QA Contract Job Trends in County Armagh

Quality Assurance (QA)
Northern Ireland > County Armagh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Armagh requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Armagh 50.00% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £486 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £325 £325
% change year-on-year +46.15% - -12.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
County Armagh

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 County Armagh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Armagh 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £486 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £456 £463 £325
% change year-on-year -1.35% +42.31% -13.33%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in County Armagh

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

QA job vacancy trend in County Armagh

QA
Contract Job Locations in County Armagh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the County Armagh region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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
Craigavon - 1 £450 - 1
QA
Northern Ireland

QA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Armagh 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Infor
2 1 (50.00%) HP