QA Contracts in the Home Counties

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Home Counties

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -22
Contract jobs citing QA 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 12.50% - 3.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £361
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £513
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £685
South East median daily rate £488 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +11.43% -2.78% +5.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1 1 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 12.50% 4.17% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile - - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £675
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Home Counties

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for QA in the Home Counties

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) F#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree