QA Contracts in Macclesfield

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cheshire > Macclesfield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Macclesfield with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing QA 11 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Macclesfield 11.22% 10.42% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 31.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £461 £418 -
25th Percentile £463 £427 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £444 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% - -
75th Percentile £500 £450 -
90th Percentile £505 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +15.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Macclesfield

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Macclesfield with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 33 16 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Macclesfield 33.67% 33.33% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 2
10th Percentile - £267 -
25th Percentile £405 £377 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £300
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% +43.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £450 -
90th Percentile £550 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £16.73 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £17.73 - -
90th Percentile £17.76 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £27.89
% change year-on-year -23.83% +25.52% +20.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Macclesfield

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Macclesfield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Macclesfield

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Macclesfield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Macclesfield 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 6 (54.55%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Power Platform
1 9 (81.82%) Snowflake
2 6 (54.55%) Collibra
2 6 (54.55%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Power BI
2 7 (63.64%) Data Lake
3 6 (54.55%) Ataccama
3 6 (54.55%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
4 5 (45.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (90.91%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
1 9 (81.82%) Data Analyst
1 9 (81.82%) Data Quality Analyst
1 9 (81.82%) QA Analyst
1 9 (81.82%) Quality Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Senior
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Senior QA Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Quality Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Governance Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Data Management
2 9 (81.82%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (81.82%) Data Analysis
3 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
4 6 (54.55%) Data Architecture
4 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (45.45%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Agile
7 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 1 (9.09%) Master Data Management
7 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
7 1 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) SAP
2 6 (54.55%) Alteryx
2 6 (54.55%) Dataiku
2 6 (54.55%) Trillium