QA Contracts in Hertfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 60 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 -26 +13
Contract jobs citing QA 15 14 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.81% 1.73% 5.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.78% 13.33% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 22
10th Percentile £306 £450 £328
25th Percentile £363 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £609 £465
Median % change year-on-year -38.37% +30.86% -9.27%
75th Percentile £388 £672 £638
90th Percentile £466 £700 £733
East of England median daily rate £375 £488 £478
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.09% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.97
25th Percentile £35.75 - £47.11
Median hourly rate £36.50 - £48.50
75th Percentile £37.25 - £49.31
90th Percentile - - £49.43
East of England median hourly rate £26.13 £43.63 £48.75
% change year-on-year -40.12% -10.50% +225.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 54 105 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.53% 12.95% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 66 87
10th Percentile £193 £210 £123
25th Percentile £308 £350 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £518 £405
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +27.96% -14.74%
75th Percentile £497 £722 £588
90th Percentile £603 £769 £675
East of England median daily rate £410 £450 £428
% change year-on-year -8.89% +5.14% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 7
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.67 £13.55
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.19 £24.00
Median hourly rate £15.40 £63.75 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -75.84% +41.04% +201.33%
75th Percentile £24.00 £74.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £29.30 £81.44 £49.35
East of England median hourly rate £15.79 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.77% -36.36% +83.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Watford +13 11 £375 -34.78% 8
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
General
1 6 (40.00%) Games
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (13.33%) Electronics
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.67%) Automotive
5 1 (6.67%) French Language
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Lead
2 9 (60.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) ETL Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
1 9 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (53.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (53.33%) Test Management
2 8 (53.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Defect Management
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (6.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (6.67%) QA Automation
4 1 (6.67%) SDLC
4 1 (6.67%) Security Hardening
4 1 (6.67%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) HNC
2 1 (6.67%) HND
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft