QA Contracts in County Antrim

Quality Assurance (QA)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 21 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 0
Contract jobs citing QA 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 5.34% 2.40% 5.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 70.00% 17.39% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile - £331 -
25th Percentile £313 £340 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £373 £445
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% -16.29% +1.02%
75th Percentile £338 £398 £500
90th Percentile £453 £402 £620
Northern Ireland median daily rate £325 £373 £445
% change year-on-year -12.75% -16.29% +1.02%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 23 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 7.63% 13.77% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 10
10th Percentile £283 £231 £290
25th Percentile £313 £256 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £385 £388
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% -0.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £540 £542 £453
90th Percentile £569 £653 £520
Northern Ireland median daily rate £325 £385 £388
% change year-on-year -15.58% -0.65% +3.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for QA in County Antrim

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for QA in County Antrim

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Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in County Antrim over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in County Antrim

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Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 Antrim region over the 6 months to 26 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
Belfast +5 7 £325 -12.75% 16
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Northern Ireland

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 2 (28.57%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) NUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) QA Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
2 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Tester
2 2 (28.57%) QA Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) System Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality