Quality Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Quality Analyst
UK > England

The median Quality Analyst daily rate in England is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 493 557
Rank change year-on-year -21 +64 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Analyst 13 16 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.046% 0.051% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.054% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 17
10th Percentile £263 £363 £236
25th Percentile £334 £376 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £453 £531 £594
90th Percentile £547 £625 £610
UK median daily rate £375 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year - +74.39% -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year - +74.39% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,975 29,367 38,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 93.01% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,694 17,934 26,701
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,490 1,173 1,410
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.34 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.55
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -6.69% +57.49%
75th Percentile £50.94 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.78%

Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Quality Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Quality Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Quality Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Quality Analyst job vacancies in England

Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Analyst in England over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Analyst in England

Quality Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Quality Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Quality Analyst job vacancies in England

Quality Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
South East +8 4 £200 -60.00% 7
London +4 4 £413 -3.51% 9
North of England -31 4 £375 - 1
North West -19 2 £363 - 1
East of England -3 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North East - 1 £613 -
Quality Analyst
UK

Quality Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 24 October 2025, Quality Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
3 3 (23.08%) Databricks
3 3 (23.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Data Entry
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
4 2 (15.38%) QA
4 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (7.69%) Actimize
5 1 (7.69%) ADO
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Android
5 1 (7.69%) Android Studio
5 1 (7.69%) Anti-Money Laundering

Quality Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
1 1 (7.69%) Collibra
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Android Studio
1 1 (7.69%) Charles Proxy
1 1 (7.69%) JMeter
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
1 1 (7.69%) Xcode
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) CMDB
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
1 3 (23.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
1 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
2 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
2 2 (15.38%) Data Entry
2 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
2 2 (15.38%) Data Management
2 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCNA
1 1 (7.69%) CCNP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow