA Engineer Contracts in Cheltenham

Quality Assurance Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Cheltenham is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.09% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £463 - £325

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 166 151 114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.79% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 108 95
10th Percentile £363 £319 £170
25th Percentile £469 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £588
90th Percentile £743 £729 £670
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £42.75 £67.05 £12.08
25th Percentile £70.13 £67.13 £12.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £74.50 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +484.31% -74.50%
75th Percentile £73.19 £88.13 £13.69
90th Percentile £74.38 £91.95 £14.03
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 £71.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -51.05% +138.33% -40.00%

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in Cheltenham

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ERP

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle