QA Contracts in the East of England

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 40 80 74
Rank change year-on-year +40 -6 -17
Contract jobs citing QA 45 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.94% 1.63% 2.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.61% 18.34% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 30
10th Percentile £153 £263 £300
25th Percentile £313 £300 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £388 £550
90th Percentile £575 £475 £688
England median daily rate £473 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.37 -
25th Percentile £12.58 £14.88 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £15.98 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% -63.37% -3.47%
75th Percentile - £20.00 -
90th Percentile - £30.35 -
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 199 169 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.41% 8.87% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 87 169
10th Percentile £225 £240 £204
25th Percentile £316 £328 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £516 £600
90th Percentile £675 £593 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 22
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.35 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.35 £14.99 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.79 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year +100.38% -7.85% -36.54%
75th Percentile £87.50 £25.00 £58.72
90th Percentile £91.50 £65.25 £79.75
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for QA in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +28 17 £520 +38.67% 94
Essex +14 7 £468 +70.00% 66
Norfolk +3 7 £500 - 32
Cambridgeshire +22 5 £400 +88.24% 94
Suffolk - 5 £305 - 13
Bedfordshire -4 4 £588 - 43
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 4 (8.89%) Apache
2 4 (8.89%) IIS
3 3 (6.67%) Confluence
4 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Maximo
2 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (4.44%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.44%) GCP
3 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.89%) DB2
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.67%) Sqoop
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.22%) Big Data
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Robot Framework
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) LabVIEW
3 2 (4.44%) TestRail
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Consultant
2 5 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Maximo Consultant
3 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Test Manager
4 3 (6.67%) Administrator
4 3 (6.67%) Informatica Administrator
4 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.67%) QA Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Desktop Migration Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Desktop Technician
5 2 (4.44%) IT Technician
5 2 (4.44%) Lead
5 2 (4.44%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) SOAP
1 4 (8.89%) Web Services
1 4 (8.89%) XML
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) Node.js
2 2 (4.44%) Playwright
3 1 (2.22%) HTML
3 1 (2.22%) J2EE
3 1 (2.22%) Middleware
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) Spring
3 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) SCADA
2 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) EPoS
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 8 (17.78%) Time Management
5 7 (15.56%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (13.33%) DevOps
6 6 (13.33%) Project Management
6 6 (13.33%) System Testing
6 6 (13.33%) Test Strategy
6 6 (13.33%) Workflow
7 5 (11.11%) Agile
7 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (11.11%) ITSM
7 5 (11.11%) Service Management
7 5 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (8.89%) CAFM
8 4 (8.89%) Facilities Management
8 4 (8.89%) Performance Testing
8 4 (8.89%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) C#
5 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
5 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) C
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) HiveQL
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) PMO
2 2 (4.44%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.22%) P3O
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) IBM
3 3 (6.67%) Informatica
4 2 (4.44%) Apple
4 2 (4.44%) Samsung
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) SOTI
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) LabWare
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Planview