QA Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing QA 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 1.89% 0.60% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.38% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £511 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £340 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% - -
75th Percentile £561 - -
90th Percentile £569 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +25.00% -17.95% -7.14%

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 13 2 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 12.26% 1.20% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 18
10th Percentile £342 £362 £521
25th Percentile £406 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £667
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -31.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £531 £526 -
90th Percentile £553 £563 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £488 £514
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.07% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £15.65
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.23%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - £59.05
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.38 £70.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -46.61% +42.86% +196.97%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

QA job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (50.00%) Salt
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Niku
1 1 (50.00%) VMware