QA Contracts in the East Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 47 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing QA 41 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.69% 2.77% 3.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.54% 21.62% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 24
10th Percentile £130 £200 £280
25th Percentile £171 £241 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £331 £384
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -13.68% -9.71%
75th Percentile £415 £383 £528
90th Percentile £474 £495 £623
England median daily rate £473 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Median hourly rate £15.12 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.80% -50.00% +356.03%
England median hourly rate £15.96 £14.00 £37.77
% change year-on-year +14.00% -62.93% +16.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 126 111 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.50% 12.80% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 73 82
10th Percentile £171 £200 £264
25th Percentile £350 £270 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -4.23% +10.94%
75th Percentile £463 £595 £547
90th Percentile £500 £623 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 5
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.35 £24.70
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.75 £31.76
Median hourly rate £20.83 £21.73 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -66.57% +230.54%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £70.00
90th Percentile £27.49 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.76 £24.18 £40.32
% change year-on-year +31.35% -40.03% +55.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Nottinghamshire +11 13 £410 +23.77% 55
Northamptonshire -1 11 £375 -11.76% 21
Leicestershire +8 9 £219 -38.62% 51
Derbyshire +5 7 £170 -15.25% 46
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (2.44%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) AWS
3 4 (9.76%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) BrowserStack
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
3 1 (2.44%) DB2
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Postman
1 4 (9.76%) Selenium
2 3 (7.32%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.88%) Git
3 2 (4.88%) JMeter
3 2 (4.88%) JUnit
3 2 (4.88%) Mockito
3 2 (4.88%) NetBeans
3 2 (4.88%) SoapUI
3 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) Ranorex
4 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Retail
6 2 (4.88%) Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Analyst
2 9 (21.95%) Lead
3 7 (17.07%) Test Leader
4 6 (14.63%) Business Analyst
4 6 (14.63%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 6 (14.63%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Customer Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Desktop Support
5 4 (9.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Windows Support Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Retail Business Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Tester
7 2 (4.88%) Floorwalker
7 2 (4.88%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) REST
2 4 (9.76%) LDAP
3 3 (7.32%) .NET
3 3 (7.32%) Hibernate
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (7.32%) Spring
4 2 (4.88%) JMS
4 2 (4.88%) JSON
4 2 (4.88%) POSIX
4 2 (4.88%) XML
5 1 (2.44%) J2EE
5 1 (2.44%) JDBC
5 1 (2.44%) Kafka
5 1 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.44%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.44%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) EPoS
3 1 (2.44%) IoT
3 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.44%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
2 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Agile
2 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
4 9 (21.95%) Scrum
5 8 (19.51%) Project Management
5 8 (19.51%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (17.07%) DevOps
6 7 (17.07%) SDLC
7 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (14.63%) Time Management
8 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (9.76%) Biometrics
9 4 (9.76%) Customer Service
9 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
9 4 (9.76%) Digital Identity
9 4 (9.76%) Migration
9 4 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (9.76%) Test Strategy
9 4 (9.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.95%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) Java
3 2 (4.88%) C
3 2 (4.88%) C++
4 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) COBOL
4 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) JCL
4 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CISA
5 1 (2.44%) CISM
5 1 (2.44%) CISSP
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GDPR
1 2 (4.88%) MISRA
1 2 (4.88%) MISRA C
1 2 (4.88%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (2.44%) COBIT
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.95%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Nintex
3 2 (4.88%) QNX
4 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Solace
4 1 (2.44%) Teradata