QA Contract Job Trends in Kidderminster

Quality Assurance (QA)
Worcestershire > Kidderminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kidderminster requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kidderminster 11.11% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £425 £575 £533
% change year-on-year -26.09% +7.98% -16.47%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Kidderminster

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 Kidderminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kidderminster 11.11% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £675 £600 £363
% change year-on-year +12.50% +65.52% -36.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Kidderminster

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

QA job vacancy trend in Kidderminster

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Daily Rate Trend in Kidderminster

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kidderminster citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kidderminster 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDET
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft