QA Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in Ipswich is £353, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 0.73% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £353 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Ipswich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Ipswich. 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 Ipswich with a recognized job title 127 30 42
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 96.77% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 20 21
10th Percentile £313 £186 £300
25th Percentile £356 £300 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £519 £535 £538
90th Percentile £638 £553 £550
Suffolk median daily rate £450 £358 £369
% change year-on-year +25.87% -3.05% -18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £13.73 £16.19 -
25th Percentile £15.26 £17.22 £14.05
Median hourly rate £16.20 £17.79 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +21.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.07 £15.15
90th Percentile - £18.58 -
Suffolk median hourly rate £14.90 £17.79 £47.50
% change year-on-year -16.25% -62.55% +239.29%

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

QA Test Engineer job vacancy trend in Ipswich

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 11 October 2026, QA Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Ipswich region featuring QA Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) UPnP
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
1 1 (100.00%) UPnP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines