QA Contracts in Farnborough

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing QA 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 2.20% 2.90% 0.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% 12.90% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - -
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £444 £463 £438
% change year-on-year -4.11% +5.71% -2.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 16 31 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 17.58% 22.46% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £421 £334 £493
25th Percentile £461 £525 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.45% +3.87%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £629
90th Percentile £555 £713 -
Hampshire median daily rate £518 £515 £463
% change year-on-year +0.49% +11.35% -4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.85%
75th Percentile - - £59.63
90th Percentile - - £63.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £24.66 £37.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.24% -21.05% +77.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Farnborough

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Farnborough.

Daily rate trend for QA in Farnborough

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Farnborough.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Farnborough

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker