QA Contracts in Derby

Quality Assurance (QA)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing QA 5 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 6.10% 6.12% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.78% 69.23% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile - £197 £419
25th Percentile - - £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £200 £453
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -55.80% -9.50%
75th Percentile - £254 £469
90th Percentile - - £476
Derbyshire median daily rate £168 £200 £503
% change year-on-year -16.00% -60.20% +0.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 18 13 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 21.95% 8.84% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 8
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile £168 - £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £172 £200 £503
Median % change year-on-year -14.25% -60.20% +0.50%
75th Percentile £214 £254 £695
90th Percentile £281 - £878
Derbyshire median daily rate £172 £200 £503
% change year-on-year -14.25% -60.20% +25.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +106.27%
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 £25.77 £50.00
% change year-on-year -10.73% -48.47% +165.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Derby

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Derby

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Break Fix Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (40.00%) Break/Fix
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle