QA Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 2.90% - 3.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £410 - £369
25th Percentile £416 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £500
75th Percentile £453 - £538
90th Percentile £470 - £572
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% +18.06%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 36 13 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 26.09% 13.98% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 24
10th Percentile £227 £341 £286
25th Percentile £364 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -16.88% +16.67%
75th Percentile £626 £550 £550
90th Percentile £700 £740 £572
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.09 £27.47 £27.50
% change year-on-year +5.92% -0.13% +37.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Coventry

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Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing QA

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SugarCRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) React Native
3 1 (25.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) CRM
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Code Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Cross-Platform Development
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile Development
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) JSX
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript