Quality Analyst Contracts in England

Quality Analyst
UK > England

The median Quality Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 526 595
Rank change year-on-year +42 +69 +152
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Analyst 10 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.039% 0.072% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.078% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 23
10th Percentile £250 £450 £207
25th Percentile £325 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +35.69%
75th Percentile £438 £563 £519
90th Percentile £546 £600 £645
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +35.69%

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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Quality Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Analyst in England

Quality Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Quality Analyst in England

Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Analyst in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Analyst in England

Quality Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Analyst 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 2 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
South East +56 4 £313 -37.50% 10
London +27 3 £425 -19.05% 24
North of England +2 2 £481 -1.28% 7
North West +2 1 £350 -28.21% 5
East of England - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £613 -
Quality Analyst
UK

Quality Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Quality Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) IBM Domino
4 3 (30.00%) Databricks
4 3 (30.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (20.00%) Case Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (10.00%) R
6 1 (10.00%) Tableau
6 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 1 (10.00%) Network Design
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (10.00%) JIRA
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (10.00%) Fund Management
6 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (10.00%) Data Validation
6 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) Android
6 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Fund Accounting

Quality Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (30.00%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Appium
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Case Management
2 2 (20.00%) Data Management
2 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Fund Management
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Talend