QA Contracts in Derbyshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 14 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing QA 5 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 5.15% 5.88% 2.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.78% 55.56% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile - £197 £433
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £200 £503
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -60.20% +0.50%
75th Percentile - £254 £538
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £303 £325
% change year-on-year +35.54% -6.92% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 18 18 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 18.56% 10.59% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile £168 - £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £172 £200 £503
Median % change year-on-year -14.25% -60.20% +25.63%
75th Percentile £214 £254 £562
90th Percentile £281 - £758
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £434 £415
% change year-on-year -9.91% +4.58% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £15.40 -
25th Percentile - £25.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.77 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% -48.47% +165.82%
75th Percentile - £26.15 £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.60 £23.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.25% -52.51% +192.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Derbyshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Derbyshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Derbyshire.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Derbyshire

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Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Derby +5 5 £168 -16.00% 18
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East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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