Software Quality Assurance Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Software Quality Assurance
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.40% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Farnborough

Software Quality Assurance 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 32 10 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 12.75% 11.24% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 9
10th Percentile £457 £419 £334
25th Percentile £500 £452 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% +5.45%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £650
90th Percentile £608 £564 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +2.39% -2.34% +14.19%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Software Quality Assurance job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Software Quality Assurance
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA