Software Quality Assurance Contracts in the East of England

Software Quality Assurance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.096% - 0.051%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
75th Percentile £550 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £335 £408 £419
% change year-on-year -17.79% -2.69% -30.21%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

Software Quality Assurance 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 184 162 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.68% 8.13% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 88 171
10th Percentile £236 £250 £200
25th Percentile £339 £332 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £460
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -10.87% +7.48%
75th Percentile £600 £511 £600
90th Percentile £675 £600 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 33 22
10th Percentile £17.14 £14.30 £12.10
25th Percentile £25.95 £14.88 £13.29
Median hourly rate £61.75 £15.79 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year +291.07% -7.85% -36.54%
75th Percentile £87.63 £25.00 £44.31
90th Percentile £91.50 £63.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £32.66 £23.90 £42.50
% change year-on-year +36.63% -43.76% +54.55%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in the East of England

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the East of England

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the East of England

Software Quality Assurance
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 Software Quality Assurance within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Essex - 1 £500 - 15
Software Quality Assurance
England

Software Quality Assurance
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LabVIEW
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA