QA Contracts in Knutsford

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing QA 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 4.11% - 3.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.27% - 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £409 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 - £680
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.90%
75th Percentile £441 - £682
90th Percentile £447 - £683
Cheshire median daily rate £422 £475 £444
% change year-on-year -11.16% +7.04% +1.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 15.07% 12.04% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 4
10th Percentile £313 £423 £572
25th Percentile £358 £560 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £570 £680
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% -16.18% +46.24%
75th Percentile £496 £580 £681
90th Percentile £640 £620 £683
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.60% +14.29% +2.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Knutsford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 4 (66.67%) CICS
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) Easytrieve
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SOAtest
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 4 (66.67%) VSAM
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Integration
2 2 (33.33%) API Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 2 (33.33%) Deadline-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 2 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) COBOL
1 4 (66.67%) JCL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Parasoft
68 QA jobs in Cheshire