QA Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Quality Assurance (QA)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 0
Contract jobs citing QA 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 10.34% 3.33% 1.82%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 37.50% 25.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 £650 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.43% - -
75th Percentile £415 £750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £488 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +39.29% -17.65% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £50.00
Surrey median hourly rate £55.00 - £34.50

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 27.59% 13.33% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - £258 £592
25th Percentile £256 £269 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £685
Median % change year-on-year - -48.91% +14.17%
75th Percentile £415 £506 £745
90th Percentile £429 £653 £771
Surrey median daily rate £500 £370 £560
% change year-on-year +35.14% -33.93% +11.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £22.15 - £46.63
25th Percentile £27.63 - £47.19
Median hourly rate £36.75 - £48.75
75th Percentile £45.88 - £49.69
90th Percentile £51.35 - £49.88
Surrey median hourly rate £70.16 £24.18 £70.29
% change year-on-year +190.16% -65.60% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

QA job vacancy trend in Guildford

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Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) git-flow
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Blazor
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) Quarkus
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP