QA Contract Job Trends in Chester

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing QA 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.95% 4.05% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% 30.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.67%
75th Percentile £688 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -15.24% - +40.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6 10 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 5.71% 13.51% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - £557 -
25th Percentile £613 £565 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £577 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% +35.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £688 £594 £506
90th Percentile £830 £603 £548
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.90% +28.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £17.14
25th Percentile - - £17.17
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.90%
75th Percentile - - £27.34
90th Percentile - - £30.54
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.00 £24.18 £20.07
% change year-on-year +32.34% +20.48% +24.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

QA job vacancy trend in Chester

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Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) UiPath