QA Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing QA 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 3.82% 0.86% 3.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% 12.50% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £336
25th Percentile - £361 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £132 £363 £409
Median % change year-on-year -63.50% -11.31% +16.79%
75th Percentile £209 £364 £438
90th Percentile £346 - £456
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £425 £406
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% -3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 8 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 7.63% 6.90% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile - £200 £317
25th Percentile £132 £235 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £384
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -5.54% +8.10%
75th Percentile £563 £544 £447
90th Percentile £638 £638 £498
East Midlands median daily rate £411 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -17.75% +11.11% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.83 £13.50 £20.51
% change year-on-year +54.30% -34.18% +4.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Leicestershire

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Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Leicestershire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing QA

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Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Leicester +2 2 £425 +17.24% 9
QA
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Chatbot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL