QA Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 2.54% - 4.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.78% - 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £250 - -
25th Percentile £279 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 - £775
75th Percentile £376 - £788
90th Percentile £406 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +10.67% -11.76% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.13 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.82 £15.12 -
% change year-on-year -2.02% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 18 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 9.14% 6.38% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 4
10th Percentile - - £686
25th Percentile £213 - £735
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £798
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.59%
75th Percentile £588 - £821
90th Percentile £640 - £824
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £411 £500
% change year-on-year +15.50% -17.75% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.75
Median hourly rate £16.13 £37.02 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% -10.80% +115.84%
75th Percentile - - £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.13 £20.83 £13.50
% change year-on-year -22.56% +54.30% -34.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

QA job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lincolnshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Lincolnshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Lincolnshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing QA

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Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Lincoln - 3 - - 3
QA
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Balsamiq
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Map
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) User Journey Map
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP