QA Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Quality Assurance Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.48% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £403 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £325
75th Percentile £528 - £338
90th Percentile £556 - -
South West median daily rate £61 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -27.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 376 443 505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 92.48% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 308 409
10th Percentile £300 £324 £180
25th Percentile £425 £455 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £669 £588
90th Percentile £750 £707 £658
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 37 12
10th Percentile £14.60 £35.00 £11.78
25th Percentile £15.75 £50.00 £12.56
Median hourly rate £33.00 £73.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.79% +289.33% -62.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £83.31 £39.43
90th Percentile £73.25 £83.40 £58.52
South West median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.17
% change year-on-year -25.72% +43.90% +5.66%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings that featured QA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Gloucestershire

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in Gloucestershire

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in Gloucestershire

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Cheltenham - 2 £463 - 1
QA Engineer
South West

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, QA Engineer 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 Gloucestershire region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ERP

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle