Quality Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Quality Analyst
UK > England

The median Quality Analyst daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 483 528
Rank change year-on-year -47 +45 +166
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Analyst 12 18 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.038% 0.064% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.069% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile £363 £346 £243
25th Percentile £409 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £378 £581
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% -35.05% +40.91%
75th Percentile £574 £456 £600
90th Percentile £679 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £513 £378 £550
% change year-on-year +35.76% -31.36% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year - +74.39% +74.52%
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year - +74.39% +74.52%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 28,978 26,109 33,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 92.88% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,528 16,189 23,132
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
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 1,750 814 1,430
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% -23.71% +40.01%
75th Percentile £61.23 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.41 £74.31 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%

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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 2026. 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
London -22 7 £513 +36.67% 4
North of England -53 3 £458 - 1
North West -27 1 £375 - 1
South East - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £540 -
Quality Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, 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 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 4 (33.33%) Metadata
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Data Management
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) QA
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lineage
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) KYC
4 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Quality Management
4 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Tableau
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (8.33%) Actimize
5 1 (8.33%) ADO
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Alteryx

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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (8.33%) Collibra
1 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Metadata
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Android Studio
1 1 (8.33%) Charles Proxy
1 1 (8.33%) JMeter
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) Xcode
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Electronics
5 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CMDB
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Data Management
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lineage
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 2 (16.67%) KYC
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Quality Management
3 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Data Entry
4 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (25.00%) QA
3 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (8.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow